| 1624 | | Birth of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends |
| 1650 | | Followers of George Fox nick-named \'Quakers\' during the course of his trial |
| 1656 | | Imprisonment of George Fox, founder of the Quaker sect, at Launceston, Cornwall |
| 1661 | | Corporation Act excludes Nonconformists from membership of town corporations |
| 1673 | | Test Act: English Catholics and Nonconformists prohobited and deprived civic or military office
The Acts full title - An act for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants |
| 1678 | | Test Act extended to Members of Parliament (-1866) |
| 1682 | | First Quaker Meeting House in Devon built at Spiceland nr. Uffculme
Built 9 years before the Act of Toleration, 7 of the trustees were imprisoned at Exeter goal |
| 1689 | | Act of Toleration: recognizes rights of Baptists , Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Quakers to worship freely
Grants freedom of religious worship to all except Catholics and those denying the Trinity |
| 1691 | | Death of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends |
| 1703 | | Birth of the Rnglish evangelist and founder of Methodism, John Wesley |
| 1725 | | Ordination of John Wesley as a deacon |
| 1727 | | John Wesley becomes curate to his father at Wroot |
| 1728 | | Ordination of John Wesley as a priest |
| 1729 | | John Wesley becomes a tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford |
| 1735 | | John Wesley travels to georgia ass a missionary on the death of his father |
| 1738 | | John Wesley experiences what he regards as a conversion at the Morovian Chapel in Fetter Lane |
| 1739 | | John Wesley begins his Journal |
| 1740 | | John Wesley withdraws from the Morovian Chapel in Fetter Lane |
| 1742 | | John Wesley starts itinerant teaching in England, Scotland and Ireland |
| 1743 | | First visit to Cornwall by John Wesley |
| 1743 | | A rule for the Society of Methodists, founded by John Wesley, is drawn up |
| 1744 | | John Wesley visits Trewint in Cornwall - his host, Digory Isbell, builds a chapel and guest room onto his cottage
The cottage is now open as a museum |
| 1757 | | John Wesley\'s first visit to Liskeard, Cornwall |
| 1784 | | John Wesley names his successors |
| 1788 | | Death of Charles Welsey (1707-), brother of John Wesley who he helped found and organise the Methodist movement |
| 1789 | | Last visit to Corwall of John Wesley |
| 1791 | | Death of the English evangelist and founder of Methodism, John Wesley |
| 1791 | | Act of Parliament requiring registration of Roman Catholic chapels with the Quarter Sessions |
| 1793 | | Scottish Catholic Relief Act |
| 1812 | | Act of Parliament requires nonconformist meeting houses to be registered three registering authorities |
| 1815 | | Present Quaker Meeting House built at Spicland nr. Uffculme, Devon |
| 1828 | | Repeal of the Test Act and the Corporation Act |
| 1828 | | Act of Toleration gives Dissenters right to take up public office |
| 1829 | | Act of Toleration extends freedom of worship to include Roman Catholics
Potestant Nonconformists were given freedom of worship in 1689 |
| 1829 | | Catholic Emancipation Act gives non-Anglicans the right to sit in Parliament |
| 1836 | | Parliamentary Return of Dissenting Meeting Houses and Roman Catholic Chapels in England and Wales records all registered Nonconformist meeting houses and chapels |
| 1851.Mar.30 | | Religious Census in England and Wales; includes attendance at services on this day and information on the buildings |
| 1852 | | Act transfers registration of Nonconformist Meeting Houses and Chapels to the Registrar General
Former licensing authorities to supply returns of all Protestant nonconformist places of worship from 1689 - in the Public Record Office (RG31) |
| 1950.May.24 | | Opening of Wesley Cottage at Trewint in Cornwall as a Wesley Museum and place of pilgrimage |
