SUNNI ISLAM TIMELINE 632: The Prophet Muhammad died. 657: The Battle of Siffin took place. 661: The Umayyad Caliphate took place. 730s: The teaching of Abu Hanifa al-Nuʿman ibn Thabit began. 750: The Umayyad dynasty was replaced by the Abbasid dynasty. 840s: Yaʻqub ibn ʼIshaq al-Kindi became prominent for his philosophy. Late 900s: Fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate began. 1095: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali abandoned exoteric knowledge for the esoteric. 1258: Baghdad was sacked by the Mongols. 1320s: The Ottoman empire began to take shape. 1501: The Shi’i Safavids established control of Persia. 1536: The Franco-Ottoman alliance was established. 1545: The Chief of Islam (shaykh al-Islam) was appointed by the Ottomans. 1630: The first known Muslim immigrant arrived in America. 1744: Muhammad ibn Abd a-Wahhab’s mission began. Late 1700s: The Ottomans…
KENJA COMMUNICATIONS TIMELINE 1922 (July 14): Kenneth Emanuel Dyers was born (military records give 1920). 1941 (7 August): Ken Dyers enlisted in the Australian Army. 1943: Annette Stephens was born. 1944: Ken Dyers was court-martialed twice, January 24 and July 4. 1946: Ken Dyers was discharged from the Australian army on grounds of mental instability. He married Judith Scott Fox (divorced in 1950). 1948: Janice Rita Hamilton was born. 1950: Kenneth Emanuel Dyers copyrighted the work A Simple Accounting System. 1951: Ken Dyers married Marie O’Donnell with whom he had two children, Mike and Steve (divorced in 1973). 1974-1977: Jan Hamilton was in the United Kingdom on an Australia Council grant studying clowning. 1978: Ken Dyers and Jan Hamilton met and became romantically involved. 1982: Dyers and Hamilton founded Kenja…
GIACOMO BALLA TIMELINE 1871 (July 18): Giacomo Balla was born in Turin, Italy. 1891: Having completed his first cycle of art studies at Turin’s Accademia Albertina, Balla moved to Rome with his mother. 1899: First exhibition of Balla’s paintings in Rome. 1900–1901: Balla spent time in Paris, familiarizing himself with the local artistic milieu. 1902: Balla returned to Rome and became a close friend of ceramist Francesco Randone and politician Giovanni Amendola, both prominent Theosophists. 1904: Balla married Elisa Marcucci. 1910: Balla signed the Futurist Manifesto and painted Arc Lamp (although he signed it with the date 1909), a painting with both Futurist and Masonic symbolism. 1911: Balla’s works were exhibited at the exhibition organized in Rome to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Kingdom of Italy. He befriended several…
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY TIMELINE 1831: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born on August 12 or July 31, according to the Julian calendar, in Ekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk), Ukraine. 1832 (August 2): Henry Steel Olcott was born in Orange, New Jersey. 1849 (July 7): Blavatsky married Nikofor Blavatsky (1809 – 1887). 1849–1873: Blavatsky abandoned her husband and traveled throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Egypt over the next twenty-four years until her arrival in the U.S. in 1873. 1854: Charles Webster Leadbeater was born. 1873 (July 7): Blavatsky arrived in New York City. 1874 (October 14): Blavatsky met Olcott for the first time at the Eddy farmhouse in Chittenden, Vermont to investigate Spiritualist phenomena. 1875: The Theosophical Society was proposed and organized. 1876: The “pagan funeral” and cremation of Baron de Palm took…
THE FAMILY TIMELINE 1921: Anne Hamilton-Byrne (formerly Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards) was born. 1941: Evelyn married Lionel Harris under the name Anne Hamilton; her mother Florence Edwards was first hospitalized with schizophrenia. 1962: On 22 December Anne met English physicist Dr. Raynor Johnson, the Master of Queen’s College, University of Melbourne. He became John the Baptist to her Jesus Christ. 1965: Anne married Michael Riley. They divorced the following year. 1978: Anne married her partner, Englishman Bill Byrne (the couple had used Hamilton-Byrne as their surname for some years). 1987: Raynor Johnson died at Upper Ferntree Gully on 16 May. Sarah Hamilton-Byrne was thrown out by Anne for rebellious behavior, and went to the police. Kai Lama (Uptop) on Lake Eildon was raided by federal police in August, and the…
NEW THOUGHT TIMELINE 1838: Phineas Parkhurst Quimby embarked on a healing method he called psychotherapy. 1859: Quimby moved to Portland, Maine, where he developed a theory and practice of spiritual healing and where his patients included Emma and Sarah Ware, Julius and Annetta Dresser, Mary Baker Patterson, and Warren Felt Evans. 1863: Quimby first used the term Christian Science. 1869: Warren Felt Evans wrote The Mental Cure. 1874: Mary Baker Eddy wrote Science and Health. 1875: The Theosophical Society was formed in New York City by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. 1886: Luther M. Marston, M.D. broke from Mary Baker Eddy and established the Mental Science and Christian Healing Association. 1886: Emma Curtis Hopkins broke from Mary Baker Eddy and charted a new course in Metaphysical healing with…
LAKEWOOD CHURCH TIMELINE 1921: John Osteen was born in Paris, Texas. 1944: John Osteen received his Master of Religious Education at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. 1950: John Osteen became pastor at Central Baptist Church, Baytown, Texas. 1955: John Osteen resigned as pastor of Central Baptist Church. 1959: John and Dodie Osteen started Lakewood Church. 1961: John Osteen started John Osteen Evangelical Association, and began publishing Praise magazine. 1963: Joel Osteen was born in Houston. 1972: Lakewood Church became known as the “Oasis of Love.” 1979: Lakewood became a megachurch, with over 3,000 members. 1981: Dodie Osteen was diagnosed with liver cancer. 1983: Joel Osteen started Lakewood's television ministry through the John Osteen telecast. 1986: Dodie Osteen published her first book, Healed of Cancer. 1988: Lakewood Church expanded its worship center…
SIKHISM TIMELINE 1469-1539: Guru Nanak was born. 1604: Sikh scripture was compiled by Guru Arjan. 1699: Khalsa was created by Guru Gobind Singh. 1708: Guru Gobind Singh made the Granth the Guru for perpetuity. 1799: The Sikh Empire was established by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. 1849: The Punjab was annexed by the British. 1873: The Singh Sabha Movement was launched. 1919: The Jallianwallah Massacre took place. 1947: The Punjab was partitioned. 1984: The Golden Temple was stormed. 2012: The massacre at the Sikh Gurdwara in Milwaukee occurred. FOUNDER/GROUP HISTORY The word Sikh means “disciple” or “student” (from Sanskrit shishya, Pali sekha). With their spirit of adventure and entrepreneurship skills, Sikhs have migrated from their homeland — Punjab, the land of the five rivers — throughout India and around the globe. There…
HILLSONG TIMELINE 1954: Brian Houston was born in Auckland, New Zealand. 1974: Houston graduated from Bible College in Auckland. 1977: Houston's father, Frank, founded the Christian Life Centre in Sydney, Australia. Brian married Bobbie Houston in New Zealand. 1978: Brian and Bobbie Houston moved to Sydney. 1983: Brian and Bobbie Houston planted a separate church, the Hills Christian Life Centre, from Frank Houston's original church. 1986: The first Christian Life Centre Conference was held. 1992: Christian Life Centre's first international plants were established in London and Kiev. 1997: The First Colour (women's) Conference was held. Brian became the new National President of the Assemblies of God (AOG) in Australia. 1999: Frank Houston was removed from the church and stripped of ministerial credentials after confessing to sexually abusing an underage boy…
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY TIMELINE 1911 (March 13): Lafayette Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska. 1938 (January 1): Hubbard claimed to have a near-death experience and wrote his “Excalibur” manuscript. 1950 (April): Hubbard and John Campbell formed the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation (HDRF). 1950: “Dianetics” was published in Astounding Science Fiction in May and then in book form as Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 1950-1951: Dianetics practitioners began to report memories from past lives. Hubbard developed the idea of the thetan and past lives. 1951-1952: Hubbard began to use the E-meter in Dianetics auditing. 1952: Hubbard Association of Scientologists (HAS) was formed in Phoenix, Arizona. 1953: (December) Hubbard incorporated three “churches,” including the Church of Scientology. 1954 (February 18): The first church of Scientology opened in California. 1956: …