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Queen Anne establishes New Jersey from the provinces of East New Jersey and West New Jersey.
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French and Indian forces attack Deerfield during the Queen Anne's War. Fifty six English were killed and over one hundred were captured.
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The News-Letter is begun in Boston by John Campbell.
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Queen Anne's War ends with the French with the signing of the Treaties of Utrecht in which Nova Scotia was given to England.
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The English colonists declare war to the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French after a series of disagreements.
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The war ends after three years of conflict.
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Lord propietors in North Carolina sold their interests to the British Crown.
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George Washington, a hero in American history, is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
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George Whitefield, the predominant preacher in North America's Great Awakening, arrives for the first time to North America.
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The first battle in King George's War begins in the port of Canso by the New French. The war lasted for four years.
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After discovering that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm, Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod to prevent damage done by lightning in constructions.
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After the French occupied Fort Duquesne without heeding warning to leave the territory, George Washington and his troops attacked the fort and started the French and Indian War.
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Spain ruled over Louisiana for thirty-eight years until the land was returned back to the French.
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The war ended with a peace treaty that gave Canada and the American midwest to the English.
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The Sugar Act placed a duty on daily commodities in New England.
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The Stamp Act requires revenue stamps and taxes in the New England colonies to pay for British troops.
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Nine colonies hold the Stamp Act Congress and unite against Taxation without Represenation.
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After the American colonies united against the Stamp Act, the British Crown repealed the Stamp Act.
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More levies were placed on goods by the Crown to the American colonies. After three years, most of the levies would be lifted except for tea.
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British troops open fire against a mob and kill five men. Protest begin.
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Colonial patriots disguised as indians dumps more than 300 of crates of tea into the sea.
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The war of independence starts at the battle of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
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Continental Congress signs the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
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Congress adopts the first official flag of the United States.
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After the surrender of Gen. Charles Cornwallis in Yorktown, Great Britain recognizes the American Independence through the Treaty of Paris.
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George Washington is unanimously elected the first president of the United States.
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The U.S. Constitution is ratified by nine states.
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The first ten amendments of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, are ratified.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, increasing the demand of slave labor.
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John Adams is inaugurated as the second president of the United States.
