February 04, 1846
Mormon settlers leave Nauvoo, Missouri, to begin the settlement of the West.
July 21, 1846
Mormons founded the first English settlement in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
April 26, 1847
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod was officially organized.
July 22, 1847
The first group of Mormon immigrants entered the Salt Lake Valley, still Mexican territory at that time. Not long thereafter, Mormon leader Brigham Young founded Salt Lake City, Utah.
May 12, 1849
Brigham Young announced to the Council of Fifty that the local Indians could not be converted and that it didn't matter "whether they kill one another off or Some body else" did it.
June 11, 1850
David C. Cook was born. Cook was a developer of the original The Sunday School curriculum in the United States.
April 18, 1857
Clarence Darrow was born.
July 13, 1857
President James Buchanan selected Alfred Cumming to replace Brigham Young as governor for the territory of Utah.
September 11, 1857
Mormon fanatic John D. Lee, angered over President Buchanan's order to remove Brigham Young from governorship of the Utah Territory, led a band of Mormons in a massacre of a California-bound wagon train of 135 (mostly Methodists) in Mountain Meadows, Utah.
September 15, 1857
Brigham Young declared martial law and forbade U.S. troops from entering Utah in order to avoid being replaced by Alfred Cumming, a non-Mormon, as governor of Utah.
November 21, 1857
Alfred Cumming, selected by President James Buchanan to replace Brigham Young as governor for the territory of Utah, took office. He immediately ordered armed Mormon groups in the territory to disband, but he was generally ignored.
June 26, 1858
The United States army entered Salt Lake City in order to restore peace and install Alfred Cumming (a non-Mormon) as governor. Mormon residents had opposed the replacement of Brigham Young, who had declared martial law and forbade U.S. troops from entering Utah. There were sporadic raids made by the Mormon militia against the winter encampment of the army, but that was the extent of the Utah War.
November 24, 1859
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was first published. All 1,250 copies of the first printing were sold out on the very first day.
March 19, 1860
American politician and fundamentalist religious leader William Jennings Bryan was born.
September 10, 1862
Rabbi Jacob Frankel became the first Jewish chaplain in the United States Army.
November 19, 1862
The famous American evangelist Billy Sunday was born.
April 22, 1864
The motto "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. coins - specifically, the a bronze two-cent piece issued during the American Civil War.
February 04, 1866
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, allegedly cures her injuries by opening a Bible.
April 06, 1868
Mormon leader Brigham Young married his 27th and final wife.
June 26, 1870
Under the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, Congress officially declared Christmas to be a national holiday.
October 02, 1871
Brigham Young, Mormon leader, was arrested for bigamy.
June 04, 1873
Charles F. Parham was born. Parham was an early leader among charismatic Christians in America and, in 1898, he founded the Bible training school in Topeka, Kansas, where the American Pentecostal movement started in 1901.
October 03, 1875
Hebrew Union College was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio under the auspices of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. It was the first Jewish college in America to train men to become rabbis.
March 23, 1877
John Doyle Lee, a Mormon fanatic, was executed by a firing squad, Lee had masterminded a massacre of Arkansas Methodist emigrants in 1857. In the "Mountain Meadows Massacre," a wagon train of 127 died at Mountain Meadows (near Cedar City), Utah.
August 29, 1877
Brigham Young died.
June 04, 1878
Frank N. Buchman is born. Buchman was an early leader of the social gospel movement.
March 22, 1882
Polygamy was outlawed by Congress, specifically targeting the practices of the Mormon church.
January 19, 1889
The Salvation Army split; one group renounced allegiance to founder William Booth while another, lead by Booth's son Ballington and his wife Maud, incorporated itself as a separate organization in America in 1896.
February 17, 1889
The famous American evangelist Billy Sunday held his first public crusade in Chicago. Over the course of his career as a popular religious speaker, at least 100 million Americans are estimated to have attended his sermons.
May 06, 1890
The Mormon Church officially renounced polygamy.
September 25, 1890
Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced.
October 06, 1890
Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
October 09, 1890
Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Four Square Gospel Church, was born.
November 10, 1891
The first Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting was held in Boston.
September 14, 1893
Pope Leo XIII appointed Archbishop Francesco Satolli to be the first Apostolic Delegate to the USA.
July 09, 1896
William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous Cross of Gold speech.
October 07, 1897
Elijah Mohammed, Black Muslim leader. was born.
January 1899
In the apostolic letter Testem benevolentiae, Pope Leo XIII condemned the "heresy" of "Americanism," a doctrine which he regarded as an attempt by American Catholic clergy to reconcile Catholic teachings with modern thought and liberties.
December 27, 1899
Carry Nation, a leader of the American Christian temperance movement, raided and wrecked her first saloon in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
The 20th Century (1900 to 1999)
March 21, 1900
After the death of founder Dwight L. Moody, the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions changed its name to Moody Bible Institute.
March 26, 1900
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College, died.
February 22, 1906
Black evangelist William J. Seymour arrived in Los Angeles and began a series of revival meetings. This "Azusa Street Revival" which would later grow at the Apostolic Faith Mission located at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles was key in the development of American Pentecostalism.
April 13, 1906
The Azusa Street Revival, the mission which formed the nexus of the American Pentecostal movement, officially began when the church services led by black evangelist William J. Seymour moved into a building on Azusa Street in Los Angeles, California.
June 29, 1908
With the publication of the apostolic constitution Sapienti consilio, Pope Pius X caused the American Catholic Church to cease being a "missionary church" under the control of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. Now, it was a full-fledged member of the Roman Catholic Church.
January 02, 1909
Aimee Elizabeth Semple, who would later found the Foursquare Gospel church, was ordained to the ministry in Chicago with her husband Robert Semple.
April 09, 1909
The first recorded instances in America of groups speaking in tongues occurred in Los Angeles under the leadership of black evangelist William J. Seymour. This event marked the beginning of the three-year-long "Azusa Street Revival," key in the development of Pentecostalism.
July 20, 1910
The Christian Endeavor Society of Missouri, an early forerunner of the American Religious Right, instituted a campaign to ban movies depicting kissing between non-relatives.
March 13, 1911
L. Ron Hubbard, science-fiction author and founder of Scientology, was born.
April 12, 1914
The Assemblies of God denomination was founded during an 11-day constitutional convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
May 08, 1915
Henry McNeal Turner, bishop for the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, died in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
November 07, 1918
Billy Graham was born.
January 02, 1920
Isaac Asimov was born.
January 15, 1920
Cardinal John O'Connor was born.
October 19, 1921
Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, was born.
January 05, 1922
After a sensational divorce, American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson resigned her Assemblies of God ordination.
January 01, 1923
The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was founded.
September 15, 1923
In an effort to counter the terrorist activities of the Ku Klux Klan, Governor John Calloway Walton placed Oklahoma under martial law.
May 27, 1924
At a meeting in Maryland, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church repealed a ban on dancing and theater attendance for church members.
August 15, 1924
Phyllis Schlafly was born.
October 08, 1924
At a meeting in New York City, the National Lutheran Conference banned the playing of jazz music in the local churches.
May 07, 1925
John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology class.
May 13, 1925
Florida passed a law requiring daily Bible readings in all public schools.
May 18, 1925
At the age of 34, American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared while on a trip to the beach. She reappeared five weeks later, claiming to have been kidnapped and held prisoner, before managing to escape.
July 07, 1925
William Jennings Bryan arrived in Dayton, Tennessee, a day before the Scopes Monkey Trial was to start.
July 10, 1925
The infamous Scopes Monkey Trial began in the Rhea County Courthouse of Dayton, Tennessee.
July 21, 1925
The infamous "Monkey Trial" ended and John Scopes was found guilty of teaching Darwinism.
July 26, 1925
American politician and fundamentalist religious leader William Jennings Bryan died.
September 16, 1926
Robert H. Schuller was born.
December 30, 1927
Originally founded by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was officially incorporated in Los Angeles, California.
March 22, 1930
American televangelist Pat Robertson was born.
November 02, 1930
Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia, thus fulfilling for many people a prophecy which became a cornerstone of Rastafarianism.
September 13, 1931
Still recovering from a nervous breakdown, Foursquare Gospel founder Aimee Semple McPherson married David Hutton; they divorced only four years later.
March 20, 1933
The first Nazi concentration camp was completed at Dachau.
April 24, 1933
Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture movement, died in New York City.
August 11, 1933
Jerry Falwell was born. Falwell is a prominent leader in the American Religious Right and helped found the Moral Majority in 1979.
November 09, 1934
Carl Sagan was born.
November 11, 1934
Charles Edward Coughlin founded the National Union for Social Justice (Union Party).
March 15, 1935
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was born.
June 10, 1935
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
June 29, 1936
Pius XI issued an encyclical to American bishops entitled "On motion pictures"
May 09, 1939
The Roman Catholic Church beatified the first Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha.
May 10, 1939
After a separation of 109 years, the Methodist Episcopal Church in the U.S. was reunited. The Methodist Protestant Church had broken away in 1830 and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South had broken away in 1844.
October 05, 1941
Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice, died at the age of 84.
May 09, 1942
John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States, was born.
September 27, 1944
Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Church of the Four-Square Gospel, died.
May 14, 1948
Israel was formally established as an independent state.
1949
Indian law abolished the "untouchable" class, the lowest of all the old Hindu hereditary castes.
September 30, 1951
Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" program first aired on ABC.
June 19, 1956
Jerry Falwell broke away from the church were he was saved and founded Thomas Road Baptist Church, the church he continues to lead.
November 26, 1956
Ellery Schempp, protesting the mandatory reading of passages from the Bible in his public school homeroom, decided to read passages from the Koran instead of the Bible; that earned him a trip to the principal's office. He and his family would request help from the American Civil Liberties Union, launching the case of School District of Abington Township v. Schempp. In the end, The Supreme Court ruled that such mandatory religious exercises were unconstitutional.
June 25, 1957
The Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church merged, creating the United Church of Christ (UCC).
December 09, 1958
The John Birch Society was founded.
March 03, 1959
The Unitarian Church and the Universalist Church both voted to merge into a single denomination.
On May 23, 1959
Shunryu Suzuki arrived in San Francisco, and over the following years brought legitimate Zen Buddhist practice to the United States.
April 28, 1960
The 100th General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church (PCUS) passed a resolution declaring that sexual relations in the context of marriage but without the intent to conceive children were not sinful.
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