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Church 1801 1810 1679 1688 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes 1685 Formation of Associate Presbytery (Scotland) 1733 Lay Patronage Act 1712 France England Elizabeth I 1603 James I Charles I Charles II William & Mary Anne George I George II George III Victoria James II Cromwell 1625 1649 1660 1685 1702 1714 1727 1760 1820 1837 1688 Henry IV (of Navarre) Louis XIII Louis XIV Louis XV Louis XVI Louis XVIII Louis Philippe Napoleon I 1643 1610 1715 1774 1792 1799 1814 1824 1830 1848 Richelieu Edict of Nantes 1598 Synod of Dort 1618-19 John Bunyan 1628 1688 Jacobus Arminius (1560) 1609 George Fox (Quakers) 1624 1691 Puritans Puritans 1691 Philip Spener (Pietism) John Owen Richard Baxter 1635 1616 1619 1705 1683 John Robinson (Separatists) (1575) 1625 (1563) (1585) Robert Brown (Separatists) Richard Alleine Matthew Henry Steven Charnock (1550) 1611 1662 1714 1628 1633 1691 1691 1680 “Pilgrim’s Progress” 1624 1638 John Smythe (General Baptists) (1554) 1612 Henry Jacob (Congregationalists) Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism) 1st General Assembly 1789 George Washington 1732 1799 "The Sun King" "The Citizen King" Benjamin Franklin 1706 1790 1700 1658 1674 1663 1760 1708 1748 1728 Count Zinzendorf Francis Makemie Isaac Watts Cotton Mather Thomas Jefferson 1826 1743 William Wilberforce 1759 1833 Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 1821 Abraham Lincoln 1809 (1865) French Revolution French Revolution Founding of Princeton University 1746 Old Side/New Side Split 1741-1758 Old School/ New School Split 1837 George Whitefield 1714 1770 1758 1703 1703 1714 Jonathan Edwards Gilbert Tennent David Brainerd 1747 1st Great Awakening 1st Great Awakening Evangelist 1764 1761 1834 William Carey Charles Finney 1792 (1875) Peter Cartwright 1785 (1872) Circuit riders Camp meetings 1788 1791 1781 1850 1857 1812 Adoniram Judson Daniel Baker Henry Martin 1819 1812 1818 1800 1813 (1893) (1864) (1902) (1873) (1873) Philip Schaff James Thornwell Benjamin Palmer William McGuffey David Livingston 1825 (1898) Girardeau India Moravians Burma Africa 1834 (1863) Friedrich Schleiermacher Lyman Beecher Samuel Davies 1816 Francis Asbury 1745 1817 James McGready 1763 1768 1775 1723 1761 1724 Peter the Great 1682 1725 Bach 1685 1750 Mozart 1756 1791 Montesqieu 1689 1755 "The Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith 1723 1790 Beethoven 1770 1827 Handel 1685 1759 Vivaldi 1675 1741 Economist Political Philosopher Hymn writer John Wesley 1703 1791 Founder of Methodism Composer Chemist Sailor/explorer Composer Composer Composer Composer "Tartuffe” Playwright Joseph Priestley Captain James Cook Schiller Samuel Johnson Robert Fulton Friedrich Engels Karl Marx Edward Gibbon Moliere Blaise Pascal Robert Boyle Oliver Goldsmith 1733 1728 1759 1709 1765 1820 1818 1739 1622 1623 1627 1728 1804 1779 1805 1784 1815 (1895) (1883) Composer Franz Joseph Haydn 1732 1809 Philosopher David Hume 1711 1776 1794 Philosopher John Locke 1632 1704 Philosopher Spinoza 1632 1677 Painter Rubens 1577 1660 Philosopher “Leviathan” Thomas Hobbes 1588 1679 1673 "Amazing Grace" John Newton 1725 1807 1662 1691 1774 "William Tell" Dictionary of the English Language Immanuel Kant 1724 1804 Philosopher "Critique of Pure Reason" Naturalist Steam Engine "Songs of Innocence" James Watt Alexander Humboldt Telegraph Samuel Morse Michael Faraday William Blake 1736 1769 1791 1791 1757 1819 (1859) (1872) (1867) 1827 William Wordsworth 1770 1850 "The Ancient Mariner" Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 1834 “Ivanhoe” Sir Walter Scott 1771 1832 Percy Shelley 1792 1822 "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley 1797 1851 John Keats 1795 1821 Lord Byron 1788 1824 "Les Miserables" Victor Hugo 1802 (1885) "Oliver Twist" Charles Dickens 1812 (1870) "The Raven" Poe 1809 1849 "The Messiah" Denis Diderot 1713 1784 Encyclodedie Philosopher Voltaire 1694 1778 Philosopher "Candide" Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 1778 Philosopher "Emile" "Gulliver's Travels" Jonathon Swift 1667 1745 "Robinson Crusoe" Daniel Defoe 1660 1731 Poet Historian Alexander Pope 1688 1744 Hegel 1770 1831 Philosopher "Faust" Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1749 1832 Dramatist Dramatist Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (1882) Poet Painter "The Scarlet Letter" Hawthorne Delacroix 1804 1798 (1864) (1863) Schoppenhauer 1788 (1860) Philosopher China Africa 1782 1795 1834 (1883) Robert Morrison Robert Moffat 2nd Great Awakening 2nd Great Awakening American Revolution American Revolution Washington Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe J.Q. Adams Jackson Van Buren Tyler Polk Origin of the Species 1809 (1892) Darwin El Greco 1614 Painter (1583) Francis Bacon Hugo Grotius 1626 1645 Philosopher International Law Peace of Westphalia 30 Years War 1618 1648 Dutch East India Company founded 1600 1602 Jenner invents smallpox vaccine 1796 Eli Whitney invents cotton gin 1793 Louisiana Purchase 1803 Battle of the Alamo 1836 Communist Manifesto published 1848 Year of the Revolutions in Europe 1848 Volta invents the electric battery 1800 First successful hot air balloon 1783 Solemn League & Covenant National Covenant in Scotland 1643 1638 Charles I executed 1649 English Civil War between Cavaliers and Roundheads 1642-46 The Whiskey Rebellion 1794 Invasion of Spanish Florida 1819 U.S.-Mexican War 1845-47 War of 1812 1812-14 "The Killing Times" 1684-5 Romantic Movement Romantic Movement Virginia 1607 Massachusetts 1620 New York 1626 Maryland 1633 Rhode Island Connecticut 1636 Delaware New Hampshire 1638 North Carolina 1653 South Carolina 1663 New Jersey 1664 Pennsylvania 1682 Georgia 1732 Missions Missions Father of Modern Missions War of the League of Augsburg King William's War 1689-97 North America North America Europe Europe War of the Spanish Succession Queen Anne's War 1702-12 North America North America Europe Europe 1700 War of the Austrian Succession King George's War 1744-48 1789-99 1775-83 North America North America Europe Europe Seven Years' War French and Indian War 1755-63 North America North America Europe Europe Formation of Relief Synod (Scotland) 1752 1717 1775 Scotch-Irish migration to the Colonies Scotch-Irish migration to the Colonies 1794 John Witherspoon 1723 Founding of Rutgers University 1766 1700 Father of American Presbyterianism Bible Commentator "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" Itinerant Evangelist Cane Ridge, Kentucky Revival Presbyterian educator "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God" Henry Clay May, 2004