Unit 3 Timeline By geofort07 Jan 1, 1572 Over 10,000 Huguenots--men, woman, and children--are butchered in cold blood Jan 1, 1598 Edict of Nantes Jan 1, 1608 Champlain colonizes Quebec for France. Jan 1, 1643 Louis XIV becomes king of France. Jan 1, 1650 First Navigation Laws to control colonial commerce. Jan 1, 1682 La Salle explores Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. Jan 1, 1689 King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg) Begins. Sep 23, 1693 College of William and Mary founded. Sep 23, 1696 Board of Trade assumes governance of colonies. Jan 1, 1697 King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg) ends. Sep 23, 1701 Yale College founded. Sep 23, 1701 Antoine Cadillac founded the city of Detroit. Sep 23, 1702 Queen Anne’s War (War of Spanish Succession).; Ended 1713 Sep 23, 1707 England and Scotland unionize; it becomes “Great Britain”. Sep 23, 1718 French found New Orleans. Sep 23, 1721 Smallpox inoculation introduced. Sep 23, 1730 Smallpox epidemics kills thousands. Sep 23, 1732 First edition of Franklin’s Poor "Richard’s Almanack" Sep 23, 1734 Jonathan Edwards begins the Great Awakening. Sep 23, 1734 Zenger free-press trial in New York Sep 23, 1738 George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening Sep 24, 1739 War of Jenkins' Ear Sep 24, 1744 King of George's War (ends 1748) Sep 24, 1754 Washington battles French on frontier Albany Congress. Sep 24, 1754 Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) (Ends 1763) Sep 24, 1755 Braddock's defeat. Sep 24, 1757 Pitt emerges as leader if British government Sep 24, 1759 Battle of Quebec Sep 24, 1763 Peace of Paris Pontiac's uprising Proclamation. Sep 24, 1764 Sugar Act Sep 24, 1765 Quartering Act; Stamp Act; and Stamp Act Congress Sep 24, 1766 Declaration Act Sep 24, 1767 Townshed Act; New York Legislature suspended by Parliament. Sep 24, 1768 Brittish troops occupy Boston Sep 24, 1770 Boston Massacre; All Townshend Acts excerpt tea tax repealed. Sep 24, 1772 Commities of correspondence formed. Sep 24, 1773 Brittish East Company granted tea monopoly. Sep 24, 1774 "Intolerable Acts;" Quebec Act; First Continental Congress; and The Association boycotts British goods. Sep 24, 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord Sep 24, 1775 Two tax-supported churches were standing out in the colonies: the Anglican, and the COngregation. Sep 24, 1776 Declaration of Independence signed.