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Former Anglican John Smyth rebaptizes himself and 40 others by pouring in Amsterdam.
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First Baptist Church is formed in Kittery, Maine, then moves to South Carolina, becoming the first Baptist church in the South.
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Baptists found the school later called Brown University, only the seventh institution of higher education founded in the colonies.
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Baptist preacher William Miller announces the coming end of the world, beginning the Millerite movement.
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Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon becomes pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in London.
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Nannie Helen Burroughs delivers speech “How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping.”
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William Bell Riley, “The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism,” sets up the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota and the Baptist Bible Union.
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Pat Robertson founds Christian Broadcasting Network; Progressive National Baptist Convention leaves the NBCU; Ralph Elliott publishes The Message of Genesis.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
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SBC issues 150th-anniversary resolution on racial reconciliation.