Proclamation of Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, offering a Bounty in Lands to Volunteers to aid in erecting Fort "on the River Ohio, at the Fork of Monongahela," to oppose hostile French and Indians, such bounty lands to be on the East side of the Ohio River and "one hundred thousand acres thereof to be contiguous to the said fort, and the other hundred thousand acres to be on or near the River Ohio," February 19, 1754.

A fort begun at the "Forks of the Ohio" (Duendaga), by Captain Wm. Trent, February 17, 1754.

Fort at "Forks of the Ohio" surrendered to the French, April 16 (or 17), 1754.

Fort Du Quesne completed, June, 1754.

Skirmish near Great Meadows, in which Washington was successful, marked the commencement, in America, of the French & Indian War (known abroad as the "Seven-Years' War"), May 28, 1754.

James McBride and others pass down Ohio to mouth of Kentucky River, 1754.

Washington defeated at Great Meadows, and surrenders "Fort Necessity," July 3, 4 (or 5), 1754.

Fort Cumberland, at Will's Creek, Maryland, begun by Washington, 1754.

Colonial Congress of Delegates from Seven of the Colonies meets at Albany, New York, unanimously resolve "that a union of the colonies was absolutely necessary for their preservation," and propose for adoption a Plan of Union, drawn by Benjamin Franklin, June 17-July 4, 1754.

Braddock's Defeat, July 8 (or 9), 1755.

The North Carolina Gazette founded at New Berne, 1755. Formal declaration of War between England and France, 1756.

Fort Frederick, Maryland, erected by Governor Sharpe and garrisoned by Colonel Dagworthy in 1756.

Fort Du Quesne destroyed by the retreating French, and General John Forbes takes possession, November 24-25, 1758. Treaty with the Indians between the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Lakes, at Easton, Pennsylvania, 1758.

Washington marries Martha (Dandridge), widow of Daniel Parke Custis, at her home, the "White House," on York River, Virginia, January 17, 1759.

Fort Pitt begun by General John Stanwix, August, 1759. Victory of Wolfe over Montcalm on the Heights of Abraham, at Quebec, September 13, 1759.

Montreal, Detroit, Michilimackinac and all the French possessions in Canada surrendered to the English, September 8, 1760.

Writs of Assistance opposed by the people of Boston, Massachusetts, 1760.

The Cherokees are subdued at Etchoe, Georgia, June, 1761. Amherst County created by Virginia out of Albemarle County, in 1761.

Buckingham County created by Virginia out of Albemarle County in 1761.

Last battle of French & Indian War, in America, fought at Pickawillany (Upper Piqua), near Piqua, Ohio, 1763.

Definitive Treaty of Peace between England, France and Spain, signed February 10, 1763.

Conspiracy of Pontiac, in irruption, May, 1763.

Fort Pitt besieged by Indians, July, 1763.

Detroit, for twelve months, sustains a most distressing siege from the Indians commanded by Pontiac, the Ottawa chief, 1763-1764.

Proclamation by King George III, forbidding settlements on any lands on the "Western Waters," October 7, 1763.

Washington and other Virginians organize the Mississippi Company, in 1763.

Patrick Henry, at Hanover Court-House, in the "Parson's Cause," declared that "Virginians alone had the right to legislate for Virginia," December, 1763.

Determined efforts by Great Britain to enforce the British Navigation and Importation Acts, in 1763.

Pittsburg laid out into regular streets and lots, in 1764.
Lewis Evans' Second Map issued, June 23, 1764.

Colonel Bouquet's Expedition into Ohio against the Indians,

1764.

Stamp Act becomes a law, March 22, 1765.

Colonel George Croghan descends the Ohio River on mission to Vincennes and Detroit for Sir William Johnson, the English. Indian Agent, May 15, 1765.

Sir William Johnson's Treaty of Peace with the Indians, the result of Bouquet's Campaign, 1765.

Patrick Henry, representing Louisa County, carries in the Virginia House of Burgesses, his famous Five Resolutions, opposing the Stamp Act, May, 1765.

A General Provincial Congress held at New York to protest against Stamp Act, October, 1765.

Stamp Act repealed March 18, 1766.

Duty laid by Parliament on Glass, Paper, Painters' Colors, and Teas, in May, 1767.

John Finley and companions lead a hunting and prospecting expedition into Kentucky, in 1767.

Boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland completed, by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (since known as "Mason and Dixon's Line"), 1767.

Treaty of Fort Stanwix (Rome, New York), November 6, 1768.

Treaty with Cherokees, at Hard Labor, South Carolina, October 14, 1768.

Final Report of Commissioners, establishing "Mason and Dixon's Line," November 9, 1768.

George Washington, the Lees, and others petition the King for two and a half million acres of Western lands for "The Mississippi Company," 1768-69.

Walpole or Grand Company organized to settle Vandalia Colony, 1769.

Wm. Bean's cabin and Station erected near junction of Watauga River and Boone's Creek in East Tennessee, 1769.

Pontiac killed, on the site of East St. Louis, by a Kaskaskia Indian, in April, 1769.

Virginia Burgesses denounce transportation of Americans to England for trial an act of tyranny, and declare that the Colonies alone had the right to tax themselves, May, 1769.

Virginia Assembly, dissolved by the Governor, the Burgesses meet privately and pass resolutions against importing British goods, and Non-Importation Agreements were soon adopted by all the colonies, 1769.

Daniel Boone's First View of the "Beautiful Levels of Kentucky," June 7, 1769.