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Colonial American History Stories –1665 - 1753
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September 27, 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Founded By Ignatius Loyola
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September 21, 1621 - Earliest Possible Date for the First Thanksgiving Day
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September 28, 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Discovers California
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September 20 - 1565 - Spanish Destroy Fort Caroline
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September 14, 1585 - Drake Departs on the Great Ra id
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July 05, 1643 - First Possible Recorded Tornado In British Colonies
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September 09, 1664 - Dutch Surrender New Amsterdam to the British
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August 27, 1665 - Ye Bare & Ye Cubb " Is First Play Performed In North America
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September 23, 1667 - Virginia Slaves Banned From Obtaining Freedom By Conversion To Christianity
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March 01, 1669 - Fundamental Constitutions Of Carolina Appro ved
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October 13, 1670 - Virginia Passes Law - Arriving Christian Blacks Exempt from Slavery
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January 1, 1673 - Regular Mail Delivery Begins
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March 18, 1673 - Lord Berkley Sells His Half Of New Jersey To The Quakers
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May 17, 1673 - Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette Begin Exploring Mississippi River
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May 17, 1673 - James Needham and Gabriel Arthur Depart Virginia for Tennessee
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June 17, 1673 Marquette and Joliet Reach the Mississippi
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August 23, 1673 - Dutch Capture New York From the English
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February 19, 1674 - Netherlands & England sign Peace o f Westminster
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February 21, 1674 - Jethro Tull Born
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December 04, 1674 Father Marquette First European to Live in Chicago
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January 8, 1675 - First American Commercial Co rporation Chartered
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March 03, 1675 - Governor Berkeley Appoints Nathaniel Bacon to Virginia Council of State
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June 20, 1675 - King Phillips War Begins
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August 31, 1675 - Gov ernor Berkeley Begins Investigation into Susquehanna Killings
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September 26, 1675 - Parley Between Maryland, Virginia and Susquehanna
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October 30, 1675 - Praying Indians Removed from Their Communities
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December 19, 1675 - The Great Swamp Fight
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January 1676 - Susquehannocks Raids Deep Into Virginia
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February 10, 1676 - Wampanoag Indians Under King Philip Kill All Men In Lancaster MA
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March 1676 - Governor Berkeley Calls Long Assembly
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March 29, 1676 - Providence Rhode Island Destroyed by Wampanoag Warriors
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April 21, 1676 - Sudbury Attacked b y Indians - King Phillips War
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May 2, 1676 - Mary Rowlandson Ransomed by Colonists
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May 03, 1676 - Governor Berkeley Gathers Force Against Bacon
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May 28, 1676 - Berkley Issues "Declaration and Remonstrance"
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June 06, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Bacon Leads Band of Armed Men into Jamestown
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June 23, 1676 - Bacon Enters House of Burgesses With Armed Supporters
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July 29, 1676 - Bacon's Men Plunder Plantations of Berkeley Loyalists
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July 30, 1676 - Bacon Issues ‘Declaration of the People’
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August 03, 1676 - Bacon Holds Conference
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August 12, 1676 - King Philip's War Ends In New England
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Late August 1676 - Berkeley Captures Bacon's Fleet
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September 07, 1676 - Berkley Recaptures Jamestown
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September 18, 1 676 - Bacon Captures Jamestown
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September 19, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Bacon Burns Jamestown
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October 26, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Nathanial Bacon Dies
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November 13, 1676 - First Bacon's Rebellion Insurgient Hanged
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November 16, 1676 - First Colonial Prison Organized Nantucket Massachusetts
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January 5, 1677 - Delaware Court Orders Wolf Pitts Dug to Rid Area of Wolves
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January 21, 1677 - First Medical Publication In America
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March 13, 1677 - Massachusetts Gains Title To Maine For $6000
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July 09, 1677 - Berkley Dies in England
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August 7, 1679 - Robert Lasalle Builds First Full Sized Ship On the Great Lakes
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January 15, 1680 - French Explorer René Robert Cavelier Sieur De La Salle Builds Fort Crèvecoeur
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August 10, 1680 - Pueblo Revolt of 1680 - Po'Pay's Rebellion
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March 4, 1681 - King Charles II Grants William Penn Royal Charter for Pennsylvania
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April 9, 1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
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May 5, 1682 - Penn Approves First Frame of Pennsylvania Government
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August 24, 1682 - Delaware awarded to William Penn
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August 30, 1682 - Willi am Penn Left England To Sail To New World
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October 27, 1682 - William Penn First Sets Foot in the Colonies
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October 29, 1682 - William Penn Lands at Upland, Pennsylvania Colony
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December 04, 1682 - Delegates to Pennslyvannia Assembly Gather
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December 07, 1682 - Pennslyvannia Assembly Passes the Great Law
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June 23, 1683 - Treaty of Shackamaxon
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Octobe r 6, 1683 - First Group of German Settlers Arrive in Pennslyvannia
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June 21, 1684 - Massachusetts Bay Colony's Charter Revoked
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July 24, 1684 - La Salle Fleet Departs Rochelle France for Mississippi Riv er Expedition
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February 20, 1685 - La Salle Reaches Matagorda Bay
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March 24, 1685 - La Salle Launches Expedition to Find New Settlement Site
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September 12, 1685 - New Yo rk Jews Petition Governor Dongan For Religious Liberties
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December 20, 1686 - Governor John Andros Arrives Boston
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March 19, 1687 - Robert de La Salle Ambushed and Killed
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Ap ril 4, 1687 - Spanish Find Fort St. Louis
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October 26, 1687 - Sir Edmund Andros Attempts to Seize Connecticut's Charter
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February 18, 1688 - Quakers Conduct First Formal Protest of Slavery in Ger mantown PA
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February 13, 1689 - British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
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April 18, 1689 - 1689 Boston Revolt
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January 22, 1690 - Iroquois Tribes Renew Allegiance to Briti sh Against
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February 3, 1690
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February 8, 1690 - French & In dian Troops Set Schenectady, New York On Fire
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May 11, 1690 - Battle of Port Royal
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February 17, 1691 - Thomas Neale Appointed First Postmaster General
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May 16, 1691 - Captain K idd Marries Sarah Bradley Cox Oort
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August 18, 1691 - Yorktown, Virginia founded
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October 07, 1691 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Granted New Charter
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1692 - Massachusetts Tow nship Act Establishes the Overseers of the Poor
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February 29, 1692 - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba Accused Of Witchcraft in Salem, Massachuset
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September 14, 1692 - Spain Formally Recl aimed Santa Fe
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October, 1692 - Gov. William Phipps Suspends Salem Witch Trials
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February 08, 1693 - College of William and Mary Opens
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October 23, 1694 - Battle of Quebec Ended - Massachusettes Fails to Take Quebec
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December 11, 1695 - Captain Kidd Receives Privateering License
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June 4, 1696 - Second Pueblo Revolt Begins
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September 20, 1697 - Ki ng William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
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January 14, 1697 - Massachusetts Holds Day Of Fasting For Wrongly Persecuting "Witc hes"
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October 30, 1697 - Captain Kidd Kills a Member of his Crew
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January 30, 1698 - Captain Kidd Takes the Quedagh Merchant
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April 1, 1698 - Captain Kidd Arrives Madagascar
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March 2, 1699 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Discovers M outh of Mississippi River
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July 6, 1699 - Capt William Kidd Arrested in Boston
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January 26, 1700 - Cascadia Earthquake Shakes American Northwest
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January 31, 1699 - Le M oyne Brothers Arrived In Mobile Bay
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November 01, 1700 - Spain's King Charles II Dies, Triggering War of Sp anish Succession - Queen Anne
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November 27, 1700 - Stricter Sodomy Laws: Pennsylvania - Castration and Death
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May 23, 1701 - Captain Kidd Hanged
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July 19, 1701 - Sachems O f The Iroquois Confederacy Sign The Nanfan Treaty
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July 26, 1701- Antoine de La Mothe-Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain
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August 4, 1701 - Great Peace Of Montreal Signed
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S eptember 29, 1701 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Departs France to Establish Colony at Mobile
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October 15, 1701 - The Collegiate School Was Founded In Killingworth, CT
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October 28, 1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Privileges
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January 06, 1702 - French Unload Supplies on Massacre Island to build Fort Louis de la Louisiane
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March 03, 1702 - Iberville first visits Old Mobile Bay Settlement Site
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November 10, 1702 - British Begin First Siege of St. Augustine
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August 21, 1703 -Beginning of the Six Terrible Days
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October 05, 1703 - Jonathan Edwards Born
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November 24, 1703 - First Lutheran Pastor Ordained In America - Justus Falckner
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January 25, 1704 - Apalachee Massacre - Battle of Ayubale
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February 28, 1704 - Elias Neau Opens A School For Blacks In New York NY
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February 29, 1704 - French and Indians Attack Deerfield MA
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June 24, 1704 - Raid on Grand Pré
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June 30, 1704 - Execution of Pirate John Quelch
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September 07, 1704 - Carolina Assembly Approves James Moore's Florida Expedition
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March 1705 Thomas Cary Appointed Province of Carolina Governor
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January 21, 1707 - Francis Makemie Arrested - "Preaching Without a License”
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June 06, 1707 - First Siege of Port Royal Begins
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August 20, 1707- First British Siege of Pensacola Fails
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August 29, 1708 - Haverhill Massachusetts destroyed by French and Indians - Queen Ann e's War
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October 1708 - Thomas Cary Begins Second Term
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November 13, 1708 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac Proposes Organizing Natives into Militia
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February 01, 1709 - British Sailor Alexander Selkirk Is Rescued
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October 05, 1710 - British Siege of Port Royal Begins - Queen Anne's War
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October 13, 1710 - French Surrender Port Royal
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January, 1711 - Edward Hyde Arrives as Governor of South Carolina
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1711 - Division of North and South Carolina Becomes Official
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May 29, 1711 - Governor Edward Hyde Moves Against Thomas Cary During Cary's Rebellion
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June 30, 1711 - Cary Attacks Hyde
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July 17, 1711 - Company of Royal Marines Put Down Cary's Rebellion
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August 22, 1711 - Disastrous Walker Expedition to Quebec - Q ueen Anne's War
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September 22, 1711 - First Attacks of the Tuscarora War
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January 29, 1712 - Captain John Barnwell Leads Counterattacks - Tuscarora War
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February 6, 1712 - Ba rnwell reached the Pamlico River
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February 10, 1712 - Barnwell's Forces Reach Bath
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February 27, 1712 - Barnwell Begins Advance on Hancock's Fort
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April 07, 1712 - Siege Begi ns - Hancock's Fort
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September 09, 1712 - Governor Hyde Dies
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February 12, 1712 - British 33rd Regiment of Foot Founded
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April 6, 1712 - Slave Revolt In New York
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March 11, 1713 - An Act for Regulating of Slaves
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March 23, 1713 - Colonel James Moore Captures Fort Neoheroka Ending Tuscarora War
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April 11, 1713 - Peace Of Utrecht; France Ce des Maritime Provinces To Britain
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July 13, 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth Signed
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April 15, 1715 - Uprising of Yamasse-Indians in South Carolina
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July 23, 1715 - The First Lighthouse in America Authorized For Construction
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November 25, 1715 - English Patent Granted To American Sybilla Masters
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August 19, 1716 - K nights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition Departs Germana
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September 17, 1716 - Daniel Takawambpait Died - First Native Minister
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November 26, 1716 - First Lion Exhibited In America (Boston)
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February 27, 1717 - The Great Snow of 1717
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September 15, 1717 - Royal Proclamation of 5 September 1717 - Pirate Pardon
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November 17, 1717 - Blackbeard Becomes Captain of t he La Concorde
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March 25, 1718 - Stede Bonnet Prepares for Piracy
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May 7, 1718 - The French Established New Orleans
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May 22, 1718 - Edward Teach - Blackbeard - Begins Blockade of Charlestown.
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August 25, 1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in New Orleans
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September 26, 1718 - British Battle Pirate Stede Bonnet - Battle of Cape Fear River
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November 08, 1718 - First Twenty Members of Pirate Stede Bonnet's Crew Hanged
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November 22, 1718 - English pirate Edward Teach ("Blackbeard") Killed
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December 12, 1718 - Republic of Pirates Ended
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September 16, 1719 - French Force Arrives at Spanish Colony of Pensacola
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December 18, 1719 - Thomas Fleet Publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children
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December 22, 1719 - Ameri can Weekly Mercury Begins Publication
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October 20, 1720 – Pirate Calico Jack Is Captured By the Royal Navy
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June 26, 1721 - Dr. Zabdiel Boylston Gives First Smallpox Inoculations in America
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April 2, 1722 - First "Silence Dogood" Letter Appeared - New England Courant
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September 02, 1722 - William Crawford Born
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September 27, 1722 - Samuel Adams Born
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October 29, 1727 - Severe earthquake in New England
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September 25, 1723 - Ben Franklin Runs Away from Boston
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October 06, 1723 - Ben Franklin Enters Philadelphia
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Decemb er 29, 1723 - Boston's Old North Church Opened
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January 4, 1725 - Benjamin Franklin Arrives In London
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February 20, 1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire
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December 11, 1725 - George Mason Born
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December 15, 1725 - 1725 Treaty of Boston
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January 17, 1706 - Ben Franklin Born
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July 23, 1726 - Ben Franklin Departs Lo ndon on Return to Philadelphia
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October 11, 1726 - Benjamin Franklin Returns To Philadelphia From England
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August 13, 1728 - Vitus Bering Determines There is No Land Connection Between Asia and North Amer ic
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December 17, 1728 Land Purchased for First North American Synagogue
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July 25, 1729 - North Carolina Became a Royal Colony
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July 30, 1729 - City of Baltimore founded
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October 02, - 1729 - Benjamin Franklin And Hugh Meredith Buy Pennsylvania Gazette
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November 29, 1729 - The Natchez Revolt
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September 01, 1730 - Benjamin Franklin Common-Law Marriage To Deborah Read
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November 9, 1731 - Benjamin Banneker Born
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December 03, 1731 - Volunteer Fire Department Of City Of New York Organized
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January 27, 1732 - Privy Council Approves Georgia Charter
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