Charles Grandison Finney: Christian History Timeline - Finney Against a Backdrop of 19th Century America & the World
Finney against a backdrop of the 19th Century America & the World
October 1, 1988
Charles Finney
1792: Born: Warren, CT, Aug. 29, 1792 1808–1812: Schoolteacher in Henderson, New York 1812–1814: Works on his uncle’s farm in Warren, Connecticut 1814–1815: Schoolteacher in New Jersey 1818–1821: Works in the law office of B. Wright in Adams, NY 1821: Converted to Christ 1824: Ordained 1824: Marries Lydia Root 1824–1825: Beginning of revivals in small New York towns 1826–1827: Revivals in NY “Burned-over District”; New Measures arouse controversy 1827: April: New Lebanon Conference 1828: Helen Finney born 1830–1831: Great Rochester revival, national recognition, high point as a revivalist 1830: Charles Finney Jr. born 1832: Frederic Finney born 1832–1836 Pastor, Chatham Street Chapel, NYC 1834: Julia Finney born 1836–37: Becomes pastor of Broadway Tabernacle, and professor of theology at Oberlin College 1837: Resigns Broadway Tabernacle pastorate 1840–1848: Preaching tours: Boston, New York City, etc; perfectionist message, growing criticism of Oberlin 1843: Delia Finney born 1843–44 Winter: Finds second blessing in Boston 1846–47: Publishes vols. 2 and 3 of Systematic Theology 1847: Lydia Finney dies 1848: Marries Elizabeth Atkinson 1849–1851:The Finneys travel to England for revivals 1851: Elected president of Oberlin College 1851–1857: Tours Boston, NY City, Hartford, Rochester 1859–60: Second trip of three to ENGLAND; work in SCOTLAND 1860–75: Teaching and preaching at Oberlin 1863: Elizabeth Finney dies 1865: Marries Rebecca Allen Rayl 1866: Resigns as Oberlin president; continues to teach theology 16 August 1875: Dies at Oberlin at 82 years The United States
1787: Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 1788: Constitution ratified 1789: First Federal Congress 1790: Benjamin Franklin dies 1794: US Navy established 1794: Thomas Paine writes The Age of Reason 1796: Tennessee becomes a state 1799: George Washington dies 1800: US capitol moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC 1801-1805: Triopolitan War: War with Tripoli 1803:Louisiana Purchase by Jefferson ends French rule in N America 1804: Alexander Hamilton killed by Aaron Burr in a duel 1805:US and British relations broken over trade with West Indies 1807: US Embargo Act against England and France 1808: US prohibition against importation of slaves from Africa 1811: Wm. Henry Harrison defeats Chief Tecumsah at Tippecanoe, IN 1812: Louisiana statehood 1812-1814:War of 1812 with England 1814: British burn Washington DC 1815: War of 1812 ends with Treaty of Ghent 1815: Battle of New Orleans won by Andrew Jackson: “Old Hickory” 1816: American Bible Society founded 1816: Indiana statehood 1817: Mississippi statehood 1818: Illinois statehood 1817–1818: Seminole Wars 1819: First steamship crossing of the Atlantic 1819: Alabama statehood 1820: Missouri Compromise: 1820: Maine statehood—free state 1821: Missouri statehood—slave state 1822: Boston gets gas lights 1823: The Monroe Doctrine ends colonial settlement in US 1825: Erie Canal opens 1828: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begun 1828: Noah Webster’s Dictionary 1830: Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church 1831: Virginia slave revolt—55 whites massacred 1832: New England Antislavery Society founded 1833–1837: Financial panic 1834: McCormick Reaper 1835: Colt revolver 1836 Samuel Morse’s telegraph 1836: Battle of the Alamo 1836: Arkansas statehood 1837: Michigan statehood 1838: Underground Railroad starts 1845:Texas and Florida statehood 1846–1848: Mexican-American War 1846: Iowa statehood 1848: California gold rush 1848: Wisconsin statehood 1850: The “Great Compromise” over issue of slavery in new states 1850:California statehood 1851–1863: US Capitol built 1851: Melville’s Moby Dick 1852: Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1853: New York-Chicago rail link 1854: Gadsden Purchase: S. New Mexico and Arizona 1854: “War for bleeding Kansas” over state slavery rights 1856: John Brown massacres pro-slavery supporters in Kansas 1858: Minnesota statehood 1858: The Lincoln-Douglas debates 1858: Nationwide prayer meetingrevivals 1859: Oregon statehood 1861: Kansas statehood 1861-1865: The Civil War 1863: W. Virginia statehood 1863: Emancipation Proclamation 1864: Nevada statehood 1865: Lincoln assassinated 1866: Transatlantic telegraph 1867: Nebraska statehood American Presidency
1789–1796: George Washington 1796–1800: John Adams 1800–1809: (2 terms) Thomas Jefferson 1809–1817: (2 terms) James Madison 1817–1825: (2 terms) James Monroe 1825–1829: John Quincy Adams 1829–1837: (2terms) Andrew Jackson 1837–1841: Martin Van Buren 1841: William Henry Harrison Harrison dies in office 1841–1845: John Tyler 1845–1849: James K. Polk 1849-1853: Zachary Taylor 1851–1853: Millard Fillmore 1853–1857: Franklin Pierce 1857–1861: James Buchanan 1861–1865: Abraham Lincoln 1865–1869: Andrew Johnson 1869-1877: (2 terms) US Grant World Events
1794: Slavery ended in French colonies 1796: Spain declares war on Britian 1796: English smallpox vaccination 1797: Admiral Nelson defeats Spanish fleet 1798: French capture Rome 1798: Nelson defeats French fleet 1799: Discovery of Rosetta stone 1800: Volta invents electric battery 1800: Napoleon conquers Italy 1802: Peace of Amiens between England and France 1804: Napoleon crowned emperor 1805: Battle of Trafalgar 1807: English abolish slave trade 1809: Composer Franz J. Haydn dies 1810: Napoleon’s zenith of power 1812: French invade Russia 1814: First Anglican bishop in India 1815: Napoleon defeated at Waterloo 1815: Brazilian independence 1816: Argentinian independence 1821: Napoleon dies 1821: Champollion deciphers hieroglyphics using the Rosetta stone 1824: Bolivar becomes emperor, Peru 1825: First English passenger railroad 1825: Nicholas I--Russian czar 1827: Ludwig Beethoven dies 1829: Slavery abolished in Mexico 1830: Polish uprising against Russia 1830: Revolution in Paris 1831: Belgian independence 1831: Darwin sails on expedition 1831: Faraday demonstrates electromagnetism 1833: Slavery abolished in Britain 1837–1901: Queen Victoria reigns 1841: Hypnosis discovered 1841–1842: The Opium War between England and China 1844: Wood-pulp paper invented 1848: Revolutions in France, Germany, Italy 1848: Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto 1851: Victoria, Australia, proclaimed a separate colony 1851: Cuba declares independence 1853–1856: Missionary William Livingston crosses Africa 1856: Anglo-Chinese War begins 1857: English Navy destroys Chinese fleet 1858: Ottawa becomes Canadian capitol 1860: Lenoir’s internal-combustion engine 1861: Dickens’ Great Expectations 1862: Bismarck becomes Prussian prime minister 1863: French capture Mexico City 1867: Russia sells Alaska to US 1869: Opening of Suez Canal Copyright © 1988 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine.
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