Battle Creek
City in southern Michigan where the Seventh-day Adventists organized their General Conference in May 1863 and published their paper, the Review and Herald.
The delegates who organized the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists met at Battle Creek, Michigan, from 20 May 1863, and the report of their meeting appeared in the Review and Herald, which gives Battle Creek as its place of publication (Report of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Review and Herald, 26 May 1863, pp. 204–205). See the Millerites and the Great Disappointment.
What happened here
- 22 October 1844, firm dateThe Millerites and the Great Disappointment
William Miller reckons from the book of Daniel that Christ will return about 1843, and by his own estimate some fifty thousand people come to expect it. On 22 October 1844 the last date set passes. Seventh-day Adventists, who give the date another meaning, organize in 1863.