Historical Events
Event of Interest
Aug 12 Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
Servetus Arrested
Aug 13 Spanish theologian and physician Michael Servetus arrested as a heretic in Geneva (put on trial the next day, eventually found guilty of heresy and burned to death)
- Aug 23 Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
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