• December 18, 1707 Birth at Epworth
  • June 13, 1726 Entrance to college, Oxford
  • 1729 Formation of the Holy Club
  • 1731–36 George Whitefield joins Holy Club and is converted
  • 1735–36 Charles Wesley visits Georgia
  • May 21, 1738 Conversion to Christ
  • May 24, 1738 Brother John Wesley’s conversion
  • 1739–42 Three collections of Hymns and Sacred Poems, the first of many such publications
  • April 8, 1749 Marriage to Sarah Gwynne
  • August 1752 First son, John Wesley, born
  • December 11, 1757 Son Charles Wesley Jr. born
  • April 1, 1759 Daughter Sarah Wesley born
  • February 24, 1766 Son Samuel Wesley born
  • March 29, 1788 Charles Wesley dies
  • December 22, 1822 Wife, Sarah, dies

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“Charles Wesley Preaching to the American Indians” courtesy The University Library and Director, The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester. This engraving depicts Wesley in 1735, when he was secretary of Indian Affairs and chaplain at the nearby settlement of Frederica, Georgia.