Colonial American History Stories - 1665 - 1753
Paul Wonning
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Colonial American History Stories - 1665 - 1753
Colonial American History Stories - 1215 - 1664 contains almost 300 history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1655 with the performance of the first documented play performed in British North America and ends with the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. This journal of historical events mark the beginnings of the United States and serve as a wonderful guide of American history. These reader friendly stories include:
September 27, 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Founded By Ignatius Loyola
December 19, 1675 - The Great Swamp Fight
September 19, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Bacon Burns Jamestown
April 18, 1689 - 1689 Boston Revolt
February 29, 1692 - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba Accused Of Witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
May 22, 1718 - Edward Teach - Blackbeard - Begins Blockade of Charlestown.
November 02, 1734 - Daniel Boone Born December 08, 1741 - Vitus Bering Died
December 23, 1750 - Ben Franklin Attempts to Electrocute a Turkey
December 31, 1752 – Julian/Gregorian Calendar Switch Complete
Duration - 11h 13m.
Author - Paul Wonning.
Narrator - Digital Voice Mike G.
Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2017 Paul Wonning ©.
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Colonial American History Stories - 1665 - 1753 Colonial American History Stories - 1215 - 1664 contains almost 300 history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1655 with the performance of the first documented play performed in British North America and ends with the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. This journal of historical events mark the beginnings of the United States and serve as a wonderful guide of American history. These reader friendly stories include: September 27, 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Founded By Ignatius Loyola December 19, 1675 - The Great Swamp Fight September 19, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Bacon Burns Jamestown April 18, 1689 - 1689 Boston Revolt February 29, 1692 - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba Accused Of Witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts May 22, 1718 - Edward Teach - Blackbeard - Begins Blockade of Charlestown. November 02, 1734 - Daniel Boone Born December 08, 1741 - Vitus Bering Died December 23, 1750 - Ben Franklin Attempts to Electrocute a Turkey December 31, 1752 – Julian/Gregorian Calendar Switch Complete Duration - 11h 13m. Author - Paul Wonning. Narrator - Digital Voice Mike G. Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025. Copyright - © 2017 Paul Wonning ©.
Language:
English
Colonial American History Stories –1665 - 1753
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September 27, 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Founded By Ignatius Loyola
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September 21, 1621 - Earliest Possible Date for the First Thanksgiving Day
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September 28, 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Discovers California
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September 20 - 1565 - Spanish Destroy Fort Caroline
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September 14, 1585 - Drake Departs on the Great Ra id
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July 05, 1643 - First Possible Recorded Tornado In British Colonies
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September 09, 1664 - Dutch Surrender New Amsterdam to the British
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August 27, 1665 - Ye Bare & Ye Cubb " Is First Play Performed In North America
Duration:00:01:32
September 23, 1667 - Virginia Slaves Banned From Obtaining Freedom By Conversion To Christianity
Duration:00:00:45
March 01, 1669 - Fundamental Constitutions Of Carolina Appro ved
Duration:00:03:19
October 13, 1670 - Virginia Passes Law - Arriving Christian Blacks Exempt from Slavery
Duration:00:01:13
January 1, 1673 - Regular Mail Delivery Begins
Duration:00:01:45
March 18, 1673 - Lord Berkley Sells His Half Of New Jersey To The Quakers
Duration:00:01:31
May 17, 1673 - Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette Begin Exploring Mississippi River
Duration:00:03:18
May 17, 1673 - James Needham and Gabriel Arthur Depart Virginia for Tennessee
Duration:00:02:09
June 17, 1673 Marquette and Joliet Reach the Mississippi
Duration:00:03:07
August 23, 1673 - Dutch Capture New York From the English
Duration:00:02:55
February 19, 1674 - Netherlands & England sign Peace o f Westminster
Duration:00:01:52
February 21, 1674 - Jethro Tull Born
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December 04, 1674 Father Marquette First European to Live in Chicago
Duration:00:00:52
January 8, 1675 - First American Commercial Co rporation Chartered
Duration:00:00:42
March 03, 1675 - Governor Berkeley Appoints Nathaniel Bacon to Virginia Council of State
Duration:00:02:49
June 20, 1675 - King Phillips War Begins
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August 31, 1675 - Gov ernor Berkeley Begins Investigation into Susquehanna Killings
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September 26, 1675 - Parley Between Maryland, Virginia and Susquehanna
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October 30, 1675 - Praying Indians Removed from Their Communities
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December 19, 1675 - The Great Swamp Fight
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January 1676 - Susquehannocks Raids Deep Into Virginia
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February 10, 1676 - Wampanoag Indians Under King Philip Kill All Men In Lancaster MA
Duration:00:02:25
March 1676 - Governor Berkeley Calls Long Assembly
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March 29, 1676 - Providence Rhode Island Destroyed by Wampanoag Warriors
Duration:00:00:49
April 21, 1676 - Sudbury Attacked b y Indians - King Phillips War
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May 2, 1676 - Mary Rowlandson Ransomed by Colonists
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May 03, 1676 - Governor Berkeley Gathers Force Against Bacon
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May 28, 1676 - Berkley Issues "Declaration and Remonstrance"
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June 06, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Bacon Leads Band of Armed Men into Jamestown
Duration:00:00:58
June 23, 1676 - Bacon Enters House of Burgesses With Armed Supporters
Duration:00:00:55
July 29, 1676 - Bacon's Men Plunder Plantations of Berkeley Loyalists
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July 30, 1676 - Bacon Issues ‘Declaration of the People’
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August 03, 1676 - Bacon Holds Conference
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August 12, 1676 - King Philip's War Ends In New England
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Late August 1676 - Berkeley Captures Bacon's Fleet
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September 07, 1676 - Berkley Recaptures Jamestown
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September 18, 1 676 - Bacon Captures Jamestown
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September 19, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Bacon Burns Jamestown
Duration:00:00:34
October 26, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Nathanial Bacon Dies
Duration:00:00:38
November 13, 1676 - First Bacon's Rebellion Insurgient Hanged
Duration:00:00:42
November 16, 1676 - First Colonial Prison Organized Nantucket Massachusetts
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January 5, 1677 - Delaware Court Orders Wolf Pitts Dug to Rid Area of Wolves
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January 21, 1677 - First Medical Publication In America
Duration:00:02:37
March 13, 1677 - Massachusetts Gains Title To Maine For $6000
Duration:00:02:24
July 09, 1677 - Berkley Dies in England
Duration:00:01:13
August 7, 1679 - Robert Lasalle Builds First Full Sized Ship On the Great Lakes
Duration:00:03:57
January 15, 1680 - French Explorer René Robert Cavelier Sieur De La Salle Builds Fort Crèvecoeur
Duration:00:03:36
August 10, 1680 - Pueblo Revolt of 1680 - Po'Pay's Rebellion
Duration:00:05:00
March 4, 1681 - King Charles II Grants William Penn Royal Charter for Pennsylvania
Duration:00:03:44
April 9, 1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
Duration:00:00:35
May 5, 1682 - Penn Approves First Frame of Pennsylvania Government
Duration:00:01:13
August 24, 1682 - Delaware awarded to William Penn
Duration:00:02:02
August 30, 1682 - Willi am Penn Left England To Sail To New World
Duration:00:00:56
October 27, 1682 - William Penn First Sets Foot in the Colonies
Duration:00:00:29
October 29, 1682 - William Penn Lands at Upland, Pennsylvania Colony
Duration:00:01:04
December 04, 1682 - Delegates to Pennslyvannia Assembly Gather
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December 07, 1682 - Pennslyvannia Assembly Passes the Great Law
Duration:00:00:29
June 23, 1683 - Treaty of Shackamaxon
Duration:00:02:07
Octobe r 6, 1683 - First Group of German Settlers Arrive in Pennslyvannia
Duration:00:04:08
June 21, 1684 - Massachusetts Bay Colony's Charter Revoked
Duration:00:00:47
July 24, 1684 - La Salle Fleet Departs Rochelle France for Mississippi Riv er Expedition
Duration:00:02:15
February 20, 1685 - La Salle Reaches Matagorda Bay
Duration:00:02:54
March 24, 1685 - La Salle Launches Expedition to Find New Settlement Site
Duration:00:01:53
September 12, 1685 - New Yo rk Jews Petition Governor Dongan For Religious Liberties
Duration:00:01:11
December 20, 1686 - Governor John Andros Arrives Boston
Duration:00:02:57
March 19, 1687 - Robert de La Salle Ambushed and Killed
Duration:00:01:34
Ap ril 4, 1687 - Spanish Find Fort St. Louis
Duration:00:01:10
October 26, 1687 - Sir Edmund Andros Attempts to Seize Connecticut's Charter
Duration:00:02:23
February 18, 1688 - Quakers Conduct First Formal Protest of Slavery in Ger mantown PA
Duration:00:03:43
February 13, 1689 - British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
Duration:00:02:46
April 18, 1689 - 1689 Boston Revolt
Duration:00:03:26
January 22, 1690 - Iroquois Tribes Renew Allegiance to Briti sh Against
Duration:00:04:25
February 3, 1690
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February 8, 1690 - French & In dian Troops Set Schenectady, New York On Fire
Duration:00:03:02
May 11, 1690 - Battle of Port Royal
Duration:00:03:03
February 17, 1691 - Thomas Neale Appointed First Postmaster General
Duration:00:01:53
May 16, 1691 - Captain K idd Marries Sarah Bradley Cox Oort
Duration:00:01:59
August 18, 1691 - Yorktown, Virginia founded
Duration:00:03:54
October 07, 1691 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Granted New Charter
Duration:00:03:14
1692 - Massachusetts Tow nship Act Establishes the Overseers of the Poor
Duration:00:01:50
February 29, 1692 - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba Accused Of Witchcraft in Salem, Massachuset
Duration:00:04:17
September 14, 1692 - Spain Formally Recl aimed Santa Fe
Duration:00:03:01
October, 1692 - Gov. William Phipps Suspends Salem Witch Trials
Duration:00:01:45
February 08, 1693 - College of William and Mary Opens
Duration:00:00:59
October 23, 1694 - Battle of Quebec Ended - Massachusettes Fails to Take Quebec
Duration:00:04:24
December 11, 1695 - Captain Kidd Receives Privateering License
Duration:00:02:12
June 4, 1696 - Second Pueblo Revolt Begins
Duration:00:01:55
September 20, 1697 - Ki ng William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
Duration:00:00:58
January 14, 1697 - Massachusetts Holds Day Of Fasting For Wrongly Persecuting "Witc hes"
Duration:00:02:04
October 30, 1697 - Captain Kidd Kills a Member of his Crew
Duration:00:00:29
January 30, 1698 - Captain Kidd Takes the Quedagh Merchant
Duration:00:02:01
April 1, 1698 - Captain Kidd Arrives Madagascar
Duration:00:01:58
March 2, 1699 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Discovers M outh of Mississippi River
Duration:00:02:20
July 6, 1699 - Capt William Kidd Arrested in Boston
Duration:00:03:59
January 26, 1700 - Cascadia Earthquake Shakes American Northwest
Duration:00:01:44
January 31, 1699 - Le M oyne Brothers Arrived In Mobile Bay
Duration:00:05:11
November 01, 1700 - Spain's King Charles II Dies, Triggering War of Sp anish Succession - Queen Anne
Duration:00:02:44
November 27, 1700 - Stricter Sodomy Laws: Pennsylvania - Castration and Death
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May 23, 1701 - Captain Kidd Hanged
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July 19, 1701 - Sachems O f The Iroquois Confederacy Sign The Nanfan Treaty
Duration:00:03:24
July 26, 1701- Antoine de La Mothe-Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain
Duration:00:03:17
August 4, 1701 - Great Peace Of Montreal Signed
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S eptember 29, 1701 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Departs France to Establish Colony at Mobile
Duration:00:01:01
October 15, 1701 - The Collegiate School Was Founded In Killingworth, CT
Duration:00:03:34
October 28, 1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Privileges
Duration:00:01:38
January 06, 1702 - French Unload Supplies on Massacre Island to build Fort Louis de la Louisiane
Duration:00:00:27
March 03, 1702 - Iberville first visits Old Mobile Bay Settlement Site
Duration:00:02:47
November 10, 1702 - British Begin First Siege of St. Augustine
Duration:00:06:36
August 21, 1703 -Beginning of the Six Terrible Days
Duration:00:03:07
October 05, 1703 - Jonathan Edwards Born
Duration:00:01:29
November 24, 1703 - First Lutheran Pastor Ordained In America - Justus Falckner
Duration:00:04:35
January 25, 1704 - Apalachee Massacre - Battle of Ayubale
Duration:00:02:14
February 28, 1704 - Elias Neau Opens A School For Blacks In New York NY
Duration:00:02:35
February 29, 1704 - French and Indians Attack Deerfield MA
Duration:00:04:56
June 24, 1704 - Raid on Grand Pré
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June 30, 1704 - Execution of Pirate John Quelch
Duration:00:05:57
September 07, 1704 - Carolina Assembly Approves James Moore's Florida Expedition
Duration:00:01:39
March 1705 Thomas Cary Appointed Province of Carolina Governor
Duration:00:04:42
January 21, 1707 - Francis Makemie Arrested - "Preaching Without a License”
Duration:00:02:58
June 06, 1707 - First Siege of Port Royal Begins
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August 20, 1707- First British Siege of Pensacola Fails
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August 29, 1708 - Haverhill Massachusetts destroyed by French and Indians - Queen Ann e's War
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October 1708 - Thomas Cary Begins Second Term
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November 13, 1708 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac Proposes Organizing Natives into Militia
Duration:00:00:44
February 01, 1709 - British Sailor Alexander Selkirk Is Rescued
Duration:00:03:29
October 05, 1710 - British Siege of Port Royal Begins - Queen Anne's War
Duration:00:03:45
October 13, 1710 - French Surrender Port Royal
Duration:00:03:17
January, 1711 - Edward Hyde Arrives as Governor of South Carolina
Duration:00:01:07
1711 - Division of North and South Carolina Becomes Official
Duration:00:00:33
May 29, 1711 - Governor Edward Hyde Moves Against Thomas Cary During Cary's Rebellion
Duration:00:01:11
June 30, 1711 - Cary Attacks Hyde
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July 17, 1711 - Company of Royal Marines Put Down Cary's Rebellion
Duration:00:01:03
August 22, 1711 - Disastrous Walker Expedition to Quebec - Q ueen Anne's War
Duration:00:04:03
September 22, 1711 - First Attacks of the Tuscarora War
Duration:00:01:59
January 29, 1712 - Captain John Barnwell Leads Counterattacks - Tuscarora War
Duration:00:01:40
February 6, 1712 - Ba rnwell reached the Pamlico River
Duration:00:00:35
February 10, 1712 - Barnwell's Forces Reach Bath
Duration:00:00:38
February 27, 1712 - Barnwell Begins Advance on Hancock's Fort
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April 07, 1712 - Siege Begi ns - Hancock's Fort
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September 09, 1712 - Governor Hyde Dies
Duration:00:00:26
February 12, 1712 - British 33rd Regiment of Foot Founded
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April 6, 1712 - Slave Revolt In New York
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March 11, 1713 - An Act for Regulating of Slaves
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March 23, 1713 - Colonel James Moore Captures Fort Neoheroka Ending Tuscarora War
Duration:00:02:04
April 11, 1713 - Peace Of Utrecht; France Ce des Maritime Provinces To Britain
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July 13, 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth Signed
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April 15, 1715 - Uprising of Yamasse-Indians in South Carolina
Duration:00:04:21
July 23, 1715 - The First Lighthouse in America Authorized For Construction
Duration:00:02:35
November 25, 1715 - English Patent Granted To American Sybilla Masters
Duration:00:03:52
August 19, 1716 - K nights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition Departs Germana
Duration:00:01:27
September 17, 1716 - Daniel Takawambpait Died - First Native Minister
Duration:00:00:41
November 26, 1716 - First Lion Exhibited In America (Boston)
Duration:00:01:23
February 27, 1717 - The Great Snow of 1717
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September 15, 1717 - Royal Proclamation of 5 September 1717 - Pirate Pardon
Duration:00:00:47
November 17, 1717 - Blackbeard Becomes Captain of t he La Concorde
Duration:00:02:38
March 25, 1718 - Stede Bonnet Prepares for Piracy
Duration:00:01:19
May 7, 1718 - The French Established New Orleans
Duration:00:03:09
May 22, 1718 - Edward Teach - Blackbeard - Begins Blockade of Charlestown.
Duration:00:02:38
August 25, 1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in New Orleans
Duration:00:00:21
September 26, 1718 - British Battle Pirate Stede Bonnet - Battle of Cape Fear River
Duration:00:03:07
November 08, 1718 - First Twenty Members of Pirate Stede Bonnet's Crew Hanged
Duration:00:01:50
November 22, 1718 - English pirate Edward Teach ("Blackbeard") Killed
Duration:00:03:34
December 12, 1718 - Republic of Pirates Ended
Duration:00:03:55
September 16, 1719 - French Force Arrives at Spanish Colony of Pensacola
Duration:00:01:02
December 18, 1719 - Thomas Fleet Publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children
Duration:00:02:01
December 22, 1719 - Ameri can Weekly Mercury Begins Publication
Duration:00:01:10
October 20, 1720 – Pirate Calico Jack Is Captured By the Royal Navy
Duration:00:06:23
June 26, 1721 - Dr. Zabdiel Boylston Gives First Smallpox Inoculations in America
Duration:00:04:50
April 2, 1722 - First "Silence Dogood" Letter Appeared - New England Courant
Duration:00:02:47
September 02, 1722 - William Crawford Born
Duration:00:02:21
September 27, 1722 - Samuel Adams Born
Duration:00:03:06
October 29, 1727 - Severe earthquake in New England
Duration:00:02:32
September 25, 1723 - Ben Franklin Runs Away from Boston
Duration:00:01:05
October 06, 1723 - Ben Franklin Enters Philadelphia
Duration:00:02:45
Decemb er 29, 1723 - Boston's Old North Church Opened
Duration:00:00:56
January 4, 1725 - Benjamin Franklin Arrives In London
Duration:00:02:43
February 20, 1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire
Duration:00:05:07
December 11, 1725 - George Mason Born
Duration:00:01:43
December 15, 1725 - 1725 Treaty of Boston
Duration:00:02:06
January 17, 1706 - Ben Franklin Born
Duration:00:01:32
July 23, 1726 - Ben Franklin Departs Lo ndon on Return to Philadelphia
Duration:00:00:49
October 11, 1726 - Benjamin Franklin Returns To Philadelphia From England
Duration:00:01:07
August 13, 1728 - Vitus Bering Determines There is No Land Connection Between Asia and North Amer ic
Duration:00:02:08
December 17, 1728 Land Purchased for First North American Synagogue
Duration:00:01:10
July 25, 1729 - North Carolina Became a Royal Colony
Duration:00:02:54
July 30, 1729 - City of Baltimore founded
Duration:00:03:38
October 02, - 1729 - Benjamin Franklin And Hugh Meredith Buy Pennsylvania Gazette
Duration:00:00:08
November 29, 1729 - The Natchez Revolt
Duration:00:02:42
September 01, 1730 - Benjamin Franklin Common-Law Marriage To Deborah Read
Duration:00:03:48
November 9, 1731 - Benjamin Banneker Born
Duration:00:01:13
December 03, 1731 - Volunteer Fire Department Of City Of New York Organized
Duration:00:01:26
January 27, 1732 - Privy Council Approves Georgia Charter
Duration:00:01:27