ton, US statesman and founder of the newly independent post-Revolution Government, was born on Nevis, British West Indies.
10/7/1754, Benjamin Franklin called for a Union of the British colonies in America, so as to co-ordinate defence against the French; the so-called Albany Plan.
3/7/1754. British forces under George Washington were defeated by the French near Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley.
19/5/1749, King George II of Britain granted the Ohio Company a charter of land on the Ohio River.
3/1/1749, Benning Wentworth issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the founding of the State of Vermont.
19/10/1739. The War of Jenkins Ear began. In 1738 Captain Jenkins alleged that whilst in the Caribbean his ship had been boarded by the Spanish, one of whom had cut off one of his ears. In October 1739 Lord Anson was despatched with a naval squadron to wreak revenge. The real cause of the war between England and Spain was a border dispute over Florida.
1/1/1735, Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot who was famous for his ride from Charlestown to Lexington to warn of the British advance on Concord, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
2/11/1734, Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, was born.
9/6/1732, King George II of Britain granted a Charter for the establishment of the State of Georgia.
13/4/1732, Birth of Frederick North, Earl of Guildford, who introduced the Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party
22/2/1732, George Washington, soldier and Federal President, was born in Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia.
30/7/1729, The city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, was founded.
27/9/1722, Birth of Samuel Adams, American revolutionary who was involved in the Boston Tea Party. He died on 2/10/1803.
8/7/1721, Elihu Yale, American philanthropist and benefactor of Yale University, named after him in New Haven, died.
30/7/1718, William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania State in the USA, died aged 73.
17/5/1718, The French founded New Orleans, Louisiana.
7/6/1712, Philadelphia banned the import of slaves.
6/4/1712 Slave revolt in New York
17/1/1706. Benjamin Franklin, American scientist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the 15th of 17 children.
1702, French settlement of what is now Alabama began. The French explorer Jean Baptiste le Moyne founded a colony just inland, which he called Foret Loius de la Mobile, in honour of both Louis XIV of France and the local friendly Amerindian tribe, the Mabila.
24/7/1701, Antione Cadillac founded the French colonial settlement of Fort Pontcahrtain, later Detroit, to control the route between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
1/5/1699, Pierre le Moyne d’Iberville founded the first European settlement on the Mississippi at Fort Maurepas, now Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
14/1/1699, Massachusetts held a day of mourning for having wrongly persecuted witches.
1/1/1698, The Abenaki tribe and the Massachusetts colonists signed a treaty ending the conflict in New England.
10/6/1692. The first of the Salem Witches was hanged. She was Bridget Bishop, one of 150 respectable citizens accused of witchcraft by a hysterical band of young girls in the isolated Puritan town in Massachusetts.
1/3/1692, In the US, the Salem witch hunt began.
26/5/1691. James Lesler was executed for treason in New York. He had led an uprising against the English in favour of James II.
12/9/1687, John Adlen, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, died in Duxbury.
24/7/1684, Rene-Robert Cavelier sailed from France with a large expedition, to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
27/10/1682, Philadelphia, USA, was founded by William Penn.
9/4/1682, The explorer de La Salle reached the mouth of the Mississippi and claimed it for Louis XIV of France, naming the area Louisiana.
8/1/1679, La Salle, French explorer, reached the Niagara Falls.
4/3/1681, King Charles II granted the Quaker, William Penn, 38 years old, a Royal Charter for territory in North America, to be called Pennsylvania. In return Penn waived a debt of £16,000 owed by the Crown to his estate.
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