Significant Dates
Significant Dates
1867
Amy born in Millisle, Ireland
1879
Attends Wesleyan boarding school
1883
Her conversion
1884
Works in street missions
1886
Spiritual crisis in meeting in Scotland where she hears Jude 24
1889
Moves to England; does slum work in Manchester
1890
Moves to Broughton Grange
1892
Call to mission field
1893-1894
Term of service in Japan
1895
Arrives in India (Madras and Bangalore)
1896-1898
Moves to Tinnevelly District (villages of Palamcottah and Pannaivilai); works with Starry Cluster
1899
Jewel of Victory and Jewel of Life escape to Amy; Arulai converted; Pearleyes escapes to Amy
1900
Moves to Dohnavur
1903
Things As They Are published; the Walkers return to England
1904
Sixteen child converts; six children saved from temples
1905
The celebration of “Coming Days” begun; death of babies Amethyst and Sapphire; Amy’s mother visits; death of Robert Wilson
1906
Epidemic of cholera in village of Dohnavur
1907
Mable Wade, first European, arrives to help; first gift of £ 200 to build nurseries
1908
Ponnammal returns from Neyyoor Nursery to Dohnavur
1909
Muttammal escapes
1911
Amy and workers face imprisonment because of Muttammal
1912
Walker Iyer dies
1913
Family numbers 130; Kohila rescued; more land purchased
1915
Ponnammal dies
1916
Sisters of the Common Life founded
1917
Grey Jungle land purchased; Forest House built
1918
First baby boy accepted; rescue work for boys begun
1919
Great financial problems and testing; Kaiser-i-Hind Medal for service to the people of India offered to Amy; refuses, later accepts out of politeness.
1923
Twenty nurseries in Dohnavur
1924
Dr. May Powell arrives to stay
1926
Dr. Godfrey Webb-Peploe arrives to stay; eighty baby boys rescued
1927
£ 100 given to begin building hospital; House of Prayer built
1928
Dr. Murray Webb-Peploe arrives to stay; land purchased for boys’ work
1929
Electricity and X-ray equipment installed at Dohnavur
1931
Amy’s accident
1936
Arulai dies
1947
Things As They Are reprinted for thirteenth time
1951
Amy dies
1952
Family numbers over nine hundred