1713
Birth of Anthony Benezet in St. Quentin, France. Benezet would go on to be one of the most important Quaker abolitionists of the mid-eighteenth century.
1712
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712. The American colonies restricted the importation of Africans into their colonies and encouraged domestic slave practices.
1710
New York forbids blacks, Indians, and mulattoes from walking at night without lighted lanterns.
1707
The Act of Union between Scotland and England was ratified, and the new British Parliament soon took in its first Scottish Members.
1706
New York declares blacks, Indians, and slaves who kill white people to be subject to the death penalty.
1705
The Virginia Slave Code codified the status of slaves, further limited their freedom, and defined some rights of slave owners.
1703
Massachusetts requires every master who liberates a slave to pay a bond of 50 pounds or more in case the freedman becomes a public charge.
1688
William of Orange invaded England during the Glorious Revolution causing James II to flee to France.
1607
Jamestown, the first permanent British colony in North America, is founded in modern Virginia.