Swiss Anabaptist Movement: Radical Religious Defiance (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)

A Daily Dose of History (21 Jan 2025) Today's historical events: The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm. The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754. Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston. After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine. The RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia with great loss of life. American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. Information from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas Explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices