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Events on Sunday 31 March 1816 1
1745 – 1816Francis Asbury (1745-1816)Died 31 March 1816, aged 70Asbury emigrated from England to America as a Methodist missionary and became one of the first two bishops of the newly organized Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. His decades of itinerant preaching across the American frontier made Methodism one of the largest denominations in the young republic.