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1799
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| 1799 |
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CMS founded on 12 April as the Society for Missions to Africa and the East |
| 1804 |
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First missionaries (German Lutherans) sent to West Africa |
| 1807 |
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The British Parliament votes to outlaw the slave trade |
| 1809 |
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First Englishman accepted for missionary training |
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New Zealand mission begun |
| 1811 |
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Work in Malta begun |
| 1812 |
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First CMS committee meetings in Salisbury Square |
| 1813 |
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Work in India begun |
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First CMS Association formed at Dewsbury, and first Auxiliary at Bristol |
| 1814 |
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CMS Hibernian Society founded (Ireland) |
| 1818 |
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Work in Ceylon begun |
| 1822 |
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Canadian missions begun |
| 1825 |
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First Anglican ordination of an Indian, Abdul Masih |
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First Australian auxiliary of CMS formed under the Rev Samuel Marsden |
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The men’s training college opened at Islington |
| 1826 |
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Missions in Egypt and the West Indies begun |
| 1827 |
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Fourah Bay College founded in Sierra Leone |
| 1830 |
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Work begun in Abyssinia (but halted in 1841) |
| 1831 |
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Death of William Wilberforce, a founder Vice-President of CMS |
| 1833 |
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Tractarian movement begun |
| 1837 |
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South Africa mission begun (ended in 1843) |
| 1841 |
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Henry Venn appointed Secretary |
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First Niger expedition |
| 1844 |
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First CMS missionaries went to China |
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Work in East Africa begun |
| 1849 |
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Palestine mission begun |
| 1850 |
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Home for missionaries’ children opened at Islington (moved to Limpsfield in 1887) |
| 1857 |
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Indian mutiny |
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Niger mission begun by Samuel Crowther |
| 1861 |
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Withdrew from West Indies |
| 1862 |
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New CMS headquarters opened |
| 1863 |
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First Chinese Anglican ordained (Dzaw Tsanglae) |
| 1864 |
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Samuel Crowther first African to be consecrated a bishop in the Anglican Communion |
| 1867 |
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First Lambeth Conference |
| 1869 |
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Work in Iran begun |
| 1873 |
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Death of Henry Venn |
| 1875 |
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First Keswick Convention |
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Japan mission begun |
| 1877 |
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Nyanza party reaches Uganda |
| 1878 |
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Beginning of work in Tanganyika |
| 1880 |
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Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS) formed |
| 1881 |
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Death of Ludwig Krapf, East Africa pioneer and missionary explorer |
| 1883 |
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John Batchelor began work among the Ainu in Japan |
| 1885 |
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Bishop James Hannington murdered in Uganda |
| 1886 |
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Persecution of Church in Uganda |
| 1887 |
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Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Anglican Church in Japan) formed |
| 1888 |
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Expulsion of missionaries from Uganda |
| 1890 |
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Death of Alexander Mackay, ‘father’ of the East African mission |
| 1891 |
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Death of Bishop Samuel Crowther |
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Highbury training college for women opened |
| 1892 |
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CMS Associations formed in New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand |
| 1895 |
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First party of women missionaries for Uganda arrived at Mengo |
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South Africa Church Missionary Association formed |
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The Stewart family and other CMS and CEZMS missionaries murdered at Hwa-Sang, China |
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1899
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100 years
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| 1899 |
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Work begun in Cairo by Temple Gairdner and in Khartoum by Llewellyn Gwynne |
| 1904 |
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First CMS summer school held at Keswick |
| 1905 |
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CMS Gordon Memorial Sudan Mission founded in southern Sudan |
| 1909 |
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“Africa and the East” exhibition in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, attended by nearly 250,000 people |
| 1910 |
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Edinburgh Missionary Conference |
| 1911 |
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Opening of Henry Holland’s eye clinic at Shikarpur |
| 1912 |
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Formation of Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (the Anglican Church in China) |
| 1913 |
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The Kabaka, Daudi Cwa, laid the foundation stone of the extension to CMS headquarters |
| 1915 |
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Islington College closed |
| 1916 |
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CMS Australia and Tasmania and New Zealand CMS established |
| 1921 |
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Ruanda Mission CMS established |
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International Missionary Council founded |
| 1922 |
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Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society (BCMS) established |
| 1926 |
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CMS Australia took responsibility for work in the new Tanganyika Diocese |
| 1930s |
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East African revival |
| 1931 |
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HCJB, first missionary radio station, opens in Quito, Ecuador |
| 1942 |
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Dr Max Warren appointed General Secretary |
| 1946 |
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First Mission Aviation Fellowship aircraft commissioned |
| 1947 |
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Church of South India formed |
| 1948 |
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Formation of the World Council of Churches |
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FEBA Radio founded |
| 1951 |
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Missionaries expelled from China |
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Work in Malaya begun |
| 1952 |
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Trans World Radio founded |
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Kenya emergency (Mau Mau) |
| 1955 |
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Uganda emergency (expulsion of Kabaka) |
| 1954 |
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United Mission to Nepal formed |
| 1956 |
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Suez crisis; expulsion of missionaries from Egypt |
| 1957 |
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Amalgamation of CEZMS and CMS |
| 1964 |
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Expulsion of missionaries from southern Sudan |
| 1966 |
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CMS headquarters moved to 157 Waterloo Road |
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Berlin Congress for World Evangelism |
| 1967 |
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Civil war in Nigeria |
| 1969 |
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Men’s and women’s training amalgamated and moved to Crowther Hall, Birmingham |
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Dame Diana Reader Harris became the first woman President of CMS |
| 1970 |
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Church of North India founded |
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CMS Nottingham Conference |
| 1971 |
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Jane Hwang and Joyce Bennett ordained as first women priests in Hong Kong |
| 1972 |
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End of civil war in southern Sudan; missionaries began to return |
| 1973 |
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First meeting of CMS General Council |
| 1974 |
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Lausanne Congress for World Evangelisation |
| 1977 |
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Archbishop Janani Luwum murdered |
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Centenary of the Church of Uganda |
| 1980 |
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Inauguration of the French-speaking Province of Burundi, Rwanda and Zaïre |
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Consultation on World Evangelisation, Pattaya |
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Iranian revolution, Anglican Church in Iran under attack |
| 1983 |
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CMS Members’ Councils formed |
| 1987 |
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157 Waterloo Road, London, became centre for the Partnership for World Mission; CMS and USPG are its first residential members |
| 1990 |
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Centenary of the Church in Korea |
| 1993 |
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Formation of the Anglican Province of Korea |
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Alison and Malcolm Rogers become the first CMS mission partners to serve in Russia |
| 1994 |
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150th anniversary of the Church of the Province of Kenya |
| 1995 |
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Diana Witts became the first woman to be appointed CMS General Secretary |
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The Society’s name changed to Church Mission Society |
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1999
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200 years
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| 1999 |
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CMS celebrated its bicentenary with a service of thanksgiving on Clapham Common on 29 May |
| 2002 |
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CMS and Mid-Africa Ministry (formerly Ruanda CMS) integrated to become one Society |
| 2003 |
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“Inspire to Witness”, the CMS Festival in Coventry |
| 2004 |
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The 200th anniversary of sending the first CMS missionaries, Melchior Renner and Peter Hartwig, to Sierra Leone |
| 2005 |
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CMS Trustees announce the move of the CMS Britain office from London to Oxford |
| 2006 |
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CMS opens regional offices in Ghana, Korea and Singapore |
| 2007 |
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The new CMS Britain office opens in Watlington Road, Cowley, Oxford, on 19 June |
2008
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CMS Africa begins work as a fully autonomous mission agency
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2010
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CMS integrates with the South American Mission Society (SAMS) to form a new joint agency, retaining the name CMS.
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