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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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| 1774 |
| | | The treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji grants Russia special rights in relation to the Christian Holy Places under Ottoman control | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Talleyrand begins an extremely varied career by becoming an abbot at the age of twenty-one | |
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| 1781 |
| | | Joseph II passes an Edict of Toleration, for the first time allowing Protestant worship in Habsburg territories | |
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| c. 1790 |
| | | A second great revivalist movement sweeps northeast America, inspired by the earlier example of Jonathan Edwards | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity | |
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| 1795 |
| | | A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France | |
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