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John Wesley

founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)

8 dated entries naming John Wesley, drawn from 8 separate years between 1707 CE and 1788 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

  • 1707December 18 – Charles Wesley, English Methodist leader, brother of John Wesley (d. 1788)source
  • 1735October 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.source
  • 1737December – John Wesley leaves Savannah, Georgia, and returns to England.source
  • 1738May 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).source
  • 1739May 12 – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol in England, the world's first Methodist meeting house.source
  • 1784February 28 – John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church in the United States.source
  • 1787May 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.source
  • 1788March 29 – Charles Wesley, English co-founder (with his brother, John Wesley) of the religious movement known as Methodism (b. 1707)source

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