James Oglethorpe: Founding of Georgia and Social Reform Efforts

James Oglethorpe

A British military officer, politician, and colonial administrator. Known as the founder of the Province of Georgia, he was a social reformer who also worked to improve conditions in debtors' prisons. After obtaining a royal charter for the Georgia Colony in 1732, he led settlers to North America and founded Savannah in 1733. As a military officer, he participated in the Austro-Turkish War, the War of Jenkins' Ear, and the Jacobite rising, commanding defenses in Georgia against attacks from Spanish Florida.

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Year	James Oglethorpe
1696	Birth of James Oglethorpe (Period: December 22, 1696, Location: Godalming, Surrey, England (present-day Godalming))
1707	Early Military Career (James Oglethorpe, Age: 10 years old, Period: 1707–1715, Location: England)
1716	Austro-Turkish War (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1663–1664, Location: Kingdom of Hungary, Border Region of Austria-Hungary) Service in Prince Eugene's Army (James Oglethorpe, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1716–1718, Location: Hungary, Serbia, Sicily, etc.)
1722	Election to Parliament (James Oglethorpe, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1722, Location: Parliament of England, Haslemere constituency)
1729	Investigation into Debtors' Prisons (Age: 32 years old, Period: Around 1729–1730, Location: England)
1730	Prohibition of Slavery in Georgia (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1730s, Location: Georgia Colony)
1732	Establishment of the Georgia Colony (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1732–1733, Location: England and Georgia, North America) Royal Charter for the Georgia Colony (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1732, Location: Great Britain)
1733	Establishment of Savannah (James Oglethorpe, Age: 36 years old, Period: February 12, 1733, Location: Yamacraw Bluff, Georgia)
1736	Construction of Fort Frederica (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1736, Location: St. Simons Island, Georgia)
1739	War of Jenkins' Ear (Age: 42 years old, Period: Around 1739–1743, Location: Georgia, Spanish Florida, St. Augustine, St. Simons Island, etc.)
1740	Siege of St. Augustine (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1740, Location: St. Augustine, Spanish Florida)
1742	Spanish Invasion of Georgia (Age: 45 years old, Period: July 1742, Location: St. Simons Island, Georgia)
1743	Return from Georgia (James Oglethorpe, Age: 46 years old, Period: September 1743, Location: Georgia to England)
1744	Court-Martial (James Oglethorpe, Age: 47 years old, Period: 1744, Location: England) Marriage (James Oglethorpe, Elizabeth Wright, Age: 47 years old, Period: September 15, 1744, Location: Westminster Abbey, London, England)
1745	Jacobite Rising (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1745–1746, Location: Northern England, York, Shap, Clifton, etc.) Skirmish at Clifton Moor (Age: 48 years old, Period: December 18, 1745, Location: Clifton, Cumbria, England)
1747	Promotion to Lieutenant General (James Oglethorpe, Age: 50 years old, Period: September 19, 1747, Location: Great Britain)
1754	End of Parliamentary Career (James Oglethorpe, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1754, Location: Haslemere constituency, England)
1756	Seven Years' War (Age: 59 years old, Period: Around 1756–1759 (military service includes historical estimates), Location: Prussian territory, Central Europe, etc.)
1785	Meeting with John Adams (James Oglethorpe, Age: 88 years old, Period: June 1785, Location: London, England) Death of James Oglethorpe (Age: 88 years old, Period: June 30, 1785 (also described as July 1 in the main body of Wikipedia))

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East India Company	James Lancaster John Davis William Keeling Henry Middleton Thomas Best Thomas Roe Josiah Child Gerald Aungier Job Charnock
Expansion into North America	John Smith John Winthrop William Bradford William Penn James Oglethorpe Cecil Calvert John Cabot
Science and Astronomy	Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Francis Bacon René Descartes William Harvey Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Christiaan Huygens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Isaac Newton Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Arts and Culture	Peter Paul Rubens Rembrandt van Rijn Diego Velázquez Johannes Vermeer Anthony van Dyck Giovanni Battista Lulli Antoine Watteau

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