Social &
Scientific Developments |
Year |
Lutheran Events
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| Constitutional Monarchy is established; beginning of Hanoverian Dynasty
in England. Society reflects high tide of pietist in Germany. |
1700 |
Who was the first Lutheran to be ordained
in America? |
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1705 |
Beings Van Guinea and his wife, Jora, both former slaves, offer their
home for services to Justus Falckner, in the Raritan Valley, N.J. |
| Isaac Watts publishes Hymns and Spiritual Songs, the first
hymnal in the English language. |
1708 |
"Palatines" or Germans, both Lutheran and Reformed, began
immigrating in large numbers and settled in the Hudson River Valley. |
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1713 |
First baptisms of slaves by Lutherans takes place in the Danish West
Indies. |
| Johann Sebastian Bach becomes concertmaster for the court orchestra of
the Duke of Weimar, Germany. |
1714 |
Zion Church (now Oldwick) is organized in New Jersey. Three children are
baptized, one of whom is the African-American godchild of the Van Guineas. |
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1717 |
Hebron Lutheran Church, Madison, Virginia, is founded, becomes the oldest
Lutheran Congregation in the state centuries later. |
| A new wave of German immigration to U.S. begins, especially through the
ports of Philadelphia and Charleston, S.C. It is the high tide of rationalism in U.S.
society. |
1720 |
Lutherans begin to form congregations in Pennsylvania. |
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1730 |
Augustus Lutheran Church, Trappe, Pennsylvania, is founded. Later it was
served by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). What
became of Augustus Church? |
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1734 |
First Lutheran services are held on St. Croix. Use of Creole dialect
becomes an issue immediately. Salzburgers, persecuted Lutheran exiles from Austria led
by Pastor John Boltzius, establish Jerusalem Lutheran Church, New Ebenezer, Georgia. |
| John and Charles Wesley arrive in Georgia to evangelize colonists and
American Indian people. |
1735 |
|
| Handel's Messiah debuts. |
1742 |
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787)
is sent to America as missionary to German Lutherans in Pennsylvania from Halle
University, Germany. He served mostly in Pennsylvania, but his travels took him from New
York to Georgia. His influence had a wide range in organizational matters as well as
spiritual and social ones. Visit the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Philadelphia to explore Muhlenberg's life and times. |
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1743 |
Nicholas Sommer baptizes American Indian people for the first time in the
Mohawk and Schoharie valleys. |
| First Great Awakening (revival) takes place in U.S. Methodism is on
the rise in England and America
England begins to drive France from most of North America. |
1748 |
The Pennsylvania Ministerium, organized under the leadership of Henry
Melchior Muhlenberg and others, becomes the first North American Lutheran church
structure. |
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1774 |
The use of Creole in worship is adopted officially in Virgin Islands. |
| American Revolution begins. |
1776 |
|
| John Hanson becomes first president
of the Continental Congress. |
1781 |
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1786 |
The New York Ministerium is founded under the leadership of John
Christopher Kunze and lay delegates receive right to vote. |
| Treaty of Hopewell signed between U.S. and Cherokee Nations, pledges to
respect Cherokee sovereignty and territory. Broken by Indian Removal Act of 1830. |
1785 |
|
| French Revolution begins. American republic established, westward
migration gathers momentum. Northwest Ordinance passed: "Indian lands will never be
taken without their consent." |
1789 |
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1792 |
What earth-shattering event took place in
the Pennsylvania Ministerium in 1792? |
| First message is sent over wires by code, called telegraph. |
1794 |
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| English attack San Juan. |
1797 |
What was the first American Lutheran
seminary? |