1710 to 1719

1710

x - German engraver Le Blon develops three-color printing.
x - Sheikh Sabah bin Jaber leads his clan into the area now called Kuwait and within the next twenty years establishes an unofficial rule.
x - |Russia ?+| Cyrillic alphabet reformed.
x - The English Parliament passes the Post Office Act which starts a postal system in the American colony controlled by the postmaster general of London and his deputy in New York City.

1711

x - British forces, together with the American colonies, attempt to attack Quebec, but are discouraged when a storm in the St. Lawrence sinks nine of their ships.
x - |NORTH CAROLINA| The Tuscarora Indian War between Native Americans and settlers following the massacre of settlers there. [u.1713]

1712

may - The Carolina colony is officially divided into North Carolina and South Carolina.
jun - The Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves into that colony.
jun - |MASSACHUSETTS| The first sperm whale is captured at sea by an American from Nantucket.
x - |BERLIN| First public Jewish synagogue.
x - |England ?+| Thomas Newcomen uses coal to power the first practical steam engine to pump water out of deep mines.

1713

x - John Needhamis born. English biologist who would "prove" abiogenesis works
x - |WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION| Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht.

1714

aug - Geroge, the German Elector of Hanover becomes King George I, of Britain
x - Henry Mill receives patent in England for a typewriter.
x - About 7% of land in Ireland ? was held by Catholics.
x - Tea is introduced for the first time into the American Colonies.

1715

x - Jacobite nobles lead uprisings in Scotland to try to put James Stuart (son of James II) on the throne.
x - Five year old Louis XV of France succeeds his great grandfather, with the Duke of Orleans as regent.

1716

x - The first group of black slaves is brought to the Louisiana territory.

1718

nov - |Russia ?+| The only son of Peter the Great + dies.
x - Blackbeard the pirate dies.
x - New Orleans is founded by the French.

1719

x - Reaumur proposes using wood to make paper.