11th November, 397
On this day in Christian history, Martin of Tours, a bishop responsible for the evangelization of Gaul (modern-day France), died.
11th November, 619
On this day in Christian history, Death of St. John the Almsgiver, Cyprus-born Patriarch of Alexandria. Upon taking office, he had found that the Monophysites held a large number of Egyptians in their sway, but through symapthy and charity, he won much of the population back to Orthodoxy.
11th November, 826
On this day in Christian history, Theodore the Studite, a champion of icons, died.
11th November, 1215
On this day in Christian History, the fourth Lateran Council is convoked. It officially confirms the doctrine of transubstantiation—that the substance of Eucharistic bread and wine become the physical body and blood of Christ. The council also prescribes annual confession for all Christians.
11th November, 1620
On this day in Christian history, in signing the The Mayflower Compact, the Pilgrims pledged themselves, “solemnly mutually in the presence of God and one another,” to “covenant, and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic.”
11th November, 1620
On this day in Christian history, Forty-one (41) Puritan separatists arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They had hoped to settle further south, but as William Bradford wrote in his journal on December 19, "We could not now take much time for further search . . . our victuals being much spent, especially our beer"
11th November, 1793
On this day in Christian history, William Carey landed in Calcutta, India, to begin his missionary career.
11th November, 1821
On this day in Christian history, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose works (including Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamozov, and Notes from the Underground) reflect his deep Russian Orthodox faith, is born.
11th November, 1831
On this day in Christian history, Baptist preacher Nat Turner is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, having led a slave insurrection that resulted in the deaths of fifty-five white people. (Whites killed two hundred or more African-Americans in retaliation.)
November 11, 1855
Danish Christian philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, regarded as the founder of existentialism, dies at age 42. Trying to "reintroduce Christianity to Christendom," he believed that Christianity was far more radical and difficult than did his Danish contemporaries.
November 11, 1883
On this day in Christian History, Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton had a vision of Christ which formed the foundation of her work as a social reformer and evangelist.
11th November, 1917
On this day in Christian history, Death of David Lipscomb, a Disciples (Churches of Christ) editor and author, and one of the founders of Nashville Bible School, which will later be renamed Lipscomb University.
November 11, 1921
Death of English theologian and educator P. T. Forsyth, who wrote The Person and Place of Jesus Christ, stressing man’s need for atonement and Christ’s voluntary provision of it. He had been principal of Hackney Theological College in Hamstead, London.
November 11, 1938
Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” a song that she thought she was not going to like. It will become her signature song.
11th November, 1951
On this day in Christian history, Death of Jesuit bishop Tsiang Beda of Shanghai in a communist prison. He had refused to head the Chinese “reform” church.
11th November, 1986
On this day in Christian history, popular soul singer and gospel musician, Minister Victor Thompson, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He hails from Okpara-Island in Ethiope East local government area of Delta State. You can read his full biography here.
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