Chapter Review: Timeline of Events

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