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| Cotton first cultivated in the United States, in South Carolina | 1702 |
| Indians invade New England and destroy Haverhill | 1708 |
| New Orleans founded by the French | 1717 |
| Baltimore founded in the United States | 1729 |
| Freemasons first established a Lodge in America at Boston | 1733 |
| Lima destroyed by an earthquake | 1746 |
| Indigo first raised in the United States at Carolina | 1747 |
| French war declared by Great Britain | 1754 |
| Braddock's Expedition and defeat near Fort Du Quesne | 1755 |
| Massacre of American wounded and prisoners at Fort William Henry, by the French and Indians | 1757 |
| Quebec, Niagara, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point taken by the British | 1759 |
| Canada ceded to Great Britain by France | 1763 |
| Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament | 1765 |
| Colonial Congress first met at New York | 1765 |
| Duties first imposed by Great Britain on tea, paper, and glass sent to the colonies | 1767 |
| Lightning rods invented by Franklin | 1770 |
| Tea destroyed at Boston | 1773 |
| Continental Congress first met at Philadelphia | 1774 |
