1701 – The English Board of Trade advises the king to create royal colonies of all of the American charter colonies.
1753 – Benjamin Thompson (d.1814), Count Rumford, English physicist and diplomat, was born. He was a Tory spy in the American Revolution and discovered that heat equaled motion, which led to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
1790 – US Congress passed a Naturalization Act. It required a 2-year residency.
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