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| 1704 |
| | | The tenth Sikh guru, Gobind Rai, names as his successor the sacred book known as the Granth | |
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| c. 1730 |
| | | John and Charles Wesley form a Holy Club at Oxford which becomes the cradle of Methodism | |
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| c. 1735 |
| | | A revivalist movement in America, led by Jonathan Edwards, becomes known as the Great Awakening | |
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| c. 1740 |
| | | A charismatic leader, Baal Shem Tov, develops Hasidism in Poland as an influential revivalist movement within Judaism | |
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| 1741 |
| | | American revivalism is inflamed by Jonathan Edwards' vivid sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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| 1744 |
| | | The Muslim reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab makes an alliance with Muhammad ibn Saud, of significance to the later Saudi dynasty | |
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| 1754 |
| | | In Freedom of Will American evangelist Jonathan Edwards makes an uncompromising defence of orthodox against liberal Calvinism | |
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| 1759 |
| | | The Portuguese expel the Jesuits from Brazil, beginning a widespread reaction against the order in Catholic Europe | |
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| 1769 |
| | | Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra begins work at San Diego de Cala, the first of his nine California missions | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Responding to pressure from the Catholic monarchs of Europe, Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit Order | |
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