1715
Feb 10
1715 • The Province of Carolina goes to war with the Yamasee Native Americans. |
1737
Jun 16
Age: 22y
marriageJames Chaffee Woodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Married by John Chandler, Justice of the Peace 3 Sources ⇓ |
1737 • Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Field Marshal Munnich storm the Ottoman fortress of Ochakov and take prisoner 4,000 Turks. |
1743
May 6
Age: 28y
birth of childDorothy Chaffee Woodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1743 • Battle of La Guaira: a British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish. |
1747
Nov 4
Age: 32y
eventWoodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Beriah Chaffe, an heir of Reverend John Child of Woodstock, and James Chaffee, her husband, of the same town, with other heirs of John Child, sold land to Jacob Child of Woodstock for £415. 1 Source ⇓ |
1747 • War of the Austrian Succession: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in the Royal Colony of North Carolina during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia. |
1758
Jun 24
Age: 43y
1758 • Marquis Gabriel de Lernay, a French officer captured during the Seven Years' War, establishes a military lodge in Berlin with the help of Baron de Printzen, master of The Three Globes Lodge at Berlin, and Philipp Samuel Rosa, a disgraced former pastor. |