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| 1 | 1675-1676 | - 1675-1676: King Philip's War
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| 2 | 1689-1697 | - 1689-1697: King William's War
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| 3 | 1700 | - 1700: Judge Samuel Sewall publishes The Selling of Joseph, an anti-slavery tract.
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| 4 | 1702-1713 | - 1702-1713: Queen Anne's War
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| 5 | 1702 | - 1702: Cotton Mather writes Magnalia Christi Americana.
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| 6 | 1722 | - 1722: Benjamin Franklin writes the "Dogood Papers."
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| 7 | 1725 | - 1725: Vivaldi writes The Four Seasons.
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| 8 | 1729 | - 1729: Franklin purchases and publishes the Pennsylvania Gazette, which later becomes The Saturday Evening Post.
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| 9 | 1732 | - 1732: Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.
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| 10 | 1741 | - 1741: Jonathan Edwards writes the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
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| 11 | 1742 | - 1742: Handel's Messiah premieres in Dublin, Ireland
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| 12 | 1744-1748 | - 1744-1748: King George's War
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| 13 | 1750 | - 1750: Bach dies, ending the Baroque period in music.
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| 14 | 1751 | - 1751: Benjamin Franklin publishes New Experiments and Observations on Electricity.
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| 15 | 1756-1763 | - 1756-1763: French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
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| 16 | 1758 | - 1758: Benjamin Franklin writes "The Way to Wealth."
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| 17 | 1759-1761 | |
| 18 | 1768 | - 1768: John Dickinson writes Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
- 1768: Milcah Martha Moore writes "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768."
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| 19 | 1775-1783 | - 1775-1783: American Revolution
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| 20 | 1776 | - 1776: Thomas Paine writes Common Sense.
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| 21 | 1786 | - 1786: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna, Austria.
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| 22 | 1787-1788 | - 1787-1788: James Madison & Alexander Hamilton & John Jay write The Federalist Papers.
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| 23 | 1789-1797 | - 1789-1797: George Washington serves as first president of the Untited States.
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| 24 | 1790 | - 1790: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes."
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| 25 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner develops small pox vaccine.
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| 26 | 1797-1801 | - 1797-1801: John Adams serves as second president of the United States of America.
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| 27 | 1798-1800 | - 1798-1800: Franco-American Naval War
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| 28 | 1801-1809 | - 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson serves as third president of the United States of America.
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| 29 | 1807 | - 1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5.
- 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
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| 30 | 1809 | - 1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
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| 31 | 1809-1817 | - 1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
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