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History of Christian Missions

Timeline of Christian Missions

This is far from complete...I'm just randomly filling in events as I research...

c. 48 - Saul begins his first journey.
c. 51 - Paul begins his second journey.
c. 54 - Paul begins his third journey.
c. 60 - Paul journeys to Rome.
c. 563 - Columba sails from Ireland to Scotland.
635 - First Christian missionaries (Nestorian monks from Asia Minor and Persia) arrive in China
1289 - Franciscan friars begin mission work in China
1368 - Collapse of the Franciscan mission in China
1582 - Jesuits begin mission work in China, introduce Western science, mathematics, astronomy
1792 - William Carey[?] writes Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen and forms the Baptist Missionary Society[?] to support him in establishing missionary work in India.
1795 - The London Missionary Society[?] is formed.
1799 - The Church Missionary Society[?] is formed.
1810 - The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions[?] is formed.
1813 - The Methodists form the Wesleyan Missionary Society[?].
1814 - First recorded baptism of a Chinese convert, Cai Gao
1840 - David Livingstone is in present-day Malawi (Africa) with the London Missionary Society[?].
1865 - The China Inland Mission[?] is founded by James Hudson Taylor[?].