Jonathan Edwards Timeline

1703 Born in East Windsor, Connecticut

1716 Began studies at Yale (13 years old)

1722 Received master's degree from Yale

1722–1723 Pastor of Presbyterian Church in New York City

1723–1724 Pastor of church in Bolton, Connecticut

1724–1726 Tutor at Yale

1726 Began assisting his grandfather Solomon Stoddard at the church in Northampton

1727 Married Sarah Pierpont

1729 Became the pastor of Northampton church (Massachusetts), replacing his grandfather Solomon Stoddard who died the same year.

1734 Preached A Divine and Supernatural Light; Revival in Northampton and Connecticut Valley

1737 Published A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God

1738 Preached Charity and Its Fruits

1741 Preached Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

1746 Published Treatise on Religious Affections

1749 Published Life of David Brainerd

1750 Dismissed as pastor of Northampton Church

1751 Becomes a pastor and missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge, Mass.

1754 Published Freedom of the Will

1755 Writes The End for Which God Created the World and The Nature of True Virtue (Published posthumously in 1765)

1758 Published Original Sin

1758 Installed as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)

1758 Died in Princeton, New Jersey as a result of a smallpox inoculation