Events 1803 to 1865

Map showing Religious events from 1803 to 1865

1.	General	1807 Britain	Slave Trade Made Illegal
2.	Protestant	1809 Canton	Robert Morrison employed by the East India Company
3.	General	1810 - 1824 Spanish America	Future nations struggle for Independence eg. Brazil 1822
4.	Protestant	1810 United States	Foundation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
5.	General	1813 India	Amendment to the East India Company Charter allows the entry of missionaries
6.	Catholic	1829 Britain	Roman Catholic Emancipation
7.	Protestant	1830 Calcutta	Alexander Duff arrives and founds the General Assembly Institution
8.	Orthodox	1832 Serbia	Autonomy of the Serbian Orthodox Church
9.	General	1833 England	Start of the Oxford Movement
10.	Protestant	1833 Massachusetts	Final disestablishment of a U.S. church – Congregational Church Massachusetts
11.	General	1838 - 42 & 1856 - 60 Beijing & Canton	Opium Wars – Imperial government forced to grant protection to Christians
12.	Protestant	1841 South Africa	David Livingston arrives in Africa as a missionary
13.	Protestant	1843 Scotland	The Disruption
14.	Protestant	1845 United States	Both Baptists and Methodist split over the holding of slaves
15.	Catholic	1850s Latin America	Struggle between secular liberalism and the Roman Catholic Church throughout Latin America
16.	Orthodox	1852 Greece	Establishment of the Holy Synod in Greece, Autocephaly of the Greek Orthodox Church
17.	Protestant	1854 Shanghai	Hudson Taylor first arrives in China and goes on to found the China Inland Mission (1865)
18.	General	1857 - 58 Barrakpur	Sepoy Rebellion
19.	Catholic	1858 Lourdes	Visions of Bernadette
20.	Protestant	1860s & 70s Latin America	Growth of Protestantism but still a minority
21.	Catholic	1864 Rome	Pope Puis IX's encyclical Qunata Cura with the attached 'Syllabus of Errors'
22.	Protestant	1864 Nigeria	Samuel Crowther consecrated as first black Anglican Bishop in Africa