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French Revolution
The Storming of Bastille. The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. -
Many Missionary Societies are Founded
London Missionary Society (1795), Scottish and Glasgow Missionary Societies (1796), Church Missionary Society (1799), Religious Tract Society (1799), and the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804). including the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1810) and, among Baptists, the General Convention for Foreign Missions (1814). -
United States Bill of Rights
These amendments were ratified on December 15, 1791. The 1st Amendment includes FREEDOM OF RELIGION. -
Former slave starts African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia
After leading a group of free blacks out of St. George's Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Methodist minister Richard Allen, -- himself a former slave -- founds St. Bethel's African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, which formally severs ties to white Methodist congregations in 1816. During the early 19th century, the AME Church becomes one of the largest black churches in the United States, finding adherents among free blacks living in major cities across the Northeast. -
Methodism becomes the fastest growing denomination in America
The faith focuses on religious discipline or methods, touching a nerve with a population looking for order in a newly forming society. Methodists also welcome women and blacks and encourage democratic participation. By 1812, one in every 36 Americans is a member of the Methodist Church. By 1850, the Methodist Church becomes the largest denomination in the country. -
Cane Ridge Revival
In 1801, the most famous camp meeting (revivals as a result of the Second Great Awakening) occurs at Cane Ridge in Bourbon County, Ky. Preachers from many denominations exhort to a mixed crowd estimated at between 10,000 and 20,000 -- black and white, free and slave, poor and well-to-do. Most come hoping to experience intense, emotional and heartfelt worship. -
National organization for American missionaries abroad
The creation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) signals the beginning of a missionary movement that continues today. The ABCFM draws missionaries from a variety of denominations, but groups take different views over the missions' basic purpose. -
The Second Great Awakening
By the beginning of the 19th century, traditional Christian beliefs were held in less favor by numerous educated Americans. The Second Great Awakening, a reprise of the Great Awakening of the early 18th century, was marked by an emphasis on personal piety over schooling and theology. It arose in several places and in several active forms. -
America sends Protestant missionaries to China
American missionaries had traveled to Burma and India 20 years earlier, and reports sent back to the United States from these and the Chinese missions provide Americans back home with context to understand Asian religious traditions. -
Adoniram Judson translates the Bible into Burmese
Missionary translates the Bible into Burmese. -
David Livingstone to Africa
On December 8, 1840, David Livingstone sailed to Africa because he believed that the people there should have a chance to recieve Christ. Mingling freely among them, healing their diseases, disarming their hostilities by interesting them in something unusual, he soon reached the conclusion that a noble and true heart was a better mainspring to overcome and direct raw natives than the abuse given to them. -
Methodists and Baptists split over the issue of slavery
The MEC, founded in 1784, opposed slavery. Over time that view changed as slavery became more important in the South. Nevertheless, although members of the denomination could have slaves, the clergy could not. Just as with the later Methodists, the northern Baptists were against slavery whereas the southern Baptists were for slavery. -
Annexation of Texas to the US
Texas is the 28th state to enter the US. -
Civil War begins
As North and South lurch toward war, each side turns to the Bible to support its cause. The war begins on April 12. -
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was born into an Alsatian family which for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education. Only nine when he first performed in his father's church, he was, from his young manhood to his middle eighties, recognized as a concert organist, internationally known. From his professional engagements he earned funds for his education, particularly his later medical schooling, and for his African hospital. -
Mormon Church Renounces Polygamy
"Mormon Manifesto" is when the Mormon's leaders commanded all Latter-day Saints to uphold the anti-polygamy laws of the nation. They were given little choice because of they did not abandon polygamy they faced federal confiscation of their sacred temples. -
World War 1
World War one was started when Austria declared war on Serbia. Then Germany declared war on Russia and France and so on... -
Panama Canal is Completed
The length of the Panama Canal is approximately 51 miles. The first between 1881 and 1888, being the work carried out by the French company headed by de Lessop and secondly the work by the Americans which eventually completed the canals construction between 1904 and 1914.
