They existed threw all that time it was just practised by the Waldensies, Novationists an many other separate and independent groups. It wasn't until the middle ages that they became known as Baptists. Before that it was New Testament or Judo Christians. They were in secret for about 75% of this time to avoid persecution from Catholic, Episcopal and many Protestant churches.
John Smyth created the Baptist Church in 1609.
John Smyth - Baptist minister - was born in 1570.
John Smyth - Baptist minister - died in 1612.
This is a complex question primarily because there are several theories about the origins of Baptists. It is largely believed that the first identifiable Baptist church was established in Amsterdam in 1609 by Smyth and Helwys. For a thorough article on this "Baptist Origins" by John Briggs http://www.baptisthistory.org/contissues/briggs.htm
Cindy McCain and John McCain now attend Southern Baptist Church....They are Baptists.
Some see the Baptists as the descendants of the 16th century Anabaptists (which some view as a product of the Protestant Reformation and others view as a continuation of the older pre-Reformation non-Catholic churches). Johannes Warns states that the first independent Baptist Church was that at Augsburg, Germany, in about 1524. Others see the Baptists as a separation from the Church of England in the early 1600s. Puritan separatists John Smyth and Thomas Helwys are acknowledged by numerous historians as key founders of the modern Baptist denomination. The early Baptists were divided into General Baptists who were Arminian in theology, and Particular Baptists who were Calvinistic in theology. According to Baptist historian H. Leon McBeth, Baptists, as a distinct denomination, originated in England in a time of intense religious reform. McBeth writes, “Our best historical evidence says that Baptists came into existence in England in the early seventeenth century. They apparently emerged out of the Puritan-Separatist movement in the Church of England.”
It was Herodotus, he rods daughter under orders from her mother who wanted John the baptist killed.
John Lansing Burrows has written: 'American Baptist register, for 1852' -- subject(s): Baptists, Periodicals
John T. Christian has written: 'Did they dip?' -- subject(s): Doctrines, Baptism, Baptists 'A history of the Baptists of Louisiana' -- subject(s): Baptists 'Close Communion or, Baptism as a Prerequisite, etc' 'Baptist history vindicated' -- subject(s): Baptists, History '\\' -- subject(s): Controversial literature, Lord's Supper, Baptists, Close and open communion 'A history of the Baptists' -- subject(s): Baptists, History
John Smyth has written: 'Blue Magnolia'
John Rowland Smyth was born in 1806.
John Asplund has written: 'The universal register of the Baptist denomination in North-America' -- subject(s): Baptists, Registers, Creeds, Catechisms