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  2. Timeline of the 18th century - Wikipedia

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    1769–1770: James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia. 1769–1773: The Bengal famine of 1770 kills one-third of the Bengal population. 1769: French expeditions capture clove plants in Ambon, ending the VOC monopoly of the plant. [17] (to 1772) 1769: Court Factor title gained by Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

  3. Timeline of Colonial America - Wikipedia

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    300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]

  4. Outline of the history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...

  5. Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819)

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    The emergence of a partisan press : American newspapers in the 1790s (PhD). Harvard University. Lewis, Paul. "Attaining Masculinity: Charles Brockden Brown and Woman Warriors of the 1790s." Early American Literature, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2005), pp. 37–55; Von Morze, Leonard Roy (2006).

  6. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The major battles took place in Europe, but American colonial troops fought the French and their Indian allies in New York, New England, and Nova Scotia with the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). At the Albany Congress of 1754, Benjamin Franklin proposed that the colonies be united by a Grand Council overseeing a common policy for defense, expansion ...

  7. Timeline of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...

  8. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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    1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola.; 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year.

  9. 18th century - Wikipedia

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    Political boundaries at the beginning of year 1700 Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, an iconic event of the French Revolution. Development of the Watt steam engine in the late 18th century was an important element in the Industrial Revolution in Europe. The American Revolutionary War took place in the late 18th century.