1700s Timeline

Note: The following timeline and the map above are from The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Gary B. Nash, et al., 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley Publishers

 

ALSO: This Timeline is intended to give the student a better idea of what was happening in the rest of Colonial America during the important years leading up to and immediately following the Albany Congress

 

1700s
1701
1702-1713
1704
1712
1713
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1715-1730
1718
1720s
1732
1733
1734-1736
1735
1739-1740
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1740s
1744-1748
1747
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1754
1755
1756-1763
1759
1759-1761
1760s-1770s
1760s
1760
1763
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1764
1765
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1766
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1767
1768
1769
1770
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1771
1772
1773
1774
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1775
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1776
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1777
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1778
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1779
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1780s
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1781
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1783
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1784
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1785
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1786
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1786-1787
1787
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1788
1789
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1790
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1791
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1792
1793
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1794
1795
1796
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1797
1798
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1798-1800
1799
1801
Iroquois set policy of neutrality
Queen Anne's War
Boston News-Letter, first regular colonial newspaper, published
Slave revolt in New York City
Peace of Utrecht
Beginning of Scots-Irish and German immigration
Volume of slave trade doubles
French settle New Orleans
Black population begins to increase naturally
Georgia founded for English paupers and buffer against Florida
Molasses Act
Great Awakening begins in Northampton, Massachusetts
Zenger acquitted of seditous libel in New York
Whitefield's first American tour spreads Great Awakening
Slaves compose 90% of population in Carolina rice coast
Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
Indigo becomes staple crop in Lower South
King George's War
Benjamin Franklin publishes first Poor Richard's Almanack
Impressment riot in Boston
Albany conference
Braddock defeated by French and Indian allies
Seven Years' War
Wolfe defeats the French at Quebec
Cherokee War against the English
Spanish establish California mission system
Economic slump: 1761-1765 depression his most colonies
Africans compose 20% of American population
Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War
Proclamation line limits westward expansion
See also Steps on the Road to Revolution
Sugar and Currency Acts. Pontiac's Rebellion in Ohio Valley
Colonists resist Stamp Act
Virginia House of Burgesses issues Stamp Act resolutions
Declaratory Act. Tenant rent war in New York
Slave insurrections in South Carolina
Townshend duties imposed
British troops occupy Boston
American Philosophical Society founded at Philadelphia
"Boston Massacre"
Townshend duties repealed (except on tea)
North Carolina Regulators defeated
Gaspee incident in Rhode Island
Tea Act provokes Boston Tea Party
"Intolerable Acts"
First Continental Congress meets
Second Continental Congress meets
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Lord Dunmore's proclamation to slaves and servants in Virginia
Iroquois Six Nations pledge neutrality
Continental Congress urges "states" to establish new governments
Postal system established by Continental Congress
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
British evacuate Boston and seize New York City
Declaration of Independence
Eight states draft constitutions
Cherokee raids and American retaliation
British occupy Philadelphia
Most Iroquois join the British
Americans win victory at Saratoga
Washington's army winters at Valley Forge
War shifts to the South.  Savannah falls to British
French treaty of alliance and commerce
Massachusetts state constitutional convention
Charleston surrenders to British
Pennsylvania begins gradual abolition of slavery
Virginia and Maryland debate abolition of slavery
Destruction of Iroquois Confederacy
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
Articles of Confederation ratified by states
Peace Treaty with England signed in Paris
Massachusetts Supreme Court abolishes slavery
King's Commission on America Loyalists begins work
Treaty of Fort Stanwix with the Iroquois
Spain closes Mississippi River to American navigation
Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee
Land Ordinance for the Northwest Territory
Jay-Gardoqui negotiations
Virginia adopts "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom"
Annapolis convention calls for revision of Art. of Confederation
Shay's Rebellion
Northwest Ordinance
Constitutional Convention
Federalist Papers published by Hamilton, Jay and Madison
Constitution ratified
George Washington inaugurated as first president
Outbreak of French Revolution
Slave trade outlawed in all states except Georgia and S. Carolina
Hamilton's "Reports on the Public Credit"
Bill of Rights ratified
Whiskey tax and national bank established
Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures"
Washington reelected
Outbreak of war in Europe
Washington's Neutrality Proclamation
Jefferson resigns from cabinet
Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania
Controversy over Jay's Treaty with England
Washington's Farewell Address
John Adams elected president
XYZ affair in France
Naturalization Act; Alien and Seditions Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Undeclared naval war with France
Trials of David Brown and Luther Baldwin
Jefferson elected president by House of Representatives

 

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