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| 1862 | November 19: William
Ashley Sunday born in Ames, Iowa. December 22: Sunday's father, William Ashley Sunday, dies of pneumonia at army camp in Patterson, Missouri. Sunday never knew his father. Later, when Sunday was a young child, his mother sent him and brother George to orphanage. |
| 1883 | May 22: Sunday begins baseball career with Chicago White Stockings; strikes out his first 13 times at bat. |
| 1886 | Sunday led to the Lord by Mrs. Sarah "Ma" Clarke at the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago. |
| 1887 | Winter: Sunday
coaches baseball team at Northwestern University. December 31: Sunday proposes to Helen Amelia Thompson. |
| 1888 | Sunday traded from the White
Stockings to the Pittsburgh Pirates. September 5: Billy Sunday and Helen Thompson married at the Thompson home in Chicago; Helen subsequently known as "Ma Sunday." |
| 1889 | Daughter Helen Sunday born. |
| 1891 | Sunday sets record of 90
bases stolen in 116 games. Philadelphia Phillies offer Sunday $400/month. Cincinatti offers $500/month. Sunday takes "secretary of relgious department" job at YMCA for $83/month. |
| 1892 | Son George Sunday born. |
| 1894 | Pittsburgh Pirates offer
Sunday $2,000/month. Evangelist J. Wilbur Chapman visits Sunday and hires him as advance man for $40/week. |
| 1896 | J. Wilbur Chapman takes a church and leaves his nationwide evangelism ministry. |
| 1897 | January: Sunday holds
his first revival meeting at Garner, Iowa; nearly 100 people accept Christ during the week
of meetings. |
| 1903 | Sunday ordained by the Presbyterian Church. |
| 1907 | Ma Sunday begins traveling with Sunday, handling his campaign planning and finances, and speaking at women's meetings. |
| 1909 | Homer Rodeheaver joins Sunday as soloist and song leader. |
| 1917 | Sunday's famous ten-week New York Campaign; the love offering (over $100,000) was given by him to the Red Cross and other World War I charities; over 98,000 came forward to accept Christ. |
| 1920 | Ma Sunday survives serious car accident. |
| 1933 | Sunday collapses while
preaching in Des Moinse, Iowa. Son George commits suicide. |
| 1935 | October 27: Sunday
preaches his last sermon, at First Methodist Church, Mishawaka, Indiana; 44 people
respond. November 6: Sunday dies of heart attack. November 9: Memorial Service at Moody Memorial Church, Chicago, attended by thousands. |