October 30, 335
Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, meets Emperor Constantine outside Constantinople. Constantine flies into a rage when someone accuses Athanasius of holding up grain shipments from Egypt.
October 30, 1451
Christopher Columbus, who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean both to spread Christianity and (as his crew members complained) to "make a great lord of himself," is born
October 30, 1536
Power is redistributed between the church and the state in Denmark and Lutheranism becomes the official religion of the nation.
October 30, 1553
Death in Strasburg, Germany, of Jacob Sturm. He had been an ardent champion of Lutherans and had signed the protest presented to the Diet of Spires from which Protestants got their name.
October 30, 1768
Philip Embury preaches the dedication service of the first Methodist chapel in America, a building he had helped erect with his own hands, located on John Street in New York City.
October 30, 1779
Christian poet and former slave Phillis Wheatley publishes a notice in the Evening Post and General Advisor of Boston requesting subscriptions for a new book of poems.
October 30, 1831
Baptist minister and escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and jailed in Jerusalem, Virginia.
October 30, 1838
In a letter, Marcus Whitman, missionary to Native Americans in the Northwest part of the U.S., announced the safe arrival of several missionary reinforcements and discussed how best to deploy them. In addition to providing updates on the Waiilatpu mission, Whitman described a plan to obtain a printing press from Hawaii and mentioned his desire to build a grist mill
October 30, 1853
Consecration in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, of James Roosevelt Bayley to be the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Newark. He later became Archbishop of Baltimore.
October 30, 1855
William H. Miles professes a hope in Christ. He will become one of the early bishops of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.
October 30, 1879
A Council of Protestant missionaries in Tokyo undertakes translation of the Old Testament into Japanese.
October 30, 1883
Bob Jones, Sr., one of Fundamentalism's most renowned evangelists and founder of Bob Jones University, is born
October 30, 1897
Well-known Congregationalist minister and publisher Lyman Abbott delivers an address in New York at the funeral of economist Henry George, who had proposed that the economic rent of land should be shared by society rather than being owned privately.
October 30, 1902
Leo XIII publishes Vigilantiae, an apostolic letter founding a commission of eminent men, whose duty it will be be to defend Scripture.
October 30, 1972
P.G. Vargis arrives in Katia, India, to begin gospel work among Hindus. No one will rent rooms to him because he is a Christian, a situation remedied only by prayer. His faith ministry results in a major indigenous mission work, The India Evangelical Team.
October 30, 1984
The body of Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, abducted eleven days earlier by the Polish secret police, is found with marks of torture.
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