19th century

19th century
See also: Industrial Revolution
1800 Friedrich Schleiermacher publishes his first book, beginning Liberal Christianity movement
1801 Cane Ridge, Kentucky
1811 The Campbells begin Restoration Movement
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
1819 Thomas Jefferson produced the Jefferson Bible
1824 English translation of Wilhelm Gesenius’ …Handwrterbuch…: Hebrew-English Lexicon, Hendrickson Publishers
1828 Plymouth Brethren founded, Dispensationalism
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.
1832 Church of Christ (Disciples) organized, made up of Presbyterians in distress over Protestant factionalism and decline of fervor
1833 John Keble’s sermon “National Apostasy” initiates the Oxford Movement in England
1838-1839 Saxon Lutherans objecting to the Prussian Union emigrate from Germany to the United States; settle in Perry County, Missouri. Leads to formation of the LC-MS
1843, Disruption of: schism within the established Church of Scotland
1844, October 22 Great Disappointment, false prediction of Second Coming of Christ by Millerites
1845 Southern Baptist Convention formed in Augusta, Georgia
1848 Epistle to the Easterns and Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs response
1848 Perfectionist movement in western New York state
1854 Missionary Hudson Taylor arrives in China
1854 Immaculate Conception, defined as Catholic dogma
1855 Sren Kierkegaard, founder of Christian existentialism
1863 Seventh-day Adventist Church officially formed twenty 20yrs 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
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.
1871-1878 German Kulturkampf against Roman Catholicism
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 Baltimore Catechism
1886 Moody Bible Institute
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

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