1770s
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- 1770 - John Marrant, a free black from New York City, begins ministering cross-culturally, preaching to the American Indians. By 1775 he had carried the gospel to the Cherokee and Creek Indians as well as to groups he called the Catawar and Housaw peoples.
- 1771 - Francis Asbury arrives in America; David Avery is ordained as missionary to the Oneida tribe
- 1772 - After visiting Scilly Cove in Newfoundland, Canada, missionary James Balfour describes it as a "most Barbarous Lawless Place"
- 1773 - Pope Clement XIV dissolves the Jesuit Order; two Dominican order missionaries beheaded in Vietnam
- 1773. Britain allows the East India Company to ship its tea directly to the American colonies, thereby disrupting local merchants; protests erupt including the famous Boston Tea Party.
- 1774 - Moravian missionaries Christoph Brasen and Gottfried Lehmann drown when their sloop sinks in a storm off Greenland
- 1774. In America, the First Continental Congress meets near Philadelphia and argues successfully against any concessions to the British crown.
- 1775 - John Crook is sent by Liverpool Methodists to the Isle of Man
- 1775. Fighting between Americans and British forces begin in Massachusetts, at Lexington and Concord.
- 1775. Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, which becomes a runaway best seller in America and attacks the idea of Britain ruling America (a "small island ruling a great continent").
- 1776. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress in America adopts the Declaration of Independence.
- 1776 - Cyril Vasilyevich Suchanov builds first church among Evenks of Transbaikal (or Dauria) in (Siberia); The first baptism of an Eskimo by a Lutheran pastor takes place in Labrador.
- 1777 - Portuguese missionaries build a church at Hashnabad, Bangladesh
- 1778 - Theodore Sladich is martyred while doing missionary work to counter Islamic influence in the western Balkans
- 1778. France offers an alliance with America in its war for independence against Britain.
- 1779. France and Spain formally declare war against Britain.
- 1779 - Charles Simeon is converted while a student at King's College, Cambridge. Twenty years later he helped found what became the Church Missionary Society.
