TIMELINE OF EVENTS
| 1636 | Harvard College established |
| 1647–1692 | Some 160 individuals tried for witchcraft in Massachusetts and Connecticut |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution |
| 1692 | Salem witch trials |
| 1693 | College of William and Mary established |
| 1700–1750 | 250,000 immigrants and Africans arrive in the colonies |
| 1700–1775 | Population of British North America grows from 250,000 to 2.5 million |
| 1712 | Benjamin Wadsworth publishes The Well-Ordered Family |
| 1720–1740 | Large numbers of Scots-Irish arrive in Pennsylvania |
| 1734 | John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel in New York City |
| 1736 | First permanent almshouse built in New York City |
| 1737 | Delaware Indians acquiesce to Walking Purchase |
| Protest against public market in Boston | |
| 1739 | George Whitefield launches fifteen-month preaching tour of the colonies |
| 1741 | Gilbert Tennent expelled from the Presbyterian Church |
| 1742 | Sarah Grosvenor dies as a result of a botched abortion |
| 1745 | 40,000 Scottish Catholics shipped to the Carolinas after a failed rebellion |
| 1747 | Impressment leads to three days of rioting in Boston |
| 1750 | American colonists resist appointment of an Anglican bishop for the North American colonies |
| 1757 | George Tennent initiates effort to reunite the Presbyterian Church |