1582 - Robert Browne argues the local church is a gathering of Christians who govern their own affairs
Brownism - influenced Separatists / Pilgrims
1593 - English Law requires everyone over 16 to attend local Anglican Parish Church
Many left and went to Holland
1609 - First Baptist Congregation in Holland
1611-1612 - First Baptist Church in England
1616 - Jacob-Lathrop-Jessey Church founded, wasn’t itself Baptist but becomes Mother Church of Particular Baptists
1642 - Baptism by immersion restored by Richard Blunt
1644 - First London Confession
1689 - First General Assembly of Baptist Churches in London, over 100 churches present
1689 - Second London Confession
1707 - Philadelphia Baptist Association
1787 - Charleston Baptist Association
1845 - Southern Baptist Convention forms in Augusta, GA, disagreed with the Northern Baptists over slavery and other issues (Northern Baptists now American Baptist Churches USA)