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Benjamin Franklin writes, prints, and publishes Pennsylvania Gazette
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Benjamin Franklin establishes the most successful of America's almanacs
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Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity
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A treaty signed in Paris ends the Seven Years' War between Britain, France and Spain
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Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies
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Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies
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Yankee Doodle is the most popular song with the patriot troops in the American Revolution
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George Washington defeats the British at Trenton.
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Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is accepted by the Congress in Philadelphia
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Congress creates a new flag for America – the stars and stripes
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Benjamin Franklin persuades the French to sign a Treaty of Alliance
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Benjamin Franklin invents the first bifocals
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An autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic
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George Washington went into office as President.
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George Washington is unanimously elected for a second term as president of the USA
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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The US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Laws, enabling southern slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves in northern states
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John Adams went into office as President