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Poland, Russia and Denmark attack Sweden
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Samuel Sewall publishes The Selling of Joseph
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The Act of Settlement declares that Catholics cannot inherit the English crown
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The Act of Union merges England and Scotland as 'one kingdom by the name of Great Britain'
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Thomas Newcomen creates a piston steam engine
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Machines are thrown out of the window of a Spitalfields factory, in an early protest against industrialization
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Fahrenheit perfects the mercury thermometer and decides on a 180-degree interval between the freezing and boiling points of water
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Two political parties emerge in Sweden's parliament and become known as the Hats and the Caps
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Benjamin Franklin prints, publishes and writes the weekly Pennsylvania Gazette
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Benjamin Franklin sets up a subscription library
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A revivalist movement in America becomes known as the Great Awakening
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American revivalism is inflamed by Jonathan Edwards' vivid sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Anders Celsius proposes 100 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water
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Alex Cronstedt identifies nickel
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Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate electricity
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George Washington kills ten French troops in the first clash of the French and Indian war
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A treaty signed in Paris ends the Seven Years' War
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Britain passes the Sugar Act
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Britain passes the Stamp Act
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Britain repeals the Stamp Act
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Yankee Doodle is the most popular song with the patriot troops in the American Revolution
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George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American flag
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George Washington drives the British garrison from Boston
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Thomas Jefferson's text for the Declaration of Independence is accepted by the Congress
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John Hancock is the first delegate to sign the Declaration of Independence
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George Washington defeats the British at Trenton.
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Congress adopts a new flag for independent America
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George Washington is forced to relinquish Philadelphia to the British
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Benjamin Franklin persuades the French to sign a Treaty of Alliance
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In the Treaty of Paris the British government recognizes US independence
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Delegates meeting in Philadelphia agree a final draft for a US constitution
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The Federalist Papers begin appearing in New York
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The constitution of the United States is ratified by the states
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George Washington is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York
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Under Alexander Hamilton, the First Bank of the United States is established in Philadelphia
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The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, are ratified by the states
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George Washington is unanimously elected for a second term as president of the USA
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The first political parties, Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans, emerge in the USA
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The US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Laws, enabling southern slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves in northern states
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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George Washington delivers a farewell address to guide the nation's future
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The Library of Congress is founded in Washington