1702
Oct
| 1702 • In North America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build Fort Louis de la Mobile (future Mobile, Alabama) to become the capital of French Louisiana. |
1731
Sep 11
Age: 28y
immigrationArrived on the ship the "Pennsylvania Merchant" |
| 1731 • Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River, in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class. The town is laid out in 1733 and incorporated as Wilmington in 1740. |
1745
Dec
Age: 43y
birth of childPhilip Crick Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1745 • December 18 Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish, the last action between two military forces on English soil.Unless the Battle of Graveney Marsh (1940) is counted. |
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Apr
Age: 81y
1784
Apr
Age: 81y
| 1784 • The North Carolina General Assembly changes the name of Kingston, North Carolina, originally named for King George III of Great Britain, to Kinston. |