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The Tuscarora War begins in North Carolina between tribes of the Southern Tuscarora and their allies against the English and German colonists.
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George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
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French raid Saratoga, New York. Then on August 19-20, there is an attack on Fort Massachusetts.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod earlier in the year proving that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
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British colonial forces, led by George Washington, attempted to expel the French in 1754 but were outnumbered and defeated by the French.
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French and Indian War ends with a peace treaty that cedes Canada and the American midwest to the English.
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The Townshend Acts, duties on goods such as lead, paper, glass, and tea enacted three years earlier, were repealed by the British parliament, except for that on tea, continuing to raise opposition in America.
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The citizens didn't like the British tax on tea and boarded three ships in the nearby harbor, and tossed the 342 chests of tea overboard.
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Thomas Paine, an English writer, publishes his pamphlet "Common Sense," expressing why America needs to create a democratic and free nation, and gaining independence from Britain.