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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• 1740s: The Mandan Indians west of the Great Lakes begin to trade in horses descended from those brought to Texas by the Spanish. Itinerant Assiniboine Indians bring them from Mandan settlements to their own territories southwest of Lake Winnipeg.
• 1740-1748: The War of the Austrian Succession, with the American counterpart King George's War.

Deaths