Glimpses of Christian History's Chronological Index of Stories
A. D. 1701 through 1800

    1701 . . . Yale Founded to Fight Liberalism
    1702 . . . Bach Created Music to God's Glory
    1703 . . . Justus Falckner 1st Lutheran Ordained in America
    1703 . . . Jonathan Edwards, America's Humble Giant (Glimpses)
    1706 . . . Evelyn's Diary, Window on an Age and a Soul
    1706 . . . John Williams, Redeemed Captive
    1707 . . . Mathematician-Apologist Leonhard Euler
    1708 . . . Ebenezer Erskine's Personal Covenant
    1709 . . . Alexander Selkirk Inspired More than a Novel
    1711 . . . Father Kino Collapsed
    1711 . . . Thomas Ken Clashed with Kings
    1715 . . . Thomas Tenison, Evangelical Archbishop
    1715 . . . Isaac Watts, Father of English Hymnody (Glimpses)
    1715 . . . Controversial George Whitefield (Glimpses)
    1717 . . . William Williams, Welsh Evangelist
    1718 . . . David Brainerd (Glimpses)
    1719 . . . Pierre Poiret's Sober Mysticism
    1721 . . . Hans Egede To Greenland
    1722 . . . Harvard Chair Went to Doubting Wigglesworth
    1722 . . . Moravians at Herrnhut
    1723 . . . Samuel Davies, Master Speaker

    1726 . . . Sarah Pierpont Married Jonathan Edwards
    1727 . . . Anna Nitschmann Led Committed Women (Glimpses)
    1727 . . . Herrnhut Revival: A Golden Summer (Glimpses)
    1729 . . . A Time to Feast over John of Nepomuk
    1729 . . . Methodist Saint, John Fletcher
    1730 . . . Death of Thomas Bray, Who Did Much
    1730ff . . The Great Awakening (Glimpses)
    1731 . . . Benjamin Bannaky Met Racism in America
    1731 . . . William Cowper, Depressed Hymn-Writer
    1732 . . . A Charter for Georgia
    1732 . . . Parting Blessings for Moravians
    1735 . . . "No Marker for Me," Urged Alexander Mack
    1735 . . . After Effects for Howell Harris
    1735 . . . Granville Sharpe's Unexpected Path
    1735ff . . John Wesley's Big Impact on America (Glimpses)
    1736 . . . 1st of Many George Whitefield Sermons
    1737 . . . 1st American St. Patrick's Day Celebration
    1737 . . . Missionary Heroes of South Africa
    1737 . . . Zinzendorf Ordained Peter Bohler
    1738 . . . Charles Wesley Lacked Holy Spirit no More
    1738ff . . Jesus, Lover of My Soul (Glimpses)
    1738 . . . John Wesley's Heart Strangely Warmed
    1738ff . . Evangelical Revival in England (Glimpses)
    1738 . . . Introducing Samuel Medley
    1738 . . . Charles Wesley (Glimpses)
    1739 . . . Sterling Conversion of David Brainerd
    1740 . . . Gilbert Tennent Outraged Traditional Ministers
    1740 . . . Whitefield's Bethesda Orphanage
    1740 . . . Boudinot, Bible Society Founder
    1740 . . . Edwards & Great American Awakening (Glimpses)
    1741 . . . Edwards Preached on Sinners in God's Angry Hands
    1741 . . . Messiah & George Frideric Handel (Glimpses)
    1742 . . . Hallelujah! Handel's Masterpiece
    1742 . . . Muhlenberg Landed in Philadelphia
    1742 . . . Susanna Wesley: Christian Mother (Glimpses)
    1743 . . . Calvinist Methodists Met to Make Arrangements
    1743 . . . David Brainerd's Dark Night of the Soul
    1743 . . . Thomas Prince & America's 1st Religious Journal
    1743 . . . William Paley's Popular Apology
    1744 . . . 1st Methodist Conference Convened in London
    1744 . . . Noble Rowland Hill Preached among the Lowly
    1745ff . . Hannah More, Apostle to Prominent & Poor (Glimpses)
    1746 . . . Eccentric Hymn Composer William Billings
    1746 . . . Charter for College of New Jersey
    1747 . . . John Newton Converted by Amazing Grace
    1748 . . . First Lutheran Synod in the Colonies
    1748 . . . England "No" Scotland "Yes" to Samuel Seabury
    1748 . . . John Newton Discovered Amazing Grace (Glimpses)
    1749 . . . Otterbein's Ordination Important to Brethren
    1749 . . . John Sergeant & Stockbridge Indians
    1750 . . . Boston Preacher Mayhew Ignited Revolution
    1750 . . . The Love of John & Mary Newton (Glimpses)

    1751 . . . Puritan Hymnwriter Philip Doddridge
    1752 . . . Bishop Butler Died in Bath
    1752 . . . Moravians Settled North Carolina
    1755 . . . Young John Cennick Out of His Head with Fever
    1755 . . . Christian Writer Hannah Adams
    1755 . . . Sermons from the Lisbon Earthquake
    1756 . . . Backus Bucked Formalism, Formed Baptist Church
    1757 . . . Benedict XIV Allowed Bible in Many Tongues
    1758 . . . James Stephen & Battle to Abolish Slavery
    1759 . . . St. Seraphim of Sarov, Renowned Staret
    1759 . . . Samson Occom, American Indian, Ordained
    1759 . . . The Arundel Boarded the Swift
    1760 . . . Philip Embury, America's 1st Methodist Pastor
    1761ff . . The Amazing Morses: Sam and Jed (Glimpses)
    1767 . . . Conversion of John Ryland, Carey's Friend
    1767 . . . Marie Durand Released at Last
    1768 . . . Forced Religion Sinful and Tyrannical
    1768 . . . Joshua Marshman, Extraordinary Translator
    1768 . . . Oberlin's Awkward Proposal Resulted in Marriage
    1768 . . . President Witherspoon of Princeton
    1769 . . . Thomas Middleton, First Bishop of Calcutta
    1769 . . . Pietist Preacher Gerhard Tersteegen
    1769 . . . Thomas Kelly's Fervent Faith
    1769 . . . Junipero Serra Founded California Mission
    1770 . . . America's 1st Book on Teaching Method
    1771 . . . Francis Asbury Tackled America
    1771ff . . Francis Asbury (Glimpses)
    1772 . . . Woolman's 16th of the 8th Month
    1773 . . . Jesuit Order Temporarily Dissolved
    1775 . . . Patrick Henry Makes "Liberty or Death" Speech

    1776 . . . Nathan Hale Urged, "Be Ready to Die"
    1776 . . . Toplady's Song in the Storm (Glimpses)
    1778 . . . Hymn Writer Augustus Toplady
    1779 . . . Phillis Wheatley Seeks Poem Subscribers
    1780 . . . Thomas Chalmers & the Scots Church
    1780 . . . The Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots
    1780 . . . Robert Raikes' Ragamuffin Roundup (Glimpses)
    1780ff . . Lott Carey (Glimpses)
    1781 . . . Washington's Thanksgiving after Yorktown
    1782 . . . Debut of William Black, Canadian Methodist
    1782 . . . Zeisberger Closed His Journal
    1784 . . . Henry Alline, Evangelist to Nova Scotia
    1784 . . . John Henry Livingston Heads Seminary
    1784 . . . Thomas Coke Landed with Secret Orders
    1785 . . . Fox Organized Sunday School Society
    1785 . . . William Wilberforce vs. Slavery (Glimpses)
    1785ff . . Peter Cartwright: Colorful Preacher (Glimpses)
    1786 . . . Backward Vianney Became an Overcomer
    1787 . . . "Beware Revival," Warned Chauncy
    1787 . . . US Congress Adopted Northwest Ordinance
    1788 . . . Sarah Hale Gave Us Thanksgiving Day
    1789 . . . How Christianity Came to Pitcairn Is.
    1789 . . . Jesse Lee Brought Methodism to New England
    1789 . . . John Carroll American 1st
    1789 . . . The Clapham Group (Glimpses)
    1789ff . . Presidential Inaugurations (Glimpses)
    1790 . . . Did Robert Robinson Wander as He Feared?
    1790 . . . Welsh Evangelist Daniel Rowland
    1791 . . . William White & Just One Day of School a Week
    1791 . . . Bill of Rights Guaranteed Religious Liberty
    1792 . . . Perronet's "National Anthem of Christendom"
    1792 . . . William Carey Preached Deathless Sermon
    1792 . . . William Carey's Deathless Sermon (Quotation)
    1792 . . . William Carey's Amazing Mission (Glimpses)
    1792 . . . French Revolutionary "Freedom"
    1792 . . . Baptist Missionary Society Formed in England
    1792 . . . Father Mohr's Famous "Silent Night" Carol
    1793 . . . Stephen T. Badin's Ordination Was a 1st
    1793 . . . Noah Webster Defended George Washington
    1794 . . . French Revolution Cult of Supreme Being
    1794 . . . Birth & Rebirth of Joyful Billy Bray
    1795 . . . Thomas Arnold Changed Rugby
    1796 . . . Suddenly Hauge Found Living Faith
    1797 . . . Henry Nott Arrived in Savage Tahiti
    1798 . . . Mary Pryor & the Sinking Ship
    1799 . . . Friedrich Tholuck
    1799ff . . Jedidiah Smith--For God & Wild West (Glimpses)
    1800 . . . Bold Oncken, Begetter of European Baptists
    1800 . . . Mary Webb Organized Missions from Wheelchair
    1800 . . . Mary Jones Took a Walk (Glimpses)
    1800ff . . The 2nd Great Awakening (Glimpses)
    1800ff . . Henry Martyn Forsook All for Christ (Glimpses)