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| 1741 |
| | | American revivalism is inflamed by Jonathan Edwards' vivid sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
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| 1743 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin drafts in Philadelphia the founding document for the American Philosophical Society | |
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| 1744 |
| | | Franklin publishes his design for an improved stove in Account of the New Invented Pennsylvania Fire Place | |
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| 1745 |
| | | New England militiamen achieve an unexpected success in capturing the fortress of Louisbourg from the French | |
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| 1749 |
| | | A French official travels down the Ohio valley, placing markers to claim it for France | |
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| 1752 |
| | | The French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of the upper Ohio | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity | |
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| 1753 |
| | | George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley | |
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| 1754 |
| | | In Freedom of Will American evangelist Jonathan Edwards makes an uncompromising defence of orthodox against liberal Calvinism | |
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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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