1700-1800 Timeline

By Jlhatley1
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    1700-1748 Wars

    Second Northern War (1700–21)
    War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14)
    War of the Emboabas (1708–09)
    Carnatic Wars (1746–48; 1749–54; 1758–63)
    Queen Anne's War (1702–13)
    Yamasee War (1715–16)
    War of the Polish Succession (1733–38)
    War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–48)
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    1701

    War of the Spanish Succession begins-the last of Louis XIV's wars for domination of the continent. The Peace of Utrecht (1714) will end the conflict and mark the rise of the British Empire. Called Queen Anne's War in America, it ends with the British taking New Foundland, Acadia, and Hudson's Bay Territory from France, and Gibraltar and Minorca from Spain.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar, enabling him to demonstrate the connection between lightning and electricity.

  • The Seven Years War

    The Seven Years War
    Seven Years' War (French and Indian Wars in America) (to 1763), in which Britain and Prussia defeat France, Spain, Austria, and Russia. France loses North American colonies; Spain cedes Florida to Britain in exchange for Cuba.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The Declaration of Independence is approved July 4 by the Continental Congress (made up of representatives from the American colonies).

  • The Consitiution

    The Consitiution
    Constitution of the United States of America, the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. The oldest written national constitution in use, the Constitution defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens.

  • George Washington

    George Washington
    The first President of the United States of America

  • The Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights
    Ratified