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spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope1. -
Cornelis Drebbel invents the earliest human-powered submarine1. -
William Oughtred invents the slide rule. -
Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion1. -
Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine -
W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer -
Blaise Pascal invents the adding machine -
Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer -
Otto von Guericke invents an air pump -
Christiaan Huygens invents a pendulum clock. -
According to the early histories of Yale, a group of ten ministers led by the Reverend James Pierpont of New Haven met in nearby Branford in 1700 to found a college. -
Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) was the second of four great wars for empire fought between France, England, and their Indian allies. This struggle broke out when the French raided English settlements on the New England frontier. -
The colony of New Jersey was established on the principle of religious freedom, therefore there were many religions represented in the colony. -
Digital History. Annotation: Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) was the second of four great wars for empire fought between France, England, and their Indian allies. This struggle broke out when the French raided English settlements on the New England frontier. -
The Yamasee War was a conflict fought in South Carolina from 1715 to 1717 between British settlers from the Province of Carolina and the Yamasee, who were supported by a number of allied Native American peoples, including the Muscogee, Cherokee, Catawba, Apalachee, -
The Yamasee War was important because it opened up South Carolina's interior for further colonization. It resulted in the establishment of North and South Carolina as crown colonies. It also resulted in the establishment of Georgia as a colony. -
Dummer's Treaty (preliminary 1725, final 1727) -
British colonial victory -
a Danish explorer in Russian service, discovers Alaska. -
The Seven Years' War, which took place between 1756-1763, was a global conflict that spanned five continents, though it was known in America as the “French and Indian War.” -
takes his seat as the third U.S. president, where he will stay until 1809 -
jefferson buys Louisiana from France, doubling the size of the country -
explorers Lewis and Clark head west on their two-year, 8,000-mile expedition to explore the new Louisiana Purchase territory -
U.S. founding fathers Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton fight a duel; Hamilton is killed and Burr is ruined -
The Missouri Compromise , precariously balancing the practice of enslavement, holds the Union together, at least temporarily -
“America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)” is first performed in Boston. -
James W Marshall strikes gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma. -
American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter. -
US Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. -
Battle of Little Bighorn leads to victory for Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.