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On February 8, 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England signed the charter for a “perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences” to be founded in the Virginia Colony ; William & Mary were then born,
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Yale's roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World.
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In 1733, Benjamin Franklin, using the pseudonym Richard Saunders, began publishing Poor Richard's Almanack, which included agricultural predictions, charts of the moon's phases, and a series of proverbs, such as "haste makes waste." Franklin, acknowledged as one of America's Founding Fathers, especially for his role as a statesman, continued to publish his Almanack until 1758.
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Joathan Edwars begins The Great Awakening
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King George makes war or Austrian Succession
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Pitt emerges as a leader of british government
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Quakering act- quakers
Stamp act
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All Townshed Acts axcept tea tax repealed
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Quebec Act
First Continentel Congress
The association boycotts British goods