Timeline of United States history (1700-1759)

Rev. Jonathan Edwards, a leader of the Great Awakening, is still remembered for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1700 to 1759.

Table of contents

1 1700s 2 1710s 3 1720s 4 1730s 5 1740s 6 1750s

1700s

• 1702 - Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins

• 1713 - Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht

1730s

• 1733 - Province of Georgia founded.
• 1733 - Molasses Act.
• 1734 - The Great Awakening (1730s to 1760s) begins with the preaching of Jonathan Edwards
• 1735 - John Peter Zenger trial on freedom of the press issues.
• 1739 - George Whitefield tours the colonies (1739-1741) to preach the Great Awakening

• 1740 - King George's War (War of the Austrian Succession) begins
• 1748 - King George's War ends with the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle

• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment
• 1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759)