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Church History - 1701 through 1800 AD
1701 . . . . Yale Founded to Fight Liberalism
1702 . . . . Bach Created Music to God's Glory
1703 . . . . Justus Falckner 1st Lutheran Ordained in America
1703 . . . . Jonathan Edwards, America's Humble Giant
1706 . . . . Evelyn's Diary, Window on an Age and a Soul
1706 . . . . John Williams, Redeemed Captive
1707 . . . . Mathematician-Apologist Leonhard Euler
1708 . . . . Ebenezer Erskine's Personal Covenant
1709 . . . . Alexander Selkirk Inspired More than a Novel
1711 . . . . Father Kino Collapsed
1715 . . . . Thomas Tenison, Evangelical Archbishop
1715 . . . . Isaac Watts, Father of English Hymnody
1715 . . . . Controversial George Whitefield
1717 . . . . William Williams, Welsh Evangelist
1718 . . . . David Brainerd
1719 . . . . Pierre Poiret's Sober Mysticism
1721 . . . . Hans Egede To Greenland
1722 . . . . Harvard Chair Went to Doubting Wigglesworth
1722 . . . . Moravians at Herrnhut
1723 . . . . Samuel Davies, Master Speaker
1726 . . . . Sarah Pierpont Married Jonathan Edwards
1727 . . . . Anna Nitschmann Led Committed Women
1727 . . . . Herrnhut Revival: A Golden Summer
1729 . . . . A Time to Feast over John of Nepomuk
1729 . . . . Methodist Saint, John Fletcher
1730 . . . . Death of Thomas Bray, Who Did Much
1730 . . . . The Great Awakening
1731 . . . . Benjamin Bannaky Met Racism in America
1731 . . . . William Cowper, Depressed Hymn Writer
1732 . . . . A Charter for Georgia
1732 . . . . Parting Blessings for Moravians
1735 . . . . "No Marker for Me," Urged Alexander Mack
1735 . . . . After Effects for Howell Harris
1735 . . . . Granville Sharpe's Unexpected Path
1735 . . . . John Wesley's Big Impact on America
1736 . . . . 1st of Many George Whitefield Sermons
1737 . . . . 1st American St. Patrick's Day Celebration
1737 . . . . Missionary Heroes of South Africa
1737 . . . . Zinzendorf Ordained Peter Bohler
1738 . . . . Charles Wesley Lacked Holy Spirit no More
1738 . . . . Jesus, Lover of My Soul
1738 . . . . John Wesley's Heart Strangely Warmed
1738 . . . . Evangelical Revival in England
1738 . . . . Introducing Samuel Medley
1738 . . . . Charles Wesley
1739 . . . . Sterling Conversion of David Brainerd
1740 . . . . Gilbert Tennent Outraged Traditional Ministers
1740 . . . . Whitefield's Bethesda Orphanage
1740 . . . . Boudinot, Bible Society Founder
1740 . . . . Edwards and Great American Awakening
1741 . . . . Edwards Preached on Sinners in God's Angry Hands
1741 . . . . Messiah and George Frideric Handel
1742 . . . . Hallelujah! Handel's Masterpiece
1742 . . . . Muhlenberg Landed in Philadelphia
1742 . . . . Susanna Wesley: Christian Mother
1743 . . . . Calvinist Methodists Met to Make Arrangements
1743 . . . . David Brainerd's Dark Night of the Soul
1743 . . . . Thomas Prince and America's 1st Religious Journal
1743 . . . . William Paley's Popular Apology
1744 . . . . 1st Methodist Conference Convened in London
1744 . . . . Noble Rowland Hill Preached among the Lowly
1745 . . . . Hannah More, Apostle to Prominent and Poor
1746 . . . . Eccentric Hymn Composer William Billings
1746 . . . . Charter for College of New Jersey
1747 . . . . John Newton Converted by Amazing Grace
1748 . . . . First Lutheran Synod in the Colonies
1748 . . . . England "No" Scotland "Yes" to Samuel Seabury
1748 . . . . John Newton Discovered Amazing Grace
1749 . . . . Otterbein's Ordination Important to Brethren
1749 . . . . John Sergeant and Stockbridge Indians
1750 . . . . Boston Preacher Mayhew Ignited Revolution
1750 . . . . The Love of John and Mary Newton
1751 . . . . Puritan Hymnwriter Philip Doddridge
1752 . . . . Bishop Butler Died in Bath
1752 . . . . Moravians Settled North Carolina
1755 . . . . Young John Cennick Out of His Head with Fever
1755 . . . . Christian Writer Hannah Adams
1755 . . . . Sermons from the Lisbon Earthquake
1756 . . . . Backus Bucked Formalism, Formed Baptist Church
1757 . . . . Benedict XIV Allowed Bible in Many Tongues
1758 . . . . James Stephen and Battle to Abolish Slavery
1759 . . . . St. Seraphim of Sarov, Renowned Staret
1759 . . . . Samson Occom, American Indian, Ordained
1759 . . . . The Arundel Boarded the Swift
1760 . . . . Philip Embury, America's 1st Methodist Pastor
1761 . . . . The Amazing Morses: Sam and Jed
1767 . . . . Conversion of John Ryland, Carey's Friend
1767 . . . . Marie Durand Released at Last
1768 . . . . Forced Religion Sinful and Tyrannical
1768 . . . . Joshua Marshman, Extraordinary Translator
1768 . . . . Oberlin's Awkward Proposal Resulted in Marriage
1768 . . . . President Witherspoon of Princeton
1768 . . . . Thomas Middleton, First Bishop of Calcutta
1769 . . . . Pietist Preacher Gerhard Tersteegen
1769 . . . . Thomas Kelly's Fervent Faith
1769 . . . . Junipero Serra Founded California Mission
1770 . . . . America's 1st Book on Teaching Method
1771 . . . . Francis Asbury Tackled America
1771 . . . . Francis Asbury
1772 . . . . Woolman's 16th of the 8th Month
1773 . . . . Jesuit Order Temporarily Dissolved
1775 . . . . Patrick Henry Makes "Liberty or Death" Speech
1776 . . . . Nathan Hale Urged, "Be Ready to Die"
1776 . . . . Toplady's Song in the Storm
1778 . . . . Hymn Writer Augustus Toplady
1779 . . . . Phillis Wheatley Seeks Poem Subscribers
1780 . . . . Thomas Chalmers and the Scots Church
1780 . . . . The Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots
1780 . . . . Robert Raikes' Ragamuffin Roundup
1780 . . . . Lott Carey
1781 . . . . Washington's Thanksgiving after Yorktown
1782 . . . . Debut of William Black, Canadian Methodist
1782 . . . . Zeisberger Closed His Journal
1784 . . . . Henry Alline, Evangelist to Nova Scotia
1784 . . . . John Henry Livingston Heads Seminary
1784 . . . . Thomas Coke Landed with Secret Orders
1785 . . . . Fox Organized Sunday School Society
1785 . . . . William Wilberforce vs. Slavery
1785 . . . . Peter Cartwright: Colorful Preacher
1786 . . . . Backward Vianney Became an Overcomer
1787 . . . . US Congress Adopted Northwest Ordinance
1788 . . . . Sarah Hale Gave Us Thanksgiving Day
1789 . . . . How Christianity Came to Pitcairn Is.
1789 . . . . Jesse Lee Brought Methodism to New England
1789 . . . . John Carroll American 1st
1789 . . . . The Clapham Group
1789 . . . . Presidential Inaugurations
1790 . . . . Did Robert Robinson Wander as He Feared?
1790 . . . . Welsh Evangelist Daniel Rowland
1791 . . . . Bill of Rights Guaranteed Religious Liberty
1762 . . . . Perronet's "National Anthem of Christendom"
1792 . . . . William Carey Preached Deathless Sermon
1792 . . . . William Carey's Deathless Sermon
1792 . . . . William Carey's Amazing Mission
1792 . . . . French Revolutionary "Freedom"
1792 . . . . Baptist Missionary Society Formed in England
1792 . . . . Joseph Mohr's Famous "Silent Night" Carol
1793 . . . . Stephen T. Badin's Ordination Was a 1st
1793 . . . . Noah Webster's Exemplary Christian Mind
1794 . . . . French Revolution Cult of Supreme Being
1794 . . . . Birth and Rebirth of Joyful Billy Bray
1795 . . . . Thomas Arnold Changed Rugby
1796 . . . . Suddenly Hauge Found Living Faith
1797 . . . . Henry Nott Arrived in Savage Tahiti
1798 . . . . Mary Pryor and the Sinking Ship
1799 . . . . Friedrich Tholuck
1799 . . . . Jedidiah Smith--For God and Wild West
1800 . . . . Bold Oncken, Begetter of European Baptists
1800 . . . . Mary Webb Organized Missions from Wheelchair
1800 . . . . Mary Jones Took a Walk
1800 . . . . The 2nd Great Awakening
1800 . . . . Henry Martyn Forsook All for Christ
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