Timeline of Christianity - 19th Century

19th Century

• 1801 Cane Ridge revival in Cane Ridge, Kentucky initiates the Christians (Stone Movement) wing of the Restoration Movement
• 1809 Disciples of Christ (Campbell Movement) wing of the Restoration Movement initiated with the publication of the Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington
• 1815 Peter the Aleut, orthodox Christian tortured and martyred in Catholic San Francisco, California
• 1816 Bishop Richard Allen, a former slave, founds the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American denomination
• 1817 Claus Harms publishes 95 theses against rationalism and the Prussian Union of churches
• 1819 Thomas Jefferson produced the Jefferson Bible
• 1824 English translation of Wilhelm Gesenius' ...Handwörterbuch...: Hebrew-English Lexicon, Hendrickson Publishers
• 1827 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg takes on the editorship of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, the chief literary organ of the Neo-Lutheranism
• 1828 Plymouth Brethren founded, Dispensationalism
• 1830 Catherine Laboure receives Miraculous Medal from the Blessed Mother in Paris, France.
• 1830 Charles Finney's revivals lead to Second Great Awakening in America
• 1830, April 6 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. as a result of reported visitations and commandment by God the Father, Jesus Christ, and later the Angel Moroni. Book of Mormon also published in 1830.
• 1832 Christians (Stone Movement) and Disciples of Christ (Campbell Movement) merge to form the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
• 1832 persecution of Old Lutherans: by a royal decree of 28 February all Lutheran worship is declared illegal in Prussia in favour of the Prussian Union agenda.
• 1833 John Keble's sermon "National Apostasy" initiates the Oxford Movement in England
• 1838-1839 Saxon Lutherans objecting to theological rationalism emigrate from Germany to the United States; settle in Perry County, Missouri. Leads to formation of the LC-MS
• 1844 Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder, missionary, arrives in Port Natal, South Africa
• 1843, Disruption of: schism within the established Church of Scotland
• 1844 Lars Levi Laestadius experiences awakening: beginning of Laestadianism
• 1844, October 22 Great Disappointment, false prediction of Second Coming of Christ by Millerites
• 1845 Southern Baptist Convention formed in Augusta, Georgia
• 1846 Bernadette Soubirous received the first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes, France. Six million a year visit Lourdes Shrine.
• 1847 Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod founded at in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1847 John Christian Frederick Heyer, missionary, arrives in Andhra Pradesh, India
• 1848 Epistle to the Easterns and Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs response
• 1848 Perfectionist movement in western New York state
• 1849 Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe founds the first deaconess house in Neuendettelsau, Bavaria
• 1850 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod founded in Milwaukee
• 1853 Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America founded outside Madison, Wisconsin
• 1854 Missionary Hudson Taylor arrives in China
• 1854 Immaculate Conception, defined as Catholic dogma
• 1855 Søren Kierkegaard, founder of Christian existentialism
• 1855 Samuel Simon Schmucker begins attempt to replace the Augsburg Confession with the Definite Platform in the General Synod, leading to schism in 1866.
• 1859 Ashbel Green Simonton, missionary, arrives in Brazil and founds Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil, the oldest Brazilian Protestant denomination
• 1863 Seventh-day Adventist Church officially formed twenty 20 years after the Great Disappointment
• 1865 Methodist preacher William Booth founds the Salvation Army, vowing to bring the gospel into the streets to the most desperate and needy
• 1866 General Council (Lutheran) formed by ten Lutheran synods in the United States
• 1869-1870 Catholic First Vatican Council, asserted doctrine of Papal Infallibility, rejected by Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
• 1870 Italy declared war on the Papal States. The Italian Army enters Rome. Papal States ceased to exist.
• 1871 Pontmain, France was saved from advancing German troops with the appearing of Our Lady of Hope
• 1871-1878 German Kulturkampf against Roman Catholicism

• 1872 Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America organized
• 1876 Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany) founded
• 1878 First translation of the New Testament into Batak by Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
• 1879 Knock, Ireland was location of the apparition of Our Lady, Queen of Ireland.
• 1879 Church of Christ, Scientist founded in Boston by Mary Baker Eddy
• 1881-1894 Revised Version, called for by Church of England, used Greek based on Septuagint (B) and (S), Hebrew Masoretic Text used in OT, follows Greek order of words, greater accuracy than AV, includes Apocrypha, scholarship never disputed
• 1884 Charles Taze Russell founded Bible Student movement known today as Jehovah's Witnesses
• 1885-1887 Uganda Martyrs
• 1885 Baltimore Catechism
• 1886 Moody Bible Institute
• 1886 Onesimos Nesib, begins translation of the entire Bible into the Oromo language
• 1886 Johann Flierl, missionary, arrives in New Guinea
• 1891 Albert Maclaren and Copland King, Anglican missionaries, arrive in New Guinea
• 1893 Heresy trial of Luther Alexander Gotwald
• 1894 The Kingdom of God is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy, start of Christian anarchism
• 1897 Christian flag, conceived in Brooklyn, New York
• 1899 Gideons International founded