January 1

On this day in 379, Basil the Great, early Eastern church father, died in Caesarea, Cappadocia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey).

January 2

On this day in 1945, Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah, the first Indian bishop of the Anglican Church in India, died.

January 3

On this day in 1989, the House of Bishops consents to the election of Barbara C. Harris, first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion.
http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=89025A

January 4

On this day in 1581, James Usher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–1656, was born.

January 5

On this day in 1976, the new Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf was formally established with the consecration of Leonard Ashton as its bishop. http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=76002

January 6

On this day in 548, the Jerusalem church observes Christmas on this date for the last time as the Church moves to celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25.

January 7

On this day in 367,  Athanasius writes a letter containing a list of what he thinks should be considered the canon of Scripture, this list would later be accepted by the Church.

January 8

On this day in 1854, Thomas Fielding Scott was consecrated the first missionary bishop of the Oregon and Washington Territories.
http://www.diocese-oregon.org/history

January 8

On this day in 1977, Beverly Messenger-Harris was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York.  Messenger-Harris was the first female rector of an Episcopal parish.

January 9

On this day in 1868, Benjamin Bosworth Smith became the ninth Presiding Bishop.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/pb

January 10

On this day in 1645, Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud was beheaded.

January 10

On this day in 1739, George Whitefield, preacher credited with starting America's first Great Awakening, was ordained an Anglican priest.

January 11

On this day in 1986, Edmond Lee Browning was consecrated as the 24th Presiding Bishop

January 12

On this day in 1992, the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania named the Church of the Saviour in Philadelphia as its official cathedral.
http://www.episcopalarchives.com/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=92016

January 13

On this day in 1731, John Darwall, composer, was baptized at Haughton, Staffordshire, England. Darwall was ap­point­ed Cur­ate and lat­er Vi­car of St. Mat­thew’s Par­ish in Wal­sall, and lived the rest of his life there.

January 14

On this day in 1985, Alice Elizabeth (Betsy) Rodenmayer died.  Rodenmayer served the Episcopal Church in several women's ministry leadership positions for more than fifty years.

January 15

On this day in 1535, Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church of England.

January 16

On this day in 1923, Bishop Cameron Mann presided over the primary diocesan convention of the Diocese of Southern Florida (later the Dioceses of Southeast Florida, Southwest Florida, and Central Florida).

January 17

On this day in 1838, the first diocesan convention of the Episcopal Church in Florida was held in Tallahassee.

January 18

On this day in 1993, Herbert Thompson, Jr. was formally installed as the eighth diocesan bishop of Southern Ohio.

January 19

On this day in 1649, England's King Charles I, a devout Anglican with Catholic sympathies who staunchly defended the "divine right of kings," was executed after being convicted of treason under a Puritan-influenced Parliament.

January 21

On this day in 1549, in the first of four Acts of Uniformity, the British Parliament required all Anglican public services to exclusively use of The Book of Common Prayer.

January 21

On this day in 1902, Alexander Hamilton Vinton was elected the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.

January 22

On this day in 1997, Virginia Theological Seminary revised its policy on sexual behavior from a statement that explicitly forbade "sexual intercourse outside the bonds of marriage, adulterous relationships, and the practice of homosexuality."  By a vote of 31 to 3, the seminary's board of trustees adopted "A Call to a Holy Life," 

January 22

On this day in 1983, Alex D. Dickson Jr. was elected  the first bishop-elect  of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee.first annual convention.

January 23

On this day in 1893, Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts, abolitionist, and author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," died.

January 21

On this day in 1573, John Donne, poet and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, was born.

January 25

On this day in 1841, John Henry Newman published Tract 90 (in a series began in 1833), an argument for a catholic interpretation of the Thirty-Nine Articles.

January 26

On this day in 1985, George Lazenby Reynolds was elected as the ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee.

January 27

On this day in 398, John Chrysostom was consecrated bishop of Constantinople.

January 28

On this day in 1547, England's Henry VIII, who presided over the founding of the Anglican Church, died at age 55.

January 29

On this day in 1769, Thomas Middleton, first Anglican bishop of Calcutta, was born in Kedleston in Derbyshire, England.

January 30

On this day in 1877, the first members of the Church Missionary Society arrived in Uganda. Though missions saw few immediate results, after the missionaries' deaths, the Ugandan church grew quickly.

January 31

On this day in 1991, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie retired.

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