Fechas Clave/ Key Dates

1683 William penn firma el tratado de tierra con los indios americanos
1684 Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
1685 Intending to establish a permanent French settlementin Louisiana, La Salle accidentally sails past the mouth of the Mississippi River and lands in Spanish territory on the Texas coast, where he founds Fort St. Louis.
1690 1st paper money in Americaissued
1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1694 American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec
1696 Connecticut Route 108, one of theoldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1701 Fundacion de Detroit por los franceses con el nombre de fort- ponchartrain
1702 jersey del este y del oeste se unen para formar nueva jersey1706 Benjamin Franklin was born
1712 Slave revolt in NY
1715 Uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina
1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1718 The city of New Orleans was founded byJean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville .
1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st US divinity professor (Harvard)
1725 Benjamin Franklin arrives inLondon
1726 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of NY purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build NY's 1st synagogue
1729 Natchez Indiansmassacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1730 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov; later acquitted
1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
1738 Atreaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine
1742 Benjamin...