It was announced that Wake Forest was the proposed site for the new Southern Baptist seminary, still yet to be named - March 28

Pope Leo X condemns Luther by name on Maundy Thursday in the bull In Coena Domini (Latin: "At the table of the Lord"), along with all his adherents.

1521 - Pope Leo X condemns Luther by name on Maundy Thursday in the bull In Coena Domini (Latin: "At the table of the Lord"), along with all his adherents.

1538 - Several Geneva’s Catholic citizens, under the lead of François Chamois, enter a protest against the ordinance by which the city’s Protestant Confession of Faith had been adopted the year before.

1592 - Czech theologian Jan Comenius, educator of the Bohemian (or Moravian) Brethren, was born in Nivnice, Czechoslovakia. Today, the region was tormented by warfare, and Comenius believed the only way to bring peace was through education. He designed a plan for educating every province and country, which he presented in The Great Didactic (1632). Education, he believed, should be more than just learning facts and languages (as was the case in his day), it should mold Christian character and should be marked by observing the physical world. He is called "the father of modern education."

1866 - A committee gathers to raise money to support William Lloyd Garrison who had dedicated his life and energy to the effort to abolish slavery. Rev. Samuel May, Jr., will do more than anyone else to raise the funds.

1871 - John Joseph Ignatius von Döllinger addresses a letter to his archbishop refusing to subscribe to the newly  defined dogma of papal infallibility, saying, “As a Christian, as a theologian, as a historian, as a citizen I cannot accept this dogma.” As a consequence, Döllinger was excommunicated in 1873.

1885 - The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States. Five years earlier Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven female Salvation Army officers arrived in New York City to begin expanding the organization in America. Though they were initially met with hostility and occasional violence, by 1883 the  Army had expanded into 12 states. In 1886 the organization was endorsed by President Grover Cleveland during a visit to the White House by a Salvation Army delegation.

1892 - Evangelical missionary William Christie sails from the United States bound for Buddhist Tibet. “By the grace of God I will spend and be spent for my Savior and the salvation of those who are sitting in awful darkness and sin and misery,” he writes. He will become known as  the “Apostle of Tibet.”

1929 - Death in Wellesley, Massachusetts, of hymn writer Katherine L. Bates, author of the patriotic hymn “America the Beautiful.”

1929 - Death in England of evangelist and devotional writer Frederick Brotherton Meyer, an English Baptist clergyman.

1937 - Billy Graham gets his first opportunity to preach when his teacher John Minder unexpectedly assigns him the Easter evening sermon. Graham tried to get out of it, saying he was unprepared, but Minder persisted. Desperately nervous, Graham raced through four memorized sermons, originally 45 minutes each, in eight minutes.

1950 - It was announced that Wake Forest was the proposed site for the new Southern Baptist seminary, still yet to be named. The seminary later became known as Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.