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Timeline of United States history (1700-1759)

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1700 to 1759.

1700s

• 1702 - Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins

1710s

• 1713 - Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht

1720s

1730s

• 1733 - Province of Georgia founded.
• 1733 - Molasses Act.
• 1734 - The 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

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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