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Events relating to religion
The tenth Sikh guru, Gobind Rai, commits his people to the five Ks, which become the outward signs of their group identity
In the years after the battle of the Boyne, Catholic ownership of land in Ireland is reduced to just 14% of the total
The Act of Settlement declares that no Catholic may inherit the English crown
The tenth Sikh guru, Gobind Rai, names as his successor the sacred book known as the Granth
John and Charles Wesley form a Holy Club at Oxford which becomes the cradle of Methodism
A revivalist movement in America, led by Jonathan Edwards, becomes known as the Great Awakening
A charismatic leader, Baal Shem Tov, develops Hasidism in Poland as an influential revivalist movement within Judaism
American revivalism is inflamed by Jonathan Edwards' vivid sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The Muslim reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab makes an alliance with Muhammad ibn Saud, of significance to the later Saudi dynasty
In Freedom of Will American evangelist Jonathan Edwards makes an uncompromising defence of orthodox against liberal Calvinism
The Portuguese expel the Jesuits from Brazil, beginning a widespread reaction against the order in Catholic Europe
Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra begins work at San Diego de Cala, the first of his nine California missions
Responding to pressure from the Catholic monarchs of Europe, Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit Order
The treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji grants Russia special rights in relation to the Christian Holy Places under Ottoman control
Illiterate visionary Ann Lee, leader of an English sect, the 'Shaking Quakers', crosses the Atlantic to spread the word
Talleyrand begins an extremely varied career by becoming an abbot at the age of twenty-one
In developing the Haskalah, the German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn reconciles Judaism and the Enlightenment
Joseph II passes an Edict of Toleration, for the first time allowing Protestant worship in Habsburg territories
Ann Lee leads her Shaker colleagues in a missionary tour of New England lasting two years
A second great revivalist movement sweeps northeast America, inspired by the earlier example of Jonathan Edwards
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity
A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism
Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France
Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII
The Shakers define their Millennial laws in the Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing
