Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759)
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This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1700 to 1759.
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[edit] 1700s
- 1702 - Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
- 1702 - East Jersey and west Jersey become crown colonies
[edit] 1710s
- 1713 - Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht
[edit] 1720s
- 1729: Province of Carolina proprietors sell out to Crown
[edit] 1730s
- 1733 - Province of Georgia founded
- 1734 - The First Great Awakening (1730s to 1760s) begins with the preaching of Jonathan Edwards
- 1735 - John Peter Zenger trial on freedom of the press issues
- 1739 - George Whitefield tours the colonies (1739-1741) to preach the Great Awakening
[edit] 1740s
- 1740 - King George's War (War of the Austrian Succession) begins
- 1748 - King George's War ends with the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle
[edit] 1750s
- 1752 - Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment
- 1754 - French and Indian War begins
- 1758 - Treaty of Easton
- 1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759)
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