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Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto
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ecumencial Council of the Vatican (known as Vatican I)
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Bolshevik party formed in Russia
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Bolshevik party formed in Russia
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Three children at Fatima, Portugal, are granted visions of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady asked the children to pray the Rosary every day to stop the spread of Russia’s errors and for world peace. She asked that Russia be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart.) -
Mexico outlaws Catholicism
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Soviet Union is formed (Lenin was its first leader; Stalin took power two years after Lenin’s death)
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The first Catholic bishops in China are ordained
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Servant of God Dorothy Day converts to Catholicism
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Bl. Miguel Pro is killed by the Mexican government
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Hitler beomes chancellor of Germany; first Nazi concentration camp is opened
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Day founds the Catholic Worker newspaper
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Word War II begins
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Communist governments begin persecutions and mass murder across Europe and Asia
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St. Maximilian Kolbe is killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz
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Pope St. John XXIII calls the Church council that will become known as Vatican II
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Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (now known as Vatican II
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The US Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects the right ot an abortion
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Pope St. John Paul II survives an assassination attempt ordered by the KGB (the Soviet intelligence agency)
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The Soviet Union begins to fall (The end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of communism in Europe would come in 1991)