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Connecticut passed An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School in Saybrook, which becomes Yale University.
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The colony of New Jersey, a royal colony, is founded by Queen Anne and is divided into East and West New Jersey.
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Deerfield, Massachusetts is attacked during Queen Anne's War by the French and Indians, which resulted in 56 killed and over 100 captured.
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The slave revolt started in New York results in 6 suicides and 21 executions.
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Blackbeard, an English pirate, is killed off the coast of an island in North Carolina.
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The start of Dummer's War begins after disputes between the colonists and the Wabanaki Confederacy.
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Proprietors sell their interests in North Carolina to Britain, which established it as a Crown Colony.
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George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
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Poor Richard's Almanac is published for the first time by Benjamin Franklin.
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Freedom of the Press is passed and established after the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York.
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George Whitefield, an Anglican preacher, arrives in North America for the first time and is the first predominant preacher of the First Great Awakening.
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A second slave result happens and results in 17 slaves hanged, 13 slaves burned, and 70 slaves deported.
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A raid by New France starts the first battle of King George's War.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
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George Washington's troops first attack Fort Duquesne, the first part of the French and Indian War.
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Battle of Fort Necessity occurs in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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The Sugar Act is passed, which places a duty on things such as lumber, food, molasses, and rum in the British colonies.
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After passing the Stamp Act, the 9 American colonies form the Stamp Act Congress and created a Declaration of Rights to further protect themselves from taxation without representation.
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The Townsend Acts are passed in order to put a tax on glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea.