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Queen Anne's War: French and Native American forces conduct the Raid on Deerfield.
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New York slave revolt results in six suicides and twenty-one executions.
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The first theater in the colonies to open for business in Williamsburg, Virginia, when contract is signed to build theater.
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Benjamin Franklin buys an interest in the Pennsylvania Gazette, founded one year earlier by Samuel Keimer.
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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.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod after earlier in the year proving that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
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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.
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The Sugar Act places a duty on various commodities, including lumber, food, molasses, and rum in the British colonies.
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The Boston Massacre occurs when British troops fire into a Boston mob, who were demonstrating against British troops at the customs commission.
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The American Revolution begins with battle of Lexington and Concord.
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He becomes President
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Becomes the twelfth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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Invented the cotton gin.
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Creates smallpox vaccine.
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He becomes the President after George Washington
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The United States Library of Congress is founded.
