-
Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget. In Peter's uprising he built a city in which he ordered 1000 men to come with their families and build their new homes in his city along with 500 merchants.
-
The Tuscarora War starts after Native Amarican's attack settlers in NC.
-
The Carolinas officially split into 2 different colonies with their own governors.
-
The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne’s War. Acadia, Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland are given to the English.
-
King George I becomes the king of England
-
Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
-
1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
-
On September 6 the first light house in the U.S is finished and on the 14th it is lit
-
1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London
-
James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
-
Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
-
1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US