1700's


 * 1701 -** Yale College Founded
 * 1701 -** East and West New Jersey united (New Jersey)
 * 1701 -** All colonies made royal colonies except Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania
 * 1702 -** Queen Anne's War
 * 1705 -** Virginia Slave Codes established


 * 1718 -** French founded New Orleans


 * 1721 -** Small pox inoculations introduced


 * 1732 -** Ben Franklin's "//Poor Richard's Almanac//" introduced
 * 1733 -** Georia founded
 * 1733 -** Molasses Act
 * 1734 -** Johnathan Edwards sparks "Great Awakening"
 * 1735 -** John Peter Zenger Trial
 * 1739 -** Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
 * 1739 -** War of Jenkin's Ear


 * 1740 -** King George's War
 * 1743 -** Ben Franklin founds "The Amercan Philosophical Society"
 * 1746 -** College of New Jersey founded (Princeton)


 * 1754 -** Ben Franklin proposes the "Albany Plan"
 * 1754 - 1763 -** French and Indian War
 * 1759 -** Battle of Quebec


 * 1763 -** Proclamation of 1763
 * 1763 -** Pontiac's War
 * 1764 -** Paxton Boys Rebellion in Pennsylvania
 * 1764 -** Sugar Act
 * 1765 -** Stamp Act
 * 1765 -** Quartering Act
 * 1765 -** Son's of Liberty Established
 * 1765 -** Stamp Act Congress
 * 1765 -** Boycotts and Non - Importation Agreements by Colonists
 * 1766 -** Stamp Act repealed
 * 1766 -** Declatory Act
 * 1767 -** Townshend Acts
 * 1768 -** Treaty of Fort Stanwix
 * 1769 -** Spanish settlement of California
 * 1769 -** Dartmouth College founded

1776 - Thomas Jefferson writes De 1776 - 1776 - 1777 - 1777 - 1777 - 1777 - 1777 - 1778 - 1778 - 1779 - 1778 - 1778 - 1779 -**
 * 1770 -** Boston Massacre
 * 1770 -** Townshend duties repealed, except on tea
 * 1771 -** Regulator movement in North Carolina
 * 1771 -** Battle of Alamance Creek (North Carolina)
 * 1772 -** Committees of Correspondence set up
 * 1773 -** Tea Act
 * 1773 -** Boston Tea Party
 * 1774 -** Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
 * 1774 -** 1st Continental Congress
 * 1774 -** Quebec Act
 * 1774 -** "The Association" formed
 * 1775 -** Quakers form world's 1st anti-slavery organization
 * 1775 -** Battles at Lexington and Concord
 * 1775 -** 2nd Continental Congress
 * 1775 -** Olive Branch Petiton
 * 1775 -** Battle of Breed's (Bunker) Hill
 * 1775 -** Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga
 * 1776 -** 1781 - Revolutionary War
 * 1776 -** Americans invade Canada
 * 1776 -** Thomas Paine published "//Common Sense//"
 * 1776 - Richard Henry Lee introduces a resolution for independence