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| 1754 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin's chopped-up snake, urging union of the colonies with the caption 'Join or Die', is the first American political cartoon | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Quaker minister John Woolman publishes the first part of Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, an essay denouncing slavery | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies the existence of a gas, carbon dioxide, which he calls 'fixed air' | |
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| 1754 |
| | | George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin proposes to the Albany Congress that the colonies should unite to form a colonial government | |
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| 1754 |
| | | The British colonies negotiate with the Iroquois at the Albany Congress, in the face of the French threat in the Ohio valley | |
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| c. 1754 |
| | | Francesco Guardi, previously a painter of figures, begins to specialize in view of Venice, his native city | |
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| 1755 |
| | | A British force under Edward Braddock lands in America to provide support against the French in the Ohio valley | |
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| 1755 |
| | | Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The first Conestoga wagons are acquired by George Washington for an expedition through the Alleghenies | |
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