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Church History - 1801 through 1900 AD
1801 . . . . Strange Behavior at Cane Ridge
1802 . . . . Evans Battled Burnout in Welsh Mountains
1802 . . . . The Truth about the Wall of Separation
1803 . . . . Reformer Thomas Guthrie
1803 . . . . Jacob Abbott's Children's Literature
1803 . . . . Samuel Hopkins' Unusual Theology
1803 . . . . George Müller: God Alone Our Patron
1804 . . . . Mary Jones and the Bible Society
1804 . . . . David Abeel Born to Lead Women to New Birth
1804 . . . . Napoleon Crowned Himself in Notre Dame
1805 . . . . Sarah Flower Adams
1805 . . . . George Washington Bethune
1805 . . . . Hieromonk Gedeon's Confidential Letter Told All
1805 . . . . John J. Herzog's Huge Church Encyclopedia
1805 . . . . Serampore Compact
1806 . . . . Duff Defied Shipwrecks to Disciple India
1806 . . . . Edward R. Ames Did Ohio Proud
1806 . . . . American Missions
1807 . . . . Samuel Adjai Crowther
1807 . . . . William Wilberforce
1807 . . . . Jacob Albright Followed His Children Home
1808 . . . . Elder Randall, Free Will Baptist Founder
1809 . . . . Blind Louis Braille Gave Reading to the Blind
1809 . . . . The Campbells Formed a Christian Association
1810 . . . . Andrew Alexander Bonar Learned the Value of Prayer
1811 . . . . Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abolitionist
1812 . . . . The Judsons
1812 . . . . Ann Judson: 1st American Woman Missionary
1812 . . . . Devastating Quake in New Madrid
1812 . . . . Archibald Alexander Assumed Princeton Post
1813 . . . . A Miserable, Dirty Town for the Judsons
1814 . . . . Christian Lawyer, Key, Wrote Anthem
1814 . . . . Francis Scott Key's Anthem
1815 . . . . Tischendorf Recovered
1815 . . . . A Battle Won Tahiti for Christ
1815 . . . . Revolutionary Mexican Priest, Jose Morelos
1815 . . . . Black Americans Reached Ancestral Africans
1816 . . . . Separate but Equal for Richard Allen
1816 . . . . American Bible Society Replaces Many Societies
1816 . . . . Moffat Sailed to Heroic Endeavors in Africa
1817 . . . . Yale Leader Timothy Dwight Died in Harness
1817 . . . . Why Mrs. Fry Willingly Went to Prison
1819 . . . . Channing Threw Down the Unitarian Gauntlet
1820 . . . . This Hymn Was More than a Coincidence
1820 . . . . Father German Wrote to a Disciple
1820 . . . . Conversion of Joseph Tarkington
1820 . . . . Piano Prodigy George Frederick Root
1820 . . . . Fanny Crosby: America's Hymn Queen
1821 . . . . Colorful William Taylor
1821 . . . . Auntie Charlotte Tucker Glowed
1821 . . . . William C. Blair Set the Pace
1821 . . . . Finney Had it out with God in the Woods
1821 . . . . Fyodor Dostoevsky: More than a Novelist
1822 . . . . James Varick, 1st Bishop of Zion Methodists
1823 . . . . Free Methodist Founder Benjamin T. Roberts
1823 . . . . William Ward, Carey's Essential Printer
1823 . . . . Samuel Marsden Suffered Shipwreck
1823 . . . . William O. Cushing Sought to Follow Christ
1824 . . . . Premiere of Beethoven's
1824 . . . . Feuerbach: a Theologian Who Wasn't
1825 . . . . John Q. Adams, His Father's Son
1826 . . . . A Significant 1st, David Nasmith's City Mission
1827 . . . . Painter Holman-Hunt's Realism
1827 . . . . Catherine McAuley's House of Mercy
1827 . . . . Sojourner: Witness of Truth
1828 . . . . Jeremiah Rankin: How Can Christians Say Goodbye?
1828 . . . . Javouhey To Africa
1828 . . . . Lott Carey Died in Munitions Explosion
1829 . . . . Master Mendelssohn Revived Master Bach
1829 . . . . J.J. Parrot, 1st Modern to Climb Mt. Ararat
1830 . . . . American Sunday School Union's Huge Challenge
1830 . . . . Oastler's Letter Shocked England
1831 . . . . Peloubet of the Famous Notes
1832 . . . . 1st Performance of Samuel F. Smith's "America"
1832 . . . . Adam Clarke Died but His Comments Lived on
1832 . . . . Edward Irving Barred from His Pastorate
1832 . . . . More Than Submission Demanded of Lamennais
1832 . . . . Cholera Brushed Charles Finney
1832 . . . . Lina Sandell Berg: Songs out of Tragedy
1832 . . . . Consecration of George W. Doane
1832 . . . . Sickly Melville Cox Accepted Liberia's Challenge
1832 . . . . George Mueller, Man of Faith and Prayer
1833 . . . . Eugene Casalis Landed at Cape Town
1833 . . . . Albert Carman, Canadian Methodist Leader
1833 . . . . Grand Old Hannah More Died
1833 . . . . Oxford Movement Began with Keble Sermon
1833 . . . . Dying Wilberforce Learned Slaves Were Freed
1833 . . . . Macaulay Stated Evangelical Position on India
1834 . . . . Schleiermacher Was Mourned
1834 . . . . Muller out on a Limb with God
1834 . . . . Matthew Simpson Rode Away from Medicine
1834 . . . . Newlywed Gobats' Life of Hardship for Christ
1834 . . . . Reaper Patent for Christian Inventor, Cy McCormick
1834 . . . . Marianne Hearn, Baptist Blessing
1834 . . . . Women Rallied around Missionary Cause
1835 . . . . Debut of I Puritani, an Opera about Puritans
1835 . . . . Richard C. Trench Loved Words
1835 . . . . William Nast Admitted on Trial
1835 . . . . Frontier Bishop Jackson Kemper
1835 . . . . Fire Destroyed Tappans' New York Business
1835 . . . . Nettie McCormick
1836 . . . . Theodore Fliedner Opened 1st Deaconess Center
1836 . . . . Mary Lyon Opened Mount Holyoke
1836 . . . . Mary Lyon's Vision for Christian Women
1836 . . . . Having Overcome Much Opposition, Simeon Died
1837 . . . . Arthur T. Pierson's Illustrious Heritage
1837 . . . . Oberlin Recognized Women's Equality
1837 . . . . Evan H. Hopkins Penned Spiritual Masterpiece
1837 . . . . Murder of Abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy
1837 . . . . Berlioz' Requiem First Performed
1837 . . . . Jesus Loves Me
1838 . . . . A Gothic Cross to Remember Martyrs
1838 . . . . Blanchet and Demers Arrived in Oregon
1838 . . . . Sir Robert Grant Penned "O Worship the King"
1838 . . . . John Hunt Arrived in Fiji's Cannibal Land
1838 . . . . Angelina Grimké: Exiled for Emancipation
1839 . . . . Phoebe Palmer Knapp: Rich, Beautiful, Charitable
1839 . . . . John Williams Martyred on Erromanga
1840 . . . . Demetrius Gallitzin, Apostle of the Alleghenies
1840 . . . . What Did They Ask Kierkegaard?
1840 . . . . Famed English Preacher Frederick W. Robertson
1841 . . . . Modern Tourism Begun by Baptist Thomas Cook
1841 . . . . David Livingstone
1841 . . . . Carolyn Chisolm
1842 . . . . Charles H. Parkhurst Born to Tame Tammany
1842 . . . . Borrow's Bible Adventures in Spain
1843 . . . . Faithful Fidelia Fiske Sailed for Persia
1843 . . . . Robert Richford Roberts, Frontier Bishop
1843 . . . . Benajah Carroll Wasn't Beyond God's Reach
1843 . . . . Meet James Gilmour, Apostle to Mongolia
1844 . . . . Asahel Grant's Romanticized Nestorians
1844 . . . . YMCA Became Associated for Christ
1844 . . . . Miller Wrongly Set Date for Christ's Return
1844 . . . . Tischendorf Found Treasure in Trash
1845 . . . . "Sweet Hour of Prayer" First Printed
1845 . . . . Layard Found Treasures on the Tigris
1846 . . . . Pius IX Is Pope Longer than Any Other
1846 . . . . Isaac Hecker Took His Vows
1846 . . . . John Geddie Sailed for Polynesia
1847 . . . . Phoebe Palmer's Hand in Methodist Missions
1847 . . . . Dying Henry Lyte Asked God to Stay Near
1847 . . . . Cultural Differences Proved Fatal to Whitmans
1848 . . . . First Women's Rights Convention
1849 . . . . Zachary Taylor Refused Sunday Swearing In
1849 . . . . African Mission Explorer George Grenfell
1849 . . . . Ordination of Extraordinary E. R. Baierlein
1850 . . . . Stowe's Bestseller Blasted Slavery
1851 . . . . Eliza Edmunds Hewitt: Songs from a Bed of Pain
1851 . . . . Charles Tindley's Faith Set Him Singing
1851 . . . . Karl Gutzlaff Had Original Ideas
1852 . . . . Message in a Bottle Guided Dido to Missionaries
1852 . . . . Rock Island Baptism Birthed Swedish Baptists
1852 . . . . Gallaudet's Silent Treatment
1853 . . . . Elizabeth Prentiss Sang in Suffering
1853 . . . . Hudson Taylor's Heart for China's Millions
1854 . . . . Alone Among 500 Million Souls
1854 . . . . James Montgomery, Newsman with a Conscience
1854 . . . . Death of John Kitto, Deaf Bible Scholar
1854 . . . . Immaculate Conception Became Catholic Doctrine
1855 . . . . John Bright's Most Eloquent Speech
1855 . . . . Dwight L. Moody Was Converted
1856 . . . . Amanda Smith Found Christ in a Cellar
1856 . . . . James Milton Black Wanted His Name on God's Roll
1856 . . . . Spurgeon's Service at Surrey Gardens
1856 . . . . The Anguish and Joy of Amanda Smith
1857 . . . . First Methodist Baptism in China
1857 . . . . Ballington Booth Founded Volunteers of America
1857 . . . . Jeremy Lanphier Led Prayer Revival
1857 . . . . When Revival Ran Epidemic
1858 . . . . Cause for Waldensian Rejoicing
1858 . . . . John Gossner Driven from Russia and Denomination
1858 . . . . Dorothy Gurney Wrote a Wedding Poem
1858 . . . . John Paton Landed on Terrible Tanna
1858 . . . . Lord Kelvin: Blessed Are the Pure
1858 . . . . Pandita Ramabai Reclaimed Rejects
1860 . . . . Rodney Smith, Gypsy Evangelist
1860 . . . . C.F.W. Walther Completed "He's Risen, He's Risen"
1860 . . . . Creation-Evolution Debate, Huxley vs. Wilberforce
1860 . . . . Michael Faraday
1860 . . . . William Jennings Bryan
1861 . . . . Valiant Circle of Christians on Erromanga
1861 . . . . Nikolai and the Japanese Church
1861 . . . . Helen Montgomery Changed our Bibles' Look
1861 . . . . James Stewart, Educator to a Race
1861 . . . . President Lincoln's Fast
1861 . . . . Howe's Hymn Born as a Result of Sanitary Work
1861 . . . . Uchimura, Spokesman for the "Non-Church"
1861 . . . . Coillards Merged into a Mighty Mission Team
1861 . . . . Civil War Christian Commission Was Formed
1862 . . . . Billy Sunday Found the Prairie
1862 . . . . Sarah Pollard Didn't Like Her Name
1862 . . . . Jedediah Smith's Adventures
1863 . . . . Renan's Christ Wasn't the Bible's
1863 . . . . Christian Businessman Founded the Red Cross
1863 . . . . Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
1864 . . . . "Impossible" Jerry Mcauley Opened Rescue Mission
1865 . . . . Ex-Slave Henry Garnet Addressed U.S. House
1865 . . . . 1st Salvation Army Sermon Preached in a Torn Tent
1865 . . . . Ordination of Successful A. B. Simpson
1865 . . . . R. J. Thomas' Deadly Mission in Korea
1865 . . . . Prisoners Cried When Wayland Died
1865 . . . . India's Praying Hyde
1866 . . . . John Mason Neale Is Remembered
1866 . . . . Tiyo Soga Translated Pilgrim's Progress into Xhosa
1867 . . . . Famed Southern Baptist, George W. Truett
1868 . . . . "Hand, Head and Heart" at Hampton Institute
1868 . . . . Walter Gowan's Life Drained out for Sudan
1868 . . . . Fair-Minded Henry H. Milman
1868 . . . . Kingsley Preached the Meteor Shower
1868 . . . . John Ralston Clements Hymned the Love of Christ
1869 . . . . Madagascar's Queen Converted to Christ
1870 . . . . Veniaminov: Paul Bunyan of the Alaskan Church
1870 . . . . Isabella Thoburn Taught India's Women
1870 . . . . No Rest for a Weary Clara Swain
1870 . . . . Pope's Infallibility Declared, Old Catholics Split
1870 . . . . Rest at Last for Anthony Claret
1870 . . . . Juji Nakada Inspired OMS
1871 . . . . John Herschel Laid to Rest beside Newton
1871 . . . . John Patteson and Team Murdered
1871 . . . . Charlotte Elliott Faced God with One Plea
1871 . . . . Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
1872 . . . . Workingman's Friend, F. D. Maurice
1872 . . . . Lord Shaftesbury, Friend of the Poor
1872 . . . . Grundtvig Sought a Transformed Denmark
1872 . . . . Colorful Peter Cartwright, Circuit Rider
1872 . . . . Smith Electrified London with New Flood Account
1872 . . . . Era of the Evangelist
1873 . . . . Damien Joined the Outcasts
1873 . . . . Thailand's Pioneer Missionary, Dan Bradley
1873 . . . . Extraordinary Lottie Moon Reached China
1873 . . . . It Is Well With My Soul
1874 . . . . Frances Havergal Wrote "Take My Life and Let it Be"
1874 . . . . Sankey First Sang "The Lost Sheep"
1874 . . . . Henry Halley of Halley's Bible Handbook
1874 . . . . Founding of National Woman's Temperance Union
1874 . . . . Neesima Shimeta: A Joseph for Japan
1875 . . . . The First Keswick Convention
1875 . . . . A Feast for Samuel Schereschewsky
1876 . . . . Rescue too Late for Deutschland's Nuns
1876 . . . . John Dykes Composer of "Holy, Holy, Holy"
1876 . . . . Big-Hearted Friedrich Konrad Dietrich Wyneken
1876 . . . . Ironside Laid Aside as Dead at Birth
1876 . . . . Train Wreck Killed Hymn Writer Bliss and Wife
1876 . . . . Blessed Bliss, by Thomas E. Corts
1876 . . . . Blessed Bliss
1877 . . . . "Mother of Missions" Doremus Died from a Spill
1877 . . . . Mission Founder William Strong
1877 . . . . Caroline Chisholm, Australian Immigrants' Friend
1877 . . . . Mordecai Ham, Outspoken Evangelist
1877 . . . . Beer Garden Became Pacific Garden Mission
1878 . . . . Theologian Charles Hodge Won Hearts
1878 . . . . Francis Grimke's Christian Critique of Slavery
1879 . . . . Lightfoot Left Academia to Become a Bishop
1879 . . . . "Lead, Kindly Light," Wrote John Newman
1879 . . . . George Fife Angas and the Settling of Australia
1880 . . . . Salvation Army Invaded New York
1880 . . . . Educator to the Orient, Samuel R. Brown
1880 . . . . Bud Robinson's Conflict at Camp Meeting
1880 . . . . Lay-Minister Garfield Elected U.S. President
1880 . . . . Francis Pfanner came to South Africa
1881 . . . . Fundamentalist Leader John Gresham Machen
1881 . . . . Lathrop Traded Literature for Bandages
1882 . . . . John Darby of the Plymouth Brethren
1882 . . . . Blind Matheson Penned Immortal Hymn
1882 . . . . Titus Coan: Early Missionary to Hawaii
1882 . . . . Samuel Adjai Crowther
1883 . . . . Dying Harold Schofield Prayed Grads to China
1884 . . . . Drummond's Greatest Thing in the World
1885 . . . . A Typical Sam Jones Tough-Nosed Sermon
1885 . . . . James Hannington Captured
1885 . . . . Mukasa Beheaded in Uganda
1885 . . . . Haldor Lillenas: the Matchless Grace of Jesus
1886 . . . . Karl Barth Was Monday's Child
1886 . . . . I.B. Kimbrough and the Highwaymen
1886 . . . . How Did Joseph M. Scriven Come to Drown?
1886 . . . . Student Volunteer Mission
1887 . . . . C. T. Studd Gave Huge Inheritance Away
1887 . . . . Evangelization Society to Storm Chicago
1887 . . . . U.S. President Benjamin Harrison
1888 . . . . Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Original
1888 . . . . Jonathan Goforth Went Forth
1889 . . . . Faye Edgerton Gave God's Word to the Navajo
1889 . . . . Asa Mahan Went Home
1889 . . . . Passing of Bible Scholar Alfred Edersheim
1889 . . . . Horatius Bonar Pointed People to Christ
1890 . . . . Emma Whittemore Opened Door of Hope
1890 . . . . Emma Whittemore and Door of Hope
1891 . . . . Armenians 1st in Asia Minor, Late to U.S
1891 . . . . Inexpensive Chapels on Wheels
1891 . . . . Spurgeon's Last Sermon from the Tabernacle
1891 . . . . Charles A. Briggs Called on Heresy
1892 . . . . Warner Sallman's Famous Head of Christ
1892 . . . . Edith Warner's Quiet Heroism in Nigeria
1892 . . . . Ida Scudder Changed Her Mind
1893 . . . . Leading Trinity Defender, Phillips Brooks
1892 . . . . Joseph Parker's Special Noon Service
1892 . . . . Archaeologist James L. Kelso Dug for Christ
1893 . . . . World Parliament of Religions
1894 . . . . William Passavant Tried to Meet Every Need
1895 . . . . John Broadus Taught Sermon-Making
1895 . . . . Therese of Lisieux's Act of Oblation
1895 . . . . Andrew Murray's Record of His Spiritual Life
1895 . . . . Mission Team Reached Mombasa, Kenya
1895 . . . . 1st Full Performance of Mahler's "Resurrection"
1895 . . . . Former Slave Frederick Douglass
1896 . . . . Walter Grand Taylor Converted in His Room
1896 . . . . D-Day for the Volunteers of America
1896 . . . . Bernard Mizeki Took a Brave Stand
1896 . . . . Walter L. Wilson Converted
1897 . . . . Alcoholic Mel Trotter Delivered from Drink
1897 . . . . Death of Christ-Like Henry Drummond
1897 . . . . Sister Anthony, Battlefield Heroine
1898 . . . . Glynn Put God in Australia's Preamble
1899 . . . . What's in a Revised Version?
1899 . . . . Koldeway's Verified the Bible from Babylon
1899 . . . . Robert Lowry's Ceased Composing
1899 . . . . Evangelist Martyn Lloyd-Jones
1899 . . . . Charles Chiniquy vs. the Catholic Church
1899 . . . . The Pope, the Cardinal, and the "Phantom Heresy"
1900 . . . . John Charles Ryle Wrote His Farewell Message
1900 . . . . Pastor Meng Died because He Wouldn't Run
1900 . . . . Albert Schweitzer Licensed in Theology
1900 . . . . Rose Lathrop Abandoned Lit. for Cancer Work
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