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Events on Thursday 12 February 1733 1
1733Province of Georgia foundedJames Oglethorpe establishes Savannah as the thirteenth British colonyJames Oglethorpe landed with settlers on the bluffs of the Savannah River and founded the city of Savannah, establishing the Province of Georgia as the last of the thirteen original British colonies in North America. The colony was conceived partly as a refuge for debtors and the poor and as a military buffer against Spanish Florida.