1560 – Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius, the founder of a theology that challenged Reformed assumptions, is born in Oudewater, Netherlands.

1821 – Law student Charles Finney, 29, goes into the woods near his home to settle the question of his soul’s salvation. That night, he experienced a dramatic conversion, full of what seemed “waves of liquid love throughout his body.” Finney later became American history’s greatest revivalist and purportedly converted of 500,000 people.