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| 1732 - Poor Richard's Almanac
was published for the first of its twenty-six annual editions by
Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. 1735 - Freedom of the Press became recognized in New York after the trial of John Peter Zenger, who had been accused of libeling the British Government in his Weekly Journal. Zenger was acquitted. |
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1740 - Alaska
is reached by Captain Vitas Bering under the employment of the
Russians.
 1741 - Thomas Faunce, the Plymouth Colony's town record keeper, identifies the exact rock that lore and stories from his father had stated was the landing rock. |
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1750-1759
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| June 15, 1752 - Benjamin
Franklin invents the lightning rod after earlier in the year proving
that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. 1754 - Initial actions of the French and Indian War between the English and French began when French forces occupied Fort Duquesne in Pittsburgh. October 1755 - British relocated the Acadian French to Louisiana. |
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1760-1769
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| 1762 - France cedes Louisiana to
Spain. This started a
contentious period of thirty-eight years of Spanish rule before Spain
returned Louisiana back to France. 1763 - French and Indian War ends with peace treaty that cedes Canada and the American midwest to English. This signals and effectively tightens the control of Great Britain's colonial administration of North America. 1764 - The Sugar Act places a duty on various commodities, including lumber, food, molasses, and rum in the British colonies. October 7, 1765 - After the establishment of the Stamp Act by the British Government, which required revenue stamps, taxes, to pay for British troops, nine American colonies held a Stamp Act Congress in New York and adopted a Declaration of Rights against taxation without representation. March 17, 1766 - Stamp Act is repealed. 1767 - Additional levies are put on goods in American colonies by the British Government when the Townshend Acts glass, painter's lead, paper, and tea. All would be repealed in three years, except for the tax on tea. July 14, 1769 - Jose de Galvez sends Spanish missionaires into California to begin the establishment of mission at San Diego and Monterey. There would be twenty-one missions established and maintained over the next sixty-four years of the mission period in Spanish California history. |
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Historic Travel Tip
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History Historic Travel Tip
To get a great idea of how the decades before and after the Declaration of Independence was written take a trip to the two northeastern cities that were at the crux of much of the action; Boston and Philadelphia. From the actions prior to the revolution to those of the drafting of the Constitution. One quick note; it took an awful long time to get our governmental system worked out, and the long and arduous road of the American Revolution and subsequent formation of the government is an amazing journey all Americans show know and visit.
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