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Nathanial Bacon leads a charge rebelling agains the Virginian goverment
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Harvard ministers found the college known as Yale in New Haven.
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John Edwards lights the fire that starts the Great Awakaning
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Zenger's trial becomes viral and he ends up getting a lawyer, Andrew Hamilton. Not just any lawyer though, Hamilton was the most famous colonial lawyer. He ends up helping Zenger win the case!
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Beginning of the seven years war
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The navigation act and the molasses act are in play as attempts by the king to stop international trade.
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Smuggling was HUGE and about 700,000 British pounds per year were ullegally taken to America
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The Boston Massacre, British redcoats were antagonized and were forced to shoot into te crowd, killing five men in the act.
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New York printer John Peter Zenger is accused of publishing information that went agains the goverment.
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The Boston tea party! Colonists, in protest against tea act, they dressed as Native Americans and dumped all the British tea into the harbor.