* 1980 – Terry Fox begins his " Marathon of Hope " at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.

* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.

An extract of the herb St John's Wort is commonly used as an antidepressant especially in Europe, although it is labeled as a dietary supplement in some countries.

The St. Olaf College Choir was established as an outgrowth of the local St. John's Lutheran Church, where Christiansen was organist and the choir was composed at least partially of students from the nearby St. Olaf campus.

* Hypericum perforatum ( St. John's Wort )

All of Origen's works written after 218 are dedicated to Ambrose, including his On Martyrdom, Contra Celsum, Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and On Prayer.

In 1877, he won an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.

Category: Alumni of St John's College, Oxford

In Hot Springs, Bill attended St. John's Catholic Elementary School, Ramble Elementary School, and Hot Springs High School – where he was an active student leader, avid reader, and musician.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

This group includes the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, containing part of St John's Gospel, and perhaps dating from between 125 and 160.

In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of St. John's Island ( renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798 ) and Newfoundland.

Among the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew, the message to his followers that one should " Turn the other cheek " and his example in the story Pericope Adulterae, in which Jesus intervenes in the stoning of an adulteress, are generally accepted as his condemnation of physical retaliation ( though most scholars agree that the latter passage was " certainly not part of the original text of St John's Gospel ") More militant Christians consider Romans 13: 3 – 4 to support the death penalty.

Notably, St. John's College and the US Naval Academy engage in a yearly match in Annapolis, Maryland.

Both the colonies of Nova Scotia ( present-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ) and St. John's Island ( Prince Edward Island ) were affected by the American Revolutionary War, largely by privateering against American shipping, but several coastal communities were also the targets of American raiders.

Charlottetown, the capital of the new colony of St. John's Island, was ransacked in 1775 with the provincial secretary kidnapped and the Great Seal stolen.

The Colony of St. John's Island was renamed to Prince Edward Island on November 29, 1798.

Among these were: Commentaries on the Old Testament, Thesaurus, Discourse Against Arians Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and Dialogues on the Trinity.

Category: Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge

St Jerome, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1607, at St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

Originally interred in the church of Our Lady of the Victories, his remains now rest in St. John's Co-Cathedral among the tombs of other Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta.

Buildings of historic importance include St John's Co-Cathedral, formerly the Conventual Church of the Knights of Malta.

Within St John's Co-Cathedral

The body of Jean Parisot de la Valette was entombed there until the construction of St. John's Co-Cathedral.

A life-sized reliquary of Saint Valérie, containing an arm bone, was brought to Thibodaux in 1868 and is displayed in her shrine in St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Thibodaux.

* Co-Cathedral of Sant ' Antimo ( c. 1377 ), built by the Augustinians and originally dedicated to St. Michael.

Examples include the Cathedral of Saint Paul and the Basilica of Saint Mary in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ( Minnesota ) and St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica and the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston ( Texas ).

* The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and St Joseph's Co-Cathedral in the Diocese of Burlington ( Vermont ).

Among his other works in Malta there is the Baptism of Christ which was originally the titular painting of the St. John's Co-Cathedral.

He is buried in the Chapel of Our Lady of Filermos ( today the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament ) in the Co-Cathedral of St. John in Valletta.

* Memento mori and vanitas elements in the funerary art at St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta, an article on memento mori and ars moriendi appearing in the journal Treasures of Malta, December 2004

* http :// www. danemunro. com / Layers. html an analysis of symbols of Death on the tombstones of the Knights of the Order of St John at the St John's Co-Cathedral at Valletta, Malta, as appearing in Dane Munro, ' Memento Mori, a companion to the most beautiful floor in the world ' ( Malta, 2005 ), 2 vols.

It is the Co-Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, along with the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.

The titular painting in the church is by the artist Mattia Preti, ' Il calabrese ', who was also responsible for the painting on the vault of St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta.

He is buried in the Conventual Church of St. John ( Malta ), recently renamed St. John's Co-Cathedral.

Ten years later his body was buried on April 10, 1818 in St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta.

* St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta

His tomb in the Knights ' Cathedral St John's Co-Cathedral is considered the largest and most sumptuous of all the Grand Masters ' tombs.

Category: Burials at St. John's Co-Cathedral