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★25 Jan 1704
English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of raids against a largely peaceful population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.

★29 Feb 1704
Joint French and Native American forces destroyed the English settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts, during Queen Anne's War, killing over fifty colonists.

★10 Apr 1741
War of the Austrian Succession: Prussian forces defeated Austrian troops at the Battle of Mollwitz in present-day Małujowice, Poland, cementing Frederick II's authority over the newly conquered territory of Silesia.

★27 Jun 1743
War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by George II defeated the French army at Dettingen, Bavaria.

★13 Dec 1769
Dartmouth College in what is now Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S., was established by a royal charter and became the last university founded in the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution.

★29 Apr 1770
British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour, the first European ship to land in eastern Australia, reached the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.

★12 Apr 1776
The fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, the first official action in the American colonies calling for independence from Britain during the American Revolution.

★28 Oct 1776
American Revolutionary War: As George Washington's Continental Army retreated northward from New York City, the British Army captured the village of White Plains.

★26 Dec 1776
American Revolutionary War: In the predawn hours, George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack against the Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton.

★17 Oct 1777
American Revolutionary War: General John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign ended with his surrender to the Americans, which later convinced France to enter the war in alliance with the United States.

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