Events

• The English recapture Acadia
  Acadia
  Acadia was the name given to lands in a portion of the French colonial empire of New France, in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine. At the end of the 16th century, France claimed territory stretching as far south as...
  
  , this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia
  Nova Scotia
  Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
  
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• Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal
  Port Royal
  Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1518, it was the centre of shipping commerce in the Caribbean Sea during the latter half of the 17th century...
  
   for England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
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• The English take Port Royal and name it Annapolis Royal.
• Three Mohawk
  Mohawk nation
  Mohawk are the most easterly tribe of the Iroquois confederation. They call themselves Kanien'gehaga, people of the place of the flint...
  
   chiefs and one Mahican
  Mahican
  The Mahican are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe, originally settling in the Hudson River Valley . After 1680, many moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. During the early 1820s and 1830s, most of the Mahican descendants migrated westward to northeastern Wisconsin...
  
   are received in Queen Anne
  Anne of Great Britain
  Anne ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.Anne's Catholic father, James II and VII, was deposed during the...
  
  's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.

Births

• October 7 - François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil
  François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil
  François-Josué de La Corne Dubreuil, was an officer in the colonial regular troops of New France and, as was the norm of the day, involved in family commercial enterprises . He was the son of Jean-Louis de la Corne de Chaptes and a brother of Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne and Luc de la...
  
  , a soldier and trader. (d.1753
  1753 in Canada
  -Events:* The 2nd Fort Paskoya built at a new location which became the Pas.* A trading post, to be later known as Fort de la Corne was built just below the junction of the two branches of the Saskatchewan....
  
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• July 23 - Jonathan Belcher
  Jonathan Belcher (jurist)
  Jonathan Belcher was an American lawyer, chief justice, and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, second son of Jonathan Belcher and Mary Partridge, he received an Bachelor of Arts degree in 1728 and an Master of Arts degree in 1731 from Harvard College...
  
  , lawyer, chief justice, and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia (d.1776
  1776 in Canada
  -Events:* 1776-77 - Capt. James Cook of England explores the Pacific Northwest.* US Revolutionary war. United Empire Loyalists move to Upper Canada and settle ....
  
  )

Deaths