Church History, 1689

-- 1689
[U.S. Religious History] England, Toleration Act (1689) (Backman)

-- 1689
[U.S. Religious History] England, Toleration Act of 1689 (for all Trinitarian Protestants). (Backman)

-- 1689
[U.S. Religious History] U.S., Principles of Toleration Act of 1689 adopted in all colonies (Backman)

-- February 29, 1692
[U.S. Religious History] The Salem Witch Trials began when Tituba, the female slave of the Reverend Samuel Parris, Sarah Goode, and Sarah Osborne were all arrested and accused of witchcraft. (USRelHist)

-- March 01, 1692
[U.S. Religious History] The Salem Witch Trials in the Massachusetts colony were officially launched with the conviction of Tituba, the West Indian slave of Rev. Samuel Parris. (USRelHist)

-- June 10, 1692
[U.S. Religious History] Bridget Bishop became the first of twenty people executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. (USRelHist)

-- October 03, 1692
[U.S. Religious History] In Massachusetts, Increase Mather published his "Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits," effectively ending the Salem Witch Trials which had begun earlier that year. (USRelHist)

-- April 01, 1693
[U.S. Religious History] The four-day-old son of Cotton Mather died. Mather, who had written about the existence of demonic and spectral phenomena in the world, suspected that witchcraft might have been the cause of his first-born son's demise. (USRelHist)

-- January 15, 1697
[U.S. Religious History] Citizens of Massachusetts spent the day fasting and repenting for their role in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. (USRelHist)

-- May 07, 1700
[U.S. Religious History] Quaker leader William Penn began a series of monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation from slavery. (USRelHist)

-- October 05, 1703
[U.S. Religious History] Jonathan Edwards, American theologian and philosopher, was born. (USRelHist)

-- 1708
[U.S. Religious History] Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh guru, died (USRelHist)

-- December 12, 1712
[U.S. Religious History] The colony of South Carolina passed a "Sunday Law" which required everyone to attend church each Sunday and to refrain from both skilled labor and traveling by horse or wagon beyond what was absolutely necessary. Violators received a fine and/or a two hours in the village stocks. (USRelHist)

-- August 06, 1727
[U.S. Religious History] French Ursuline nuns first arrived at New Orleans and establish the first Catholic charitable institution in America, consisting of orphanage, a hospital and a school for girls. (USRelHist)

-- April 08, 1730
[U.S. Religious History] America's first synagogue, Shearith Israel, was dedicated in New York City. (USRelHist)

-- February 26, 1732
[U.S. Religious History] In Philadelphia, Mass was celebrated for the first time at St Joseph's Church the only Roman Catholic church built and maintained in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War. (USRelHist)

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