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The Canon · No. 075
Quakers
Religious Society of Friends
c.1652 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · UK, US, Kenya, Bolivia, Burundi
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1652 CE Fox's vision on Pendle Hill; the movement gathers in northwest England.
- 1650s–1680s CE Around 15,000 Friends prosecuted in England; hundreds die in prison. Four are hanged in Boston, including Mary Dyer in 1660.
- 1681 CE William Penn founds Pennsylvania as a holy experiment with religious liberty and, for seventy years, unusually fair dealing with the Lenape.
- <strong>1688 CE</strong> The Germantown Petition — the first formal protest against slavery in the American colonies, written by four Quakers.
- 1758–1784 CE Quakers become the first religious body in the world to forbid its members to own slaves.
- 1780s–1860s CE Central to British and American abolition; Lucretia Mott co-organises Seneca Falls in 1848.
- 1827 CE The Hicksite-Orthodox separation.
- 1867 onward Evangelical Quaker missions to Kenya and Bolivia produce the majority of today's Friends.
- 1917 CE American Friends Service Committee founded.
- <strong>1947 CE</strong> The AFSC and the British Friends Service Council receive the Nobel Peace Prize for relief work in both world wars.
- 1963 onward Among the earliest religious bodies to accept same-sex relationships.
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