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Beginning around 1800 the United States experienced a religious revival that has come to be known as the Second Great Awakening.
Miller, while an officer in the United States Army in the War of 1812, had become a skeptic.
He began to preach in 1831 and soon emerged as the leader of a popular movement.
On the morning following the “Great Disappointment” of October 22, 1844, a Mr.
Obviously, however, the literal Second Coming of Christ did not happen by October 22, 1844.
Finally, in the summer of 1844, when Jesus had not come as expected, Samuel S. Snow, a minor Millerite preacher, predicted that Jesus would come that year on the Day of Atonement, October 22, an idea that spread like wildfire through the movement.
About the same time, perhaps influenced by this group, Millerite preacher Thomas M. Preble also began observing the Sabbath and the following year published an article and tract arguing that the fourth commandment was still binding on Christians. As a result of the witness of Rachel Oakes Preston, a Seventh Day Baptist, a congregation of Adventists observing Saturday as the Sabbath formed in Washington, New Hampshire, in 1844.
Although Preble later abandoned his Sabbath belief, his tract fell into the hands of Joseph Bates, a former sea captain and Millerite preacher, who adopted the Sabbath doctrine in 1845 and later that year met with Frederick Wheeler, pastor of the Washington, New Hampshire, congregation.
Her travels brought her into contact with James White, a minor Millerite preacher, and in 1846 they married.
Publishing: In 1848, James and Ellen White were convicted to write, print, and distribute a regular magazine to unite Adventists everywhere.
1849 – First paper, the Present Truth, was printed in Middletown, Conn.
He began to preach in 1831 and soon emerged as the leader of a popular movement. It was during the religious revival that swept the American frontier in the early 19th century that William Miller (1782–1849), whose speculations launched the Adventist movement, began to preach.
1850 – First issue of the Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, printed in Paris, Maine.
The first vital step toward organization involved a gathering of delegates from across the northern United States on October 1, 1860.
1860 – Name of Seventh-day Adventist adopted by the church.
In 1861 the churches in Michigan organized the first Adventist conference, which was followed by the organization of six more conferences during the next several months.
From May 20-23, 1863, delegates from eight of these conferences formed the General Conference.
The practice of Saturday worship gave the denomination (established in 1863) a new name, the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
After Michał B. Czechowski, a former Roman Catholic priest who converted to Adventism, failed in his effort to have the denomination send him as a missionary to Europe, he went anyway in 1864 under the auspices of the Advent Christian Church, although he preached Seventh-day Adventist doctrines.
Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan was established in 1866 as the first Adventist-owned and operated medical institution (also known as the Western Health Reform Institute).
Strasbourg’s 11th–15th-century Cathedral of Notre-Dame, damaged in 1870 and again in World War II, has been carefully restored.
1871 – First college opened which became Andrews University.
Joseph Bates (1792-1872), a retired sea captain and a convert to “Millerism” then began to promote the idea of Jesus moving into the heavenly sanctuary.
Another group, the International Bible Students Association, inspired by Miller and Adventist teachings, was founded by the preacher Charles Taze Russell in 1872.
Not long after, Battle Creek College opened in 1874.
Seventh-day Adventism sent out its first missionary, John Nevins Andrews, in 1874 and eventually expanded into a worldwide movement, with churches in nearly every country where it was legally permitted by the early 21st century.
After Michał B. Czechowski, a former Roman Catholic priest who converted to Adventism, failed in his effort to have the denomination send him as a missionary to Europe, he went anyway in 1864 under the auspices of the Advent Christian Church, although he preached Seventh-day Adventist doctrines. As a result of this contact with believers in Switzerland, the General Conference sent John Nevins Andrews, its first official foreign missionary, to that country in 1874.
1885 – Missionary work begun in Australia.
The establishment of the Solusi Mission in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1894, the first Adventist mission to black Africans, had symbolized a shift in the denomination that would soon produce significant results.
John Harvey Kellogg may be a familiar household name because of the breakfast cereals he originally developed in 1896.
By 1901 there were 75,000 members worldwide, and the Church had also established two colleges, a medical school, 12 secondary schools, 27 hospitals, and 13 publishing houses.
1942 – Voice of Prophecy radio show begins broadcasting coast to coast.
After his discharge from the Army in 1946, he spent five years undergoing medical treatment for his injuries and illness.
1950 – Faith for Today TV show begins.
1955 – SDA membership hits 1 million.
In 1964 the former Life and Advent Union merged with the Advent Christian Church.
Sanofi originated in 1973 as a subsidiary of French petrochemical firm Elf Aquitaine…
In 1973 French cosmetics firm L’Oréal purchased a majority ownership in Synthélabo and continued to develop the company’s global market for prescription drugs.
1986 – SDA membership hits 5 million.2
Carson’s fame mostly began in 1987 after his successful surgical separation of twins conjoined at the head.
The General Conference, the church’s main governing body, has its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, where it was moved in 1989 from Washington, D.C. The General Conference meets quadrennially.
International competition and consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry, however, led to the merger that created Sanofi-Synthélabo SA in 1999.
His fame only grew with the publishing of his autobiography and the 2009 TV movie with a similar title, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.
Following lengthy negotiations, Sanofi-Aventis announced in 2011 that it was purchasing the United States biotechnology company Genzyme for about $20 billion.
In 2017 he was sworn in as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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