| •1636 | Harvard College established |
| •1688 | Glorious Revolution |
| •1692 | Salem witch trials |
| •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 |
| •1720–1740 | Influx of Scots-Irish to Pennsylvania |
| •1734 | John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel |
| •1737 | Iroquois and Delaware acquiesce to Walking Purchase |
| Protest against public market in Boston |
| •1739 | George Whitefield launches preaching tour of the colonies |
| •1745 | 40,000 Scottish Catholics shipped to the Carolinas after failed rebellion |
| •1747 | Rioting in Boston against impressment |
| •1750 | Colonists resist appointment of an Anglican bishop for North America |