by David Delmotte | Feb 16, 2024 | Blog
Benjamin Breckenridge (B.B.) Warfield died on February 16, 1921. He was a professor of theology at Princeton Seminary, considered to be one of the last great Princeton theologians before it split in 1929. Warfield died in Princeton, New Jersey. After being serious...
by David Delmotte | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog
Abraham Lincoln is on our Modern History Timeline for 2023-2024 and we highlighted him during the second week of January. On this Day…February 12, 1809: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States and author of the Emancipation Proclamation,...
by David Delmotte | Feb 8, 2024 | Blog
February 8, 1693: The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg, Virginia. Originally intended to educate Anglican clergymen, it is America’s second-oldest higher education institution (Harvard is the oldest). -CT
by David Delmotte | Feb 7, 2024 | Blog
February 7, 1818 (traditional date): Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. After escaping to freedom, he became the most prominent of the black abolitionists and eventually became the first black to hold high political...
by David Delmotte | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog
On February 6, 1564, John Calvin (1509–1564) was carried to his church in a chair. Theodore Beza reported that Calvin preached with “asthma impeding his utterance” (understood as a fit of coughing that filled his mouth with blood). In physical pain and weakness, the...
