 |  Dwight L. Moody: 19th c. Evangelist
Issue 25 | 1990
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Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) and His World: Christian History Timeline
January 1, 1990
Dwight L. Moody
1837: Born February 5 at Northfield, Mass. 1854: Leaves home for Boston; begins work in S.S. Holton shoe store; joins, YMCA 1855: Converted April 21 through Sunday school teacher; denied membership at Mt. Vernorn Congregational Church 1856: Accepted as member of Mt. Vernon Church; moves to Chicago; employed by C.E. Wiswall as shoe salesman 1858: Meets Emma C. Revell; organizes North Market Hall sabbath School 1860: John V. Farwell elected superintendent of the North Market Mission; Abraham Lincoln visits 1861: Gives up business 1862: Marries Emma C. Revell on August 28; as delegate of U.S. Christian Commission, works with Civil War soldiers 1863: Appointed missionary of YMCA of Chicago 1864: Helps form Illinois Street Independent Church 1865: Enrolls as student in Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago 1866: Elected president of Chicago YMCA 1867: First visit to Great Britain; meets Earl of Shaftesburv, Charles H. Spurgeon, and George Muller 1870: Meets Ira Sankey at International Convention of YMCA; second visit to Great Britain 1871: Great Chicago Fire destroys Illinois Street Church and Moody’s home; Moody experiences new endowment of power 1872: Third visit to Great Britain; preaches in London and Dublin 1873: First great campaign in U.K. begins in June (continues until July 1875); first form of Sacred Songs and Solos used 1874: Meetings in Scotland (Jan Aug.); Ireland (Sept.-Nov.); Manchcster (Dec.) 1875: Meetings at Oxford and Cambridge; in Great London campaign March July, speaks to 2.5 million; campaigns in Brooklyn and Philadelphia 1876: Elected president of Illinois Sunday School Union; purchases farm at Northfield; Chicago Avenue Church dedicated; evangelistic campaigns in Chicago, Nashville, Kansas City 1877: Evangelistic meetings in Boston and in Mexico and Canada 1877-78: Meetings throughout New England; in October 1878 begins seven-month Baltimore campaign 1879: Northfield Seminary opens November 3; six months’ meetings in St. Louis 1880: First Northfield Conference 1881: Mt. Hermon School for boys established; second major campaign in U.K. begins (continues to April 1883) 1882: Meetings throughout England, including Oxford and Cambridge; twice preaches in Paris 1883: January through April, meetings in Ireland and England; returns to America 1885: Evangelistic meetings in southeastern U.S. 1886: Student Volunteer movement begins; Chicago Evangelization Society formed; conference of college students at Mt. Herman; campaigns in New Orleans, Washington, New York 1887: Four-month campaign in Chicago; second conference at Northfield 1888: Evangelistic meetings on West Coast and in Canada and England 1889: Meetings in Scotland and Ireland; Bible Institute formally opened in Chicago 1890: Chicago Bible Institute building dedicated 1891: Seventh visit to England 1892: Travel through Europe and Holy Land; meetings in England and Ireland, including eight days at Spurgeon’s Tabernacle; accident at sea 1893: Great campaign at Chicago World’s Fair 1894: Meetings across Eastern Seaboard and in Canada 1895: Meetings in New York, Boston, Dallas, Mexico City 1896: Elected President of International Sunday School Association; meetings in New York 1897: Meetings in Boston, Chicago, Ottawa, elsewhere 1898: Works among soldiers of Spanish- American War; preaches in Colorado, Montreal, Tampa Bay 1899: Meetings throughout western US; dies December 22 at Northfield home Other Significant Dates
1840: Renoir, Monet, and Tchaikovsky born 1844: YMCA founded in England by George Williams 1846: Irish potato famine 1846–48: Mexican-American War 1848: California gold rush; Marx’s Communist Manifesto 1850: US population hits 17 million 1852: Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854: Hudson Taylor arrives in China; War for Bleeding Kansas over state slavery rights 1858: Third Great Awakening begins 1859: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species 1861: Dickens’s Great Expectations 1861–1865: U.S. Civil War 1864: Pasteur invents pasteurization . 1865 Lincoln assassinated i 1867 Russia sells Alaska to U.S. 1869: First Vatican Council 1870: Rockefeller founds Standard Oil 1872: Ulysses S. Grant reelected; Whistler’s The Artist’s Mother 1875: Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone 1878: Treaty of Berlin settles Russo- Turkish Wars; Salvation Army begins 1880: Edison devises practical electric light 1881: President Garfield assassinated 1883: First skyscraper (10 stories, in Chicago) 1884: Grover Cleveland elected 1889: Dakotas, Montana, and Washington become states 1890: Global flu epidemics 1892: Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker 1894–1895: Chinese-Japanese War 1895: Röntgen discovers x-rays 1896: First modern Olympics held Athens 1898: Spanish-American War Copyright © 1990 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine.
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