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| South America & Caribbean:The English fleet of Admiral Vernon that took Portobello lays seige to Cartegena but is driven away by mosquito borne malaria and yellow fever. Decorated in the effort is a Captain Lawrence Washington who returns to Virginia and renames his Potomac plantation Green Mountain and names it Mount Vernon |
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| North America:In New York bakers are on strike and Catholic clergy is blamed for inciting blacks to burn the town down on orders from Spain. 35 are hanged or burned at the stake in the resulting witch hunt. Russian pioneers cross the Bering Strait to North America. Calvinism spreading in New England. Indigo planted in South Carolina |
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| Europe: France joins an alliance with Prussia, Bavaria, Spain and Saxony against Austria. Typhus strikes Austria and France. Yellow fever in Cadiz Spain. Painting by Hogarth; Rule Britannia by Thomas Arne. |
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Jean Etienne de Boré born. He will be the first Mayor of New Orleans under the Americans 1803-1804. Sugar is successfully granulated in large quantities at his plantation in 1795. His plantation later becomes the site of World Industrial and Cotton Exposition 1884-1885. |
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