Interactive Timeline – 1676-1731

correct incorrect First coffeehouse in English North America opens in Boston

correct incorrect Hasinai Confederacy ejects Spanish soldiers and missionaries who staked claim to Texas

correct incorrect Massachusetts Bay Colony issues paper money

correct incorrect College of William and Mary founded

correct incorrect THE WORLD: University of Halle founded in Germany

correct incorrect England creates Board of Trade to monitor colonial affairs

correct incorrect Vice-admiralty courts created to enforce England's Navigation Acts in American colonies

correct incorrect Anglicans found Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK)

correct incorrect Monopoly of Royal African Company on English Atlantic slave trade ends

correct incorrect French begin to colonize Louisiana by building fort at Biloxi

correct incorrect Bostonian Samuel Sewall condemns slave trade as immoral in The Selling of Joseph

correct incorrect Parliament mandates death penalty for piracy or for aiding and abetting pirates

correct incorrect Church of England creates Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)

correct incorrect Iroquois reach "Grand Settlement" with English and French Empires and France's Indian allies

correct incorrect Jul Detroit founded

correct incorrect Boston merchant John Saffin responds to Sewall with militant defense of Atlantic slave trade and slavery

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Queen Anne's War erupts, pitting Austria, Holland, and Britain against France and Spain

correct incorrect English and Indian raids virtually destroy Spanish Florida's mission system

correct incorrect Boston News-Letter becomes first continuously published newspaper in British North America

correct incorrect Linen Act permits export of Irish linen to English North America

correct incorrect Comanches complete migration from Great Basin to southern Plains

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Act of Union joins kingdoms of England and Wales and Scotland to form United Kingdom

correct incorrect Indian slavery legalized in New France

correct incorrect German war refugees arrive in British North America

correct incorrect Four Indian "kings" visit London to lobby for a British invasion of New France

correct incorrect British forces capture Port Royal, Acadia

correct incorrect Tuscarora War in North Carolina

correct incorrect British scuttle invasion of Quebec

correct incorrect First Fox War

correct incorrect Slave rebellion in New York City

correct incorrect North Carolina separates from South Carolina and becomes royal colony

correct incorrect Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War; British Empire wins claim to Gibraltar, Hudson Bay, Nova Scotia, St. Kitts, and Newfoundland

correct incorrect THE WORLD: George, Elector of Hanover, crowned George I of the United Kingdom

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jacobites in Scotland rebel against crowning of George I

correct incorrect Yamasee War in South Carolina, curbing that colony's Indian slave trade

correct incorrect Transportation Act approves exile of British convicts to North America as servants

correct incorrect First wave of Ulster emigration to North America begins

correct incorrect New Orleans founded

correct incorrect San Antonio de Béjar founded, establishing a permanent Spanish settlement in Texas

correct incorrect Rice cultivation booms in South Carolina, increasing demand for enslaved Africans

correct incorrect Tuscaroras admitted to Iroquois League

correct incorrect Second Fox War

correct incorrect Louis XV modifies Code Noir and extends it to Louisiana

correct incorrect Third Fox War

correct incorrect First wave of Ulster emigration to North America ends

correct incorrect Natchez War in Louisiana

correct incorrect Louis XV assumes control of Louisiana from Company of the Indies