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1723     France grants residence rights to Portuguese Jews
1730   Jews build a synagogue in Lower Manhattan  
1733 James Oglethorpe founds colony at Savannah, Georgia, receives 41 Jewish settlers    
1740   Kahol Kodish Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia dedicates land for a cemetery England grants naturalization rights to Jews in the colonies
1753     Parliament extends naturalization rights to Jews resident in England
1760   Aaron Lopez emerges as participant in "triangular trade" between British colonies, West Indies, and West Africa The Ba'al Shem Tov, founder of hasidism, dies
1761   First English prayerbook for High Holidays is published in New York  
1765   Ten Jews sign Non-Importation Acts of Pennsylvania  
1775     Pius VI issues edict to suppress the Jewish religion
1776 Second Continental Congress adopts Declaration of Independence Francis Salvador dies fighting as Revolutionary War begins  
1778 Mordecai Sheftall, Commissary General of the Georgia militia, is captured in the battle of Savannah    
1783     Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn translates the Pentateuch into German using Hebrew characters
1787 Delegates to the federal convention draft and sign the Constitution of the United States Kosher food is served following Grand Federal Procession celebrating ratification of the Constitution by Pennsylvania  
1789 George Washington is inaugurated as president Gershom Mendes Seixas, minister of New York's Jewish congregation, is invited to Washington's inaugural  
1790   Washington replies to a letter of congratulations from the Jews of Philadelphia, New York, Charleston, and Richmond  
1791 States ratify Bill of Rights   France grants Jews privileges of full citizens

Tsarist Russia confines Jews to Pale of Settlement, between the Black and Baltic Seas

    
 
 
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