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An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School in Saybrook is passed by the Colony of Connecticut.
Colonel founder Reverend John Davenport (Reverend John Davenport) has been envisioning a university for the colony of New Haven since about 1640, but never completed his mission. Sixty years later, Pastor James Pierpont’s successor persuaded colleagues in the coastal towns of Connecticut to ensure that the university concept proposed by Davenport was guaranteed. The legislature of the colony passed a bill in 1701 and reached an agreement. -
Queen Anne’s War Begin
Queen Anne's War was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in England's Thirteen American Colonies during the reign of Anne. -
New York Slave Revolt
New York slave revolt results in six suicides and twenty-one executions. -
Queen Anne's War End
The Queen Anne's War ends with the French signing a treaty in the series of Treaties of Utrecht to give Nova Scotia to the British. -
George Washington
George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. -
New York Second Uprising
Twenty-nine years after the first revolt of slaves in New York, a second uprising occurs. Seventeen slaves were hanged after the revolt, thirteen burned, and seventy deported. -
King George's War Begin
First battle of King George's War begins with raid by New French against the British port of Canso. Four year conflict against northern British colonies takes heavy toll after battles in Maine, at Fort Massachusetts, and in Saratoga, New York. -
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod after earlier in the year proving that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. -
French and Indian War begin
Battle of Fort Necessity occurs in southwestern Pennsylvania in a small fort built for supplies. That battle of the French and Indian War ends in a peace document, allowing Washington's withdrawal and surrender of the fort. -
French and Indian War ends
French and Indian War ends with a peace treaty that cedes Canada and the American midwest to English. This signals and effectively tightens the control of Great Britain's colonial administration of North America. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurs when British troops fire into a Boston mob, who were demonstrating against British troops at the customs commission. The first to fall was Crispus Attucks, a fugitive slave and merchant seaman near the front, followed by four other men amongst the forty-fifty patriots. This event was later credited as the first battle in the American Revolution, which began five years later, and was used as an incident to further the colonist's cause of rebellion. -
The first president of the United States
George Washington was an American political leader, military general, politician, and founding father who served as the first US president from 1789 to 1797. He led the Patriots to victory in the National War of Independence. -
The second president of the United States
John Adams was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States, from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, and he served as the first vice president of the United States.
