Rev. Jonathan Edwards, a leader of the Great Awakening, is still remembered for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1700 to 1759.

1700s

• 1702 - Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
• 1702 - East Jersey and west Jersey become crown colonies

1710s

• 1713 - Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht

1720s

• 1729: Province of Carolina proprietors sell out to Crown

1730s

• 1733 - Province of Georgia founded.
• 1733 - Molasses Act.
• 1734 - The Great Awakening (1730s to 1760s) begins with the preaching of Jonathan Edwards
• 1735 - John Peter Zenger trial on freedom of the press issues.
• 1739 - George Whitefield tours the colonies (1739-1741) to preach the Great Awakening

1740s

• 1740 - King George's War (War of the Austrian Succession) begins
• 1748 - King George's War ends with the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle

1750s

• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment
• 1758 - Treaty of Easton
• 1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759)