Christian History Timeline: Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
1489 Birth of Schwenckfeld in Ossig, Silesia
1500
1517 Luther’s Posting of the 95 Theses
1518 Schwenckfeld’s “Awakening”
1525 Schwenckfeld-Luther meeting
1527 Schleitheim Confession (First major Confession of the Anabaptists)
1529 Schwenckfeld’s self-Exile
1530 Time in Strasbourg
•Augsburg Confession (First major Lutheran Statement of Faith)
1535 Colloquy with Butzer and others
1537 Conflict with preachers in Ulm
1540 Foundation of Jesuits under Ignatius Loyola
1541 Schwenckfeld writes his Great Confession
1546 Death of Martin Luther
1558 Queen Elizabeth I of England
1561 Schwenckfeld’s death; death of Menno Simons
1564 Death of John Calvin
1580s Activity of Martin John Jr. and Antonius Oelsner
1600
1610s Activity of Daniel Sudermann
1611 King James Version of Bible
1618 Beginning of Thirty Years War
1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War: only Lutheranism, Calvinism and Catholicism legally ac cepted as religions in Europe
1675 Philip Jacob Spener’s Pia Desideria initiates Pietism
1680s Activity of Martin John Jr.
1700
1719 Jesuit persecution against Schwenckfelders in Silesia begins
1721 Schwenckfelder representatives sent to Vienna to plea for relief
1726 Schwenckfelders flee Silesia to Saxony
1731 First migration
1733 Second migration
1734 Third and central migration
1735 Fourth migration
1736 Fifth migration
1737 Sixth migration
1765 Towamencin school house erected
1782 Aug.17 Constitution of the Schwenckfelder Society
1790 Hosensack meetinghouse erected for worship; one room for educational purposes—“the Hosensack Academy”
1791 Washington meetinghouse erected
1793 Towamencin meetinghouse erected
1800
1825 Kraussdale meetinghouse erected
1836 Worcester meetinghouse erected
1869 Hosensack meetinghouse erected
1884 Initiation of Board of Publication, Corpus Schwenckfeldianorum, Schwenckfelder Library
1891 Perkiomen Seminary under Schwenckfelder management
1895 Schwenckfelder Sunday School Mission begun in Philadelphia and Board of Missions organised
1898 Philadelphia Schwenckfelder Church begun
1900
1904 Norristown Schwenckfelder Church begun
1911 Palm Church dedicated (comprises the congregations of Hosensack, Kraussdale, Washington
1916 Lansdale Church dedicated
1921 Organisation of Society of Schwenckfeldian Exiles
By the Editors
[Christian History originally published this article in Christian History Issue #21 in 1989]
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