| The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formed in 1874. | |
| Theological disagreements caused a schism in the church in 1893/94. The Pietists left the church and organised The United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. | |
| Those who remained in The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America were Grundtvigians; Grundtvig (1783–1872) was an enormously influential Danish church leader and poet. | The strongly pietistic United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formed in 1896 by merging The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America and The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America. |
| The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America changed name to The American Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1954. | The United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America changed name to The United Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1946. |
| The American Evangelical Lutheran Church merged with other Lutheran churches to form The Lutheran Church in America in 1962. | The United Evangelical Lutheran Church merged with other Lutheran churches to form The American Lutheran Church in 1960. |
| In 1988 The Lutheran Church in America and The American Lutheran Church merged (with a third Lutheran church) to form The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. | |