Benjamin Beddome 1717-1795: Gloucestershire

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1650s Formed: '50 Welsh Assoc '52 Abingdon or Berkshire Assoc '53 Western Assoc '55 Midlands Assoc

1677 London Confession

1689 Glorious revolution. Rev & repub: London Confession
1690 Formed: Northern Assoc Re-formed: Midland Assoc
1690s '90-'93 National assemblies '90 Pub: "Keach" Catechism; '91 Spiritual Melody, Keach; '96 Spiritual Songs, Keach '97 First hymns, Stennett
1714 Coronation George I
'17 Birth: BB; Founded: Particular Baptist Fund

'19 Formed: Yorks & Lancs Assoc
'24 Founded: Baptist Board
'27 Moravian revival, Herrnhut
'33/34 Re-formed: Western Assoc
'35 Wesleys converted
'36 Pub: Narrative surprising conversions, Edwards, following revival; Gospel Worthy, Fuller
'38 Whitefield, Wesley begin open air preaching
'40 Great Awakening, America; Pub: Short account Whitefield
'41 Whitefield, Wesley split
'47 Pub: Humble Attempt, Edwards
'48 Pub: Life Brainerd, Edwards

'52 Franklin develops lightning rod
1750s '50 Pub: Evangelical Hymns Wallin; '51 Selection Rippon; '52 Catechism BB

'56 Seven years war begins
1760s '60 Pub: Poems, A Steele; '68 Reign of Grace, Booth; '69 1st Baptist Hymn Book Collection, Ash/Evans; Body of Divinity, Gill
'64 Formed: Northampton Assoc

'69 Formed: Norfolk & Suffolk Assoc
'70 Strong Arminian Calvinist controversy among Methodists; Formed: New Connexion & Bristol Education Soc

'71 Cook sails to Pacific

'73 Boston Tea Party
'76 Declaration of Independence; Sutcliff meets Fuller; Catechism BB (2nd ed)
'78 Wesley's Arminian Magazine begun
'79 Formed: Kent & Sussex Assoc
1780s '81 Pub: Help for Zion's Travellers, Hall; '84 Humble Attempt English ed (Sutcliff)

'83 Treaty of Paris (Britain accepts American independence)
'84 Northampton Assoc prayer for revival
'86 Others take up idea; Pub: Gospel worthy, Fuller (w '81)
'89 Bastille stormed, French Revolution
'90 Rippon's Baptist Register begun
'92 Formed: "BMS" (Thomas Paine Rights of man)
'93 Carey sails for India (Execution Louis XVI)
'95 Death: BB

'96 Formed: Essex Assoc (Jenner develops vaccine)

Reigning Kings and their PMs

1714-27 George I

(Robert Walpole 1721ff Whig)

1727-60 George II

(Robert Walpole 1727-42 Whig

Spencer Compton '42/43 Whig

Henry Pelham 1743-54 Whig

Duke of Newcastle 1754-56 Whig

Duke of Devonshire '56/57 Whig

Duke of Newcastle 1757-60 Whig)

1760-1820 George III

(Duke of Newcastle 1760- 62 Whig

Earl of Bute '62/63 Tory

George Grenville 1763-65 W [Grenvillite]

Marquess of Rockingham '65/66 W [Rockinghamite]

Wm Pitt Elder 1766-68 W [Chathamite]

Duke of Grafton 1768-70 W [C]

Lord North 1770-82 Tory [Northite]

Marquess of Rockingham '82 W [R]

Earl of Shelburne '82/83 W [C]

Duke of Portland '83 Whig

Wm Pitt Younger 1783-1801 T [Pittite] ...)

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