Wikipedia's article on the Seventh-day Adventist Church, community-edited. Reliable for the Millerite movement's failed prediction of Christ's return on 22 October 1844, the Great Disappointment, Hiram Edson's reinterpretation of the prophecy into the investigative judgment doctrine, and the church's formal organization on 21 May 1863 in Battle Creek, Michigan; also for later membership figures, tripling to 16,000 by 1880 and reaching 75,000 by 1901.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1844 Great Disappointment and 1863 formal founding dates, each stated plainly in the article's own text. NotesUsed for the Great Disappointment and the 1863 formal founding of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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