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Presbyterianism

branch of Protestant Christianity using presbyterian church government and originating in the British Isles

22 dated entries naming Presbyterianism, drawn from 19 separate years between 1582 CE and 1972 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.

Also written as Prebysterian, Presbyterian, Scottish Presbyterian in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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16th century

  • 158222 August – Raid of Ruthven: a political conspiracy of Presbyterian nobles abduct the King.source
  • 1582August 23 – Raid of Ruthven in Scotland: Presbyterian nobles led by William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie kidnap King James VI of Scotland, the kingdom's 16-year-old ruler, while he is hunting in Perthshire. The Earl of Gowrie imprisons the King at Ruthven Castle as part of a coup d'etat to reform the Scottish government.source
  • 1592June – James VI enacts the "Golden Act" recognising the power of Presbyterianism within the Scottish church.source

17th century

  • 1607Sir Randall MacDonnell settles 300 Presbyterian Scots families on his land in Antrim.source
  • 1609Protestant English and Presbyterian Scots settlers are imported directly by undertakers with the sanction of King James VI and I taking over forfeited estates of rebel leaders.source
  • 1630June 4 – Scottish-born Presbyterian (and former physician) Alexander Leighton is brought before Archbishop William Laud's Star Chamber court in London for publishing the seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy, an attack on Anglican bishops (printed in the Netherlands, 1628). He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.source
  • 1636August 12 – following a public disputation in Belfast, Henry Leslie, Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, sentences Edward Brice, Henry Calvert, James Hamilton, John Ridge and one other non-subscribing Presbyterian minister to silence.source
  • 16477 August – Oliver Cromwell takes control of Parliament with the New Model Army, an attempt by Presbyterian MPs to raise the City of London having been unsuccessful.source
  • 164726 December – the King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promises to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance.source
  • 166025 October – King Charles proposes that some Presbyterian ministers become bishops to heal rifts in the Church; the plan is later abandoned.source
  • 1673Parliament of England votes an annual Regium Donum to augment the stipends of Presbyterian clergy in Ireland.source
  • 1696Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.source
  • 1697Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.source
  • 1698Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.source

18th century

  • 1763April – a presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, separate from that in Scotland, is organised.source
  • 179114 October – the Northern Whig Club, a group of nine Belfast Presbyterians, meets with Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell and forms the Society of United Irishmen to press for liberal non-denominational parliamentary reform.source

19th century

  • 1820The United Secession Church is established as a Presbyterian denomination by union of various churches which have seceded from the established Church of Scotland.source
  • 1836The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary in Persia.source
  • 1836The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.source
  • 1852Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta, by the American Bible Society.source

20th century

  • 1935April 17 – Sun Myung Moon, a teenage Presbyterian convert in Korea under Japanese rule, claims to have a revelation from Jesus, telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000 years ago.source
  • 1972October 5 – The United Reformed Church in England is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.source

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