Presbyterian Timeline

1556-1558 - Knox in Geneva

1560 Scottish Parliament adopts Scots Confession

1560 - First Book of Discipline - outlined doctrinal framework, church discipline, and established what came to be known as Presbyteries

1556-1558 - John Knox lives in Geneva 

1578 - Second Book of Discipline 

1645: The Westminster Assembly published "The Form of Presbyterial Church Government". 

1690 - Scottish Parliament ratified Westminster Confessions 

1690: The Church of Scotland was formally established as a Presbyterian church.

1706 - First Presbytery in America

1717 - First Synod (Philadelphia)

1724 - First Presbytery requires Ministers to hold to WC

1727 - Log College established as Presbyterian Seminary in United States

1729 - Adopting Act - Adopted Westminster Confession as doctrinal standard but allowed minor differences

1733 - First Great Awakening

1737 - Synod of 1737, Old Side / New Side Controversy  

1746: The New Side Synod founded the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University)

1758 - New York & Philadelphia Synods reunite (Plan of Union)

1789 - First General Assembly the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA)

1790 - Second Great Awakening 

1801 - Plan of Union, Presbyterians unite with Congregationalists 

1816 - American Bible Society started 

1830-31 - Charles Finney Rochester Revival 

1861 - Civil War divided northern and southern Presbyterians, South form the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.

1869 - Old and New Sides reunite after 30 years of separation 

1923 - John Gresham Machen publishes Christianity and Liberalism

1929 - Machen founds Westminster Theological Seminary 

1936 - Orthodox Presbyterian Church founded 

1937 - Bible Presbyterian Church founded 

1966 - Reformed Theological Seminary founded in Jackson, MS by Southern Presbyterian Church

1973 - Presbyterian Church in America founded

1981 - Evangelical Presbyterian Church founded 

1983 - Northern & Southern Presbyterian Churches Unite, become Presbyterian Church USA