Enlightenment · North America · Politics

1732

Georgia Colony Chartered

June 9, 1732

James Oglethorpe, a reformist MP, received a royal charter to settle debtors and persecuted Protestants in the pine barrens between Carolina and Spanish Florida. Slavery and rum would be banned, Catholics excluded. It would be the last of the thirteen English colonies on the Atlantic seaboard. It would also fail its founders.

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Before and after in North America

Before: December 1731: Sextant Independently Invented
After: January 1, 1733: Molasses Act

Before and after in Politics

Before: June 9, 1731: Treaty of Vienna
After: January 1, 1733: Molasses Act

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.