1524

: David Joris set up shop as a "young master" glass painter. He also married Dirkgen Willem around this time.

1526

November 1526: Two weavers were arrested for entering a church, smashing the case enclosing the Host, and physically threatening a priest.

21 May 1528: David Joris stood in front of the New Church and began to loudly ridicule an Ascension Day procession honoring the Virgin Mary. He was arrested and imprisoned for 11 weeks.
30 July 1528: David Joris was put on trial for disrupting a Catholic procession. He was sentenced to a whipping, the boring of his tongue, and a 3-year banishment from the city.

September 1534: David & Dirkgen Joris were baptized by Obbe Philips. A few months later Obbe ordained David into the Melchiorite Anabaptist fellowship.

March 1535: Due to increased persecution, David & Dirkgen Joris, along with their infant son, left town in search of friendlier territory. They headed for Strasbourg.
December 1535: David & Dirkgen Joris were forced to return to Delft because of Dirkgen's pregnancy.

February 1536: Dirkgen Joris, wife of David Joris, gave birth to David Jr.
April 1536: David Joris was forced to leave town in broad daylight. A follower of Joris placed him in a basket, covered him with rags, and let him down in a sack into a small boat. He remained in the sack for the trip on the canal and nearly drowned when the boat overturned.
3 May 1536: A great fire destroyed much of the city.
December 1536: David Joris experienced a number of visions, inspiring him to take a stronger leadership role in Anabaptist circles.

21 February 1539: Maritje Jans de Gortersdochter, mother of David Joris, was beheaded in the Celebroeders cloister for the crime of being rebaptized. Since she was a respectable member of the city's upper class, she was given her choice of execution methods: drowning, blood-letting, or by the sword. The executioner used a sharp dagger to cut off her head while she sat in a chair, removing a few fingers as well because "her hands were held high and folded together." Maritje was buried behind the altar in the cloister's church.