2021
The Inauguration of John Tyler, 1841
Week of April 4
President Truman said of him, “he is one of the Presidents we could do without.” Theodore Roosevelt suggested that “he has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery.”...
Pilgrim-Wampanoag Treaty Established, 1621
Week of March 28
The year 2020 signified the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, an English expedition to the New...
The Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685
Week of March 21
If ever a boy was born to be a great musician, Johann Sebastian Bach was that boy. Born the eighth and final child of Johann and Maria Bach in Eisenach, Germany, Johann became part of a...
The Birth of Andrew Jackson, 1767
Week of March 14
Historian David Hackett Fischer said of the Scots-Irish who settled the southern regions of the American colonies that “they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned...
The Deliverance of John Newton, 1748
Week of March 7
In the year 1748, twenty-three-year-old English seaman John Newton recorded that “on March 10th, the Lord came from on high and delivered me out of deep waters.” Preacher John Wesley was...
Texas Independence Declared, 1836
Week of February 28
He is known as the “Father of his Country.” He was from Virginia, a slaveholder and a defender of the institution of slavery, a man of ambition and wealth who sought to fulfill a vision of the future given to...
Grand Canyon Becomes a National Park, 1919
Week of February 21
Throughout the late 19th and early 20th Century, geologists, biologists and others in the scientific community who rejected the biblical account of...
Fidel Castro Sworn in as President of Cuba, 1959
Week of February 14
El Comandante ruled supreme for 49 years as Prime Minister or President of Cuba and First Secretary of the Communist Party. Under his...
The French and Indian War Ends, 1763
Week of February 7
It was a war that started in America when “a volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire.” The quote was by Horace Walpole, famous writer and son of the...
Texas Secedes from the Union, 1861
Week of January 31
Since 1865, secession of states from the United States has been a forbidden subject, discussed only by “Neo-Confederates” and “revanchist cranks”. In recent times, the discussion of breaking from the...
Gold Discovered at Sutter’s Mill, 1848
Week of January 24
The disease began in California and spread eastward. It struck people in every state of the Union in 1848 and continued, gaining virulence, for several years. The population most susceptible...
The Overthrow of Hawaii’s Queen Lili’uokalani, 1893
Week of January 17
British Captain James Cook is generally recognized as the first European to lay eyes on the islands he named after his patron, the Earl of Sandwich, in...
The Death of General Hugh Mercer, 1777
Week of January 10
Hugh Mercer was born fighting. His military service ranged over two continents and three different armies, which reflect his devotion to his calling as a doctor and a soldier, and a temporary change of...
Decian Persecution of the Church Begins, AD 250
Week of January 3
In the middle of the third century Anno Domini, Decius, a former senator, consul, governor, and now general, from the province of Illyricum in...