APPENDIX. CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE. 1800. Canada settled by the French. 1607. Virginia settled by the English. 1614. 1620. The Dutch settle at Manhadoes (New York). The Puritans, under Brewster, Carver, and Bradford, land at Plymouth, December 22 (N. S.), 1620. 1623. Dover, New Hampshire, settled. 1634. Maryland settled. 1642. 1643. 66 66 House of Commons exempts the produce and commerce Swedish settlements in Pennsylvania and Delaware. 1650. North Carolina settled. 1651. First Navigation Act to secure transportation to English ships, by the Parliament of the Commonwealth. 1660. Navigation Act confirmed and enlarged by the govern ment of the Restoration. 1691. 1692. New York declaration of rights and privileges. 1692. 1745. Act of General Court against aids, taxes, &c., witho Rhode Island and Connecticut resume their charters. 1747. Press-gang in Boston, -consequent tumult and resist 1750. ance. Act of Parliament encouraging the caportation by the colonies of pig and bar iron, but forbidding the erection of rolling and slitting mills, the making of steel, &c., &c. 1752. New Style adopted. 66 1753. 66 Franklin proves the identity of lightning and electricity. 1759. Wolfe takes Quebec. Otis's plea against writs of assistance. Laws of trade rigorously enforced. Navy employed to Direct taxation planned. Controversy between Apthorp and Mayhew concerning the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. 1764. Otis publishes his " Rights of the British Colonies as serted and proved." 1765. March. Stamp Act passed. 1766. 1767. 1768. 1770. Resolutions. Patrick Henry's Virginia October. Congress meets at New York. John Adams publishes his dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law. March. Stamp Act repealed. Townshend's tax-bill. Dickinson publishes the Farmer's Letters September. Gage ordered to Boston. March 5. Boston Massacre. 1773. December. 1775. June 15. Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief. Battle of Bunker Hill. 66 17. November 29. Congress appoints a Committee of Se- December 31. Montgomery killed in the attack on 1776. January. Two first cantos of MacFingal published. Paine's Common Sense. March. Silas Deane sent to France as Commercial March 17. British evacuate Boston. May 6. John Adams brings forward his resolution for the establishment of State governments. May 10. Resolution passed. 66 15. June 7. June 10. Preamble added. "Resolutions for Independency" moved. Committee appointed to draft the Declaration. 66 4. Declaration signed by Hancock and Thompson. August 27. October 28. November 16. December 8. "" 12. 66 19. 21. 66 26. 1777. January 3. Battle of White Plains. Fall of Fort Washington. Washington retreats across the Delaware. First number of Paine's Crisis. Capture of Hessians at Trenton. June. Arrival of Lafayette. Battle of Germantown. Surrender of Burgoyne. Steuben arrives at Portsmouth, N. H. April 8. John Adams arrives at Paris as Commissioner, 1778. November. Massacre at Cherry Valley 1779. March 3. Battle of Briar Creek. February and July. Tryon's expeditions. June and July. Spain takes part in the war against England. July 15. Capture of Stony Point. Sullivan begins his march against the Indians. September 27. John Jay appointed Minister to Spain. Siege of Savannah. 66 31. October 9. 15. Sullivan arrives at Easton, Penn. Surrender of Charleston. Battle of Waxhaw Creek. Battle of Springfield. Arrival of French fleet and army. July 9 and August 1. Convention for armed neutrality between Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. August 6. "6 16. September. October 2. 66 7. First Battle of Camden. Arnold's treason discovered. Battle of King's Mountain. 14. Greene appointed to the command of the Francis Dana sent to St. Petersburgh. England declares war against Holland. Mutiny of the Pennsylvania line. 66 17. Battle of the Cowpens. January and February. Greene's operations in Carolina and retreat across the Dan. Battle of Guilford Court House. Battle of Hobkirk's Hill. Trade between Great Britain and the American Colonies, from 1697 to 1776, showing the Exports from, and Imports into, the then Colonies. [From Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register.] New York. Pennsylvania. Virginia and Carolina. Georgia. Exports. Imports. Exports. | Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports. | Imports. £ 68,468 10,093 1698 31,254 93,517 8,763 25,279 2,720 10,704 174,053 310,135 9,265 18,462 1699 26,660 127,279 16,818 42,792 1,477 17,064 198,115 205,078 12,372 11,401 1700 41,486 91,918 17,567 49,410 4,608 18,529 317,302 173,481 14,058 11,003 1701 32,656 86,322 18,547 31,910 5,220 12,003 235,738 199,683 16,972 13,908 37,026 29,991 1703 33,539 59,608 7,471 17,562 74,896 10,540 22,294 64,625 7,965 4,145 9,342 274,782 72,391 11,870 10,460 5,160 9,899 144,928 196,713 13,197 12,428 2,430 11,819 264,112 60,458 14,067 6,621 1705 22,793 62,504 7,393 27,902 1,309 7,206 116,768 174,322 2,698 19,788 1706 22,210 57,050 2,849 31,588 4,210 1707 38,793 120,631 14,283 29,855 786 1711 26,415 137,421 12,193 1712 24,699 128,105 12,466 18,524 120,778 14,428 46,470 28,856 38 1,471 178 1714 51,541 121,288 29,810 44,643 2,663 1715 66,555 164,650 21,316 54,629 5,461 1716 69,595 121,156 21,971 52,173 5,193 11,037 149,152 58,015 14,365 207,625 237,901 23,311 10,492 6,723 213,493 79,061 10,340 11,996 5,881 261,668 80,268 20,431 28,521 8,594 188,429 127,639 20,793 19,613 19,408 273,181 91,535 12,871 20,406 8,464 297,941 134,583 29,394 20,015 17,037 206,263 76,304 32,449 23,967 14,927 280,470 128,873 31,290 23,712 17,182 174,756 199,274 29,158 16,631 21,842 281,343 179,599 46,287 27,272 8,652 4,001 |