Portal:Religion/On this day/July 17

July 17:

 * 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
 * 1048 - Damasus II appointed Pope.
 * 1203 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.