Today in Methodist History
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 22 of 22
1736-02-05 - Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
1738-05-24 - Methodist Church forms
1738-05-24 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1768-10-30 - 1st Methodist church in US initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)
1784-02-28 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1794-06-10 - Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
1796-03-28 - Bethel African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church
1796-08-23 - African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1816-04-09 - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
1821-03-14 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
1821-06-21 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
1852-08-01 - SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
1888-11-14 - USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1890-12-16 - Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
1915-09-22 - Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
1925-06-10 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena.
1926-07-20 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1956-05-02 - US Methodist church disallows race separation
1964-06-25 - Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)
1966-11-11 - Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church
1968-04-23 - United Methodist Church forms
1968-09-28 - Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes
Famous Birthdays
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1703-06-17 - John B Wesley, England, religion co-founder (Methodists)
1707-12-18 - Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement)
1714-12-16 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)
1760-02-14 - Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
1816-04-17 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
1833-02-01 - Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
1908-08-25 - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist
1909-11-29 - Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar
1911-12-06 - Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary
1920-03-05 - Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop (Methodist)
1938-02-24 - Kathleen Richardson, president (Methodist Conference)
1945-06-23 - K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal (Westminster College Oxford)
1958-07-02 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
1770-09-30 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
1804-08-17 - Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in US, dies
1876-07-14 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
1902-11-17 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1994-05-11 - Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82
1994-07-04 - Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84
1995-05-05 - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86
1995-10-22 - K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
