Events from 1691

August Hermann Francke's Conversion Experience - Dramatic emotional crisis in Lüneburg - 'I fell upon my knees and cried to God for mercy...Then suddenly, as if a hand were laid upon me, all my doubt vanished' - Establishes model for required conversion experience

Spener Becomes Provost in Berlin - Frederick III personally recruits him from Dresden - Pietism now has direct access to Prussian power center - Spener's private conventicles include high government officials