churches 1819 Thomas Jefferson produces the Jefferson Bible 1820, Spring: Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, has his First Vision 1824 English translation of Wilhelm Gesenius' ...Handwörterbuch...: Hebrew-English Lexicon, Hendrickson Publishers 1827 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg takes on the editorship of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, the chief literary organ of the Neo-Lutheranism 1828 Plymouth Brethren founded; promotes Dispensationalism 1830 Catherine Laboure receives Miraculous Medal from the Blessed Mother in Paris, France 1830 Charles Finney's revivals lead to Second Great Awakening in America 1830, April 6 the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) founded by Joseph Smith. Book of Mormon also published 1831 William Miller begins the Advent Movement, by preaching his first sermon on the Biblical books of Daniel and Revelation 1832 Christians (Stone Movement) and Disciples of Christ (Campbell Movement) merge to form the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement 1832, February 28: Persecution of Old Lutherans: by a royal decree all Lutheran worship is declared illegal in Prussia in favour of the Prussian Union agenda 1833 John Keble's sermon "National Apostasy" initiates the Oxford Movement in England 1838–1839 Saxon Lutherans objecting to theological rationalism emigrate from Germany to the United States; settle in Perry County, Missouri. Leads to formation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod 1843 Disruption of: schism within the established Church of Scotland 1844 Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder, missionary, arrives in Port Natal, South Africa 1844 Lars Levi Laestadius experiences awakening—beginning of Laestadianism 1844, June 27, Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, murdered at Carthage, Illinois 1844, October 22 Great Disappointment: false prediction of Second Coming of Christ by Millerites 1844, December Ellen G. White, co-founder and prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has her first vision 1845 Southern Baptist Convention formed in Augusta, Georgia 1846 Our Lady of La Salette 1847 Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod founded in Chicago, Illinois 1847 John Christian Frederick Heyer, missionary, arrives in Andhra Pradesh, India 1848 Epistle to the Easterners and Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs response 1848 Oneida Community founded by John Humphrey Noyes in western New York state 1849 Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe founds the first deaconess house in Neuendettelsau, Bavaria 1850 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod founded in Milwaukee 1853 Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America founded outside Madison, Wisconsin 1854 Missionary Hudson Taylor arrives in China 1854 Immaculate Conception defined as Catholic dogma 1855 Søren Kierkegaard, founder of Christian