 | Spiritual Awakenings in North America Issue 23 | 1989
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Spiritual Awakenings in North America: Christian History Timeline An Overview of 180 Years July 1, 1989 Awakenings in North America
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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) Copyright © 1989 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian History magazine. Click here for reprint information on Christian History.
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