Former Anglican John Smyth rebaptizes himself and 40 others by pouring in Amsterdam.
First Baptist Church is formed in Kittery, Maine, then moves to South Carolina, becoming the first Baptist church in the South.
Baptists found the school later called Brown University, only the seventh institution of higher education founded in the colonies.
Baptist preacher William Miller announces the coming end of the world, beginning the Millerite movement.
Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon becomes pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in London.
Nannie Helen Burroughs delivers speech “How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping.”
William Bell Riley, “The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism,” sets up the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota and the Baptist Bible Union.
Pat Robertson founds Christian Broadcasting Network; Progressive National Baptist Convention leaves the NBCU; Ralph Elliott publishes The Message of Genesis.
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
SBC issues 150th-anniversary resolution on racial reconciliation.