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Timeline -of United Methodist History 1703·1996 General Commission on Archives and History P.O. Box 127 Madison, NJ 07940 Timeline of United Methodist History -------------- --------------- Acronyms CME Colored (later Christian) Methodist Episcopal Church EA Evangelical Association EC Evangelical Church EUB Evangelical United Brethren MC The Methodist Church MEC Methodist Episcopal Church MECS Methodist Episcopal Church, South MP Methodist Protestant Church UB United Brethren in Christ UMC The United Methodist Church WFMS Woman's Foreign Missionary Society ------------ __ ••••••• 1 _ 1703 John Wesley is born (June 17). gospel" (full-time itinerant lay preacher). 1707 Charles Wesley is born (December 18). 1742 Wesley organizes the Methodist society in Bristol into classes and issues quarterly tickets to members. 1725 Martin Boehm is born (November 30). Wesley holds his first watch-nigbt service, at John Wesley is ordained as a deacon in the Church of Kingswood on the outskirts of Bristol. England. 1743 Wesley publishes The Nature, Design. and General 1726 Philip William Otterbein is born (June 3). Rules of the United Societies. 1729 Charles Wesley fonns the "Holy Club" at Oxford 1744 Wesley calls the first Methodist Confereuce, at the University . FOUDdery,London. 1735 Jo1mand Charles Wesley embark for Georgia (October 1745 Francis Asbury is born (August 20 or 21). 1~. 1747 Thomas Coke is born (September 28). 1736 John and Charles Wesley land at Cockspur Island on February 6. John Wesley holds his first service on 1752 Pbilip William Otterbein comes to America as minister March 7 in Savannah. of a German Reformed congregation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Wesley forms fellowship societies in Georgia. 1758 John Wesley baptizes a black man for the first time. Charles Wesley departs for England in July. 1759 Jacob AIbrigbt is born (May 1). 1737 Wesley JXlblishesA Colleaion of Psalms and Hymns in Charleston, South Carolina. 1760 Philip and Margaret Embury and Paul and Barbara Heck arrive in New York from County Limerick, 1738 George Whitefield sails for Georgia. Ireland. Wesley returns to England from Georgia. About this year, Robert and Elizabeth Strawbridge emigrate from Ireland and settle on Sam's Creek, Wesley and Peter BOhler form the Fetter Lane religious Frederick County, Maryland. society. c1763 Robert Strawbridge organizes a Methodist class. Charles Wesley's transforming experience (21 May). 1764 The Strawbridge Log Meetinghouse is built near New John Wesley's Aldersgate experience (24 May). Wmsor, Maryland; possibly the first Methodist chapel in America. Wesley visits Moravians in Germany. 1766 BaIbara Heck is instrumental in organizing a Methodist 1739 Wesley begins field preaching in Bristol. congregation in New York City, which includes Bettye, a black woman. It is the beginning of what is now the Wesley holds the first service in the Foundery, London. John Street United Methodist Church. 1741 Wesley accepts Thomas Maxfield as his first "son in the In Leesburg, Virginia, land is deeded to a Methodist 1 layman for "no other use but for a church or meeting to ordain others. house and grave yard." This is the earliest known American Methodist church property. Coke and Asbury meet for the first time at Barratt's Chapel. 1767 Captain Thomas Webb consolidates Methodism in New York and Philadelphia. Methodist Episcopal Church is organized at the "Christmas Conference," Baltimore, Maryland. Francis About this YeM, Philip William Otterbein hears Martin Asbury is ordained by Coke, Otterbein, and probably Boebm preach at Isaac Long's barn in Lancaster Whatcoat and Vasey. Asbury and Coke are named County, Pennsylvania. Otterbein greets Boebm with superintendents of the new church. "Wir sind bruder" (yo/e are brothers), and they soon begin working together. Wesley provides the new MEC with The SlIIIIioyService of the Methodists in North America, wun other 1768 Wesley Chapel (John Street Church), New York, is occasional services, his revision of The Book of dedicated. Common Prayer of the Church of England. 1769 Richard Boardman and Joseph Pilmore arrive in At the Christmas Conference, Freeborn Garrettson and America, the first two preachers appointed by Wesley James O. Cromwell are named missionaries to Nova for the colonies. Scotia, making them the first foreign missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Methodist Society in Philadelphia purchases St. George's Church from a Dutch Reformed congregation. Richard Allen ml Absalom Jones are licensed to preach Here, Joseph Pilmore makes the first public statement by St. George's Church, Philadelphia. They are the in America of Methodist principles. He also holds the first African Americans granted MEC preaching first Methodist prayer meeting in America in St. licenses. George's sanctuary. 1785 The first meeting of an MEC annual conference is held c1770 Mary Evans Thorne is appointed class leader by Joseph at the home of Major Green Hill in Louisburg, North Pilmore in Philadelphia, probably the first woman in Carolina. America to be so appointed. 1786 John Dickins prepares the first Discipline of the 1770 George Whitefield dies at Newburyport, Massachusetts Methodist Episcopal Church. 00 his seventh visit to America. Coke and Asbury issue A Pocket Hymn Book for the Joseph Pilmore introduces the watch-night service to newMEC. America, at St. George's Church in Philadelphia. About this year, Francis Asbury begins a Sunday school 1771 Francis Asbury and Richard Wright sail for America. in Virginia. Upon arrival, Asbury ~hes his first American A two-year old Methodist society in Union, (West) sermon at St. George's h, Philadelphia, October Virginia builds Rehoboth Church, the oldest extant 27. Protestant church building west of the Alleghenies. 1773 George Shadford and Thomas Rankin sail for America. Timothy Acuff builds a Methodist chapel on his land near Blountville, Tennessee. It is the first to be built The first conference of American Methodist preachers west of the Appalachian mountains. is convened by Thomas Rankin at St. George's Church, Philadelphia. 1787 Cokesbury College opens at Abingdon, Maryland. It is destroyed by fire in 1795. William Watters becomes the first native-born American Methodist itinerant preacher. The Free African Society is formed in Philadelphia, the beginnings of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 1774 Lovely Lane Chapel is built in Baltimore. 1788 Charles Wesley dies (March 29). Pbilip William Otterbein becomes pastor of the German Evangelical Reformed Church in Baltimore (today Old Stepben Keywood (or Cawood) hosts the first Methodist Otterbein United Methodist Church). conference held west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Glade Spring, Virginia. 1776 American Revolution; all of Wesley's missionaries except for Francis Asbury and James Dempster return Francis Asbury ordains John Smith a deacon in to England. Dempster becomes a Presbyterian. Rehoboth Clmrch, the first Methodist ordination west of the Alleghenies. 1780 Wesley publishes A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists. 1789 Philip William Otterbein organizes the first annual conference of his followers. Phillip Barratt, member of the Methodist Society near Frederica, Delaware, donates a plot of land so the The Methodist' Book Concern is begun in Philadelphia Society can build a meeting house. It is named Barratt's under John Dickins Chapel, ml is the oldest house of worship still extant in the United States built by and for Methodists. 1790 The first successful American Sunday school is established in Philadelphia and the MEC officially 1784 Wesley ordains Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey as recognizes the Sunday school as an institution of the preachers for America and commissions Thomas Coke church. 2 American Methodists take over British work in Canada. who is then elected bishop and becomes the premier organizer of the United Brethren Church. Henry Evans, a Virginia freeman and licensed Methodist preacher, organizes a church in Fayetteville, Philip William Otterbein dies (November 17). North Carolina. 1814 Thomas Coke dies (May 2) and is buried in the Indian 1791 John Wesley dies (March 2). Ocean. Boehm's Chapel is built in Lancaster County, Jolm Dreisbach is elected the first presiding elder in the Pennsylvania, for Methodist use on land deeded to the Evangelical Association. Methodists by Martin Boehm, who will become a founder of the United Brethren in Christ. 1815 First General Conference of United Brethren in Christ held and first Discipline approved, under the leadership 1792 First quadrennial General Conference of American of Bishop Christian Newcomer. Methodism is held in Baltimore. First German language camp meeting of the DB is held The office of Presiding Elder is established (after 1908 at Rocky Springs, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. called District Superintendent). 1816 The African Methodist Episcopal Clmrch is formed and James O'Kelly leads the first major schism in American Richard Allen is chosen bishop. Methodism, fonning the Republican Methodist Church, later the Christian Church . The first General Conference of the Evangelical Association convenes. 1794 Beginnings of the camp meeting movement at Rehoboth, North Carolina. Francis Asbury dies (March 31). 1796 A gJOOIl_ of African Americans withdraws from the John John Stewart, an African American, begins a mission Street Cburcb, fonning the nacleus of what will become among the Wyandotts of Ohio. MEC response to his the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion in 1820. work results
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