March 24, 1740:
John Antes is born in Frederick, near Bethlehem, in the Province of Pennsylvania.
August 29, 1757:
John Antes (17) receives the Holy Communion for the first time, at the festival of the adult Brethren, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. “What a feeling of well-being I felt in my heart I am incapable of describing.” (Crews, 3)
August 29, 1760:
John Antes (20) is admitted to the Single Brethren’s Choir in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
July 5, 1762:
John Antes (22) opens an instrument making shop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
July 5, 1764:
John Antes (24) arrives in Marienborn from America.
July 23, 1769:
John Antes (29) is ordained at the Marienborn Synod in Germany.
October 3, 1769:
John Antes (29) departs London for the Moravian mission in Cairo.
January 13, 1770:
After several misadventures, John Antes (29) arrives in Egypt at Alexandria, on a Moravian mission from London.
February 10, 1770:
John Antes (29) finally arrives in Cairo from London as the first American-born missionary to Egypt.
July 10, 1779:
In Egypt, John Antes (39) writes to Benjamin Franklin in Paris enclosing six quartets which he has “lately composed.”
November 15, 1779:
American missionary John Antes (39) is beaten by servants of Osman Bey in Cairo and transported to prison.
December 23, 1781:
John Antes (41) departs Cairo, where he has been a Moravian missionary for the last twelve years, to return to Germany.
May 26, 1782:
American missionary John Antes (41) reaches Herrnhut from Cairo where he spent the last two years in recovery from beatings ordered by Osman Bey.
June 25, 1786:
John Antes (46) marries Susannah Crabtree in Calverly, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
December 17, 1811:
John Antes dies at his home in Bristol, United Kingdom, aged 71 years, eight months, and 23 days.