[Game] Count to 10,000

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1711 John Shore invents the tuning fork.

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1712 -  Peter the Great moves the capital of the Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

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1713 Frederick William I of Prussia begins his reign.

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1714 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.... and did you know that George I did not speak English?

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1715 A total solar eclipse is seen across southern England, Sweden and Finland (the last total eclipse visible in London, UK for almost 900 years)

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1716 - The Tugaloo Massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War.

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1717 What is now the northeastern United States is paralyzed by a series of blizzards that bury the region.

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1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana, is founded.

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1719 Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury, Pennsylvania's first newspaper.

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1720 - Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels.

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1721 Pope Innocent XIII succeeds Pope Clement XI as the 244th pope.

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1722 - The Silence Dogood letters appear, written by Benjamin Franklin.

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1723 Louis XV of France attains his majority.

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1724 -  Pope Benedict XIII, born Pierro Orsini, succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.

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1725 Catherine I becomes Empress of Russia on the death of her husband, Peter the Great.