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Encyclopedia > Aldersgate Day

May 24 is celebrated by Methodists around the world as Aldersgate Day to commemorate the day in 1738 when John Wesley experienced his conversion in a meeting room on Aldersgate Street, London. May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Events January 1 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. ... John Wesley John Wesley was an 18th century preacher and the founder of the Methodist denomination of Protestant Christianity. ... Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ... Aldersgate was a gate in the London Wall in the City of London, which has given its name to Aldersgate Street, a road leading north from the site of the gate, towards Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...


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