Methodism

group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity

6 dated entries naming Methodism, drawn from 6 separate years between 1729 CE and 1815 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

  • 1729October 6 – Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher, the first female (d. 1804)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
  • 1739September 12 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (d. 1816)source
  • 1788March 29 – Charles Wesley, English co-founder (with his brother, John Wesley) of the religious movement known as Methodism (b. 1707)source

19th century

  • 1804October 29 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (b. 1729)source
  • 1815December 8 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, English Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)source

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