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This devastating earthquake was located off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. Its magnitude was at a 9 and causes a tsunami to hit Japan. -
An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School in Saybrook is passed in the Connecticut colony. It became Yale University. -
The queen of England establishes the Royal Colony of New Jersey. They divided into two different provinces. -
This siege sparked war between New France and the English colonists resulting in Queen Anne's War. -
French and Indian forces raid Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704. Fifty-six people were killed, while over a hundred were captured. -
The actual first normal newspaper to be published in North America is the Boston New Letter. A postmaster named John Campbell began the newspaper. -
The Virginia House of Burgesses passed the Virginia Slave Code writing the rules on how slaves should act and be like around white folks. -
After a nine-day long siege on the French fort, Port Royal, British troops captured it in Queen Anne's War. -
This tragic slave revolt in New York resulted in six suicides and, ultimately, twenty-one executions in 1712. -
The nearly twelve year war finally come to an end with the French's signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The treaty stated that the British would take control of Nova Scotia. -
In the town of Williamsburg of Virginia, the first ever theater opened to the public, after a contract was signed to build it in 1716. -
This storm blankets the Virginia and New England colonies with up to five feet of snow in 1717. -
The govern of the French colony of Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienvile, along with the French Mississippi Company found New Orleans in 1718. -
After the War of the Quadruple Alliance is declared between France and Spain, Bienvile attacks and captures the Pensacola colony. -
Some French fur traders built Le Magazin Royale as a trading post along the Niagara River. It later became Fort Niagara. -
On this expedition Spanish troops leave Mexico to travel to the Great Plains to stop French's increasingly controlling presence. -
The first battle of this war began with a simple raid by New France against a British port, Canso. But this would end up being a four year conflict. -
This happens when British soldiers fire into a Boston mob. Sometimes referred to as the first battle of American Revolution. -
The Revolutionary War is the war that made our country free and all of us free from Britain's rule. General Washington became and war hero and the first president. Many battles took place during this war, but America got the glorious victory in the end.
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Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was approved in the Second Continental Congress of the United States of America in 1776. -
This beloved general and man became the first president in 1789. -
Congress conducted this very first census in 1790. It showed that there were 3,929,214 people living in the U.S.