{"slug": "methodism", "label": "Methodism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33203", "qid": "Q33203", "description": "group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1729, 1815], "span_label": ["1729 CE", "1815 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "john-wesley", "label": "John Wesley", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "city-of-london", "label": "City of London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moravian-church", "label": "Moravian Church", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1729, "year_label": "1729 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 6", "text": "October 6 – Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher, the first female (d. 1804)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368871381#Births", "title": "1729", "revid": 1368871381, "section": "Births"}}, {"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": "Births", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (d. 1816)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340647395#Births", "title": "1739", "revid": 1340647395, "section": "Births"}}, {"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"}}, {"year": 1804, "year_label": "1804 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (b. 1729)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369393739#July–December", "title": "1804", "revid": 1369393739, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1815, "year_label": "1815 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, English Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587765#July–December", "title": "1815", "revid": 1365587765, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}]}