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Female 1678 - 1747  (68 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1678 
  • 1678: England - Popish Plot in England; Titus Oates falsely alleges a Catholic plot to murder Charles II
  • 1678: England - John Bunyan (1628-1688) publishes Pilgrim's Progress
  • 1678: CA - Louis Hennepin is the first European to see Niagara Falls
  • 1678: CA - Daniel Greysolon Duluth of France explores Great Lakes and negotiates treaties between the warring Ojibwa and Sioux.
2 1679 
3 1680 
  • 1680: America - Pennsylvania founded by William Penn for oppressed Quakers
  • 1680: England - Moves to remove Charles II's brother James from succession persist through into 1681 (because he married an Italian and converted to Catholicism) and replace with Charles's illegitimate son, also Charles;civil war between Tories and Whigs narrowly averted
4 1681 
5 1682 
  • 1682: CA - Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims the entire Mississippi Valley for France, naming the area Louisiana.
  • 1682: US - William Penn's treaty with the Delaware begins a period of friendly relations between the Quakers and Indians.
6 1683 
  • 1683: CA - After the death of Louis XIV's brilliant minister, J. B. Colbert, France's interest in the colonies wanes.
7 1685 
8 1686 
  • 1686: England - James II disregards Test Act; Roman Catholics appointed to public office
  • 1686: CA - De Troyes and D'Iberville capture three English posts on James Bay (June-July).
  • 1686: CA - King James II and Louis XIV sign neutrality pact handing forts of St. John's and Port Royal back to the French.
  • 1686: NL - De Sint Maartensvloed kost in de provincie Groningen 1558 mensenlevens.
  • 1686: NL - Groote watervloed : alleen in 't Oldambt zouden 482 menschen verdronken zijn.
9 1687 
10 1688 
11 1689 
  • 1689: England - Convention Parliament issues Bill of Rights; establishes a constitutional monarchy in Britain; bars Roman Catholics from the throne; Toleration Act grants freedom of worship to dissenters in England; Grand Alliance of the League of Augsburg, England, and the Netherlands
  • 1689: Londonderry, Ireland - Catholic forces loyal to James II land from France and lay siege
  • 1689: England - King William's War: English Colonies vs France 1689-1697.
  • 1689: CA - For the next 8 years, King William's War (American counterpart of the War of the Grand Alliance in Europe) -- Abenakis, Penobscot, other New England tribes, attacked by English and their Iroquois allies. This is the first of the French-English wars for control of North America, continuing to 1763. During these wars, the Iroquois League generally sides with the English, and the Algonquian tribes with the French.
  • 1689: CA - Nicolas Perrot formally claims upper Mississippi region for France.
  • 1689: CA - The Iroquois kill many French settlers at Lachine.
  • 1689: NL - Willem III wordt koning van Engeland.
  • 13 Feb 1689: England - William III and Mary II, rulers of England to 1702. House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
12 1690 
  • 1690: Ireland - Battle of the Boyne: James II defeated, flees into exile
  • 1690: India - The English found Calcutta
  • 1690: England - John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • 1690: Salem, Massachusetts - The first shipment of bananas arrived in the colonies
  • 1690: CA - Sent by Massachusetts, Sir William Phips captures Port Royal (11 May). Frontenac repels Phips' attack on Quebec (October). These events are part of what is sometimes called King William's War.
13 1691 
  • 3 Oct 1691: Limerick, Ireland - The Treaty of Limerick allows Catholics in Ireland to exercise their religion freely, but severe penal laws soon follow. The French War begins
14 1692 
  • 1692: England - Retribution against Catholics who helped James II until 1710, lands confiscated, given to Protestants; harsh laws passed against Catholic religion and trade
  • 1692: NL - De jenever wordt volksdrank.
  • 13 Feb 1692: Glencoe, Scotland - The Glencoe Massacre occurs
  • 3 Aug 1692: England - Battle of Steinkirk and Battle of Lande (against France), both defeats for England, through into 1693
  • 22 Oct 1692: CA - Marie Madelaine Jarret de Vercheres defends the family fort with a handful of seniors and children against the Iroquois, a true youthful hero of New France.
15 1693 
16 1694 
17 1695 
18 1696 
  • 1696: CA - European fur market collapses as fashion temporarily changes, leading to an increase in colonist settlers wanting permanent land to clear and farm.
19 1697 
  • 1697: England - Peace of Ryswick between the allied powers of the League of Augsburg and France ends the French War
  • 1697: England - Civil List Act votes funds for the maintenance of the Royal Household
  • 1697: England - Blasphemy Act in England
  • 1697: After almost a decade of guerrilla warfare, the Peace of Ryswick merely confirms the status quo, even returning Acadia, captured by the English, to the French. England and France make temporary peace in 1697 (Treaty of Ryswick).
  • 10 Nov 1697: England - Birth of William Hogarth (died 1764), bitter satirical artist of great genius, chronicling social evils of the times
20 1698 
  • 1698: England - Thomas Savery patented an engine which produced a vacuum by condensing steam. It was employed for raising water from a mine and supplying water to several country houses.
  • 1698: Russia - Tsar Peter the Great begins taxing men with beards
21 1699 
  • 23 May 1699: America - John Bartram was born. A naturalist and explorer, considered 'father of American botany'; established a world renowned botanical garden in Philadelphia in 1728.
22 1700 
  • 1700: England - Population of England and Wales estimated at 5.5 million
  • 1700: England - Population of English colonies in America, 200,000
  • 1700: CA - Population of Acadia is 1,400. Clear that New France is not going to be self-sufficient.
  • 1700: NL - Invoering van de Gregoriaanse kalender in Friesland. Op 31-12-1700 volgde 12-01-1701.
  • 26 Jan 1700: CA - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia Subduction Zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami that wiped out the winter village of Pachena Bay leaving no survivors.
23 1701 
  • 1701: England - The Act of Settlement settles the Royal Succession on the Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover. William III forms a grand alliance between England, Holland and Austria to prevent the union of the Spanish and French crowns. The War of the Spanish Succession breaks out in Europe over the vacant throne
  • 1701: England - Death of James II in exile, King Louis of France recognises James's son as King James III
  • 1701: England - Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
  • 1701: CA- Peace treaty signed between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French and English.
  • 1701: CA - Detroit, Michigan founded as Fort Pontchartrain du détroit by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac.
  • 1701: CA - War of the Spanish Succession begins in Europe; spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in 1702.
  • 1701: NL - Lodewijk XIV bezet de Zuidelijke Nederlanden.
24 1702 
  • 1702: England - Death of King William III in a riding accident. He is succeeded by his sister-in-law.
  • 1702: England - Queen Anne, ruler of England to 1714. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
  • 1702: England - Queen Anne's War: England declares war on France as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. English Colonies vs France 1702-1713.
  • 1702: England - England tries to prevent grandson of Louis of France from taking Spanish throne; John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, instrumental in uniting England, Holland, Austria and Germany against France (period to 1713)
  • 1702: England - Freehold yeomen represent one eigth of population of England. Substantial tenant farmers represent a little less; coffee houses become popular
  • 1702: CA - For the next 11 years, The short-lived Peace of Ryswick collapses with the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, which erupts in the colonies as Queen Anne's War. It ends with France losing North American territory to Britain.
  • 1702: NL - Willem III van Oranje-Nassau overlijdt aan de gevolgen van een val van zijn paard op Hampton Court.
25 1703 
  • 1703: Epworth, Lincolnshire, England - Birth of John Wesley. By 1784, 356 Methodist chapels built in places lacking church
  • 1703: CA - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil becomes Governor of New France.
26 1704 
  • 1704: England - Johann Sebastian Bach began composing music
  • 1704: Gibraltar - British capture Gibraltar from Spain
  • 1704: CA - French destroy the English settlement at Bonavista, Newfoundland.
  • 13 Aug 1704: England - British, Dutch, German and Austrian troops, under the Duke of Marlborough, defeat the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim
27 1706 
  • 1706: London, England - The Evening Post, first evening newspaper issued
  • 23 May 1706: Netherlands - British, Bavarian and Austrian troops under Marlborough defeat the French at the Battle of Ramillies, and expel the French from the Netherlands
28 1707 
  • 1707: Great Britain - The Act of Union unites the kingdoms of England and Scotland and transfers the seat of Scottish Government to London
  • 1707: CA - Port Royal is attacked twice by the English from Massachusetts.
29 1708 
  • 1708: NL - Strenge winter : vorst van 24 December tot in Mei.
  • 11 Jul 1708: England - The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Oudenarde. The French incur heavy losses. Queen Anne vetoes a parliamentary bill to recognise the Scottish militia. This is the last time a bill is vetoed by the sovereign
30 1709 
31 1710 
  • 1710: Great Britain - A Tory ministry is formed, under Harley, with the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell and the fall of the Whig government
  • 1710: Great Britain - Wooden panelling replaces tapestry as wall covering
  • 1710: CA - The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.
  • 1710: CA - Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal for England.
  • 1710: CA - The English take Port Royal and name it Annapolis Royal.
  • 1710: UK - Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.
  • 1710: CA - The Mandan Indians west of the Great Lakes begin to trade in horses descended from those brought to Texas by the Spanish. Itinerant Assiniboine Indians bring them from Mandan settlements to their own territories southwest of Lake Winnipeg.
32 1711 
  • 1711: Great Britain - Englishman John Shore invents the tuning fork.
  • 1711: US - Tuscarora War on North Carolina frontier fought between British settlers and Tuscarora Indians. Remnants of this Iroquoian tribe migrate north.
  • 1711: NL - Johan Willem Friso, erfstadhouder van Friesland, verdrinkt in het Hollands Diep.
33 1712 
34 1713 
  • 1713: Europe - The Treaty of Utrecht is signed by Britain and France, thus concluding the War of the Spanish Succession
  • 1713: CA - At the conclusion of Queen Anne's War - Maine Abenakis and Iroquois from Quebec (Caughnawaga) attack the English colonists on behalf of the French, but lose. The European nations negotiate their settlement at the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); Louis XIV cedes Hudson Bay, Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland (but not Cape Breton Island or St. John's Island) to Great Britain.
  • 1713: US - Turcarora War (North Carolina) -- Under the English Col. John Barnwell, then Col. James Moore, the Tuscarora Nation was repeatedly attacked, its chiefs tortured, its people sold (10 pounds sterling each) into slavery. The survivors fled northward and settled among the Haudenosee (Iroquois) 5 Nations.
  • 1713: CA - After loss of lands to England in the Treaty of Utrecht, France starts building Fortress Louisbourg near the eastern tip of l'Ile-Royale.
  • 1713: NL - Via Azië en Rusland bereikt de (1e) veepest epidemie ons land.
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36 1715 
37 1716 
  • 1716: Italy - John Lombe steals plans for silk manufacture, returning to England he and brother Thomas build vast factory on island at Derby
  • 1716: Scotland - James Lind was born. Lind was a Scottish physician who recommended that fresh citrus fruit and lemon juice be included in the seamen's diet to eliminate scurvy. The Dutch had been doing this for almost two hundred years.
  • 1716: CA - Jacques Talbot came to Montreal as a schoolmaster.
38 1717 
  • 1717: Great Britain - Townshend is dismissed from government by George I, causing Walpole to resign. The Whig party is split. Convocation is suspended
  • 1717: Europe - England allies with French and Dutch against Spanish, Spanish brought to heel in 1718
  • 1717: Great Britain - Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
  • 1717: Great Britain - John Lombe in England invents a machine for 'throwing' silk which produces a strong twisted thread
  • 1717: CA - Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western sea. (Daniel Greysolon Dulhut had built a fort, (Fort Caministigoyan), at the same location on the Kaministiquia River in 1679.)
  • 1717: NL - Bij een stormvloed tijdens de kerstmis komen in Groningen en Friesland 5000 mensen om.
39 1719 
40 1720 
  • 1720: Great Britain - Dr. Richard Mead publishes Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, advocates quarantine, proposes establishment of government Council of Health; inoculation against smallpox introduced from Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  • 1720: Great Britain - Hospitals founded in London: Guy's, St. George's, London & Middlesex in period to 1745
  • 1720: Meiringen, Switzerland - Invention of meringue is attributed to an Italian pastry chef named Gasparini.
  • 1720: US - French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans.
  • 1720: UK - Lord Baltimore sponsors expedition to bring settlers to Newfoundland.
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42 1722 
43 1723 
  • 1723: Great Britain - Legislation allowing parishes to create 'unions' or workhouses, to prevent escape of children they could be manacled
  • 1723: Great Britain - Excise Act, restrictions removed on exports, duty removed on imports of raw materials; London builds bonded warhouse for tea, coffee and chocolate
  • 1723: New England, USA - Dummer's War 1723-1726.
  • 1723: NL - Grens tusschen Onstwedde en Pekela geregeld.
  • 16 Jul 1723: Devon, Great Britain - Birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds (died 1792), arguably finest English landscape and portrait painter, career 1750-1780
44 1724 
45 1725 
  • 1725: CA - Claude-Thomas Dupuy was appointed intendant of New France.
  • 1725: CA - Peter the Great sends Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific.
  • 30 Apr 1725: Great Britain - Treaty of Vienna: Austria and Spain resolve differences
46 1726 
  • 1726: Scotland - First circulating library in Britain opens in Edinburgh. Jonathan Swift publishes his Gulliver's Travels
  • 1726: Great Britain - English peers number 179, about 130 of whom are active
  • 1726: CA - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois was appointed as Governor of New France.
  • 1726: CA - Thomas-Jacques Taschereau arrived in New France (Canada) as a private secretary to the Intendant of New France, Claude-Thomas Dupuy.
47 1727 
48 1728 
  • 1728: France - Pierre Fauchard, in The Surgeon Dentist, described preventive measures to keep teeth healthy as well as inventing the word dentist.
  • 1728: CA - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye was appointed commandant of the French posts on the north shore of Lake Superior and stationed at Fort Kaministiquia
  • 1728: CA - Vitus Bering sails through the Bering Strait.
49 1729 
  • 1729: Great Britain - Alexander Pope publishes his Dunciad
  • 1729: US - Natchez attacked French Fort Rosalie and French settlements nearby after the French commander of the fort, Sieur Chepart, ordered them to abandon their village of White Apple. The Natchez wiped out the entire settlement and captured Fort Rosalie. In 1730 and 1731 the French, aided by the Choctaw, launched two counterattacks out of New Orleans, capturing and selling into plantation slavery most of the tribe and its smaller allies. A few bands found refuge among the Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee.
  • 1729: NL - De Dokkumer Nieuwe Zijlen aangelegd.
  • 1729: NL - Willem IV stadhouder in de gewesten Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe en Gelderland.
50 1730 
  • 1730: Great Britain - A split occurs between Walpole and Townshend
  • 1730: Ireland - Famine strikes
  • 1730: Great Britain - In early part of 1700s, death rate had surpassed birth rate; begins to reverse; after 1780 death-rate plummets - due to replacement of gin-drinking with beer-drinking after taxes increased and retail sales curtailed on former in 1750; medical care improves, as does agriculture, more food available
  • 1730: Great Britain - Georg Brandt, a Swedish chemist, discovered the element cobalt. Cobalt is used in steel making, and is an essential part of vitamin B12.
  • 1730: UK - Seven Cherokee chiefs visit London and form an alliance, The Articles of Agreement, with King George II.
  • 1730: CA - The Mississauga drive the Seneca Iroquois south of Lake Erie.
  • 1730: NL - De aardappel wordt in ons land geintroduceerd, een Zuid-Amerikaans product.
51 1731 
  • 1731: Europe - Second Treaty of Vienna, Austria and Spain smooth out remaining differences
  • 1731: CA - Fort St. Pierre on Rainy Lake established by Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye. This was the first fort in La Verendrye's expansion of the "Posts of the West".
  • 1731: CA - For the next 12 years, the La Verendrye family organize expeditions beyond Lake Winnipeg and direct fur trade toward the east.
  • 1731: NL - De paalworm teistert ons land, de worm vreet de palen in onze dijken op.
52 1732 
  • 1732: British North America - A royal charter is granted for the founding of Georgia in America
  • 1732: Great Britain - The English banned American made hats to protect domestic haberdashers.
  • 1732: CA - Fort St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods was constructed by La Vérendrye's nephew, Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and his eldest son Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.
53 1733 
  • 1733: Great Britain - The Excise Crisis occurs and Walpole is forced to abandon his plans to reorganise the customs and excise
  • 1733: Europe - Further cementing of relations between Austria and Spain
  • 1733: Great Britain - John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
  • 1733: CA/US - Vitus Bering's second expedition, with George Wilhelm Steller aboard, the first naturalist to visit Alaska.
54 1734 
  • 1734: Great Britain - Walpole returned to power with smaller majority, power weakened
  • 1734: CA - Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye establishes Fort Maurepas (Canada) on the Red River about five leagues south of Lake Winnipeg, third of the main La Vérendrye posts. (St. Pierre on Rainy River; reactivated; Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods.)
  • 1734: CA - A Montreal slave named Marie-Joseph Angelique learns that she is to be sold to someone else. In an attempt to escape, she sets a fire in her mistress's house. The fire can not be contained, causing damage to half of Montreal. She is caught, tortured and hanged, bringing attention to the conditions of the slaves.
55 1735 
  • 1735: CA - Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau came to Fort St. Charles with La Vérendrye to carry out his duties as a missionary.
  • 1735: NL - Jan Klatter, schuitvaarder van Pekela op Groningen.
56 1736 
  • 1736: Great Britain - John Harrison finished building and tested at sea what proved to be the first accurate chronometer for timing longitude
  • 1736: Great Britain - Duke of Newcastle now controls clerical (religious) patronage
  • 8 Jun 1736: CA - Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau, Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye and 19 French voyageurs were headed from Fort St. Charles to Montreal via Fort St. Pierre. On their first night out they were massacred by Sioux warriors on a nearby island in Lake of the Woods.
57 1737 
  • 1737: Scotland - Porteous Riots
  • 1737: America - Spain begins to attack British trade
  • 1737: CA - Marguerite d'Youville (Born Varennes, France October 15, 1701 Died December 28, 1771) and some friends in Montreal, begin taking in the poor and educating abandoned children.
  • 20 Nov 1737: Great Britain - Death of King George II's wife, Queen Caroline
58 1738 
  • 1738: Great Britain - John and Charles Wesley start the Methodist movement in Britain
  • 1738: Europe - Third Treaty of Vienna settles Polish question, gives Lorraine to France
  • 1738: CA/US - Smallpox strikes the Cherokee in the Southeast, killing almost half the population. Smallpox also reaches tribes in western Canada.
  • 1738: CA - Ester Bradeau, in the guise of a cabin boy, is the first known Jewish woman to arrive in Canada. Eventually she is deported to France for failing to embrace the Roman Catholic religion
  • 1738: CA - Fort Rouge (the fort), built on the Assiniboine River near the Forks.
  • 1738: CA - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye travelled southwest from Fort La Reine to the area of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.
59 1739 
  • 1739: Europe - Britain goes to war with Spain in the War of Jenkins' Ear. The cause: Captain Jenkins' ear was claimed to have been cut off during a Naval Skirmish
  • 1739: Great Britain - First 'Lying-in hospital' for women
  • 1739: Europe - War with Spain, War with France; Britain uses German and Dutch mercenaries
  • 1739: NL - De vroeg ingevallen strenge winter zorgt voor hongersnood.
60 1740 
61 1741 
  • 1741: Ireland - Further famine, population about 4 million
  • 1741: CA - First Fort Dauphin, was built near Winnipegosis, Manitoba.
  • 1741: CA - Vitus Bering, in service of Russia, reaches Alaska; Russians soon trade with natives for sea otter pelts.
  • 1741: CA - Fort Bourbon established near present day Grand Rapids, Manitoba.
  • 1741: CA - François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil appointed commandant at Fort Kaministiquia.
62 1742 
63 1743 
64 1744 
  • 1744: Great Britain - King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748.
  • 1744: Treaty of Lancaster (English-Iroquois).
  • 1744: CA - Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont succeeded Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye as the Commandant of the western French forts.
  • 15 Mar 1744: France declares war on England
65 1745 
  • 1745: Great Britain - Sir Robert Walpole dies
  • 1745: Great Britain - E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
  • 1745: Western Highlands, Scotland - Bonnie Prince Charlie, son of James III, lands and triggers a Jacobite Rebellion
  • 1745: Great Britain - Scots reach Derby; 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' is inexplicably persuaded to turn back, loses initiative
  • 1745: Scotland - The secret formula for Drambuie liqueur is given to the Mackinnon family by Prince Charles Edward.
  • 1745: NL - De landbouw wordt geconfronteerd met de tweede veepestepidemie.
  • 11 May 1745: Fonteney, Austrian Netherlands - Battle of Fontenoy (Flanders/Belgium), George's son, Duke of Cumberland, leads Britain's defeat
  • 17 Jun 1745: CA - Louisbourg surrenders to English after six-week siege.
  • 21 Sep 1745: Scotland - a Scottish victory at the Battle of Prestonpans
66 1746 
  • 1746: England - William Pitt (the elder) enters government
  • 1746: Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out among the Micmac of Nova Scotia.
  • 1 Mar 1746: CA - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, was appointed governor general of New France
  • 16 Apr 1746: Culloden, Scotland - Battle of Culloden, Scots defeated by Cumberland; fails to capture Charles who, after five months, escapes to France
  • 16 Apr 1746: UK - The Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final clash between the French-supported Jacobites and the Hanoverian British Government in the 1745 Jacobite Rising. It was the last land battle to be fought on mainland Britain. Culloden brought the Jacobite cause—to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain—to a decisive defeat.
  • 30 Aug 1746: CA - Duc d'Anville, a French aristocrat, arrives at Chebucto (now Halifax Harbour) with 13,000 men in 70 ships. His orders from the King of France: Expel the British from Nova Scotia, then burn Boston and sack New England. Disease and dissension within the command structure defeats d'Anville's force, which despite its formidable strength has no discernible effect on the course of events in North America.
  • Oct 1746: CA - Fortress Louisbourg and l'Ile-Royale are returned to France by the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle.
67 1747 
  • 1747: Great Britain - Yorkshire pudding mentioned in recipes
  • 1747: Great Britain - Art of Cookery, by Hannah Glasse is published.
  • 1747: British North America - The oldest cattle ranch in the US was started at Montauk on Long Island, New York.
  • 1747: CA - Marguerite d'Youville (Born Varennes, France October 1701 Died December 28, 1771) founds the Sisters of Charity or the Grey Nuns of Montreal.
  • 1747: NL - Willem IV wordt erfstadhouder van alle gewesten.
  • 11 Feb 1747: CA - Nova Scotia, a surprise mid-winter attack is launched about three o'clock on the morning on Col. Arthur Noble's detachment of British troops from Massachusetts, by a French and Indian force under Nicholas Antoine Coulon de Villiers. Noble and about 70 of his men were killed.

  

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