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A look at what happened on previous July 16ths

In 1536, French explorer Jacques Cartier arrived in France from his second voyage to the New World. Photograph by: file , PNG

In 622, Prophet Mohammad fled from Mecca, where he was despised and persecuted, to the northern city of Medina, marking the day of beginning of Hegira, the Islamic calender. The word “hegira” is Arabic for flight.

In 1054, the Great Schism between the Western and Eastern churches began over rival claims of universal pre-eminence. In 1965, 911 years later, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I met to declare an end to the schism.

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