11 events with tag "colonial"
1629
ID: 2213
Massachusetts Bay Company charter - joint-stock company becomes self-governing commonwealth, corporation as government
ID: 2213
1696
ID: 2235
Board of Trade established - regulating colonial commerce, developing imperial commercial law
ID: 2235
1700
ID: 5779
Cider becomes colonial America's national beverage - safer than water, children drink diluted cider daily, used as currency
ID: 5779
1732
ID: 2252
Georgia charter - trusteeship model for colony, charitable corporation for debtors and poor
ID: 2252
1749
ID: 532
Franklin appointed Provincial Grand Master by Thomas Oxnard with authority over all Pennsylvania lodges
ID: 532
1750
ID: 2261
Iron Act restricts colonial manufacturing - mercantile system using law to control colonial economy
ID: 2261
1765
ID: 2270
Stamp Act triggers colonial resistance - 'no taxation without representation' as legal principle
ID: 2270
1766
ID: 2272
Declaratory Act - Parliament claims right to legislate for colonies 'in all cases whatsoever'
ID: 2272
1767
ID: 571
Franklin's first Paris visit as colonial agent - cultivates 'Philosopher from the Woods' image
ID: 571
1774
ID: 2277
Quebec Act - French civil law preserved in Quebec, legal pluralism in British Empire
ID: 2277
1783
ID: 2322
Fox's India Bill proposes partnership model for empire - East India Company as partnership between Crown and Company
ID: 2322