In 1686, the capital city Buda was freed from the Ottomans by an allied Christian army composed of Austrian, Hungarian, and Western European troops, each roughly one third of the army.

The legends include tales that it was invented in Europe to celebrate the defeat of the Umayyad forces at the Battle of Tours by the Franks in 732, with the shape representing the Islamic crescent ; that it was invented in Vienna in 1683 to celebrate the defeat of the Ottomans by Christian forces in the siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Ottoman flags, when bakers staying up all night heard the tunneling operation and gave the alarm ; tales linking croissants with the kifli and the siege of Buda in 1686.

A common culinary myth claims that when Christian forces freed Buda from Ottoman occupation in 1686 the bakers of the town celebrated the victory the next day by selling freshly baked bread rolls made into a crescent shape.

Pulpit with figures of the apostles ( 1686 ) and the altarpiece ( 1696 ) were made by Estonian sculptor and carver Christian Ackermann.

* Mar Thoma II ( 1670 – 1686 ) – Before his demise in 1670, Mar Thoma I ordained his nephew as Mar Thoma II.

Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman () ( June 9, 1686 – May 31, 1747 ) was a German-born Russian statesman who came to prominence under Tsar Peter I of Russia ( Peter the Great ) and served until the accession of the Tsesarevna Elizabeth.

Exact burial sites and markers for many first-generation settlers in that ground were lost with the — probably deliberate — placement of Boston's first Anglican church, King's Chapel I ( 1686 ) over them ; the present stone marker, placed by the church, is likely a cenotaph.

On July 14, 1686, Newton wrote to Halley approving of his proposal to introduce woodcuts among the letterpress, stating clearly the differences which he had from Hooke, and adding, " And now having sincerely told you the case between Mr Hooke and me, I hope I shall be free for the future from the prejudice of his letters.

* Pieces for 1 and 2 viols, Book I ( 20 August 1686, only solo viols, 1 March 1689 first published with associated basso continuo )

* Andrey Osterman ( 1686 – 1747 ), in 1721 by Emperor Peter I of Russia

James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, refers to " Buttiphante " in a letter of January 1684 ( Carte Manuscripts, Bodleian, 161, f. 47v ), while Sir John Percival, progenitor of the Earls of Egmont, recorderd in his diary for the 16 March 1686 that the troopers " being att Buttevant Fair this day took Will Tirry and his wife and brought them hither and I examined them ".

The village is noted for the 1686 Grade I listed Belton House.

* John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach ( 1634 – 1686 )

As a Christian, I know I do not stand where Beckett stands, but I do see much of what he sees.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

I went to the Christian Endeavor Society and to the evening service of the church.

I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.

The next day I visited International Christian College which has developed since the war under the leadership of people who were interned and who know Japan well.

`` I think they played Hail To The Chief better than the Marine Corps Band, and we are grateful to them '', President Kennedy remarked after mounting the bandstand and shaking hands with conductor James Christian Pfohl.

If to be a Christian means to say yes where I otherwise say no, or where I do not have the right to say anything at all, then my only choice is to refuse to be a Christian.

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

The progressive closing of Afro-Asian ears to the Christian message is epitomized in a conversation I had three years ago while flying from Jerusalem to Cairo.

I had mounted it on velvet and hung it over my desk to remind me always to use the power of the paper in a Christian manner.

`` I didn't say it was Christian.

I don't think you'll find many active Christian salesmen.

* Bertrand Russell, ( 1779 – 2009 ) Why I Am Not a Christian, ISBN 0-671-20323-1

* Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell ( March 6, 1927 ).

* Afonso I of Kongo ( 1456 – 1543 ) the first Christian king of the Kingdom of Kongo

* 966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.

Dürer wrote of his desire to draw Luther in his diary in 1520: " And God help me that I may go to Dr. Martin Luther ; thus I intend to make a portrait of him with great care and engrave him on a copper plate to create a lasting memorial of the Christian man who helped me overcome so many difficulties.

* Albrecht Christian of Brandenburg ( 7 – 14 March 1609 ).

In opposition to the school of Ferdinand Christian Baur, who considered him a Jewish Christian, Albrecht Ritschl has pointed out that it was precisely because he was a Gentile Christian that he did not fully understand the Old Testament foundation of Paul's teaching, and explained in this way the modified character of his Paulinism and his legal mode of thought.

Those involved were Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last being the sister of Ponto's goddaughter.

* 1805-The first Christian missionaries arrive in Namibia, brothers Abraham and Christian Albrecht from the London Missionary Society

In Zusammenarbeit mit Ruth Albrecht, Martin Brecht, Christian Bunners, Ulrich Gäbler, Andreas Gestrich, Horst Gundlach, Jan Harasimovicz, Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen, Peter Kriedtke, Martin Kruse, Werner Koch, Markus Matthias, Thomas Müller Bahlke, Gerhard Schäfer (†), Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Walter Sparn, Udo Sträter, Rudolf von Thadden, Richard Trellner, Johannes Wallmann und Hermann Wellenreuther hg.

Many pupils of Sachs like Julius Oscar Brefeld, Francis Darwin, Karl Ritter von Goebel, Georg Albrecht Klebs, Hermann Müller-Thurgau, Fritz Noll, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Karl Prantl, Christian Ernst Stahl and Hugo de Vries became later famous botanists.

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Some of the well known " Stiftlers " are the astronomer Johannes Kepler and his associate, statesman Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, the philosophers G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Schelling, as well as the theologians David Friedrich Strauß, Johann Albrecht Bengel, Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Ferdinand Christian Baur and Eberhard Nestle, and the philologist August Pauly.

The English organist, choirmaster and composer William Selby was a major figure in Boston's musical life, along with the Dutch organist, violinist and composer Peter Albrecht van Hagen and German oboist Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner.

Those involved were Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar and Susanne Albrecht, the last being the sister of Ponto's goddaughter.

Originally, the Danish prime minister Christian Albrecht Bluhme wanted to keep the separate principles, but in the end the government decided on a uniform agnatic primogeniture, which was accepted by the parliament.

Claiming that corporations and government are planning to track every move of consumers and citizens with RFID as the latest step toward a 1984-like surveillance state, consumer privacy advocates, such as Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, have become Christian conspiracy theorists who believe spychips must be resisted because they argue that modern database and communications technologies, coupled with point of sale data-capture equipment and sophisticated ID and authentication systems, now make it possible to require a biometrically associated number or mark to make purchases.

The philosophers Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Albrecht Ritschl believed that the kingdom of God referred to a world of ideal human relations and envisaged a perfect Christian society.

The Seasons, moreover, followed the literary tendency of the day to portray not cities and aristocrats but rather the natural setting of the village and its inhabitants ( for example James Thomson, Albrecht von Haller, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Barthold Heinrich Brockes ).

Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht ( born June 29, 1930 in Leuchtenburg ) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and a former high-ranking civil servant of the European Commission.

As a supporter of Protestant King Christian IV of Denmark during the Thirty Years ' War, Ballenstedt was raided and plundered by the troops of Albrecht von Wallenstein in 1626.

William Martin Leake portrayed by Christian Albrecht Jensen

Past Generalmusikdirectoren ( general music directors ) have included Bruno Walter, Kurt Adler, Ferenc Fricsay, Lorin Maazel, Gerd Albrecht, Jesús López-Cobos, Christian Thielemann.

* Albrecht Christian of Württemberg-Winnental ( 13 June 1660 – 20 January 1663 ).

** Joachim Albrecht Bernhard Christian Ernst ( born 26 June 1984 )