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In Deerfield English colonists were massacred by French and Indians.
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The year the Boston Newsletter was created
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Giovanni da Verrazano explores the coast from Carolina north to Nova Scotia, enters New York harbor.
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Isaac Newton's Principia translated from Latin into English.
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Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanack.
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James Oglethorpe founds Georgia.
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John Peter Zenger, New York editor,established freedom of the press.
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Capt. Vitus Bering, Dane employed by Russia, discovers Alaska.
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Benjamin Franklin creates the first lightning rod.
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The Liberty Bell was ordered from an English bell foundry to celebrate Pennsylvania's 50th anniversary.
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary first published first published.
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The U.S. postal service is established.
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The Seven year war begin between the French Indians and English.
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James Watt invents the steam engine.
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The British impose the Stamp Act on the colonist of the New World.
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English troops fire on a group of people protesting English taxes.
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English tea is thrown into the harbor to protest a tax on tea.
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The Declaration of Independence is approved July 4 by the Continental Congress
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British General Cornwallis surrenders to the Americans at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the fighting in the Revolutionary War.
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The Revolutionary war ends with the Treaty of Paris.
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The Constitution is signed.
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The U.S. Bill of Rights is ratified.