History of JW in Berlin, Germany
Death of apostle John
Pastor Russel is visiting Berlin the first time
Christianity as the state church of the Roman Empire
The Edict of Thessalonica, also known as Cunctos populos, was issued on 27 February 380 AD. Since then, the Roman Empire started, officially, to profess the faith of the bishops of Rome and Alexandria, making Nicene Christianity the state religion. EMPERORS GRATIAN, VALENTINIAN AND THEODOSIUS AUGUSTI. EDICT TO THE PEOPLE OF CONSTANTINOPLE: "It is our desire that all the various nations which are subject to our Clemency and Moderation, should continue to profess that religion which was delivered to the Romans by the divine Apostle Peter, as it has been preserved by faithful tradition, and which is now professed by the Pontiff Damasus and by Peter, Bishop of Alexandria, a man of apostolic holiness. According to the apostolic teaching and the doctrine of the Gospel, let us believe in the one deity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in equal majesty and in a Holy Trinity. We authorize the followers of this law to assume the title of Catholic Christians; but as for the others, since, in our judgment, they are foolish madmen, we decree that they shall be branded with the ignominious name of heretics, and shall not presume to give to their conventicles the name of churches. They will suffer in the first place the chastisement of the divine condemnation and in the second the punishment of our authority which in accordance with the will of Heaven we shall decide to inflict."
King Charles of the Franks is crowned first Holy Roman Emperor
Inquisition
Holy Roman Empire
Wycliffe's Bible
Wycliffe's Bible, by John Wycliffe, eminent theologian at Oxford, NT in 1380, OT (with help of Nicholas of Hereford) in 1382, translations into Middle English, 1st complete translation to English, includes deuterocanonical books, preaches against abuses, expresses anti-catholic views of the sacraments (Penance and Eucharist), the use of relics, and clerical celibacy
Foundation of Berlin
Gutenberg Bible, first printed Bible, by Johann Gutenberg
Martin Luther begins the Reformation and Lutheranism
Luther Bible, German NT translation
Tyndale's NT
Tyndale's NT, English NT translation from 1516 Greek text of Erasmus, first printed edition, reflects influence of Luther's NT in rejecting priest for elder, church for congregation, banned in 1546 by Henry VIII of England
Spanish Armada defeated in its efforts to reconquer England for Catholicism
Dir, dir Jehova will ich singen
1. Dir, dir Jehova will ich singen; denn wo ist doch ein solcher Gott wie du? Dir will ich meine Lieder bringen, ach, gib mir deines Geistes Kraft dazu, dass ich es tu im Namen Jesu Christ, so wie es dir durch ihn gefällig ist 1. Jehovah, let me now adore Thee, For where is there a God such, Lord, as Thou? With songs I fain would come before Thee; Oh, let Thy Holy Spirit teach me now To praise Thee in His name through whom alone Our songs can please Thee, through Thy blessed Son!
Charles Taze Russell founds Bible Student movement
Thirty Years' War
JWHW on the Nicolaichurch
Berlin joins the Protestantism
Gustav II. Adolf is wearing Jehovah´s Name on his armor
Semnones around the Havel and Elbe
The Migration Period / "Barbarian" Invasions
The Priest Nikolaus is murdered by the Berlin people
Black Death
The Luther Bible banned in Berlin by the Elector Joachim I
Elector Joachim I. wife´s Elisabeth change her Religion, now Protestant
First book printing house created
Elector Johann Sigismund change his religion into Calvinzm, the City is against this
Fight between Protestants and Calvinists in Berlin
Gustav II Adolf is attacking Berlin
Berlin Einwohnerzahl von 14.000 auf 4.000 gesunken
First potatoes plant in Berlin, Germany
"Berlin Religion Talks"
Priests are having fights, disagreements in the churches
Religious refugees (Hugenottes) are welcome in Berlin
More religious refugees from France
Parochialchurch
The last "Witch" trial in Berlin
16.000 religious refugees from Böhmen arriving in Berlin
First new catholic church in Berlin is finished
After the second Silesian war more and more catholic Sieleans are coming to Berlin
Napoleon arrives in Berlin
Prussia
1153 children under 14 ears old are hard working in different fabrics in Berlin
Free religion Church in Berlin
Revolution
Second Catholic Church build
Biggest synagogue in Germany build in Berlin
Russel visit Luther’s former home in Wittenberg
In 1891 a group of Bible Students visited Luther’s former home in Wittenberg. “How vividly it brought to mind those stormy times,” one traveler reported. Among those who entered Luther’s “study and sat in his old chair” was Charles Taze Russell. The report continues: “[We] have great cause for rejoicing today that, although the beginners of the great reformation stopped short in the work and went about organizing other systems of error, nevertheless, under divine providence, the cleansing of the sanctuary progressed to completion, and the golden vessels of divine truth are now being replaced in order.” What Luther failed to achieve, this visitor helped to accomplish.
Russel starts to study the Bible with some friends
First Watchtower
Columbus discovered America
First German Watchtower
5 Bible students in Berlin
Pastor Russel visits Berlin. Talk: "Where are the dead?" 500 attendants
50-60 Bible students in Berlin
Adolf Hitler suicide
After midnight on the night of 28–29 April, Hitler married Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony in the Führerbunker. Later that afternoon, Hitler was informed that Mussolini had been executed by the Italian resistance movement on the previous day; this presumably increased his determination to avoid capture. On 30 April 1945, Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery when Hitler shot himself in the head and Braun bit into a cyanide capsule. Their corpses were carried outside to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where they were placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol, and set on fire as the Red Army shelling continued.
End of WW2