Global Christianity
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1600

 

1648 Peace of Westphalia

 

 

 

1607 English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia

 

1681 Eusibio Kino arrives in Mexico

 

1627 Jesuit missions in Viet Nam

 

Europe

Robert Bellarmine
Philip Jacob Spener
John Locke




Thirty Years' War
Pietism
Puritanism
Rise of natural science

North America

John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson
Jean de Brebéuf



Colonial settlement of United States
Colonial settlement of Canada
Latin America

Eusibio Kino




The Paraguay Mission
Asia

Francis Xavier and Matteo Ricci


Persecutions in Japan

1700

1789 French Revolution

 

 

 

 

1740 Great Awakening

1776 American Revolution

 

1769 Junipero Serra founds San Diego mission

1788 English settlers arrive in Australia

 

1793 William Carey arrives in India

Europe

John Wesley

George Whitefield



Enlightenment

Methodism

North America

William Penn
Jonathan Edwards


Great Awakening
Constitutional settlement
Latin America

Junipero Serra



Jesuit reductions
Australia


Anglican beginnings in Australia

Asia

William Carey

 

 

1800

1807 Slave trade ends in British Empire

 

1869 First Vatican Council begins

 

 

 

 

1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church

 

1830 Book of Mormon published

 

 

 

 

1821 Mexico achieves independence

 

 

 

1865 China Inland Mission begins

 

 

 

 

1896 Kivebulaya evangelizes in Uganda

Europe

F. E. D. Schleiermacher

Pius IX

Amalie Sieveking



Confessionalism

Liberal theology

Awakenings and Inner Mission

North America

Charles Grandison Finney

Richard Allen

William Ellery Channing



African-American churches

19th-century American evangelicalism

19th-century immigration to North America

Mormonism

Latin America

Miguel Costilla


Independance movements
Immigrant Protestantism

Australia


Catholic beginnings in Australia

Asia

Adoniram Judson
Hudson Taylor


Renewed evangelism in Indonesia

Renewed evangelism in Japan

Renewed evangelism in China

Africa

David Livingstone
Apollo Kivebulaya


Colonialism
Renewed evangelism in Africa

1900

1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference


1962 Vatican II begins

 

 





1906 Azuza Street Revival begins

 

1968 Martin Luther King assassinated







1980 Oscar Romero assassinated




1949 Communist rule begins in China




1994 Apartheid ends in South Africa



Europe

Adolf von Harnack
Karl Barth
John Paul II


Edinburgh, 1910

Confessing Church

Vatican II

North America

James Cardinal Gibbons

Dorothy Day

Billy Graham

Martin Luther King, Jr.



Azusa Street Revival

Social Gospel

Fundamentalism

Latin America

Oscar Romero


Church and State conflicts

Liberation theology
Latin American evangelicalism
Asia

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mother Teresa of Calcutta


Churches under the Soviet Union
Christianity in The People's Republic of China

Christianity in Korea
Africa

Desmond Tutu


Apartheid
 
 

Mission societies

Missionary Orders

The slave trade

Religious pluralism

Ecumenism

Evangelicalism

Pentecostalism

Modern persecutions
Women's or feminist movement
Reconfiguration of Protestantism in U.S.

Christian growth
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