January 15, 1929: Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., Theologian and America’s most visible civil rights leader from 1955 until his assassination in 1968, is born in Atlanta.
January 15, 1559: Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
Upon assuming the throne, Queen Elizabeth I restored England to Protestantism. This broke with the policy of her predecessor and half-sister, Queen Mary I, a Catholic monarch who ruthlessly tried to eliminate Protestantism from English society.
Queen Elizabeth I established the Church of England in 1559.
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