1750-1754
- 1750 (22 June) Jonathan Edwards is dismissed from his Northampton (Mass.) church when he rejects the liberal "halfway covenant." He becomes pastor of a church in the frontier settlement of Stockbridge, in western Massachusetts.
- 1754-63 French and Indian War .
- 1754 Colonies adopt Benjamin Franklin's "Plan of the Union" of English colonies.
1755-1759
- 1758 General Montcalm and his French troops are defeated at Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
- 1758 Jonathan Edwards becomes president of the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University.
- 1759 Quebec surrenders to the British under Wolfe.
