1708. Victory of Marlborough and Prince Eugene, at Oudenarde, over the Dukes of Burgundy and Vendôme.
1711. Unsuccessful expedition of the English and New England forces under Walker against Canada.
1713. Treaty of Utrecht. Close of Queen Anne’s War in America. Acadia (Nova Scotia, etc.) ceded to England by France, which also restores the Hudson Bay region. The power of the Tuscarora Indians broken by the Carolinians.
1714. George I., Elector of Hanover, succeeds to the English Crown.
1715. Rebellion in Scotland and in the North of England in favor of James Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender.
1718. French settlement of New Orleans.
1720. Failure of Law’s Mississippi scheme in France.
1722. Establishment of the Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania under Count Zinzendorf.
1727. Accession of George II.
1728. Discovery of Behring’s Strait.