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Period: 49 to 50
Council of Jerusalem
The council decided that Gentile converts to Christianity were not obligated to keep most of the Law of Moses, including the rules concerning circumcision of males. The Council did, however, retain the prohibitions on eating blood, meat containing blood, and meat of animals not properly slain, and on fornication and idolatry, sometimes referred to as the Apostolic Decree or Jerusalem Quadrilateral. -
64
Great fire in Rome
Nero himself blamed the fire on an obscure new Jewish religious sect called the Christians, whom he indiscriminately and mercilessly crucified. During gladiator matches he would feed Christians to lions, and he often lit his garden parties with the burning carcasses of Christian human torches. Yet there is evidence that, in 64 A.D., many Roman Christians believed in prophecies predicting that Rome would soon be destroyed by fire. -
70
Temple Destroyed
The fulfillment of Christ's prophecy concerning the destruction of the magnificent temple at Jerusalem not only reveals the year of Christ's crucifixion, but also ended one phase of God's plan for the salvation of humanity and ushered in the next phase—Christ's return to conquer and rule the earth. -
90
Rise of Gnostic heresies
If matter is evil, then Jesus Christ could not be true God and true man, for Christ is in no way evil. Thus many Gnostics denied the Incarnation, claiming that Christ only appeared to be a man, but that his humanity was an illusion. Some Gnostics, recognizing that the Old Testament taught that God created matter, claimed that the God of the Jews was an evil deity who was distinct from the New Testament God of Jesus Christ. -
144
Marcion excommunicated for heresy
Marcion's canon: Luke + Paul's writings. Marcion accepted only the gospel of Luke to the exclusion of the other three gospels. He also accepted all of Paul's writings but he would "cut out" any Old Testament quote or anything else that contradicted his theological views. He rejected all other books of the Bible except Luke + Paul's writings. -
Period: 235 to 270
Roman persecution
Christians increased and conquered the Roman Empire, despite the constant persecutions that they suffered by idolaters for three continuous centuries. -
312
Constantine's vision
As the emperor Constantine was preparing his mind and his troops for the bloody assault, he is said to have witnessed an image of a holy cross in the sky, pointing the emperor towards the Christian faith and ensuring an auspicious outcome in the conflict. The Vision of the Cross was a decisive moment in the adoption of the Christian faith by the Roman Empire, and would prove instrumental in shaping the religious and cultural identity of the Western world. -
313
Edict of Milan
The Edict of Milan was a letter signed by the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius, that proclaimed religious toleration in the Roman Empire. The letter was issued in 313, shortly after the end of the persecution of Christians by the emperor Diocletian. -
325
Council of Nicea
Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, meeting in ancient Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey). It was called by the emperor Constantine I, an unbaptized catechumen, or neophyte, who presided over the opening session and took part in the discussions. -
Period: 395 to 430
Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine is a fourth century philosopher whose groundbreaking philosophy infused Christian doctrine with Neoplatonism. He is famous for being an inimitable Catholic theologian and for his agnostic contributions to Western philosophy. Augustine tries to reconcile his beliefs about freewill, especially the belief that humans are morally responsible for their actions, with his belief that one’s life is predestined.
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476
Fall of the western Roman Empire
Its fall was not due to one cause, although many search for one. The loss of revenue for the western half of the empire could not support an army - an army that was necessary for defending the already vulnerable borders. Continual warfare meant trade was disrupted; invading armies caused crops to be laid to waste, poor technology made for low food production, the city was overcrowded, unemployment was high, and lastly, and there were always the epidemics. Also barbarian raids on Rome. -
529
Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, who is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Catholic Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches. He is a patron saint of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_of_Nursia -
610
Muhammad founds a new religion called Islam
A man meditating alone in a cave near Mecca received a religious vision. This vision laid the foundations for a new religion. The year was 610 and the man's name was Muhammad. And the belief system that arose from Muhammad's ideas became the basis of one of the world's most widely practiced religions: Islam. http://www.ushistory.org/civ/4i.asp -
800
Charlemagne crowned Roman emperor by Pope Leo III
Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king, Charlemagne, Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800 in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, making him the most powerful ruler of his time. http://www.dw.com/en/charlemagne-is-crowned-emperor-december-25-800/a-4614858-1 -
1054
Great Schism between the church in the West and the East
The final break came in 1054 in what is known as the Great Schism. On 16 June of that year, Pope Leo IX excommunicated Orthodox Patriarch Michael Cerularius for “trying to humiliate and crush the holy catholic and apostolic church.” The Patriarch then excommunicated Pope Leo. This mutual excommunication marks the formal break between Eastern and Western Christianity. https://graceuniversity.edu/iip/2011/08/11-08-20-2/ -
Period: 1095 to 1291
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups. In all, eight major Crusade expeditions occurred between 1096 and 1291. The bloody, violent and often ruthless conflicts propelled the status of European Christians, making them major players in the fight for land in the Middle East.
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Period: 1140 to 1217
Peter Waldo and the Waldensians
Peter Waldo was a wealthy and educated merchant from Lyons, France.
He was visiting with some friends, when after supper, one of the men suddenly collapsed and died.
Waldo was also convicted by Christ’s words to the rich young ruler, “Go sell all you have, give to the poor, and come, take up your cross and follow me.”
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1209
Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi abandoned a life of luxury for a life devoted to Christianity after reportedly hearing the voice of God, who commanded him to rebuild the Christian church and live in poverty. He is the patron saint of animals and the environment.
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1255
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas began his theological studies at the University of Naples in the fall of 1239. In the 13th century, training in theology at the medieval university started with additional study of the seven liberal arts, namely, the three subjects of the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the four subjects of the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), as well as study in philosophy.
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Period: 1348 to 1351
Bubonic plague (Black Death)
The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347 when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. Strangest of all, they were covered in mysterious black boils that oozed blood and pus and gave their illness its name: the “Black Death.” Over the next five years, the mysterious Black Death would kill more than 20 million people in Europe–almost one-third of the continent’s population.
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1456
Invention of printing press
Johann Gutenberg is nearly universally credited with being the inventor of the printing press, and the father of the modern printed book. Gutenberg was an early communications catalyst who invention of the printed book opened up the world to the quick and efficient spread of knowledge and ideas.
https://www.thebalance.com/gutenberg-and-the-invention-of-the-printing-press-2800098 -
1517
Martin Luther initiates the Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
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1519
Charles V becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Crowned as Emperor Charles V, the new Holy Roman emperor sought to unite the many kingdoms under his rule in the hope of creating a vast, universal empire. However, his hopes were thwarted by the Protestant Reformation in Germany, a lifelong dynastic struggle with King Francis, and the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/charles-elected-holy-roman-emperor -
1521
Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X
He refused to keep silent, however, and in 1521 Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church. That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany, who issued the famous Edict of Worms declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and giving permission for anyone to kill him without consequence. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/martin-luther-posts-95-theses -
Period: 1524 to 1525
Peasant’s Revolt
As many as 300,000 people took part in the rebellion, and some 100,000 were killed. The peasants won almost none of their demands. The rulers, interpreting the war as reason for repression, instituted laws that were more repressive than before, and often decided to repress more unconventional forms of religious change, too, thus slowing the progress of the Protestant Reformation.
http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/primary-source-75-luthers-reactions-to-peasant-rebellions.pdf -
1525
First Anabaptists at Zurich in Switzerland
A priest already in 1506, Zwingli read the writings of Erasmus and Luther and was deeply influenced, especially by Luther. In 1518 Zwingli became a priest in the Great Minster Church of Zurich, Switzerland. Gradually Zwingli became somewhat of a Protestant in his thinking. He began to attack the doctrines of purgatory, prayers to saints and significantly the doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. protestantism.co.uk/reformers -
1525
The Birth of Anabaptism
Anabaptism was born, With this first baptism, the earliest church of the Swiss Brethren was constituted. Here, for the first time in the course of the Reformation, a group of Christians dared to form a church after what was conceived to be the New Testament pattern. The Brethren emphasized the absolute necessity of a personal commitment to Christ as essential to salvation and a prerequisite to baptism.
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1527
Schleitheim Confession
The Schleitheim Confession was the most representative statement of Anabaptist principles, endorsed unanimously by a meeting of Swiss Anabaptists in 1527 in Schleitheim (Switzerland). The meeting was chaired by Michael Sattler. Michael Sattler was the leader of the Swiss and southern German Anabaptist movement.
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1528
Community of Goods Began
They offer their goods for sale—some they sold, some they left behind. 200 people (not counting children) gather outside the town of Nikolsburg. They spread a cloak, and each one laid his possessions on it with a willing heart, so that the needy might be supported according to the early church in Acts. -
1528
Communal group settles in Austerlitz
The Lords at Austerlizt allow the brethren to settle on their land, even though the brothers tell him that they cannot comply with paying war taxes and other things.
The Lords and people at Austerlitz show them much kindness and provide them with the wood they needed and freed them from paying rent, taxes, and compulsory labor for six years.
The members of the church began to increase in numbers and missioners are sent out to other countries, especially Tirol. -
1533
Jacob Hutter Accepted as Shepherd
Since Simon had been found guilty of such great deception, they could not postpone dealing with it. Early the next morning, they called him before the brotherhood, and Jacob informed them of his faithlessness, greed, and treachery of heart. The whole brotherhood was horrified. For eight days and nights they prayed earnestly to God. They sent two brothers to Gabriel at Rossitz to tell him of their need and to ask his advice about what they should do. He, too, suggested Jakob Hutter.
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1535
Münster Rebellion
The Münster rebellion was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster.
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Period: 1535 to 1542
Hans Amon
Hans Amon, bishop of the Hutterian Brethren in Moravia, was the successor of Jakob Hutter.
Amon was a cloth weaver by trade, and hence frequently called "Tuchmacher."
Amon came from Bavaria and was among the 80 persons who left Kromau in 1529 and settled in Austerlitz.
In 1535 Hutter transferred to him the leadership of the Hutterite congregations, which he retained for seven years.
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1536
Menno Simons becomes leader of Mennonites
Menno Simons. Menno Simons (1496 – 31 January 1561) was a former Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons -
1536
Jakob Hutter is burned at the stake
On November 29, 1535, Jakob and Katharina were captured and the two were separated, never to see each other again in life. Jakob was gagged and taken to the city of Innsbruck, where King Ferdinand’s government resided. Jacob Hutter was burned at the stake and his wife was drowned a couple of days later.
www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/jakob-and-katharina-hutter -
Period: 1542 to 1556
Peter Riedemann
Peter Reidamann born around 1506 in Hirschberg in Silesia and died 1556; he was a shoemaker by occupation
arrested numerous times while on mission trips, surviving 3 imprisonments. He wrote a number of workes, such as, the two confession of faith books , and another named Love is Like Fire. -
Period: 1542 to 1565
Leonard Lanzenstiel, Vorsteher
Three years later (1542), after the death of Hans Amon, Lanzenstiel was entrusted with the leadership of the entire brotherhood. The chronicles say that he was a "pious, honorable man and faithfully looked after the church of God." His leadership began under the most favorable auspices. He had a very competent assistant in Peter Riedemann, "who helped him carry the burden of the church."
http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lanzenstiel,_Leonhard_(d._1565) -
1555
Peace of Augsburg
Peace of Augsburg, 1555, temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation. Each prince was to determine whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands (cuius regio, eius religio). https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/german-history/peace-augsburg -
Period: 1556 to 1578
Peter Walpot, Vorsteher Hutterites are 50 years old
Peter Walpot, bishop of the Hutterian Brethren in Moravia during their Golden Age, one of the outstanding leaders of the brotherhood, a creative writer and organizer, a stern and upright character, who did much to bring the brotherhood to that spiritual and moral height which attracted many converts during the second half of the 16th century.
On 30 January 1578, Walpot died.
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1557
Handbüchlein wider den Prozess
In this document, the Prozess wie es soll gehalten werden mit den Wiedertäufern; the Anabaptists are accused of a number of damnable doctrines and practices; their teachings are declared blasphemous; hence Leviticus 24:16 (death penalty) should be applied. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Handb%C3%BCchlein_wider_den_Prozess -
1560
Kasper Braitmichel begins writing Chronicle
Braitmichel was the beginner of the official church chronicle of the Hutterites called the Geschichts-Buch, which work he must have started toward the end of his life, during the period of the outstanding Vorsteher Peter Walpot.
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Period: 1565 to
The Hutterite Golden Period
During this time the community grew rapidly, and by 1621 there were around 102 Communities with a total population of 20 000 to 30 000.
http://www.hutterites.org/history/the-golden-years/ During the Golden Period the Brethren, now well established all over southern Moravia and Slovakia, found a particularly strong leader in Peter Walpot, a Tyrolean, who led the group in 1565-1578. activities were created through the hutterite colonies.
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Period: 1578 to
Hans Kräl, Vorsteher
He went to Moravia, where he was chosen Diener der Notdurft in 1560, and Diener des Evangeliums in 1561, confirmed the following year.
In spite of the risks he had undergone in Tyrol, Kräl again ventured several times into that area, and was one of the most courageous Hutterite preachers.
After the death of Peter Walpot Bruderhof at Neumühl elected him as their leader on 5 February 1578. He held office in the "golden time of the brotherhood" in Moravia. gameo.org/index.php?title=Kr%C3%A4l -
Period: to
Klaus Braidl and Vorsteher
Klaus Braidle, was the head of the Hutterite church during the war times. Year after year taxes that the Hutterites could not pay for reasons of conscience was imposed on them. As a result, oxen, sheep, hogs, wine, grain, and many other things were confiscated in different places, and the church suffered great loss. This happened year after year.
He was Vorsteher throughout the Turkish War. The Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren. Plough Pub. House/Hutterian Brethren, 1987. -
Period: to
Turkish War: renewed persecution
The Turkish War waged from 1593 to 1606. For 13 years (1593-1606) the savage war raged between Turkey and the Holy Roman Empire along a frontier roughly identical with that between Czechoslovakia and Austria. The Hutterite colonies in Southern Moravia suffered severely, particularly because of their practiced nonresistance (Geschicht-Buch, 482-93). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Turkish_War -
Period: to
Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history. The conflict lasted, unceasing, for 30 years, making it the longest continuous war in modern history.
It was the deadliest European religious war that left an everlasting national stigma in the German collective memory. https://www.geni.com/projects/Thirty-Years-War-1618-1648/11799 -
1621-Gabor Bethlen kidnaps 183 Hutterites and takes them to his estate in Transylvania (Romania)
When the Hutterites were hard pressed by the rising power of the Catholic estates in Austria, Moravia and Hungary, Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania, offered 183 homeless Brethren a refuge in his principality.
Prince Bethlen had the group taken all the way to Transylvania in his wagons and under his own escort. Through God's providence, they were treated with much kindness by people who were strangers to them, both on the way and inTransylvania.
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All Hutterites are expelled and leave Moravia
In 1605 Turks and their Hungarian allies plundered southern Moravia and many brethren were killed or dragged away into Turkish captivity.
The Austian government issued a decree in September 17, 1622 that all Hutterites were to leave Moravia in not less than four weeks or they would be put to death.
gameo.org/index.php?title=Hutterian_Brethren_%28Hutterische_Br%C3%BCder%29
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Period: to
Andreas Ehrenpreis’ time as Elder
Andreas Ehrenpreis was a Hutterite bishop (Vorsteher); the last outstanding leader of the brotherhood, during a period of decline aggressively active in a restoration of the old spirit.
In 1639 he was elected bishop, and it was in this capacity that he developed his richest activities during the remaining 23 years of his life. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Ehrenpreis,_Andreas_(1589-1662) -
Community of goods abandoned in Hungary
In 1685, discouraged from the constant whippings, beatings, and various kinds of other torture, the Hungarian Hutterites gave up their community of goods.
They appealed to the government to consider them as individual households from now on. They did, however, retain some communal practices.
Hofer, John, et al. The History of the Hutterites. Friesens Corporation, 2004. -
Community of goods abandoned in Transylvania
Community of goods - so characteristic and so vital was abandoned by one Bruderhof after another as a result of spiritual decline, severe economic hardships, and continued persecution; by 1699 this practice had been abandoned altogether, also in Transylvania. http://www.hutterites.org/history/carinthian-revival -
Period: to
Strong efforts to convert Hutterites to Catholicism
After 1740, the Jesuits intensified their efforts to convert Hutterites in Hungary to Catholicism. By 1763, most had become Catholics.
They sealed off Hutterite worship places and forced Hutterites to attend Catholic worship services on their Bruderhofs.
They organized coordinated raids of colonies in order to confiscate the Hutterites’ religious books. https://thejesuitpost.org/2013/03/you-will-become-catholic/ -
Birth of Johannes Waldner, main writer of Chronicle II
In his later years he wrote his recollections, called Denkwurdigkeiten, as a sort of continuation of the old Hutterite chronicle, the Geschicht-Buch. Thus grew a remarkable new book, the Klein-Geschichtsbuch der Hutterischen Brüder.
Waldner wrote the story only to the year 1802; the remainder to 1947 was done by other writers. In this work he mentioned his own experiences at different places.
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Maria Theresa expels 270 Lutherans from Corinthian
270 people were taken from Carinthia, Austria to within a half’s day journey of the Hutterite settlement in Alwinz, arriving there in October 1755.
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revival of community of goods by Carinthian Lutherans; Kreuz community established
By 1762 another Bruderhof was established at Kreuz. Several additional families moved there and the Bruderhof was patterned after the discipline of the old Hutterian Brutherhood.
They were taught reading and writing and Christian doctrine. Joseph Müller was made deacon and Joseph Kleinsasser his assistant. The others worked for the common good, each according to his ability. They met daily for prayer. The community of goods was revived. gameo.org/index.php?title=Carinthian_Exiles -
Hutterites migrate east to Wallachia (Romania), to escape intense Jesuit pressure
Further persecution and conversion attempts by the Jesuit priest, Delphini, to stamp out Anabaptism in Transylvania forced the Hutterites to flee.
In 1767, there was a decision of some 60-70 Hutterites to flee south over the Carpathian Mountains to Wallachia, which is Romania today.
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Joseph Kuhr becomes elder
Joseph Kuhr was a Hutterite preacher at Alwinc in Transylvania during the reign of Maria Theresa, and he was the leader of the group which in the face of severe persecution fled to Walachia and thence to Vyshenka in Russia with the Carinthians.
On 15 August 1774 he was chosen as a preacher and confirmed the following year.
In Walachia he was chosen as head of the brotherhood in 1779 and served until 1794.
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Hutterites leave Wallachia and migrate to the Ukraine, establish their first community at Vishenka
In 1770 Count Peter A. Rumyantsev–Zadunaisky, who was governor of New Russia (Ukraine), invited Hutterites who were living in the village of Presetschain, a short distance west of Bucharest, Romania, to resettle on his estates at Vyshenka. This resettlement occurred during the First Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 when the Hutterites were severely harassed by Turkish soldiers and lawless marauders. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Rumyantsev,_Peter_Alexandrovitch_(1725-1796) -
Johannes Waldner begins work on Chronicle II
Johannes Waldner, a Carinthian by birth, studied all the old records, including the Great Chronicle, and decided to write a sequel to the first chronicle.
He worked on this important enterprise from 1793 to 1802. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hutterite_Chronicles -
Johannes Waldner succeeds Kuhr as elder
After Joseph’s Kuhr’s death in 1794, Johannes Waldner became elder.
Waldner played an instrumental role in recopying old, almost forgotten Hutterian sermons and other writings. He worked on the collection and rewriting of the old sermons that at Waldner's time had almost been forgotten. New sermon books were produced by Waldner and his co-workers, taken from old sermon notebooks. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Waldner,_Johannes_(1749-1824) -
Hutterites move eight miles north to establish a community on government land at Radichev
Most of the same activities that had been carried on in Vishenka were established at Radichev as well. Raising livestock became important as well as spinning, shoemaking, tanning, blacksmithing, and so on. Silk growing also was started and several thousand mulberry trees were planted to aid the silk industry. And so, after a short time, the Brotherhood flourished again.
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Gma’schoft is abandoned for the second time in Hutterite History
In 1818, in Radichev disagreement arose between a group supported by Johannes Waldner, the elder, and Jakob Walter, his assistant. Johannes Waldner wanted to retain community of goods and Jacob Walter felt that they should give it up.
With the governments advising them, it was decided that Walter and his group would move to the Chortitza Mennonites with their share of the property, while Waldner and his followers would stay in Radichev.
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Hutterites move to Molotschna with Mennonite Johann Cornies’ assistance; Huttertal established
When their appeal was denied, they contacted Johann Cornies, a leader among the Mennonites at Molotschna. Cornies was a government agent for the Molotschna Mennonites and a member of the Supervisory Council for Government Lands.
Cornies intervened on behalf of the Hutterites and in 1842 the entire Brotherhood moved over 400 miles south to a location on the Molotschna River, near the Molotschna Mennonite settlement. The new location was named Huttertal.
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Hutterites migrate to America; they arrive in Nebraska
On June 19, 1874, 113 Schmiedeleut together with a similar number of Dariusleut boarded the SS Hammonia for America, arriving in New York on July 5, 1874. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/american-colony-meet-the-hutterites/articles/facts-about-hutterites/ -
Bonhomme, parent colony of the Schmiedeleut, established in South Dakota (SD)
The Michel Waldner community found a fertile piece of land in South Dakota that satisfied them. It was located on the Missouri River in Bon Homme County about 18 miles west of Yankton.
The Hutterites bought 2,500 acres of privately-owned land for $25,000, part of an enormous farm. This piece of land was bought for cash. The Dakota Herald, a South Dakota newspaper, reported on August 25, 1874
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Wolf Creek, parent colony of the Dariusleut, established in SD
Led by Darius Walter, the Dariusleut established the founding community for all Dariusleut—Wolfcreek—in 1875, 40 miles north of Bon Homme.
The Elder Darius Walter and Minister Jörg Hofer and their group settled on state land at Silver Lake near Bridgewater on August 10, 1874.
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Elmspring, parent colony of the Lehrerleut, established in SD
Led by Jacob Wipf, an accomplished teacher or Lehrer, the Lehrerleut left Russia in 1877. They were part of the group who had unsuccessfully attempted to live communally at Johannesruh. They established Elmspring Colony, a few miles west of Wolf Creek Colony.
In 1877, the two ministers Jakob Wipf and Davidl Peter Hofer set out from Johannesruh with a little group of thirteen families and moved to South Dakota.
