Disruption of 1843
1843 · Event
A third of ministers walk out of the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church, a defining religious schism.
On these timelines: Scotland, Christianity, Major Religions, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Scotland
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- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
- William Wallace (1270)
- Lockerbie bombing (1988)
Around 1843
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- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)