Chronology

30,000 BCE	Siberian hunters enter North America.
3000 BCE	Adena and Hopewell civilizations.
500 BCE	Polynesian peoples first settle Hawaiian Islands.
1250 CE	Mississippi Valley civilization at its height.
1492	Spain expels Jews and Muslims; Columbus reaches Western Hemisphere.
1513	Spain establishes first Catholic church in Americas at San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1565	St. Augustine established.
1598–1630	New Mexico missions established.
1607	English Protestants settle Jamestown.
1608	France establishes Quebec.
1619	First Africans arrive in English colonies.
1626	Dutch Reformed establish New Netherland.
1630s	Swedish Lutherans establish New Sweden.
1630–42	Puritan migration to New England.
1634	Catholic Calvert family founds Maryland.
1636	Harvard College established; Roger Williams founds Rhode Island.
1639	Roger Williams founds first Baptist church.
c. 1650–1750	French missions in North America.
1654	First Jews arrive at New Amsterdam.
1656	First Quakers arrive in English colonies.
1658	First Jewish congregation in English colonies founded.
1675–76	King Philip’s War destroys John Eliot’s “Praying Indian” villages.
1680	Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico.
1681	William Penn establishes Pennsylvania.
1683	German Lutheran, Reformed, and Mennonite migration to Pennsylvania; Germantown founded.
1687	Eusebio Francisco Kino from New Spain to Arizona.
1691	English government requires religious toleration in Massachusetts; Calvert family overthrown in Maryland.
1701	Church of England founds SPG.
1706	Presbytery of Philadelphia formed.
1707	Philadelphia Baptist Association founded.
1717	Synod of Philadelphia formed.
1719	German Brethren arrive in Germantown.
1720s	Early Amish migrations to Pennsylvania.
1730s–60s	Great Awakening.
1739–41	George Whitefield tour.
1732	Ephrata community founded.
1735	First Moravians arrive in English colonies.
1742	German Brethren form annual conference.
1746	Presbyterians establish College of New Jersey (Princeton University).
1748	German Lutherans form Ministerium of Pennsylvania.
1750s	New England Baptists go South.
1755	Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia, establish “cajun” culture in Louisiana
1756	Quakers renounce control of Pennsylvania government.
1760s	Early Methodist societies appear in English colonies.
1763	Pontiac’s uprising.
1768	Jesuits evicted from Spanish Empire.
1769	Junipero Serra from New Spain to California.
1769–1823	California missions established.
1776–1809	Shaker communities proliferate.
1780s	Church of England disestablished.
1784	Russian Orthodox arrive at Kodiak Island; Methodist Episcopal Church founded.
1788	Presbyterian Church in the United States of America convenes first General Assembly.
1789	First Catholic diocese in United States established at Baltimore.
1791	First Amendment guarantees religious freedom.
1790s-1830s	Second Great Awakening.
1793	German Reformed Church established.
c. 1800	Handsome Lake’s movement.
1801	Cane Ridge revival; Yale revivals; Congregational-Presbyterian “Plan of Union.”
1804	Rappites establish Harmony.
1805–12	Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet promotes Indian militance in Ohio Valley and Great Lakes.
1810	Cumberland Presbyterian Church established; ABCFM established.
1816	African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church established.
1818	Opukahaia to New England.
1820	ABCFM missionaries arrive in Hawaii.
1820s-30s	Finney revivals.
1821	African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church founded.
1825	American Unitarian Association established.
1826	American Home Mission Society founded.
1830	Joseph Smith establishes Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
1830–60	Ashkenazic Jewish immigration.
1831	Nat Turner rebellion.
1832	Black Hawk’s resistance movement; Disciples of Christ established.
1833	Mexican government dissolves California missions; Universalist Church of America founded.
1834	Ivan Veniaminov arrives in Sitka, Alaska.
1836	Transcendental Club formed.
1840	Sitka becomes Russian Orthodox diocese.
1841	Brook Farm formed.
1844	Joseph Smith murdered.
1845	Southern Baptist Convention established; Henry Thoreau to Walden Pond.
1845–60	Irish immigration wave.
1847	Mormons arrive in Utah.
1848	Spiritualism emerges; Oneida community founded.
1850s	Smohalla’s movement.
1853	Chinese immigrants establish first Buddhist temple.
1854	Amana colony established.
1867	Russian government sells Alaska to United States; National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness founded.
1870	Colored (later Christian) Methodist Episcopal (CME) founded.
c. 1870	Peyote religion appears in United States; Wodziwob’s movement.
1873	Union of American Hebrew Congregations founded.
1875	Theosophical Society founded.
1877	Chief Joseph’s Rebellion.
1879	Church of Christ, Scientist established.
1880	Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) founded.
1880–1920	“New” immigration from eastern and southern Europe, Asia, Near East, Middle East.
1882	Legislation restricting Chinese immigration prompts disappearance of Chinese Buddhist temples.
1889	Wovoka develops Ghost Dance; Jodo Shinshu missionaries arrive in Hawaii.
1890	Massacre at Wounded Knee; Mormon church rejects polygamy.
1890s	“New Thought” emerges.
1893	World’s Parliament of Religions brings non-Western religions to America; National Spiritualist Association of Churches founded.
1894	Vedanta Society founded; Baha’i faith arrives in United States.
1895	National Baptist Convention (NBC) founded.
1896	Church of God and Saints of Christ founded.
1897	Polish National Catholic Church founded; Church of God in Christ founded.
1898	Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations in America founded; Jodo Shinshu missionaries arrive in San Francisco.
1899	Buddhist Mission of North America founded.
1901	Pentecostalism emerges.
1905	Russian Orthodox Church transfers diocesan seat to New York City.
1906–09	Azusa Street revival.
1907	Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) founded.
1908	Church of the Nazarene founded; Pope declares United States no longer a mission field of Roman Catholic Church.
1909	First Sikh gurdwara in the United States established.
1911	Pentecostal Holiness Church founded.
1913	Moorish Holy Temple of Science founded; United Synagogue of America (now United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism) founded.
1914	Assemblies of God founded; United Negro Improvement Association founded.
1919	Commandment Keepers Congregation of the Living God founded; World Christian Fundamentals Association founded.
1920s	Mexican immigration wave.
1920s-30s	Ethnic Eastern Orthodox churches develop.
1921	African Orthodox Church founded.
1922	Greek Archdiocese of North and South America founded; Pilgrim Holiness Church founded.
1925	Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) founded; Scopes trial.
1929	Nation of Islam founded.
1943	Renewal of Chinese immigration and Chinese Buddhism.
1944	Native American Church established; Buddhist Churches of North America founded.
1949	First Billy Graham crusade held in Los Angeles.
1953	Unification Church founded; Church of Scientology founded.
1959	Unification Church missionaries arrive in United States.
1960	Nichiren Shoshu of America (later Nichiren Shoshu Academy) founded.
1961	San Francisco Zen Center established; Unitarian Universalist Association established.
1965	Malcolm X assassinated.
1965-present	“Recent” immigration from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East.
1966	Students’ International Meditation Society founded; International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) founded.
1970	Orthodox Church of America (OCA) founded.
1973	Vajradhatu (Tibetan Buddhist) founded.
1980	American Muslim Mission founded.
1985	American Muslim Mission dissolved.
1990	National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry founded.
1995	Greek Archdiocese of United States formed; Million Man March.
1997	Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (USA) founded.

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