Salvation Army

By millow_zoop

  • William Booth and Catherine Mumford are born

  • William Booth is ordained by the Methodist Church

  • Catherine Booth publishes "Female Teaching"

  • First Official Meetings of The East London Christian Mission

  • William Booth preaches outside of a pub giving birth to the movement

  • The ELCM is renamed The Christian Mission as it spreads

  • The name is officially changed to The Salvation Army

  • First efforts to expand to the U.S.

  • The first Salvation Army brass band begins

  • Publications are started in America and for youth

  • First Prison-Gate home is opened in Australia

  • The Salvation Army helped raise the age of consent in England

  • First "Slum Corps" is opened

  • Opens a match factory to combat working conditions in others

  • The Migration Department is founded

  • The Anti-Suicide Bureau is founded

  • Founder William Booth dies and is succeeded by his son

  • Provides reminders of home in the trenches of WWI

  • The first Angel Tree launches in Virginia

  • The Salvation Army exists in over 100 countries

  • 155th Anniversary