Before 1800
1749 Jonathan Edwards publishes the memoir of David Brainerd, pioneer missionary to Native Americans
1776 Declaration of Independence
1788 Adoniram Judson is born
1789 French Revolution
1789 Ann Hasseltine is born
1793 Engllish Baptist William Carey commissioned as missionary to Bengal
1797 America’s Second Great Awakening begins in Kentucky
1800
1806 Haystack Prayer Meeting; British missionary Henry Martyn goes to Calcutta
1808 Andover Seminary is founded; student missionary organization, Society of the Brethren, is formed at Williams College and moves to Andover Seminary in 1810
1809 Hawaiian native Henry Obookiah is at Yale
1810
1810 Adoniram Judson resolves to become a missionary; American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) is founded
1812 Adoniram Judson marries Ann Hasseltine; Judsons and Newells sail for Calcutta; Judsons become Baptists
1812 U.S. declares war on Britain
1813 Judsons arrive in Burma; Gordon Hall and Samuel Nott arrive in India
1814 American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions is formed
1815 Richmond African Missionary Society founded
1816 American Bible Society is founded; ABCFM missionaries begin a mission in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1819 Judson baptizes first Burman convert, Mang Nau; ABCFM missionaries Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons sail for Palestine; Methodist Missionary Society is founded
1820
1820 Hiram Bingham arrives in Hawaii
1821 African-American missionary Lott Carey sails to Sierra Leone and later Liberia; Episcopal Church mission board is founded
1823 ABCFM missionary arrives in Lebanon and translates Bible into modern Arabic; Betsey Stockton and the Stewarts begin missionary work in Hawaii
1823 Judson completes translation of New Testament into Burmese
1824 First Anglo-Burman War; Judson is imprisoned until December 31, 1825
1825 George and Sarah Hall Boardman arrive in Burma
1826 Judson translates the treaty of Yandabo between Burma and Great Britain; Ann Hasseltine Judson dies
1830
1830 ABCFM begins missions to Native Americans in the West; Episcopal church sends missionaries to Greece; ABCFM missionary Elijah Bridgman is the first American Protestant missionary to go to China
1830 Joseph Smith founds the Latter-day Saints
1831 ABCFM missionary William Goodell begins work in Turkey and translates the Bible into Armeno-Turkish
1833 Baptist missionary John Taylor Jones arrives in Thailand
1834 Judson completes translation of Old Testament into Burmese and marries widow Sarah Boardman; ABCFM establishes missions in Persia and Singapore
1835 American Methodists establish mission in Brazil
1836 Providence Missionary Baptist District Association is formed by African-American Baptists to establish missions in Africa
1837 Mt. Holyoke women’s college and Evangelical Lutheran Church mission board are founded
1840
1840 British missionary David Livingstone sails to Africa
1843 American and British Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Episcopalians send missionaries to China treaty ports
1845 Southern Baptist Convention is founded; Sarah Boardman Judson dies
1846 Adoniram Judson marries Emily Chubbuck during an American tour
1847 ABCFM missionaries Samuel and Abby Fairbank go to India; missionaries Lewis and Lydia Grout arrive in South Africa
1850
1850 Adoniram Judson dies at sea
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1854 Emily Chubbuck Judson dies in New York
1859 Darwin publishes Origin of Species
1860
1861 American Civil War
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