Awakenings in North America
NEW ENGLAND
1679 Solomon Stoddard’s “harvests” of 1679, 1683,and 1696 at Northampton, Massachusetts
1705 Taunton, MA
1712 & 1718 Solomon Stoddard’s “harvests” at Northampton, MA
Early 1720s Windham, Connecticut
1729 Solomon Stoddard dies (born 1643)
1734 Jonathan Edwards in Northampton, MA
Mid 1740s Indian Awakenings under David Brainerd
1758 Jonathan Edwards dies (born 1703)
1763–1764 General Awakenings throughout New England
1767 Norfolk, CT
1770 George Whitefield dies (born 1714)
1776 Killingly, CT
1781 Lebanon, CT
1784 New Britain, CT
1790–1810 General Awakenings throughout New England
1792 Lyme & East Haddam, CT
1792–1793 Lee, MA
1795 Farmington New Hartford, & Milford, CT
1800 & 1805 Lee, MA
1800s-1815 Collegiate Awakenings Dartmouth, Bennington, etc.
1802, 1808, 1813, 1815 Awakenings at New Haven, CT (Yale)
1810 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions founded
1817 Timothy Dwight dies (born 1752)
1844 Asahel Nettleton dies (born 7783)
1857 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1858 Nathaniel Taylor dies (born 1786)
1863 Lyman Beecher dies (born 1775)
MIDDLE COLONIES
1720s–1730s Theodore Frelinghuysen Raritan, New Jersey
1725–1740 Johann Conrad Beissel and German Awakenings at Ephrata, Pennsylvania
1736–1740s New Jersey Awakening under the Tennents
1739 Whitefield first preaches in Philadelphia
1748 Theodore Frelinghuysen dies (Born, 1691)
1764 Gilbert Tennent dies (born 1703)
1790–1810s Methodist awakenings in North, South, & West
1816 Francis Asbury dies (born 1745)
1810–1840s The “Burned-over district” of upper New York State
1825–1827 Finney in Oneida Co. New York
Later 1820s–Mid 1830s Finney’s Awakenings in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, etc.
1830–1831 Finney’s great Rochester Revival
1831–Mid 1840s General Northeast Revivals under Finney & others
1857–1859 Major New England & Northeastern Cities
Sept 1857 Lamphier’s prayer meeting in New York City
1861–1864 Awakenings in the Union Army
1875 Charles Finney dies (born 1792)
SOUTH & WEST
1750s–1770s General Awakenings in the South
1760s Devereux Jarratt’s Virginia Revivals
1776 Jarratt’s largest awakening
1785–1790 Methodist & Baptist Awakenings in Virginia
1787 Hampton Sydney College, Virginia
1790–1810s Methodist awakenings in North, South, & West
Late 1790s to Early 1820s Southern & Western camp meeting revivals
1801 Cane Ridge, Kentucky revival under Barton W Stone
1857–1859 Southward to Texas; Westward along Ohio Valley
1861–1865 Awakenings in the Confederate Army
1872 Peter Cartwright dies (born 1785)
American Events
1702–1713 Queen Anne’s War
1755–1763 The French & Indian War
1770 Boston Massacre
1773 Boston Tea party
1775–1783 The Revolutionary War
1788 US Constitution Ratified
1790 Benjamin Franklin dies
1799 George Washington dies
1801–mid teens Tripolitan War with the Barbary Pirates
1812–1814 The War of 1812 with England
1823 The Monroe Doctrine
1833–1837 Financial Panic
1843 Millerite revival Adventists predict Second Coming of Christ in 1843–1844
1846–1848 The Mexican-American War
1861–1865 The Civil War
1865 Lincoln assassinated
World Events
1727 Moravian Awakening in Germany
1736 Whitefield begins awakenings in England
1738–1790s Wesleyan Awakenings in the British Isles
1790–1830 English Evangelical Awakening
1792 English Baptist Missionary society founded
1792–1914 The Worldwide Missionary Movement “The Great Century of Christian Advance.”
1813 India opened to missions
1841–1873 David Livingston’s mission to Central Africa
1858 China opened to missions
1859 Awakening in Ulster, Ireland
1872 Peter Cartwright dies (born 1785)
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