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1734

Jonathan Edwards's Northampton Revival

December 1, 1734

In his Massachusetts parish, Jonathan Edwards preached on justification by faith and witnessed three hundred townsfolk converted in a winter. Word of the revival spread through the colonies and across the Atlantic. The First Great Awakening had begun, and with it a style of American religion still recognizable three centuries later.

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Before and after in North America

Before: February 12, 1733: Oglethorpe Founds Savannah
After: August 4, 1735: Zenger Trial in New York

Before and after in Religion

Before: September 8, 1713: Papal Bull Unigenitus
After: May 24, 1738: John Wesley's Aldersgate Experience

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.