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The previous Vegetarian Timeline : 1400 to 1800
- 1809 - The Bible Christian Church (1809-1930) UK/USA, by Derek Antrobus, plus some pictures
- The Bible Christian Church - more detailed account from Julia Twigg's thesis, 1981
- Rev. William Cowherd (1763-1816) UK, founded the Bible Christian Church in 1809
- Roots of vegetarianism - by Derek Antrobus, 1998
- The Origins of the 'Vegetarians' - by John Davis, 2006
- Vegetarianism: Neither Phoenix nor fad - by Derek Antrobus, 2002
- Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845) USA, influenced by Swedenborg, as were the above.
- 1811 - Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840) UK, published '16 Reasons for not eating animal food'
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 1813 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - UK, poet and writer
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) UK, author of Frankenstein
- Shelley's Vegetarianism - a chonological compilation from various sources
- Timeline of Shelley's life
- Family tree of Shelley's vegetarian associates
 - Extracts from 'A Vindication of Natural Diet' and 'On the Vegetable System of Diet' - Shelley
- Full Text of A Vindication of Natural Diet (PDF 59k, new window)
- Extracts from Poems - Shelley
- Queen Mab (1813) - full text
- Four Short poems from 1814 - concerning Shelley's complicated love life
- Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1815) - full text with notes by Mary Shelley
- Masque of Anarchy (1819) - full text
- partly quoted by Gandhi in India more than a century later
- Shelley - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883
- Shelley and Vegetarianism (IVU News 1996)
-- Español - Shelley y el Vegetarianismo
-- Italiano - Shelley ed il vegetarianismo
- Lord (George Gordon) Byron (1788-1824) UK friend of the Shelleys
- Byron - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883
- John Frank Newton (1770-?1827) UK, writer, friend of the Shelleys
- Newton - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883
- Dr. William Lambe (1765-1847) friend of the Shelleys
- Robert Southey (1774-1843) UK, poet, influenced Shelley
- 1817 - A Migrant's Story - Bible Christians to America, - by Derek Antrobus, 2001
- William Metcalfe (1788-1862) UK/USA, founded the Bible Christian Church in America in 1817
- Transatlantic Vegetarians - by Derek Antrobus, 2000
- History of the Philadelphia Bible Christian Church, 1817-1917 - PDF 2mb - the centenary book
- 1818 - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher, seminal work published 1818, influenced Tolstoy and Wagner among others.
- Schopenhauer - from The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams 1883
- 1824 - Lewis Gompertz (1779-1865) UK, a vegetarian founder of the RSPCA in 1824
 1830 - Jacksonian Veg: Couldn't stomach pork & whisky - 1830s USA, by Karen Iacobbo, 2001
1837 - American Physiological Society - founded by William Alcott and Sylvester Graham
- Sylvester Graham (1795-1851) USA
-- Español - Sylvester Graham
- William Andrus Alcott M.D. (1798-1859) USA
- Mary Gove Nichols (1810-1884) - 'Grahamite' Allopathic doctor and feminist, by Karen Iacobbo, 2000
 1838 - The Concordium - at Alcott House, London, from Julia Twigg's Thesis, 1981
- Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) USA, educator
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), USA, transcendentalist
- Henry Gardiner Wright (1814-1846) leading teacher at The Concordium
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) USA
- - Español - Henry David Thoreau
- 1843 - The British and Foreign Society for the Promotion of Humanity and Abstinence from Animal Food
- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) UK poet, seemingly in tune with the above group
- 1847 - The Vegetarian Society
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April-June - Letters to the Editor of the Truth-Tester journal - proposing a conference and possible Vegetarian Society
 - July - The Physiological Conference, Alcott House - 2 reports
- September - The Vegetarian Conference, Northwood Villa
- September - The Vegetarian Society - elected Officers and Rules
- The Vegetarian Society Intro & Origins - from Julia Twigg's thesis, 1981
- Joseph Brotherton - (1783-1857) Bible Christian, Salford's first M.P. (1832), and chaired the first meeting of the first Vegetarian Society (1847)
- James Simpson (1812-1859) UK, became first President of the Vegetarian Society in 1847
- William Horsell (1807-1863) UK, became the first Secretary of the Vegetarian Society in 1847
- Sir Isaac Pitman (1813-1897) UK, inventor of shorthand in 1837, Vice President of the Society
1849 - Manchester and Salford Vegetarian Advocates Society - the second vegetarian society, and the first local group
- 1850 -
The American Vegetarian Society
- March - Invites to the Convention - Letters from William Metcalfe and William Alcott in the USA to the Vegetarian Advocate in  England, announcing the Convention and inviting people from England to attend.With a reply from the editor.
- April - Vegetarianism in the United States - a preamble to the Convention by William Alcott.
- May - The [American] Vegetarian Convention - a detailed report
- Russell Trall (1812-1877) USA MD, AVS Vice President
- Local Vegetarian Societies in the UK - lists all known local groups from the 1850s
- Aspects of British Vegetarianism in the 1850s: Vegetarian Society Members and their Beliefs | An Urban Phenomenon | An Ideology Inducive to Capitalism? | Reform Interests and Decline - from Julia Twigg's thesis, 1981
- 1853 - The New York Vegetarian Association USA
- Vegetarian Festival in New York - part of the 'Whole World’s Temperance Convention'
- Decline and Revival in British Vegetarianism 1859 to 1880s - - from Julia Twigg's thesis, 1981
- 1859 - William Harvey (1789-1870) UK, became the second President of the Vegetarian Society in 1859
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) - not vegetarian, but some interesting comments from'On the Origin of the Species, 1859
- 1861 - F. J. Furnival (1825-1910) - UK, originator of the Oxford Dictionary in 1861
- 1863 - Ellen G. White (1827-1915) -USA, one of the founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1863
- Español - Ellen G. White
- 1865 - General William Booth (1829-1912) UK - founder of the Salvation Army in 1865
- Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) Germany, painter and poet, successful from 1865
 1867 - Deutsche Verein für natürliche Lebensweise (items in English)
- Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800-1875) - from The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams, 1883
- Gustav von Struve (1805-1870)
- Struve - from The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams, 1883
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Eduard Baltzer (1814-1887) (Deutsch & English) - founder of the first Vegetarian Society in Germany in 1867
- Other Propagators in Germany - from The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams, 1883
- The emergence of the vegetarian associations - Germany 1867-1945 (Deutsch & bad English)
- 1868 - Stuttgarter Vegetarierverein - and more societies in Germany
- 1869 - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Germany, Professor of Philosophy from 1869
- Henry Pitman (1829-1909) - UK, anti-vaccination activist (brother of Sir Isaac), published a journal in 1869
- 1873 - Prof. Francis W. Newman (1805-1897) UK, President of the Vegetarian Society, 1873-84
- 1875 - London Dietetic Reform Society
- Dr John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943), USA, medical superintendant of the Battle Creek Sanitorium from 1875
- 1876 - The Order of Danielites UK
- 1878 - Vienna Vegetarian Club - and more societies in Austria
- Vegetarian Society at Nice, France - and more early French Vegetarian Societies, 1878-1884
- Belfast Vegetarian Association - Ireland, followed sometime later by a Dublin Society
- 1879 - Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) UK - 'The Light of Asia' published 1879
- - Aspects of British Vegetarianism from the 1880s to the early 20th Century: Socialism | The Simple Life | Dress Reform and Naturism | Sexuality | Feminism | Medicine | Anti-Vivisection | Religions: Shared Themes | Religions: Main Movements - from Julia Twigg's thesis, 1981
- 1880 - Société d'Hygiène Générale et de Vegetarisme, Laussane, Switzerland
 - Gustav Jaeger (1832-1917) - Germany, dress reformer, published his ideas in 1880
- The Highest Motive for Vegetarianism - from "Religion and Art", 1880, by Richard Wagner
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Germany
- 1881 - Local Vegetarian Societies in Germany - from 1881
 - Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) - Social reformer, from Julia Twigg's thesis, 1981
- Bramwell Booth (1856-1929) - Salvation Army Chief of Staff from 1881, later General
- 1882 - Canterbury Dietetic Reform Association, New Zealand
- Anna Kingsford texts of talks from 1882
- Anna Kingsford M.D. (1846-1888) UK
- 1883 - J.E.B. Mayor (1825-1910) - UK, became President of the Vegetarian Society in 1883
-The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams (1837-1931)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - Treasure Island 1883
- Société Végétarienne de Genève - Switzerland, followed in 1887 by the Zurich VegSoc
1884 - Hungarian Vegetarian Society
- Pacific Food Reform Society USA
- Prague Vegetarian Society
 1885 - London Branch of the Vegetarian Society
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russia, became vegetarian in 1885
-- Español - Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy and Vegetarianism - by Valentin Bulkakov, from the 1932 IVU Congress
- Tolstoy and the natural world - short biography from The Vegetarian (UK), 1987
- The International Aspect of Vegetarianism - a paper at the 1885 Annual Meeting of the [British] Vegetarian Society
- Vegetarian Societies in France - from 1885  1886 - Australian Vegetarian Society
- Early Australian Vegetarian Societies - from 1886, by Edgar Crook
- Australia Reported from England: 1886-88
- Vegetarian Society of America
- Henry S. Clubb (1827-1922) - English Bible Christian who became President of the Vegetarian Society of America (1886), article by James Gregory 2001
- The Rev. Henry S. Clubb - article with photo from The Vegetarian Messenger, 1896 - 1888 - London Vegetarian Society (1888-1969)
- Arnold Hills (1857-1927) - founded the London Vegetarian Society (1888) and the Vegetarian Federal Union (1889)
- Arnold Hills and the London Vegetarian Society - from Julia Twigg's thesis, 1981
- Vegetarian Cycling and Athletic Club
- Australia Reported from England: 1888-89
The next Timeline - 1889 to 1907: the beginnings of International Vegetarianism
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