John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe are brought to trial, charged with 'publishing and dispensing seditious books.' They are hanged in April. - March 23

Zurich leaders execute two Anabaptists by drowning, Heinrich Karpfis and Hans Herzog.

1532 - Zurich leaders execute two Anabaptists by drowning, Heinrich Karpfis and Hans Herzog. These are the last of six such executions in Zurich.

1542 - Sebastian Castellio is appointed rector of the College of Geneva. He will run afoul of Calvin over personal disagreements and a dispute over the interpretation of the Song of Solomon. Expelled from Geneva, Castellio will suffer eight years of poverty before he is hired to teach at Basel. Calvin will also reject Castellio’s arguments for freedom of conscience advanced in Concerning Heretics.

1593 - After languishing in English prison for seven years, John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe are brought to trial, charged with “publishing and dispensing seditious books.” While in prison they had written against Queen Elizabeth’s ecclesiastical supremacy. They will be hanged in April.

1754 - Death in Amsterdam of Johann Jakob Wettstein, a notable theologian and Bible scholar, accused of heterodox views by Reformed scholars but accepted by Remonstrants (Arminians).

1869 - The Methodist Episcopal Woman’s Board in Boston organizes the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society.

– Source: Christian History Institute