1713 - Immigration of Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and Germans
 
 
 

1718 - San Antonio founded
 
 
 
 

1732 - Georgia founded

1732 - 1757 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanac

1734 - Jonathan Edwards starts Great Awakening 

1735 - Trial of John Peter Zenger in New York City

1739 - George Whitefield starts Great Awakening in Middle Colonies

1715 - Proprietorship restored
 

1729 - Maryland Gazette begins publication

1729 - Baltimore town founded
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1747 - Tobacco Inspection Act

1707 - England and Scotland form Great Britain
 

1713 - Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War

1714 - George I begins Hanover reign in England

1720 - Robert Walpole serves as England's first prime minister
 
 
 
 
 

1733 - Molasses Act places high tax on non-British molasses imported into the Americas
 
 
 
 
 

1740 - Frederick the Great becomes king of Prussia

1744 - 1748 - King George's War

1748 - Montesquieu writes The Spirit of Laws