STARTING YEARS FOR VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS
1693 AMISH
1693 MENNONITES
1708 GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN
1780 RIVER BRETHREN
1860 OLD ORDER AMISH
1860 AMISH MENNONITES
1862 BRETHREN IN CHRIST
1872 OLD ORDER MENNONITES
1881 OLD GERMAN BRETHREN
1883 BRETHREN CHURCH
1907 OLD ORDER AUTOMOBILE
1907 OLD ORDER HORSE
1926 DUNKARD BRETHREN
1927 BEACHYAMISH
1939 GRACE BRETHREN
1960 NEW ORDER AMISH
OLD WORLD ORIGINS
1525 Conrad Grebel rebaptizes George Blaurock as the first convert to Anabaptism
1527 Swiss leaders draw up the Schleitheim Confession, identifying seven distinctives of Anabaptist belief
1529 Melchior Hoffman joins Anabaptists and proclaims Strasbourg the "New Jerusalem"
1535 A second 'New Jerusalem —Münster— fails miserably, sparking widespread persecution of Anabaptists
1536 Menno Simons leaves the Catholic Church to become the Anabaptists' foremost theologian
1618-1648 Thirty Years' War rages
1632 The Dordrecht Confession unites Mennonites around 18 articles of faith
1660Tieleman Jansz van Braght compiles the Martyrs Mirror
1675 Philip Jacob Spener pens his Plo Desideria, giving new impetus to the Pietist movement
NEW WORLD ORIGINS:
AMERICAN SETTLEMENT
1683 Mennonites and Quakers establish Germantown just north of Philadelphia at William Penn's invitation
1693 Jakob Ammann breaks fellowship with Swiss Anabaptists over church discipline
1698 Mennonites appoint William Rittenhouse to pastor the first Anabaptist congregation in America
1708 Alexander and Anna Margareta Mack and others gather at the Eder River in Germany for baptism, birthing the Brethren movement
1719 The first group of Brethren arrive in America aboard the ship Allen
1732 Georg Conrad Beissel breaks off from the Brethren to establish the Ephrata Cloister
1749 ...

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