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  Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville leads an attack against the frontier settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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  England, Wales, and Scotland join together.
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  Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanack, his first almanack.
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  The Seven Years War, also know as the French and Indian war, which involved every great European power.
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  The decisive defeat of the French by a British force led by James Wolfe.
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  A tax imposed by the British on the colonies hat required them to pay a tax on all legal and commercial documents.
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  A deadly riot that occurred between American colonists and British Soldiers which shot many of the American colonists.
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  The United States Declaration was adopted by the Second Continental Congress