Timeline
The Early Missions Movement: America goes global
April 1, 2006
Before 1800
1749
Jonathan Edwards publishes the memoir of David Brainerd, pioneer missionary to Native Americans 1776
Declaration of Independence 1788
Adoniram Judson is born 1789
French Revolution 1789
Ann Hasseltine is born 1793
Engllish Baptist William Carey commissioned as missionary to Bengal 1797
America's Second Great Awakening begins in Kentucky 1800
1806
Haystack Prayer Meeting; British missionary Henry Martyn goes to Calcutta 1808
Andover Seminary is founded; student missionary organization, Society of the Brethren, is formed at Williams College and moves to Andover Seminary in 1810 1809
Hawaiian native Henry Obookiah is at Yale 1810
1810
Adoniram Judson resolves to become a missionary; American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) is founded 1812
Adoniram Judson marries Ann Hasseltine; Judsons and Newells sail for Calcutta; Judsons become Baptists 1812
U.S. declares war on Britain 1813
Judsons arrive in Burma; Gordon Hall and Samuel Nott arrive in India 1814
American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions is formed 1815
Richmond African Missionary Society founded 1816
American Bible Society is founded; ABCFM missionaries begin a mission in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1819
Judson baptizes first Burman convert, Mang Nau; ABCFM missionaries Pliny Fisk
and Levi Parsons sail for Palestine; Methodist Missionary Society is founded 1820
1820
Hiram Bingham arrives in Hawaii 1821
African-American missionary Lott Carey sails to Sierra Leone and later Liberia; Episcopal Church mission board is founded 1823
ABCFM missionary arrives in Lebanon and translates Bible into modern Arabic; Betsey Stockton and the Stewarts begin missionary work in Hawaii 1823
Judson completes translation of New Testament ...
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