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The 13 Original
American Colonies

Timeline events: Outer-Driven Era

(1693) College of William and Mary founded
(1694) English colonists form alliances with Iroquois indians
(1695)
(1696) Another Navigation act is passed
(1697) William Penn proposed an inter colonial congress with a president appointed by the King, King Williams War ends
(1698)
(1699) Captain Kidd the pirate is captured in Boston and sent to England
(1700) Massachusetts and New York expel Catholics, population of colonies est. 275,000
(1701) Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac builds Fort Pontchartrain on the site of present Detroit , Yale College founded, Pennsylvania Colony receives it first Constitution
(1702) Queen Anne's War, Cotton Mather publishes _The Ecclesiastical History of New England_
(1703)
(1704) The French erect Fort Miami
(1705) The Virginia Black Code of 1705 severely restricts activities of slaves and proclaims them to be real estate
(1706) Ben Franklin born
(1707)
(1708)
(1709)
(1710)
(1711) The Tuscarora Indian war breaks out in North Carolina
(1712) Carolina broken into North and South colonies, Pennsylvania bans slaves, Nantucket whaler first American to capture Sperm Whale
(1713) Queen Anne's War ends, first Schooner designed in Gloucester, Mass.
(1714) Tea is introduced in the colonies
(1715)
(1716) First black slaves arrive in French Louisiana
(1717) Blackbeard the pirate (Edward Teach) dies in fight with Virginia colonists, Scots-Irish and German immigrants flood into colonies
(1718) New Orleans founded by French, Spanish found San Antonio
(1719)
(1720) As crime rates soar, theft becomes a capitol offense in Philadelphia
(1721)
(1722) Virginia governor Alexander Spotswood negotiates a treaty with the League of Six Indian Nations known as the Iroquois Confederation
(1723) construction of the Old North Church in Boston begun, Maryland mandates public schools
(1724) Lovewell's (Dummer's) War in Maine between English and French
(1725) Slaves (75,000 in Colonies) get separate Baptist Church in Williamsburg, English and French build a series of forts along the New England border
(1726) Presbyterian Minister William Tennant builds Log College in Pennsylvania where evangelist preachers of the Great Awakening are taught, poor people riot in Philadelphia
(1727) Anglo-Spanish War breaks out in Southern colonies, young Benjamin Franklin forms the Junto Club for "mutual improvement"
(1728) excessive drinking becomes a big problem in Colonies, Boston bans horses and carriages from the "Commons", first Jewish synagogue in New York City
(1729) Benjamin Franklin takes over and begins publication of the Pennsylvania Gazette which will eventually become the Saturday Evening Post
(1730) Baltimore is established in Maryland , spa at Newport, Rhode Island becomes a hot tourist spot for the colonists
(1731) Design for Independence Hall in Philadelphia completed
(1732) Ben Franklin's Junto Club creates the first public library in the colonies, George Washington is born, the only Catholic Church in the colonies holds its first mass, James Oglethorpe is granted a charter for Georgia, the last of the 13 colonies, Ben Franklin begins publication of _Poor Richard's Almanac_, British pass the Hat Act
(1733) British pass the Molasses Act

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