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| South America & Caribbean:Portuguese colonies in Brazill move inland to Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo. British Caribbean colonies are importing 20,000 Africans a year, most of which are shipped on to North or South America. Later estimates will reach 100,000 a year in this century. | ||||||||||||
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| Europe: The War of Spanish Succession continues with Marlborough advancing his forces against the French. 300,000 die from the Black Death in Prussia this year and the famine that plagued France spreads to other parts of Europe. Fahrenheit thermometer; The Tattler edited by Richard Steel; pianoforte; | ||||||||||||
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