* January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

The Anabaptist tradition, made up of the Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites, rejected the Roman Catholic and Lutheran doctrines of infant baptism ; this tradition is also noted for its belief in pacifism.

The Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand ( AAANZ ) is a network of individuals from a variety of Christian denominations in Australia and New Zealand who share a common interest in the Anabaptist tradition .< ref >

Besides the three historic peace churches, they include the Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Conservative Mennonites, Hutterites, Old German Baptist Brethren, Old Order River Brethren, the Brethren in Christ, and others in the Anabaptist tradition ; Doukhobors, Dunkard Brethren, Molokans, Bruderhof Communities, Schwenkfelders, Moravians, the Shakers, and even some groups within the Pentecostal movement.

Others see in it an echo of the Anabaptist theological tradition that underlay some of the early Restorationist thinking.

In the fall 2006 issue of the EMU alumni magazine, university president Loren Swartzendruber wrote a four-page essay on refusing the mantle of either liberal or conservative and daring to be " different from other colleges ," in keeping with Anabaptist tradition and theology.

Peace-related courses cover topics ranging from non-violence and the biblical story, to peace witness in the Anabaptist / Pietist tradition, to mediating conflict in families and churches, to peacemaking in national and international arenas.

While members of the evangelical left chiefly reside in mainline denominations, they are often heavily influenced by the Anabaptist social tradition.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

The early members of this movement abhorred the name " Anabaptist ", claiming that since infant baptism was unscriptural and null and void, the baptizing of believers was not a " re-baptism " but in fact the first baptism for them.

His body was exhumed and burnt at the stake in 1559 after it was discovered that he was the Anabaptist David Joris.

He left Tübingen in 1501 on account of the plague and after a year at Cologne finally settled at Freiburg University, at first as a student of theology and law and later as a successful teacher where he was mentor to the prominent Anabaptist leader of Waldshut and Nikolsburg, Balthasar Hubmaier, and later retaining this relationship during their move to the University of Ingolstadt.

From 1540 until his death in 1548, Fritz Erbe, an Anabaptist farmer from Herda, was held captive in the dungeon of the south tower, because he refused to abjure anabaptism.

The claim that Barebone himself was an Anabaptist is likely to derive from post-Restoration critics.

Jakob Ammann Jacob Amman, Amann, ( 12 February 1644 – between 1712 and 1730 ) was an Anabaptist leader and namesake of the Amish religious movement.

His brother Ulli, 18 years his junior, was also an Anabaptist and is known for his moderating tone in the attempts at reconciliation between the Amish and Reist sides.

The Schleitheim Confession was the most representative statement of Anabaptist principles, endorsed unanimously by a meeting of Swiss Anabaptists in 1527 in Schleitheim ( Switzerland ).

Michael Sattler was the leader of the Swiss and southern German Anabaptist movement.

Although there was negative reaction from some churches, with a member of a congregation in London declaring " the question is not so much now who is Independent Anabaptist etc as who is for Christ and who is for Cromwell ", most of the sects welcomed the decision.

His father, Samuel, was the rector of Marsham in Norfolk before becoming an Anabaptist during the Puritan Revolution and rejoining the Church of England at the Restoration.

Menno Simons ( 1496 – 31 January 1561 ) was an Anabaptist religious leader from the Friesland region of the Low Countries.

It was Hoffman who introduced the first self-sustaining Anabaptist congregation in the Netherlands, when he taught and practiced believers ' baptism in Emden in East Frisia.

The Mennonite movement was a reform movement of Anabaptist origins begun by Swiss Brethren and soon thereafter finding greater cohesion based on the teachings of Menno Simons 1496 – 1561, and the 1632 Dordrecht Confession of Faith.

Jakob ( or Jacob in English ) Hutter ( also Huter or Hueter ) ( ca 1500 – 25 February 1536 ), was a Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites.

Edward Wightman ( Burbage, 20 December 1566 – 11 April 1612 ) was an English radical Anabaptist, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy.

He was re-baptized as an adult in 1537 and became part ( and soon leader ) of the Dutch Anabaptist movement.

The founding of the AMEC was the culmination of a movement to renew the 16th century Anabaptist emphasis on evangelism, coupled with concerns over doctrinal compromise and the upcoming merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church.

While in prison, Grebel was able to prepare a defense of the Anabaptist position on baptism.

Though his entire life was less than 30 years, his Christian ministry was compressed into less than four years, and his time as an Anabaptist was only about a year and a half, Conrad Grebel's impact earned him the title " the Father of Anabaptists ".

At the Anabaptist Council of Venice 1550, the early Italian instigators of the Radical Reformation committed to the views of Miguel Servet ( d. 1553 ), and these were promulgated by Giorgio Biandrata and others into Poland and Transylvania.

Among those major Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism are those Congregational Churches known by the " Congregationalist " name that descended from the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century, the Baptist churches, and most of the groups brought about by the Anabaptist movement in Germany that immigrated to the U. S. in the late 18th century.

* 1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants ' War in the Holy Roman Empire.

* Donatist, Anabaptist, and Presbyterian Confusion: Infant Baptism Among Evangelicals by Nollie Malabuyo ( Conservative Reformed Presbyterian perspective )

* April 11 – Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist, is the last person to be executed for heresy in England, by burning at the stake in Lichfield.

* April 5 ( Easter Sunday ) – Anabaptist Jan Matthys is killed by the Landsknechte, who lay siege to Münster on the day he predicted as The Second Coming of Christ.

* On Predestination in Answer to the Cavillations by an Anabaptist ( 1560 )

* May 15 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants ' War in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Anabaptist movement also had one of its earliest homes in Wittenberg, when the Zwickau prophets moved there in late 1521, only to be suppressed by Luther when he returned from the Wartburg in spring 1522.

As classified in The Pilgrim Church by EH Broadbent, the earliest primitive churches and the Paulician Brethren, the Bogomil Brethren, the Anabaptist and the Moravian Brethren were part of the historical Brethren Movement.

Their roots are in the Radical Pietism movement but they were strongly influenced by Anabaptist theology.

These open-air sermons, mostly by Anabaptist or Mennonite preachers, spread through the country, attracting huge crowds, though not necessarily of those leaning to Protestantism, and in many places immediately preceded the iconoclastic attacks of August 1566.

The first police action against the Anabaptists took place in June 1525, followed by the Anabaptist Disputation in Teufen in October 1529.

The first police action against the Anabaptists took place in June 1525, followed by the Anabaptist Disputation in Teufen in October 1529.

The first police action against the Anabaptists took place in June 1525, followed by the Anabaptist Disputation in Teufen in October 1529.

The founding Brethren were also in conversation with Mennonites and influenced by Anabaptist writings.

* Old Order Amish Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online article by John A. Hostetler

Even though it is no longer owned by the Brethren in Christ Church, Messiah continues to be influenced by its traditions primarily in the Anabaptist, but also the Pietist and Wesleyan holiness movements.

According to their mission statement: " The Conservative Mennonite Conference exists to glorify God by equipping leaders and congregations for worship, teaching, fellowship, service, and making disciples by providing resources and conference structures with an evangelical, Anabaptist, and conservative theological orientation.