{"slug": "john-wesley", "label": "John Wesley", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213393", "qid": "Q213393", "description": "founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1707, 1788], "span_label": ["1707 CE", "1788 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "savannah-georgia", "label": "Savannah, Georgia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "city-of-london", "label": "City of London", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1707, "year_label": "1707 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 18", "text": "December 18 – Charles Wesley, English Methodist leader, brother of John Wesley (d. 1788)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346936133#October–December", "title": "1707", "revid": 1346936133, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1735, "year_label": "1735 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – John Wesley and his brother Charles set sail from England for Savannah in the Province of Georgia in British America; on the voyage they first encounter members of the Moravian Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365121192#October_–December", "title": "1735", "revid": 1365121192, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1737, "year_label": "1737 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December", "text": "December – John Wesley leaves Savannah, Georgia, and returns to England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367176390#October–December", "title": "1737", "revid": 1367176390, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1738, "year_label": "1738 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 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).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363165384#April–June", "title": "1738", "revid": 1363165384, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1739, "year_label": "1739 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol in England, the world's first Methodist meeting house.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340647395#April–June", "title": "1739", "revid": 1340647395, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 28", "text": "February 28 – John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#January–March", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1787, "year_label": "1787 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370561702#April–June", "title": "1787", "revid": 1370561702, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Charles Wesley, English co-founder (with his brother, John Wesley) of the religious movement known as Methodism (b. 1707)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#Deaths", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Deaths"}}]}