North American buckskin map
1774-75 · Resource
A map drawn on deerskin, probably by the Piankashaw or Wea, used in land-cession negotiations with British land companies. It records a Native American view of territory on the eve of colonial dispossession.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1774
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Storming of the Bastille (1789)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)