18th century

18th century
See also: Age of Enlightenment
1701 Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands splits with Roman Catholicism
1721 Peter the Great substituted Moscow Patriarchate with the Holy Synod
1728 The Vicar of Bray (song)
1730-1749 First Great Awakening in U.S.
1735 Welsh Methodist revival
1738 Methodist movement, led by John Wesley and his hymn-writing brother Charles, begins
1741 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, famous Fire and brimstone sermon
1754 An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, by Isaac Newton, published
1767-1815 Suppression of the Jesuits
1768 New Smyrna, Florida, Greek Orthodox colony founded
1768 Reimarus dies without publishing his radical critic work distinguishing Historical Jesus versus Christ of Faith
1769 Mission San Diego de Alcala, first California mission
1772 Emanuel Swedenborg, founded Swedenborgianism
1774 Ann Lee leader of American Shakers
1774 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing starts publishing Reimarus works on historical Jesus as Anonymous Fragments, starting Liberal Theology Era (in Christology)
1776-1788 Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, critical of Christianity
1776 Mission Delores, San Francisco
1779 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, “Jesus never coerced anyone to follow him, and the imposition of a religion by government officials is impious”
1780 Robert Raikes begins Sunday schools to reach poor and uneducated children in England
1784 American Methodists form Methodist Episcopal Church at so-called “Christmas Conference”, led by bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury
1789-1815 John Carroll, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, first Roman Catholic US bishop
1789-1801 Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution
1791 First Amendment to the United States Constitution
1793 Herman of Alaska brings Orthodoxy to Alaska
1795 The Age of Reason written by Thomas Paine, advocated Deism
1796 Treaty with Tripoli (1796), article 11: “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”

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