Zeruiah Blish1758 through 1788
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1727-1760 Reign of King George II (Hanover)
1754-1763 French-Indian war
1756-1763 Seven years war
1758 Halleys Comet (1st predicted appearance)
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
1760 Bifocals
1765 Steam Engine
1765 HMS Victory launched
1769 San Francisco bay discovered
1770 Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob
1772-1775 Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook
1772 Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England
1773 Boston Tea Party
1774 1st Continental Congress meets
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War against the British
1775-1782 British war in India
1776 Declaration of Independence
1778 Congress forbids import of slaves into America
1778 France joins war against Britain
1780 Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity
1781 Uranus discovered
1783 1st working hot air balloon
1784 Thomas Jeffersons proposal to ban slavery defeated
1786 The Dollar is adopted
1786 First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany)
1787 Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress
1787 New Jersey enters the union - 3rd
1787 Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd
1787 Delaware enters the union - 1st
1788 Maryland enters the union - 7th
1788 Massachusetts enters the union - 6th
1788 Connecticut enters the union - 5th
1788 Georgia enters the union - 4th
1788 New Hampshire enters the union - 9th
1788 Virginia enters the union - 10th
1788 New York enters the union - 11th
1788 Constitution goes into effect
1788 South Carolina enters the union - 8th
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