1700-1800

By madisonbristow

  • Yale University was established

    An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School in Saybrook is passed by the Colony of Connecticut. It would become Yale University.

  • Massachusetts is attacked

    During Queen Anne's War, Deerfield, Massachusetts is attacked by French and Indian forces with fifty-six killed and over one hundred captured and carried off.

  • New York slaves revolt

    New York slave revolt results in six suicides and twenty-one executions.

  • The first theatre opens

    The first theater in the colonies to open for business in Williamsburg, Virginia, when contract is signed to build theater.

  • Blackbeard is killed

    The English pirate Blackbeard is killed off the coast of Ocracoke Island in North Carolina by the crew of Lieutenant Robert Maynard of HMS.

  • Adrien de Pauger arrives

    Adrien de Pauger arrives in New Orleans to design plans for the city and French Quarter throughout the year.

  • George Washington is born

    George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

  • Richard's Almanac is published

    Poor Richard's Almanac is published for the first of its twenty-six annual editions by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. It would sell as many as 10,000 copies per year.

  • Minister George Whitefield arrives

    Anglican minister George Whitefield arrives for his first of seven visits to North America and becomes the predominant preacher in the First Great Awakening movement throughout the colonies.

  • Another slave 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.

  • BEn 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.

  • Fort William Henry is captured

    French capture Fort William Henry (New York) after a six day siege. This is the battle described in James Fenimore Cooper's book, the Last of the Mohicans.

  • French and Indian war ends

    French and Indian War ends with 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.

  • Stamp Act is repealed.