| 1624 |
Birth of George Fox in Leicestershire, England |
| 1647 |
Fox's discovery of Jesus Christ |
| 1652 |
Fox's Pendle Hill vision; beginning of Quaker movement in Westmoreland |
|
1661 |
Establishment in Rhode Island of "The Yearly Meeting for Friends
in New England" |
|
1672 |
George Fox and William Edmundson's visits among American Friends |
|
1682 |
Arrival of William Penn in Pennsylvania; beginning of his "Holy
Experiment" in government |
|
1689 |
Toleration Act in England after the
accession of William and Mary |
|
1691 |
Death of George Fox |
| 1746 |
John Woolman's visit in the Carolinas |
| 1756 |
End of Quaker control in Pennsylvania Assembly |
| 1776 |
Abolishment of slaveholding among Quakers |
| 1813 |
Establishment of Ohio Yearly Meeting |
| 1821 |
Establishment of Indiana Yearly Meeting |
| 1827-1828 |
Hicksite-Orthodox Separations in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore,
Ohio, and Indiana Yearly Meetings |
|
1845 |
Wilburite-Gurneyite (Conservative-Progressive) Separation in New
England |
|
1854-1904 |
Further Conservative Separations in Ohio, Iowa, Western, Kansas,
Canada, and North Carolina Yearly Meetings |
|
1857-1860 |
Visit of Friends Robert and Sarah Lindsey from Yorkshire, England,
among Friends in Kansas, California, Oregon (and elsewhere) |
| 1860 |
Establishment of Iowa Friends Boarding School (later Penn College,
1872) |
|
1863 |
Establishment of Iowa Yearly Meeting |
| 1869 |
President Grant's appointment of Quakers to supervise the Indian
service in the Central and Northern Superintendencies and nine other
agencies |
| 1872 |
Establishment of Kansas Yearly Meeting |
| 1887 |
Richmond Conference of Yearly Meetings |
| 1892 |
Opening of Friends Haviland Academy (became Friends Bible College,
1917) |
|
1893 |
Establishment of Oregon Yearly Meeting |
| 1895 |
Establishment of California Yearly Meeting |
| 1898 |
Establishment of Friends University, Wichita |
| 1900 |
Organization of Friends General Conference |
| 1902 |
Organization of the Five Years Meeting; beginning of Friends Africa
Mission in Kenya |
|
1917 |
Beginning of the American Friends Service Committee |
| 1934 |
Beginning of Friends Africa Gospel Mission in Burundi |
| 1937 |
Beginning of the Friends World Committee for Consultation |
|
1943 |
Beginning of the Friends Committee on National Legislation |
|
1945-1966 |
Union of separated groups within New England, Canada, Philadelphia, New
York, and Baltimore Yearly Meetings |
|
1945-1970 |
Association of Evangelical Friends |
| 1957 |
Establishment of Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting |
| 1966 |
Five Years Meeting name change to Friends United Meeting; establishment
of the Evangelical Friends Alliance |
|
1970 |
St. Louis "Gathering of Concerned Friends" |
| 1978 |
Name change to Mid-America Yearly Meeting; beginning of Evangelical
Friends Mission |
|
1983 |
Opening of Houston Graduate School of Theology |
| 1984 |
Establishment of Burundi Yearly Meeting |
| 1987 |
Legal status for Friends Church in Rwanda |
|
1990 |
Evangelical Friends Alliance reorganized as Evangelical Friends
International |
| 1990 |
Friends Bible College renamed Barclay College |
| 2000 |
MAYM name changed to Evangelical Friends Church - Mid America Yearly
Meeting |
