Outline of the Life of Jonathan Edwards

1703 -- Born to Timothy Edwards and Esther Stoddard at East Windsor

1716 -- Enters Yale College, then known as the Collegiate School of Connecticut, because Harvard's commitment to the Reformed faith was becoming tenuous.

1722 -- Ministers in a Congregational Church in New York.

1724 -- Becomes tutor at Yale

1726 -- Becomes associate minister in Northampton under his grandfather Solomon Stoddard

1727 -- Marries Sarah Pierpont

1729 -- Becomes pastor of the First Church of Northampton following his grandfather's death

1740 -- the start of the 'Great Awakening' -- a period of remarkable revival in Northampton, during which George Whitefield, the English Evangelist, preached

1750 -- Dismissed from the Church in Northampton and goes on to become a missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge

1758 -- accepts Presidency of the College New Jersey in Princeton and dies following a smallpox inoculation in March.