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Freemasonry

group of fraternal organizations

19 dated entries naming Freemasonry, drawn from 15 separate years between 1717 CE and 1890 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 171724 June – Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (the later United Grand Lodge of England), is founded.source
  • 1717June 24 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the Modern and first Free-Masonic Grand Lodge (which merges with the Ancient Grand Lodge of England in 1813 to form the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London.source
  • 17251725–1730 - Freemasonry is established in France as an English import.source
  • 1725Freemasonry is established in France, as an English import.source
  • 1725June 24 – The Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.source
  • 1725June 24 – first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.source
  • 1733July 30 – The first Freemasons lodge, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, opens in what will become the United States of America.source
  • 173517 March - The Freemasonry is introduced to Sweden by Axel Wrede Sparre.source
  • 1736December 26 – Andrew Michael Ramsay gives an oration, in which he relates the heritage and internationalism of Freemasonry to that of the Crusades.source
  • 1738April 28 – Pope Clement XII issues the papal bull In eminenti apostolatus, prohibiting Roman Catholics from being members of Masonic societies.source
  • 1741Earliest known record of the Royal Order of Scotland within British Freemasonry.source
  • 17814 July – Robert Burns joins the Freemasons at Tarbolton.source
  • 1782July 16–August 29 – The Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad, Germany, one of the most important secret society congresses in history, takes place. High-degree Freemasons from the whole of Europe spend the time deliberating the fate of the rite of Strict Observance, and hierarchy of the governing bodies of world Freemasonry, at the Hanau-Wilhelmsbad spa.source
  • 1785December 11 – An edict is issued limiting Masonic lodges throughout the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Joseph II. With the exception of Vienna, Budapest and Prague, no Empire province may have more than one lodge.source

19th century

  • 180314 May - Illegal Masonic meeting held in Sydney and all participants arrested.source
  • 182213 May: D. Pedro I is acclaimed Perpetual Defender of Brazil by Freemasonry.source
  • 1826September 11 – William Morgan is arrested in Batavia, New York, for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his mysterious disappearance.source
  • 1884April 20 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, denouncing Freemasonry and certain liberal beliefs which he considers to be associated with it.source
  • 189015 October – The Ab apostolici papal encyclical against Freemasonry in Italy is promulgated by Pope Leo XIII.source

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