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The university Yale was founded.
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Benjamin Franklin was born on this day.
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Mount Fuji erupted.
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The English used a steam powered device to pump water out of a mine. This was the first commercially successful engine.
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23 slaves revolted and killed 9 white people and injured 6 more before they were stopped.
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The notorious English pirate Edward Teach was hunted and killed in North Carolina.
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The Agricultural handbook "Poor Richard's Almanac" written by Benjamin Franklin was published.
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A series of revivals of that swept through Britain and The Thirteen Colonies
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Daniel Boone was born to a Quaker family in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
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75 slaves with liberated weapons flee towards Florida(then under spanish rule), but are caught and killed by the South Carolina militia.
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An average of 60,000 slaves are being exported from Africa per year.
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Benjamin Franklin founded a new type of secondary school that replace Latin Grammar schools, and offered a variety of subjects
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Great Britain and the North American Colonies fight France and the Native Americans over settling in the Ohio River Valley.
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The war was fought with France, Austria, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia against Prussia, Hanover, and Great Britain
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This treaty ended the Seven Years War.
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A tax on every piece of printed paper the colonists used.
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The American colonies revolt to gain their independence from Great Britain.
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The American colonies fully declare their independence from Great Britain in a formal document.
