1800s
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- 1800 - New York Missionary Society formed
- 1801 - John Theodosius Van Der Kemp moves to Graaff Reinet to minister to the Khoikhoi (Hottentots) people. Earlier he had helped found the Netherlands Missionary Society. In 1798, he had gone to South Africa to work as a missionary among the Xhosa.
- 1802 - Henry Martyn hears Charles Simeon speak of William Carey's work in India and resolves to become a missionary himself. He will sail for India in 1805
- 1803 - The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society votes to publish a missionary magazine. Now known as The American Baptist, the periodical is the oldest religious magazine in the U.S.
- 1804 - British and Foreign Bible Society formed; Church Missionary Society enters Sierra Leone
- 1805 - The first Christian missionaries arrive in Namibia, brothers Abraham and Christian Albrecht from the London Missionary Society
- 1806 - Haystack prayer meeting at Williams College; Andover Theological Seminary founded as a missionary training center; Protestant missionary work begins in earnest across southern Africa
- 1807 - First Protestant missionary to China, Robert Morrison, begins work in Guangzhou (formerly called Canton)
- 1808 - London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews founded
- 1809 - National Bible Society of Scotland organized
