National histories
The Unification Movementcountry by country
Each country's timeline is distilled from the movement's own published history of that nation — the same books archived at tparents.org, now read straight from this site.
- 1959 – 1965
United States · early years
From Young Oon Kim's arrival on a student visa in Eugene, Oregon in January 1959, through the first members on Oak Hill, the Cole Street centre in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the satellite-centre experiment that finally broke the work open across the Bay Area, and on to Rev. Sun Myung Moon's first US visit and his forty-day blessing of holy grounds in every contiguous state — a chronological reading of the earliest American years of the Unification Movement, drawn from Galen Pumphrey's eyewitness history.
6 eras · 34 events - 1954 – today
United Kingdom
From a Korean student in Swansea in 1954, to the first appointed missionary arriving in April 1965, through the Daily Mail libel case, the Lancaster Gate years, and True Father's seven UK visits — a chronological reading of the British Unification Movement, drawn from the movement's own published history.
7 eras · 36 events - 1963 – 2013
Europe
From the first US-sent missionaries arriving in Germany in 1963, through True Father's forty-day tour of sixteen nations in 1965, the underground "Mission Butterfly" campaign behind the Iron Curtain, the Schengen entry-ban years, and True Mother's Alpine devotions of 2013 — a chronological reading of the Unification Movement in Europe, drawn from the movement's own published compilation.
5 eras · 23 events - 1974 – 2014
Poland
From a Catholic Pole studying new religious movements in France, to underground Austrian 'Mission Butterfly' sisters smuggling the Divine Principle across the Iron Curtain, to the post-1989 unification of two underground groups into one church — the Polish movement was forged in secrecy under a communist regime, then expanded rapidly through CARP, PWPA and WFWP after the fall of the Berlin Wall. True Father visited as a tourist in 1974 and as a guest of honour in 1995 and 2005. The story closes in October 2014 with the 40th-anniversary offering at the Peace Embassy in Warsaw — and the unexpected return of Janusz M, the first missionary, after almost 18 years away.
6 eras · 33 events - 1965 – 1991
Canada
From True Father's 24-hour visit to Ottawa in July 1965, through the schoolteachers Linna Miller and Marie Leckrone who opened the Toronto mission in 1968, the Yankee Stadium bus convoy of 1976, the Daily Mail-style "Moonstalkers" press storm of 1977-78, and the centralised Werner years — a chronological reading of the Canadian Unification Movement, drawn from Franco Famularo's 1994 history, ending with Mrs Moon's 1993 speech to the Canadian Parliament.
7 eras · 52 events