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Methodism

group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity

17 dated entries naming Methodism, drawn from 11 separate years between 1729 CE and 1850 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Methodist, Methodist Church, Methodist minister in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1729October 6 – Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher, the first female (died 1804)source
  • 1738May 24 – John Wesley, newly returned from America, experiences a spiritual rebirth at a Moravian Church meeting in Aldersgate, in the City of London, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day (his younger brother Charles had a similar experience three days earlier).source
  • 173824 May – John Wesley, newly returned from America, experiences a spiritual rebirth at a Moravian Church meeting in Aldersgate in the City of London, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day. His younger brother Charles had a similar experience three days earlier.source
  • 1739May 12 – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol in England, the world's first Methodist meeting house.source
  • 173912 May – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol, the world's first Methodist meeting house.source
  • 1739September 12 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (died 1816)source
  • 1752c. July – Methodist church opens in Whitefriar Street, Dublin.source
  • 1784February 28 – John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church in the United States.source
  • 178428 February – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.source
  • 1788March 29 – Charles Wesley, English co-founder (with his brother, John Wesley) of the religious movement known as Methodism (born 1707)source

19th century

  • 1804October 29 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (born 1729)source
  • 18126 March – Two Wesleyan Methodist classes were established in Sydney by Thomas Bowden and John Hosking—the beginning of Methodism in Australia.source
  • 1815Newstead Girls College, the oldest existing girls' college and the third oldest public school in Sri Lanka, is founded by Wesleyan ministers in Negombo.source
  • 181518 October – The Bible Christian Church, a Wesleyan Methodist denomination, is founded by William O'Bryan in north Devon and Cornwall.source
  • 1815December 8 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, English Methodist preacher and philanthropist (born 1739)source
  • 1827A Wesleyan mission station is established north of the Great Kei River at present day Butterworth, Eastern Capesource
  • 1850Wesleyan settlers arrive in Natalsource

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