Baptist Timeline

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)