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Great Northern War
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Pennsylvania Gazette
Benjamin Franklin writes, prints, and publishes Pennsylvania Gazette -
Most Successful Almanac
Benjamin Franklin establishes the most successful of America's almanacs -
Electric Kite Flying
Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity -
Treaty of 1763
A treaty signed in Paris ends the Seven Years' War between Britain, France and Spain -
Stamp Act
Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies -
Stamp Act pt. 2
Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies -
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle is the most popular song with the patriot troops in the American Revolution -
American Revolutionary War
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Crossing The Delaware
George Washington defeats the British at Trenton. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is accepted by the Congress in Philadelphia -
New Flag
Congress creates a new flag for America – the stars and stripes -
Treaty of Alliance
Benjamin Franklin persuades the French to sign a Treaty of Alliance -
Bifocals
Benjamin Franklin invents the first bifocals -
Olaudah Equiano
An autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic -
President- George Washington
George Washington went into office as President. -
George Washington
George Washington is unanimously elected for a second term as president of the USA -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin -
Fugitive Slave Law
The US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Laws, enabling southern slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves in northern states -
President- John Adams
John Adams went into office as President