John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount Morris, New York, the second son of Joseph and Mary Powell. The Confederacy fires on Fort Sumter on April 12. Enlists to fight in the Civil War on ...

Adams-Acton, to Methodists John and Charles Wesley on the wall of the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey. Unfortunately the date of Charles' birth is incorrect on the monument (it should be 1707).