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14 matches to Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday. 1887. Police kill 2 Socialists in Trafalgar Square Riot. 1905. Slaughter of petitioners to Winter Palace of Nicholas II leads to Russian Revolution. 1972. 13 killed in Londonderry riot.
Russian Revolution. 1905. Led to Duma, Constitution and end of Mir system. Police gradually regained authority. October Manifesto. Bloody Sunday. 1917 Feb: Liberal republicans overthrow Czar. Oct: Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrow Kerensky’s Provisional Government, withdraw from WWI.
Bloody Assizes. 1685. Trial of Monmouth’s rebels. 320 hung. 800 deported.
Bloody Week. 1871. Paris Commune toppled. 20,000 dead.
James II. 1633-1701. King of Great Britain 1685-8. Exiled 1689- in France. Supported Catholics. Bloody Assizes. Glorious Revolution overthrew him.
Jeffreys of Wem, Baron. 1645-89. Bloody Assizes judge. Extortion, corruption. Lord Chancellor 1685-8.
King Philip’s War. 1675-6. Bloody conflict of New England colonists vs Indians under Philip.
Mary I. Bloody Mary. 1516-58. Tudor queen of England 1553-. Married Philip II of Spain. Reinstated Roman Catholicism 1555. Persecuted Protestants. Lost Calais.
Blue Laws. US laws that control Sunday activities. 1781 originals on blue paper.
Borromeo, St. Charles. 1538-84. Milan Cardinal. First Sunday school, 1580.
Raikes, Robert. 1736-1811. English Sunday School pioneer.
Sunday School. 1580 Milan. 1780 England. 1786 Virginia. Raikes.
Wesley, John. 1703-91. English founder of Methodism 1729. Direct preaching, often outdoors, to reach the uneducated working class. Sunday schools.
Whitby, Synod. 664. Settled dispute, favoring Roman over Celtic church. Defined Easter date as first Sunday after full moon after vernal equinox. March 22 to April 25. Wilfrid.