The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763 Part 17

William Penn lost his proprietary rights.

Leisler's rising in New York.

1690. Congress of the colonies at Albany.

Colonel Sloughter suppressed Leisler's rising.

Port Royal taken by Sir William Phipps.

Sir William Phipps led an expedition against Quebec.

1691. Successful attack of the English on La Prairie.

New Plymouth incorporated within Ma.s.sachusetts.

Maryland placed under the direct control of the Crown.

1692. Benjamin Fletcher, Governor of New York.

Andrew Hamilton, Governor of New Jersey.

Villebon re-occupied Port Royal.

French attacks on the coast of Maine.

1693. Canadians and Indians attacked the Mohawk towns.

D'Iberville reconnoitred Fort Pemaquid.

English expedition to recover the forts on James Bay.

Establishment of William and Mary College, Virginia.

1694. Proprietary rights restored to William Penn.

End of the rule of Sir William Phipps in Ma.s.sachusetts.

La Mothe Cadillac sent to command Michillimackinac.

1695. Fort Frontenac was re-occupied.

Sir William Phipps died.

1696. Frontenac, Callieres, and Vaudreuil attacked the Iroquois.

D'Iberville took Fort Pemaquid from Chubb.

1696-1726. Rhode Island governed by Samuel Cranston.

1697. Abortive French expedition under the Marquis de Nesmond against Boston.

D'Iberville took Fort Nelson.

The Treaty of Ryswick.

1698. Establishment of a college in Connecticut.

Frontenac died at Quebec.

1698-1701. Ma.s.sachusetts, New York, New Jersey, New Hamps.h.i.+re governed by Lord Bellomont.

1699. First colonisation of Louisiana by Le Moyne d'Iberville.

1701. La Mothe Cadillac founded Detroit.

Penn left Pennsylvania.

Execution of the pirate Captain Kidd.

Lord Cornbury succeeded Lord Bellomont.

1702. The Proprietors resigned their rights over New Jersey.

1702-1713. Queen Anne's War.

1703. Separation of Delaware from Pennsylvania.

Colonel Moore's attack upon St Augustine.

1704. Colonel Moore's attack upon Apalachee.

The French attacked Deerfield.

Major Church threatened Port Royal.

1706. The French and Spanish attacked Charleston.

1707. Colonel March threatened Port Royal.

1708. The French attacked Haverfield on the Merrimac.

Lord Cornbury recalled.

1709. Samuel Vetch advocated combined attack on New France.

Colonel Francis Nicholson attacked near Lake Champlain the forces of Ramesay, Governor of Montreal.

1710. Colonel Francis Nicholson took Port Royal.

1711. The Walker-Hill expedition against Canada.

North Carolina attacked by the Tuscarora Indians.

1712. Birth of Montcalm at Nimes.

1713. The Treaty of Utrecht.

1715. Proprietary rights over Maryland restored to the fourth Lord Baltimore.

1716. North Carolina attacked by the Yama.s.see Indians.

1718. Death of William Penn.

Bienville, brother of D'Iberville, founded New Orleans.

1720. Settlement of German Palatines in New York.

Louisburg on Cape Breton Island began to be important.

The French built a permanent fort at Niagara.

1723. The Jesuit Charlevoix recommended a mission among the Sioux.

1724. Sebastian Rasle, a Jesuit priest, killed on the Kennebec.

1726. Peace between the Indians and New Englanders.

1727. Birth of James Wolfe at Westerham, in Kent.

The English established a trading centre at Oswego.

Fort Beauharnois built in the Sioux country.

1729. Death of Governor Burnet.

1731-1740. De la Verendrye built forts from Rainy Lake westward.

1731. Saint Luc de la Corne built Fort St Frederic (Crown Point).

1732. General Oglethorpe established Georgia.

1734. Salzburg Germans came to Georgia.

1736. John Wesley in Georgia.

1738. George Whitefield in Georgia.

1739-1742. War in Georgia with the Spaniards.

1742. The Spaniards attacked St Simons, Carolina.

1743. General Oglethorpe left Georgia.

1743-1753. George Clinton, Governor of New York.

1744. War between England and France.

Canso taken by the French.

1745. s.h.i.+rley, Pepperell, and Warren take Louisburg.

1747. Warren and Anson defeated the French off Cape Finisterre.

1748. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

1749. Celeron de Bienville registered the claims of France to the Ohio valley.

Establishment of Fort Rouille (Toronto).

Establishment of Halifax.

1750. Le Loutre burnt Beauba.s.sin.

1752. The Marquis Duquesne became Governor of Canada.

Georgia pa.s.sed into the hands of the Crown.

1753. Proposal to unite the Thirteen Colonies.

Duquesne sent Marin to build forts between the Lakes and the Ohio. Was.h.i.+ngton sent on a counter expedition.

1754. The French built Fort Duquesne.

Death of Jumonville.

Was.h.i.+ngton built Fort Necessity, but obliged to retreat.

1755. Braddock's disaster on the Monongahela.

William Johnson's expedition against Crown Point.

s.h.i.+rley's advance on Lake Ontario.

Beausejour taken and renamed Fort c.u.mberland.

Transportation of the Acadians.

Vaudreuil appointed Governor-General of Canada.