Editing Timeline of Christian missions (section)

== 1800 to 1849 ==
{{Main|Christianity in the 19th century}}
{{See also|Timeline of Christianity#19th century}}
* 1800 – [[New York Missionary Society]] formed; Johann Janicke founds a school in Berlin to train young people for missionary service.<ref name="Latourette, 1941, vol. IV, p. 90">Latourette, 1941, vol. IV, p. 90</ref>
* 1800 – Irish priests including [[James Dixon (priest)|Fr James Dixon]] arrive in Australia as convicts.
* 1801 – [[Johannes van der Kemp|John Theodosius van der Kemp]] moves to [[Graaff Reinet]] to minister to the [[Khoikhoi]] (Hottentots) people. Earlier he had helped found the [[Netherlands Missionary Society]]. In 1798, he had gone to South Africa to work as a missionary among the [[Xhosa people|Xhosa]].
* 1802 – [[Henry Martyn]] hears Charles Simeon speak of [[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]]'s work in India and resolves to become a missionary himself. He will sail for India in 1805.<ref>Smith, George. ''The life of William Carey, D.D.'', Project Gutenberg, 1885, p. 340</ref>
* 1803 – The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society votes to publish a missionary magazine. Now known as ''The American Baptist'', the periodical is the oldest religious magazine in the U.S.
* 1804 – [[British and Foreign Bible Society]] formed;<ref name=kanep95>Kane, p. 95</ref> [[Church Missionary Society]] enters Sierra Leone, sending 4 German Lutherans.<ref name="CMSatlafrica">{{cite web|title= The Church Missionary Atlas (Christianity in Africa)|pages=  23–64|date= 1896| url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01|access-date=19 October 2015 | publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>Neill, p. 259</ref>
* 1805 – The first Christian missionaries arrive in [[Namibia]], brothers Abraham and Christian Albrecht from the [[London Missionary Society]].<ref name=barrettp28>Barrett, p. 28</ref>
* 1806 – [[Haystack Prayer Meeting]] at [[Williams College]]; [[Andover Theological Seminary]] founded as a missionary training center; [[Protestantism|Protestant]] missionary work begins in earnest across southern Africa.<ref name=kanep87>Kane, p. 87</ref>
* 1807 – [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]], of the [[London Missionary Society]] established a mission in [[Guangzhou]] (Canton) in China.<ref name="CMSatlasHchina">{{cite web|title= The Church Missionary Atlas (China)|pages= 179–196|date= 1896| url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01|access-date=19 October 2015 | publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* 1809 – The [[Church's Ministry Among Jewish People|Church's Ministry among Jewish People]] is established by Joseph Frey, William Wilberforce, and Lewis Way. 
* 1810 – The [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] (ABCFM) is established.
* 1811 – English [[Methodism|Wesleyans]] enter [[Sierra Leone]].<ref>Glover, p. 263</ref>
* 1812 – First ABCFM foreign missionaries, [[Adoniram Judson]] and [[Luther Rice]], arrive in [[Serampore]], with Judson soon going to [[Burma]].<ref>Tucker, p. 132{{verify source|date=August 2013}}</ref>
* 1813 – The [[Methodist]]s form the Wesleyan Missionary Society.
* 1814 –  First recorded baptism of a mainland Chinese Protestant convert, [[Cai Gao]];<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/c/cai-gao.php | title=Cai Gao: C: By Person: Stories: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity | access-date=July 22, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001122228/http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/c/cai-gao.php | archive-date=2012-10-01 }}</ref> American Baptist Foreign Mission Society formed;<ref name=kanep86/><ref name=kanep88>Kane, p. 88</ref> Netherlands Bible Society founded<ref name=kanep95/> [[Samuel Marsden]]  officiated at the first service on Christmas Day to begin the [[New Zealand Church Missionary Society|Church Missionary Society]] work in [[New Zealand]].<ref>Latourette, 1941, vol. V, p. 179</ref><ref name="CMSatlasNZ">{{cite web|title= The Church Missionary Atlas (New Zealand)|pages= 210–219|date= 1896| url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_OX_Atlas_01|access-date=19 October 2015 | publisher = [[Adam Matthew Digital]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* 1815 – Congregationalist minister [[Cyrus Kingsbury]] first served Cherokee in the Southeast, founding [[Brainerd Mission]] near Chickamauga, Tennessee, in 1815.<ref name="EOHC-CK">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=KI014 Mize, Richard. "Kingsbury, Cyrus (1786 - 1870)." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture''.] Accessed March 9, 2018.</ref> 
* 1815 – [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] open work on [[Ceylon]], modern-day Sri Lanka through [[American Ceylon Mission]];<ref>Glover, p. 96</ref> [[Basel Mission|Basel Missionary Society]] organized; Richmond African Missionary Society founded
* 1816 – [[Robert Moffat (missionary)|Robert Moffat]] arrives in Africa;<ref>Olson, p. 140</ref> [[American Bible Society]] founded;<ref name=kanep95/> [[Charlotte White]], a Baptist, arrives in India, the first single American woman to become a missionary.<ref>White, Ann "Counting the Cost of Faith: America's Early Female Missionaries" ''Church History'', Vol 57, No. 1 (Mar 1988), p. 22; Brackney, William H ''The A to Z of Baptists'' Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009, p. 605</ref> 
* 1816 – Barnabas Shaw opens the first Wesleyan mission in South Africa: Liliefontein, in the Khamiesberg Mountains (Namaqualand), among the Khoisan peoples in the northern Cape Colony.
* 1817 – [[James Thompson (missionary)|James Thompson]], agent for British and Foreign Bible Society, begins distributing Bibles throughout [[Latin America]].<ref>Olson, p. 283</ref>
* 1818 – Missionary work begins in [[Madagascar]] with the reluctant approval of the king.<ref>Glover, p. 306</ref>
* 1819 – [[John Scudder, Sr.]], missionary physician, joins the [[American Ceylon Mission]];<ref>Glover, p. 73</ref> Wesleyan Methodists start work in [[Madras]], India;<ref>Anderson, p. 610</ref> [[Reginald Heber]] writes words to missionary classic "From Greenland's Icy Mountains".<ref>Jones, Francis A. ''Famous Hymns and Their Authors'', Hodder and Stoughton, 1903, pp. 200-203</ref> [[Alfred Wright (missionary)|Alfred Wright]] (1788-1853) becomes a Presbyterian missionary to Choctaw Nation.
* 1820 – [[Cyrus Kingsbury]] is sent in 1820 to establish Mayhew Mission in Choctaw Nation (present-day U.S. State of [[Mississippi]].<ref name="EOHC-CK"/>
* 1820 – [[Hiram Bingham I|Hiram Bingham]] goes to Hawaii ([[Hawaiian Islands|Sandwich Islands]]).<ref>Anderson, p. 63</ref>
* 1821 – [[African-American]] Lott Carey, a [[Baptist]] missionary, sails with 28 colleagues from [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk, VA]] to [[Sierra Leone]];<ref>Latourette, 1941, vol. V, p. 450</ref> [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Protestant Episcopal Church]] mission board established.<ref name=kanep88/>
* 1821 – [[Dwight Presbyterian Mission]] established in August by [[Cephas Washburn]] near present-day [[Russellville, Arkansas]] to minister to the Cherokees then living in Arkansas Territory.<ref>Everett, Dianna. "Dwight Mission." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.</ref>
* 1822 –  African American Betsy Stockton is sent by the American Board of Missions to Hawaii. She thus becomes the first single woman missionary appointed by the American Board.<ref>Anderson, p. 643</ref>
* 1823 – [[Scottish Missionary Society]] workers arrive in [[Bombay]], India;<ref>Glover, p. 74</ref> Liang Fa, first Chinese [[Protestantism|Protestant]] evangelist, is ordained by [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]]; Colonial and Continental Church Society formed<ref>Latourette, 1941, vol. IV, p. 73</ref>
* 1824 – [[Berlin Missionary Society]] formed.<ref name=kanep80/>
* 1825 – [[George Boardman (missionary)|George Boardman]] goes to [[Burma]].<ref>Anderson, p. 71</ref> Congregationalist missionary [[Samuel Worcester]] sent to Brainerd Mission in [[Tennessee]] as minister to [[Cherokees]].<ref>Langguth, A. J. ''Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War''. New York, Simon & Schuster. 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-4165-4859-1}}.</ref>
* 1826 – [[American Bible Society]] sends first shipment of Bibles to Mexico.
* 1827 – Missionary [[Lancelot Edward Threlkeld]] reports in ''The Monitor'' that he was "advancing rapidly" in his efforts to disseminate [[Holy Scripture]] among [[Indigenous Australians]] of the [[Hunter River (New South Wales)|Hunter]] and [[Shoalhaven River|Shoalhaven]] Rivers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/amrhd/awaba/language/linguistics.html |title=Missionaries, Dictionaries & Australian Aborigines, 1820-1850 &#124; Language &#124; Awabakal &#124; AMRHD &#124; The University of Newcastle &#124; Australia |publisher=Newcastle.edu.au |date=2003-01-23 |access-date=2010-07-10}}</ref>
* 1828 – [[Pope Leo XII]] entrusts the mission in Korea to [[Paris Foreign Missions Society]].
* 1828 – Basel Mission begins work in the Christiansborg area of [[Accra]], [[Ghana]];<ref>Neill, p. 260</ref> [[Karl Gützlaff]] of the Netherlands Missionary Society lands in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]];<ref>Glover, p. 117</ref> [[Rhenish Missionary Society]] formed<ref name=kanep80/>
* 1829 – [[George Müller]], a native of [[Prussia]], goes to England as a missionary to the Jews; [[Anthony Norris Groves]], an [[Exeter]] dentist, sets off as a missionary to [[Baghdad]] accompanied by [[John Kitto]].
* 1829 – [[Dwight Presbyterian Mission]] moves to Indian Territory after most Cherokees are expelled from homes in southeastern U. S. states in 1828.
* 1830 – [[Church of Scotland]] missionary [[Alexander Duff (missionary)|Alexander Duff]] arrives in [[Kolkata]] (formerly Calcutta);<ref>Neill, p. 233</ref> William Swan, missionary to [[Siberia]], writes ''Letters on Missions'', the first [[Protestantism|Protestant]] comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions;<ref>Anderson, p. 652</ref> [[Baptism]] of [[George Tupou I|Tāufaʻāhau I]], King of [[Tonga]], by a western missionary; arrival of [[John Williams (missionary)|John Williams]] of the [[London Missionary Society]] in [[Samoa]], landing in [[Sapapaliʻi]] on [[Savaiʻi]] island. [[Dwight Presbyterian Mission]] reopens near Sallisaw in [[Indian Territory]] to serve Cherokees forced to move west on the Trail of Tears.<ref name="EOHC-Dwight">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=DW001 Dianna Everett,  "Dwight Mission," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''], Accessed February 21, 2015.</ref>
* 1831 – American [[Congregationalist church|Congregational]] missionaries arrive in [[Thailand]], withdrawing in 1849 without a single convert;<ref name=kanep97>Kane, p. 97</ref> four [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] from beyond the [[Rocky Mountains]] come east to [[St. Louis, Missouri]] seeking information on the "palefaces' religion".<ref>Latourette, 1941, vol. IV, p. 307</ref>
* 1832 – Teava, former [[Human cannibalism|cannibal]] and pioneer Pacific Islander missionary, is commissioned by [[John Williams (missionary)|John Williams]] to work on the [[Samoa]]n island of [[Manono Island|Manono]].
* 1832 – Rev. Loring S. Williams established mission station Bethabara and organized the first church in the Choctaw Nation in [[Indian Territory]] (present-day [[Eagletown, Oklahoma|Eagletown]], [[McCurtain County, Oklahoma]]).<ref name="McCurtain">[http://visitmccurtaincounty.com/directory/eagletown/ "Eagletown Choctaw Settlement." McCurtain County, Oklahoma.] Retrieved December 8, 2018.</ref> 
* 1832 – [[Alfred Wright (missionary)|Alfred Wright]], a medically trained Presbyterian minister was sent to Mississippi with his wife, Harriet Bunce to minister in the Choctaw nation. After traveling with a group of Choctaws on their forced emigration to Indian Territory in 1832, they decided to establish a new mission near present-day [[Eagletown, Oklahoma]]. From then until 1846, they built and operated a church and a school to minister to Choctaws living in the surrounding area. Wright named the mission Wheelock, in honor of [[Eleazar Wheelock]], a friend and first president of Dartmouth College. Meanwhile, ignoring his own frail health, Alfred spent as much time as he could translating religious documents from English into the Choctaw language until his death in 1853.<ref name="EOHC-Pittman">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WR003 Pittman, Kitty. "Wright, Alfred (1788-1853). ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] Accessed December 8, 2018.</ref>
* 1833 – Baptist work in [[Thailand]] begins with [[John Taylor Jones]];<ref>Neill, p. 245</ref> the first American [[Methodism|Methodist]] missionary, [[Melville Beveridge Cox]], goes to [[Liberia]] where he dies within four months. His dying appeal was:  "Let a thousand fall before Africa be given up";<ref>Glover, p. 265</ref> [[Free Will Baptist Church|Free Will Baptist Foreign Missionary Society]] begins work in India. [[George Borrow]] arrives in Russia as an agent of the British & Foreign Bible Society.
* 1834 – American Presbyterian Mission opens work in India in the [[Punjab region|Punjab]];<ref>Glover, p. 76</ref> [[Peter Parker (physician)|Peter Parker]] MD, associated with the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]], first American Medical Missionary to China opens Ophthalmic Hospital at Canton.<ref>Glover, p. 149</ref>
* 1835 – Rev. [[Cyrus Byington]] arrived at Bethabara Mission in 1835. established Stockbridge Mission, and spent 31 years translating both religious and secular materials, using a Choctaw-English dictionary that he had created. Byington also established Stockbridge Mission on the opposite side of the Mountain Fork River from Bethabara.<ref name="EOHC-Eagletown">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=EA011 Coleman, Louis. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Eagletown."] Retrieved December 7, 2018.</ref>
* 1835 – Rhenish Missionary Society begins work among the [[Dayak people|Dayak]]s on [[Borneo]] ([[Indonesia]]);<ref>Glover, p. 129</ref> [[Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta]] calls India's [[caste]] system "a cancer."
* 1835 – [[Barthélemy Bruguière]] sicks and dies in China before he reach Korea. George Borrow arrives in Spain as an agent of the Bible Society.
* 1836 – Pierre Maubant arrives in Korea; [[Paris Foreign Missions Society]] start work in Korea.
* 1836 – [[Plymouth Brethren]] begin work in [[Chennai|Madras]], India;<ref>Glover, p. 75</ref> [[George Müller]] begins his work with orphans in [[Bristol, England|Bristol]], England; Gossner Mission formed;<ref name=kanep80/> Leipzig Mission Society established;<ref name=kanep80/> Colonial Missionary Society formed; The Providence Missionary Baptist District Association is formed, one of at least six national organizations among African American Baptists whose sole objective was missionary work in Africa.
* 1837 – [[Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert]] arrives in Korea.
* 1837 – Evangelical Lutheran Church mission board established;<ref name=kanep89>Kane, p. 89</ref> First [[Bible translations|translation of Bible]] into Japanese (actual translation work done in [[Singapore]]).
* 1838 – [[Church of Scotland]] Mission of Inquiry to the Jews; four Scottish ministers including [[Robert Murray M'Cheyne]] and [[Andrew Bonar]] journey to [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]; [[Augustinians]] enter Australia.
* 1839 – Entire Bible is published in language of [[Tahiti]]; three French missionaries martyred in Korea; English Protestant missionaries, including John Williams, murdered on [[Erromango]] (Vanuatu, South Pacific).<ref>Latourette, 1941, vol. V, pp. 227, 228</ref>
* 1840 – [[David Livingstone]] is in present-day [[Malawi]] (Africa) with the [[London Missionary Society]]; American Presbyterians enter [[Thailand]] and labor for 18 years before seeing their first Thai convert;<ref name=kanep97/> Irish Presbyterian Missionary Society formed; Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Missionary Society founded.
* 1841 – Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society formed;<ref name=barrettp28/> Welsh Methodists begin working among the [[Khasi people]] of India.
* 1842 – Methodist Missionary, [[Thomas Birch Freeman]] arrives in [[Badagry]], Nigeria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatrevivals.com/ |title=Great Revivalist |publisher=Great Revivals |access-date=2010-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130043028/http://greatrevivals.com/ |archive-date=2009-01-30 }}</ref><ref>Abi Olowe, 2007, Great Revivals Great Revivalist, Omega Publishers</ref>
* 1842 – Church Missionary Society enters Badagry, Lagos.
* 1842 – Gossner Mission Society receives royal sanction;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chi.lcms.org/history/tih0607.htm |title=Today in History – June 7 |work=Chi.lcms.org |access-date=2010-07-10}}</ref> Norwegian Missionary Society formed in [[Stavanger]].<ref name="Latourette, 1941, vol. IV, p. 90"/>
* 1842 – Christian Mission to the Jews (CMJ) establishes Christ Church, first Anglican church in the [[Old City (Jerusalem)|Old City]] of [[Jerusalem]].
* 1843 – Baptist John Taylor Jones translates New Testament into the [[Thai language]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://my.opera.com/tnmccoy/blog/show.dml/1415661 |title=T N McCoy – Keeping Up With the Joneses |work=My.opera.com |access-date=2010-07-10}}</ref> British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews formed.
* 1843 - Presbyterian missionary [[Robert M. Loughridge]] comes to Indian Territory (present-day [[Oklahoma]] as missionary to Creek Indians and establishes [[Koweta Mission]]. In 1850, he establishes [[Tullahassee Mission]]. Both missions were abandoned after the outbreak of the American Civil War.
* 1843 - Twenty-four West Indian Moravians recruited by the Basel Mission and the Danish missionary, [[Andreas Riis]], sail to the Gold Coast, now Ghana to start mission work
* 1844 – German [[Johann Ludwig Krapf|Johann Krapf]] of the [[Church Missionary Society]] begins work in [[Mombasa]] on the Kenya Coast;<ref>Olson, p. 267</ref> first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) formed by George Williams; [[George Smith (Bishop of Victoria)|George Smith]] and Thomas McClatchie sail for China as the first two [[Church Missionary Society|CMS]] missionaries to that country.
* 1844 [[Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder]], missionary, arrives in Port Natal, South Africa.
* 1845 – [[Southern Baptist Convention]] mission organization founded.<ref name=barrettp28/>
* 1846 – The [[London Missionary Society]] establishes work on [[Niue]], a [[Australasia|South Pacific]] island which westerners had named the "savage island".<ref name=barrettp28/>
* 1847 – Protestant Rhenish Missionary Society begins operations in China.<ref>Gad C. Isay, "Religious Obligation Transformed Into Intercultural Agency: Ernst Faber'S Mission In China." ''Monumenta serica'' 54.1 (2006): 253-267.</ref>
* 1847 – Presbyterian [[William Chalmers Burns|William Burns]] goes to China, translates ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' into Chinese; [[Moses White]] sails to China as a [[Methodism|Methodist]] medical missionary.
* 1847 – [[John Christian Frederick Heyer]], missionary, arrives in [[Andhra Pradesh]], India.
* 1848 – Charles Forman goes to [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]];<ref>{{cite web |title=Forman Family Papers |id=Record Group No. 110 |website=Special Collections, Yale Divinity School Library |url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/4/resources/50 |hdl=10079/fa/divinity.110 }}</ref> [[Johannes Rebmann]], German missionary with the [[Church Missionary Society]], arrives at [[Mount Kilimanjaro]].<ref name="CMSatlafrica"/> Initially, the story of a snow-covered peak near the [[equator]] was scoffed at.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ntz.info/gen/n00314.html |title=Ludwig Krapf |work=Ntz.info |access-date=2010-07-10}}</ref>
* 1849 – [[Johann Ludwig Krapf|Johann Krapf]] of the [[Church Missionary Society]] was the first European to reach [[Mount Kenya]].<ref name="CMSatlafrica"/> Just weeks after arriving on the [[Melanesia]]n island of [[Anatom]], missionary John Geddie wrote in his journal: "In the darkness, degradation, pollution and misery that surrounds me, I will look forward in the vision of faith to the time when some of these poor islanders will unite in the triumphant song of ransomed souls, 'Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.'"<ref>{{cite web|last=Myers |first=Eugene |url=http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/biogeddie.html |title=John Geddie – Missionary Biographies – Worldwide Missions |work=Wholesomewords.org |access-date=2010-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626040826/http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/biogeddie.html |archive-date=2010-06-26 }}</ref>