ME+Chapter+Six

· 1688-1763 Four wars(world wars) in Europe · Counting said four wars, nine world wars have been waged since 1688 including the seven years war/French and Indian war · St. Bartholomew’s Day, 1572, over then thousand Huguenots were butchered · 1598 Edict of Nantes issued granted limited toleration to French Protestants · King Louis XIV enthroned as a five year old reigned for seventy two years · The population of Catholic New France grew at a listless pace · The Indian fur trade arrived in Montreal in 1693 numbered four hundred canoes · Antoine Cadillac founded Detroit, the city of straits, in 1701 · Robert de la Salle floated down the Mississippi in 1682 to where it mingles with the gulf, naming it Louisiana in honor of Louis XIV · The earliest contests among the European powers for control of North America known as King Williams’s War · Queen Anne’s War 1702-1713 · Treaty of 1713 British won limited trading rights · 1598 Edict of Nantes · 1608 Champaign colonizes Quebec for France · 1682 La Salle explores Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico · 1689-1697 King William’s War over League of Augsburg ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1702-1713 Queen Anne’s War, War of Spanish Succession ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1718 French founds New Orleans ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1739 War of Jenkin’s Ear ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1744-1748 King George’s War, of Austrian Succession ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1754 Washington battles French on frontier Albany Congress ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1754-1763 Seven Years’s War (French and Indian war) ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1755 Braddock’s defeat ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1757 Pitt emerges as leader of British government ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1759 Battle of Quebec ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1763 Peace of Paris ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1763 Pontiac’s Uprising ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 1763 Proclamation of 1763 prompts settlement in area beyond the Appalachians.