Unit 3

  • College of William and Mary founded

    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,
  • Yale Founded

    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.
  • Smallpox vaccine

  • Poor richards Almanack

    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.
  • The great awakening

    Joathan Edwars begins The Great Awakening
  • King George

    King George makes war or Austrian Succession
  • Leader

    Pitt emerges as a leader of british government
  • The "acts"

    Quakering act- quakers
    Stamp act
    Stamp Act congress
  • Boston Massacre

    All Townshed Acts axcept tea tax repealed
  • Intolerable Acts

    Quebec Act
    First Continentel Congress
    The association boycotts British goods