Rev George Whitefield
English
George Whitefield was an English Anglican reverend who led the Great Awakening in Britain and in the American Colonies. - AsNotedIn
George Whitefield was an English Anglican reverend who led the Great Awakening in Britain and in the American Colonies. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1714/12/27 | George Whitefield is born at the Bell Inn, Southgate Street, Gloucester, England. | Born | Tigers Eye Restaurant at The Old Bell | Gloucester | |||
| 1727/00/00 | George Whitefield attends the Crypt School, Gloucester. | Education | St Mary De Crypt Grammar School | Gloucester | |||
| 1732/11/00 | George Whitefield enters Pembroke College, Oxford, putting himself through by waiting on fellow students. | Education | Pembroke College, Chapel, South Range | Oxford | |||
| 1736/06/20 | Bishop Benson ordains George Whitefield a Deacon in the Church of England on Trinity Sunday. | Vocation | Cathedral Church Of The Holy And Indivisible Trinity | Gloucester Cathedral | |||
| 1736/06/27 | Deacon George Whitefield preaches his first official sermon, Church Of St Mary De Crypt, Gloucester. | Vocation | Church Of St Mary De Crypt | Gloucester | |||
| 1740/00/00 | George Whitefield preaches in The First Church. | Preacher | First Churches of Northampton | Northampton, MA | First Great Awakening | ||
| 1740/03/25 | Construction begins on the Bethesda Home for Boys, an orphanage established by George Whitefield. | Benefactor | Bethesda Home for Boys | Savannah | First Great Awakening | ||
| 1741/00/00 | New Society Room which is built in 1741 for George Whitefield and John Cennick. | Vocation | Whitfield's Tabernacle | Kingswood | First Great Awakening | ||
| 1744/00/00 | Rev George Whitefield preaches at the Old White Meeting House. | Vocation | Old White Meeting House Ruins and Cemetery | Summerville | First Great Awakening | ||
| 1754/09/30 | I am now at Governor Belcher's, who sends your Ladyship the most cordial respects. His outward man decays but his inward man seems to be renewed day by day. - Rev Whitefield to Lady Huntington | Guest | Belcher-Ogden House | Elizabeth | |||
| 1770/09/30 | George Whitefield passes away into eternal glory at the parsonage of the Old South Church, Newburyport. He is buried in a crypt under the pulpit of the sanctuary. | Died | Old South Church, Newburyport | Newburyport | |||
| 1849/09/00 | Mr Bolton, a friend of Whitefield, returns George Whitefield's right arm bone. It had been stolen a few years before 1829 and brought to England. | Corpse | Old South Church, Newburyport | Newburyport |
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