John Wesley begins the Methodist movement
1738 · Event
Wesley's Aldersgate conversion launches the evangelical revival that grows into Methodism, reshaping Protestantism in Britain and America.
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- Council of Trent (1545)
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- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)