Timeline of United States history (1700-1759)
This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1700 to 1759.
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1700s
- 1702 - Queen
Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
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1710s
- 1713 - Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht
1720s
1730s
- 1733 - Georgia Colony founded.
- 1733 - Molasses Act.
- 1734 - The Great Awakening (1730s to 1760s) begins with the preaching of Jonathan Edwards
- 1735 - Zenger trial.
- 1739 - George Whitefield tours the colonies (1739-1741) to preach the Great Awakening
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
1750s
- 1752 - Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment
- 1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759)
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