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| BC | - 4977 BC: Universe created,
according to Kepler - 753 BC: Rome Founded - 13 June 323 BC: Alexander the Great dies - 5 Feb 146 BC: Punic Wars, between Rome and Carthage, come to an end - 44 B.C.: The Ides of March - 1 Jan 45 B.C.: The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time on New Year's Day - 23 Oct 42 BC: Brutus dies by suicide - - 28 Sept 48 BC: Pompey the Great assassinated - 2 Sept 31 BC: The Battle of Actium - 12 Aug 30 BC: Cleopatra dies by suicide |
| 0-999 | - 25 Dec 6: Christ is born? - 18 July 64: Nero's Rome Burns - 24 Aug 79 AD: Mount Vesuvius erupts - 14 Feb 270: St. Valentine beheaded - 13 June 323: Alexander the Great dies - 25 Aug 325: Council of Nicaea concludes - 21 July 365: Tsunami hits Alexandria, Egypt - 9 Aug 378: Romans routed at Adrianople - 17 March 461: Saint Patrick dies - 4 Sept 476: Western Roman Empire falls - 8 Apr 563: Buddhists celebrate birth of Gautama Buddha - 24 Sept 622: Muhammad completes Hegira - 8 June 632: Muhammad, founder of Islam, dies - 10 Oct 732: Battle of Tours - |
| =1000s | - 23 April 1014: King Brian of
Ireland murdered by Vikings - 15 Aug 1057: King Macbeth is killed by Malcolm Canmore - 6 Jan 1066: Harold II crowned king of England - 28 Sept 1066: William the Conqueror invades England - 14 Oct 1066: The Battle of Hastings - 27 Nov 1095: Pope Urban II orders first Crusade - 14 July 1099: Jerusalem captured in First Crusade - |
| =1100s | - 13 Jan 1128: Pope Recognizes
Knights Templar - 29 Dec 1170: Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered - |
| =1200s | - 15 June 1215: King John puts
his seal on Magna Carta - 18 Aug 1227: Genghis Khan dies - |
| =1300s | - 15 June 1300: Dante is named
prior of Florence - 27 Jan 1302: Dante is exiled from Florence - 20 March 1345: Black Death is created, allegedly - 26 Aug 1346: Battle of Crecy - 13 Apr 1360: Hail storm kills 1,000 English troops in France - 13 June 1381: Peasant army marches into London - 12 July 1389: Geoffrey Chaucer is named chief clerk by Richard II - 17 Sept 1394: King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from the kingdom - |
| =1400s | - 6 Jan 1412: Joan of Arc is born -
Link, - 20 March 1413: Henry V ascends upon father's death - 25 Oct 1415: Battle of Agincourt - 17 Nov 1421: Thousands die in massive flood at European shores of North Sea - 29 March 1429: Joan of Arc relieves Orleans - 30 May 1431: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy - 22 May 1455: The War of the Roses begins - 3 May 1469: Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli born - 18 Oct 1469: Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile - 19 Feb 1473: Polish astronomer Copernicus is born - 6 March 1475: Michelangelo is born - 22 Aug 1485: Battle of Bosworth Field - 2 Jan 1492: Reconquest of Spain - 31 March 1492: Spain announces it will expel all Jews - 3 Aug 1492: Columbus sets sail - 12 Oct 1492: Columbus reaches the "New World" - 9 Jan 1493: Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids - 24 June 1497: first recorded sighting of North America - Explorer John Cabot - 20 May 1498: Vasco da Gama reaches India - 1 Aug 1498: Columbus lands in South America - 23 Nov 1499: Flemish imposter executed in London - |
| =1500s | - 26 Jan 1500: First European
explorer reaches Brazil - 8 Sept 1504: Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled to the public - 20 May 1506: Christopher Columbus dies - 11 June 1509: Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon - 1 Nov 1512: Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public - 2 April 1513: Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain - 31 Oct 1517: Martin Luther posts 95 theses - - 28 June 1519: Charles I of Spain elected Holy Roman emperor - 20 Sept 1519: Magellan sets sail from Spain - 30 June 1520: Spanish retreat from Aztec capital - 28 Nov 1520: Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific - 3 Jan 1521: Martin Luther excommunicated - 18 April 1521: Martin Luther defiant at Diet of Worms - 27 April 1521: Ferdinand Magellan killed in the Philippines - 13 Aug 1521: Aztec capital falls to Cortes - 6 Sept 1522: Magellan's expedition circumnavigates globe - 6 Nov 1528: Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca lands in Texas - 5 Jan 1531: Pope Clement VII forbids King Henry VIII from remarrying - 16 Nov 1532: Francisco Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa - 11 July 1533: Pope Clement VII Excommunicated England's King Henry VIII - 29 Aug 1533: Pizarro executes last Inca emperor - 9 June 1534: French navigator Jacques Cartier discovers St. Lawrence River - 15 Jan 1535: King Henry VIII moves heaven and earth to marry the woman he loves, but just a thousand days later he will have her executed - 19 May 1536: - Spanish Armada sets sail to secure English Channel - Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII, is executed - 21 May 1539: Black Spanish explorer Estevan is reported killed - 27 Sept 1540: Jesuit order established - 8 May 1541: Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River - 26 June 1541: Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Incas, assassinated - 21 May 1542: Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto dies in American wilderness - 28 Sept 1542: Spanish explorer sails into San Diego Bay - 8 Dec 1542: Mary Queen of Scots born - 24 May 1543: Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies - 12 July 1543: King Henry VIII married his 6th and last wife Catherine Parr - 19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey deposed as Queen of England - 23 Jan 1556: Deadliest earthquake in history rocks China - 31 July 1556: Ignatius of Loyola, funder of the Jesuit order, dies - 5 Nov 1556: Mughal victory assures Akbar's ascension - 17 Nov 1558: Elizabethan Age begins - 15 Jan 1559: Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England - 26 Feb 1564: Christopher Marlowe is baptized - 23 April 1564: William Shakespeare born - 20 Sept 1565: First European battle on American soil - 2 July 1566: Nostradamus died in Salon - 24 July 1567: Mary Queen of Scots deposed - 13 May 1568: Mary Queen of Scots defeated - 24 Aug 1572: Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre - 13 Dec 1577: Explorer Francis Drake sets sail from England - 17 June 1579: Sir Francis Drake claims California for England - 26 Sept 1580: Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe - 28 Nov 1582: William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway - 8 Feb 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded - 19 May 1588: Spanish Armada sets sail to secure English Channel - 29 July 1588: Spanish Armada defeated - 18 Aug 1590: Roanoke Colony deserted - 18 May 1593: Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe - 30 May 1593: Playwright Christopher Marlowe killed in tavern brawl - |
| =1600s | - 31 Dec 1600: Charter granted
to the East India Company - 17 March 1601: First St. Patrick's Day parade - 24 March 1603: Queen Elizabeth I dies - 16 Jan 1605: Groundbreaking novel "Don Quixote" is published - 5 Nov 1605: King James learns of Gunpowder Plot - 31 Jan 1606: The death of Guy Fawkes - 13 May 1607: Jamestown settlers arrive - 3 July 1608: City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain - 10 Sept 1608: John Smith elected to lead Jamestown - 26 Dec 1610: Hungarian countesses' torturous escapades are exposed - 22 June 1611: Henry Hudson set adrift by mutineers - 29 June 1613: Globe Theatre in London destroyed by fire (Many of Shakespeare's plays performed here) - 5 April 1614: Pocahontas maries John Rolfe - 29 Oct 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh executed - 30 July 1619: First legislative assembly in America convenes in Jamestown - 20 Aug 1619: First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown setting the stage for slavery in North America - 16 Sept 1620: Mayflower departs England - Link, - 18 Dec 1620: Mayflower docks at Plymouth Harbor - 23 Dec 1620: Construction of Plymouth settlement begins - 1 Apr 1621: The Pilgrim-Wampanoag peace treaty - 5 Feb 1631: Roger Williams arrives in America - 13 Feb 1633: Galileo arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy - 12 Apr 1633: Galileo is accused of heresy - Galileo goes on trial for heresy - 25 March 1634: Settlement of Maryland - 18 Sept 1634: Anne Hutchinson arrives in the New World - 9 Oct 1635: Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts - 26 May 1637: Pequot massacres begin - 14 Jan 1639: The first colonial constitution - 8 Jan 1642: Astronomer Galileo dies in Italy - 5 Jan 1643: First divorce in the colonies - 24 Oct 1648: Thirty Years' War ends - 30 Jan 1649: King Charles I executed for treason - 11 July 1656: First Quaker colonists land at Boston - 27 Oct 1659: Quakers executed for religious beliefs - 25 May 1660: The English Restoration begins - 8 Sept 1664: New Amsterdam becomes New York - 2 Sept 1666: Great fire of London Begins - 8 Sept 1666: New Amsterdam becomes New York - 8 March 1669: Mount Etna erupts - 11 March 1669: Mount Etna begins rumbling - 2 May 1670: King Charles II grants charter to Hudson's Bay Company - 9 May 1671: Irish adventurer "Captain Blood" steals crown jewels - 24 June 1675: King Philip's War begins - 12 Aug 1676: King Philip's War ends - 21 March 1678: Reward offered for identity of pamphlet author - 6 June 1683: World's first university museum opens in Oxford, England - 6 Oct 1683: First Mennonites arrive in America - 21 March 1685: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany - 13 Feb 1689: William and Mary proclaimed joint sovereigns of Britain - 20 April 1689: Siege of Derry begins - 10 Dec 1690: First paper currency is issued in the Colonies - 1 March 1692: Salem Witch Hunt begins - 7 June 1692: Earthquake destroys Jamaican pirate haven - 10 June 1692: First Salem Witch hanging - |
| 1700-1709 | =1700: - 1 Apr 1700: April Fool's tradition popularized - =1701: - 23 May 1701: Captain Kidd is executed - =1702: - =1703: - 27 May 1703: - St. Petersburg founded by Peter the Great - Freak storm dissipates over England - =1704: - 29 Feb 1704: Deerfield settlement razed in Queen Anne's War - =1705: - =1706: - =1707: - =1708: - =1709: - |
| 1710-1719 | =1710: - =1711: - =1712: - =1713: - =1714: - =1715: - 31 July 1715: Hurricane sinks Spanish treasure ships - =1716: - =1717: - 16 May 1717: Satirical writer, Voltaire, is imprisoned in the Bastille - =1718: - Blackbeard killed off North Carolina - =1719: - 25 April 1719: "Robinson Crusoe" is published |
| 1720-1729 | =1720: - =1721: - =1722: - =1723: - =1724: - =1725: - 8 Feb 1725: Peter the Great (Russia) dies - =1726: - =1727: - =1728: - =1729: - |
| 1730-1739 | =1730: - =1731: - =1732: - 22 Feb 1732: George Washington is born - 19 Dec 1732: Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack" is published - =1733: - =1734: - =1735: - 30 Oct 1735: John Adams is born - =1736: - =1737: - =1738: - 21 Jan 1738: Ethan Allen is born - =1739: - |
| 1740-1749 | =1740: - =1741 - 14 Jan 1741: Benedict Arnold, American traitor, born - =1742: - 13 April 1742: Handel's "Messiah" premieres in Dublin - =1743: - 13 April 1743: Thomas Jefferson is born - =1744: - =1745: - =1746: - 27 Nov 1746: R.R. Livingston, future Founding Father known as "The Chancellor," is born - =1747: - =1748: - =1749: - |
| 1750-1759 | =1750: - =1751: - 16 March 1751: James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," is born - 14 Aug 1751: A daughter poisons her father - - =1752: - 10 June 1752: Ben Franklin flies kite during thunderstorm - =1753: - 4 Aug 1753: George Washington becomes a Master Mason =1754: - 28 May 1754: First blood of the French and Indian War - 4 June 1754: Lt Col. George Washington builds Fort Necessity - 21 Aug 1754: Bloody Ban Tarleton born in Britain - =1755: - 1 Nov 1755: Earthquake takes heavy toll on Lisbon - =1756: - 15 May 1756: The Seven Years War begins - =1757: - =1758: - 21 May 1758: Lenape Indians abduct Mary Campbell from western Pennsylvania - =1759: - 6 Jan1759: Two future presidents marry respective sweethearts (George Washington Marries Martha Dandridge Curtis) - 6 Jan is also anniv. for George H.W. Bush) - 25 Jan 1759: Scottish poet Robert Burns is born - - |
| 1760-1769 | =1760: - =1761: - =1762: - 9 July 1762: Catherine the Great assumes power in Russia - =1763: - 10 Feb 1763: The French and Indian War ends - 7 May 1763: Ottawa Chief Pontiac's Rebellion against the British begins - 17 July 1763: John Jacob Astor is born - =1764: - 19 Jan 1764: John Wilkes expelled from British Parliament - 25 Oct 1754: John Adams marries Abigail Smith - =1765: - 22 March 1765: Stamp Act imposed on American Colonies - 24 March 1765: Parliament passes the Quartering Act - 1 Nov 1765: Parliament enacts the Stamp Act - =1766: - 18 March 1766: Parliament repeals the Stamp Act - =1767: - 15 March 1767: Andrew Jackson is born - 11 July 1767: John Quincy Adams born - 18 Oct 1767: Mason and Dixon draw a Line - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mason-and-dixon-draw-a-line - =1768: - 9 Jan 1768: First modern circus is staged - =1769: - 17 May 1769: George Washington criticizes "taxation without representation" - 16 July 1769: First Catholic mission in California dedicated - |
| 1770-1779 | =1770: - 5 March 1770: The Boston Massacre - 12 April 1770: British repeal hated Townshend Act in the Colonies - 16 May 1770: French dauphin, Louis, marries Marie Antoinette - =1771: - =1772: - 9 June 1772: British vessel burned off Rhode Island - =1773: - 9 Feb 1773: William Henry Harrison born - 27 April 1773: British parliament passes unpopular Tea Act - 16 Dec 1773: The Boston Tea Party - - =1774: - 25 March 1774: Parliament passes the Boston Port Act - 28 March 1774: British Parliament adopts the Coercive Acts in response to the Boston Tea Party - 31 March: Parliament passes the Boston Port Act - 5 April 1774: Benjamin Franklin publishes "An Open Letter to Lord North" - 2 June 1774: Parliament completes the Coercive Acts with the Quartering Act - 28 Aug 1774: St. Elizabeth born in New York City - 5 Sept 1774: First Continental Congress convenes - 20 Oct 1774: Congress creates the Continental Association - 25 Oct 1774: Congress petitions English king to address grievances - =1775: - 11 Jan 1775: Jewish Patriot joins Provincial Congress of South Carolina - 7 Feb 1775: Benjamin Franklin publishes "An Imaginary Speech" - - 23 March 1775: Patrick Henry voices American opposition to British policy - 27 March 1775: Thomas Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress - 30 March 1775: King George endorses New England Restraining Act - 14 April 1775: First American abolition society founded in Philadelphia - 18 April 1775: Revere and Dawes warn of British attack - 19 April 1775: American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington - 10 May 1775: Second Continental Congress assembles as Americans capture Fort Ticonderoga - 24 May 1775: John Hancock becomes president of Congress - 10 June 1775: John Adams proposes a Continental Army - 14 June 1775: Continental Army created - 15 June 1775: George Washington assigned to lead the Continental Army - 17 June 1775: Battle of Bunker Hill begins - 22 June 1775: Congress issues Continental currency - 3 July 1775: George Washington takes command of Continental Army - 5 July 1775: Congress adopts Olive Branch Petition - 6 July 1775: Congress issues a "Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms" - 26 July 1775: US Postal System Established - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-postal-system-established - 10 June 1775: John Adams proposes a Continental Army - 1 Sept. 1775: King George refuses Olive Branch petition - 25 Sept 1775: Ethan Allen is captured - 5 Oct 1775: General Washington informs Congress of espionage - 10 Oct 1775: William Howe named commander in chief of British army - 13 Oct 1775: Continental Congress authorizes first naval force - 26 Oct 1775: King George III speaks to Parliament of American rebellion - 10 Nov 1775: Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps - 12 Nov 1775: Abigail Adams leads rhetorical charge against Britain - 13 Nov 1775: Patriots take Montreal - 8 Dec 1775: Americans begin siege of Quebec - 16 Dec 1775: Jane Austen is born - 31 Dec 1775: Patriots are defeated at Quebec - =1776: - 2 Jan 1776: Congress publishes the Tory Act - 9 Jan 1776: Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense" - 25 Jan 1776: First National memorial is ordered by Congress - to honor Brigadier General Richard Montgomery - 2 March 1776: The Siege of Boston - Washington begins bombardment of British-held Boston - - 4 March 1776: American forces occupy Dorchester Heights - 6 march 1776: New York demands Sandy Hook lighthouse be dismantled - 12 March 1776: - Public notice urges recognition of the sacrifices of women -Public Notice urges recognition of "humane ladies" - 14 March 1776: Alexander Hamilton is named captain of artillery company - 17 March 1776: British evacuate Boston - 31 March 1776: Abigail Adams urges husband to "remember the ladies" - 3 April 1776: Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels - 4 April 1776: General George Washington begins march to New York - 4 May 1776: Rhode Island becomes first colony to declare independence from England - 7 June 1776: Lee Resolution presented to Continental Congress - 11 June 1776: Congress appoints Committee of Five to draft the Declaration of Independence - 15 June 1776: Delaware declares independence - 29 June 1776: - Virginia state constitution adopted - Patrick Henry Made governor - South Carolina's Edward Rutledge opposes independence - 2 July 1776: Continental Congress votes for independence from Britain - 4 July 1776: Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence - 8 July 1776: Co. John Nixon gave first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia - Liberty Bell Tolls to announce it - - 24 July 1776: John Hancock scolds Major General Philip Schuyler - 2 Aug 1776: Delegates sign Declaration of Independence - 10 Aug 1776: London learns of American Independence - 12 Aug 1776: General Washington anticipates British blockade of New York - 22 Aug 1776: Redcoats land at Long Island - 27 Aug 1776: British forces defeat Patriots in the Battle of Brooklyn - 30 Aug 1776: Washington refuses British general's letter of reconciliation - 7 Sept 1776: World's first submarine attack - 9 Sept 1776: Congress renames the nation "United States of America" - 10 Sept 1776: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy behind British Lines - 22 Sept 1776: Nathan Hale is executed by the British for spying - 30 Sept 1776: General George Washington complains about his militia - 11 Oct 1776: Benedict Arnold fights valiantly at Valcour Island - 26 Oct 1776: Benjamin Franklin sets sail for France - 31 Oct 1776: King George III speaks for first time since American independence declared - 14 Nov 1776: English newspaper announces Benjamin Franklin has joined rebellion in America - 16 Nov 1776: British capture Fort Washington - 21 Nov 1776; George Washington orders General Lee to New Jersey - 3 Dec 1776: George Washington arrives at the banks of the Delaware - 5 Dec 1776: Phi Beta Kappa fraternity is founded - 13 Dec 1776: General Charles Lee leaves his troops for Widow White's Tavern - 19 Dec 1776: Thomas Paine publishes "The American Crisis" - 25 Dec 1776: George Washington crosses the Delaware - 26 Dec 1776: George Washington wins first major U.S. victory at Trenton - =1777: - 3 Jan 1777: The Battle of Princeton - 6 Jan 1777: George Washington sets up winter quarters n Morristown, NJ - Link, - 12 Jan 1777: Hugh Mercer dies from wounds received in Battle of Princeton - 15 Jan 1777: Vermont declares independence from colony of New York - 28 Jan 1777: British plan to isolate New England - 5 Feb 1777: Georgia constitution abolishes primogeniture and entail - 19 Feb 1777: Congress overlooks Benedict Arnold for promotion - 22 Feb 1777: Archibald Bulloch dies under mysterious circumstances - 7 March 1777: five letters pass between Abigail and John Adams - 20 April 1777: New York adopts state constitution - 21 April 1777: British rampage Danbury, CT - 16 May 1777: Georgia Patriot Button Gwinnett is fatally wounded in duel - 23 May 1777: Meigs Expedition claims sole Patriot victory on Long Island - 13 June 1777: Lafayette arrives in South Carolina to serve alongside General Washington - 14 June 1777: 2nd Continental Congress approved design of the original American Flag - Stars & Stripes - 9 July 1777: New York elects its first governor - 31 July 1777: Marquis de Lafayette becomes a major-general without pay - 31 Aug 1777: Sam Mason survives Native American Attack - 3 Sept 1777: The Stars and Stripes flies in battle for the first time - 11 Sept 1777: The Battle of Brandywine begins - 19 Sept 1777: Arnold and Gates argue at First Battle of Saratoga - 20 Sept 1777: Redcoats kill sleeping Americans in Paoli Massacre - 4 Oct 1777: Both sides battered at Germantown - 17 Oct 1777: Americans win more than a battle at Saratoga - 2 Nov 1777: John Paul Jones sets sail - 3 Nov 1777: George Washington learns of effort to discredit him known as Conway Cabal - 15 Nov 1777: Articles of Confederation adopted - 17 Nov 1777: Articles of Confederation submitted to the states - 2 Dec 1777: Philadelphia nurse overhears British plans to attack Washington's army - 11 Dec 1777: British delay Washington's march to Valley Forge - 17 Dec 1777: France formally recognizes the United States - 19 Dec 1777: Continental Army enters winter camp at Valley Forge - =1778: - 6 Feb 1778: Franco-American alliances signed - 18 Jan 1778: Captain Cook reaches Hawaii - 11 Feb 1778: Voltaire returns to Paris from exile - 16 Feb 1778: John Adams prepares to sail for France - 23 Feb 1778: Friedrich von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge - 20 March 1778: King Louis XVI receives US representatives - 21 March 1778: Massacre at Hancock's Bridge - 10 April 1778: Revolutionary War commander John Paul Jones sets out to raid British ships - 22 April 1778: John Paul Jones leads American raid on Whitehaven, England - 23 April 1778: John Paul Jones burns Whitehaven, England - 18 June 1778: British abandon Philadelphia - 11 Nov 1778: Poor leadership leads to Cherry Valley Massacre - 10 Dec 1778: John Jay is elected president of the Continental Congress - 29 Dec 1778: British capture Savannah, Georgia - =1779: - 22 Jan 1779: Claudius Smith, "Cowboy of the Ramapos," hangs - - 14 Feb 1779: - Patriots defeat Loyalists at Kettle Creek - Captain Cook killed in Hawaii - 25 Feb 1779: British surrender Fort Sackville (Vincennes, Indiana) - 11 March 1779: Congress establishes the US Army Corps of Engineers - 1 June 1779: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed - 21 June 1779: Spain declares war against Great Britain - 16 July 1779: Anthony Wayne launches risky attack against British forces - 19 July 1779: Massachusetts begins ill-fated Penobscot Expedition - 23 Sept 1779: John Paul Jones wins in English waters - 27 Sept 1779: John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British - 1 Dec 1779: George Washington establishes winter quarters at Morristown - |
| 1780-1789 | =1780: - 3 Feb 1780: Early American mass murder changes common perceptions of crime - Earliest documented mass murder in U.S. history - 12 May 1780: Americans suffer worst defeat of revolution at Charleston - 29 May 1780: British Colonel Tarleton gives "quarter" in South Carolina - 15 Aug 1780: "Swamp Fox" routs Loyalists while Gates' men fall ill - 21 Sept 1780: Benedict Arnold commits treason - 29 Sept 1780: Benedict Arnold's accomplice is sentenced to Death - 2 Oct 1780: Benedict Arnold accomplice hanged - 7 Oct 1780: Battle of King's Mountain - 4 Dec 1780: George Washington's cousin tricks Loyalists - =1781: - 1 Jan 1781: Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line - 5 Jan 1781: Benedict Arnold captures and destroys Richmond - 17 Jan 1781: Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina - 24 Jan 1781: Light Horse and Swamp Fox raid Georgetown, South Carolina - 31 Jan 1781: Maryland finally ratifies Articles of Confederation - 1 March 1781: The Articles of Confederation are ratified after nearly four years - 9 March 1781: Spanish siege of Pensacola begins - 13 March 1781: William Herschel discovers Uranus - 22 May 1781: Patriot siege of Ninety Six, South Carolina begins - 13 Aug 1781: Patriots ambush Loyalists as French set sail - 6 Sept 1781: Benedict Arnold orders burning of New London - 8 Sept 1781: Bloody battle begins at Eutaw Springs, South Carolina - 28 Sept 1781: Battle of Yorktown begins - 19 Oct 1781: Americans defeat the British at Yorktown - =1782: - 17 Feb 1782: French and British battle in the Indian Ocean - 8 March 1782: Pennsylvania militiamen murder Patriot allies - 20 June 1782: Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States - 11 July 1782: British evacuate Savannah, Georgia - 7 Aug 1782: George Washington creates the Purple Heart - =1783: - 15 March 1783: George Washington puts an end to the Newburgh Conspiracy - 18 May 1783: United Empire loyalists reach Canada - 20 June 1783: Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States - 22 June 1783: Zong slave ship trial - 3 Sept 1783: Treaty of Paris signed - 21 Nov 1783: Men fly over Paris in hot air balloon - 22 Nov 1783: John Hanson, so-called first president, dies (First president of Continental Congress) - 25 Nov 1783: Last British soldiers leave New York - 4 Dec 1783: George Washington bids farewell to his officers - 23 Dec 1783: George Washington resigns as commander in chief - =1784: - 14 Jan 1784: Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution - 28 Feb 1784: John Wesley charters first Methodist church in US - 14 Aug 1784: Russians settle Alaska - 23 Aug 1784: State of Franklin declares independence - =1785: - 7 Jan 1785: Two explorers cross the English Channel in a balloon - =1786: - 12 Oct 1786: Thomas Jefferson composes romantic letter - =1787: - 14 May 1787: Constitutional Convention delegates begin to assemble - 25 May 1787: Constitutional Convention begins - 13 July 1787: Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance - 6 Aug 1787: First draft of Constitution debated - 17 Sept 1787: US Constitution signed - 18 Nov 1787: Birth of Louis Jacques Mande Dagueere in France - Father of what we call Photography today - 7 Dec 1787: Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution - 12 Dec 1787: Pennsylvania ratifies the Constitution - =1788: - 2 Jan 1788: Georgia enters the Union - 22 Jan 1788: English poet Lord Byron is born - 26 Jan 1788: British settlement begins in Australia - 11 June 1788: Russian explorer Izmailove arrives at Yakutat Bay, Alaska - 21 June 1788: US Constitution ratified - =1789: - 7 Jan 1789: First U.S. Presidential election - Link, - 4 Feb 1789: George Washington unanimously elected first US President - 12 Feb 1789: Ethan Allen dies - 4 March 1789: Government under the US Constitution begins - 1 Apr 1789: First US House of Representatives elect speaker - 28 April 1789: Mutiny on the HMS Bounty - 30 April 1789: George Washington gives the first presidential inaugural address - 14 June 1789: Bounty mutiny survivors reach Timor - 20 June 1789: Third Estate makes Tennis Court Oath - 14 July 1789: French revolutionaries storm the Bastille - 15 July 1789: Lafayette selected colonel-general of the National Guard of Paris - 2 Sept 1789: Congress founds US Treasury - 24 Sept 1789: The first Supreme Court is established - 25 Sept 1789: Bill of Rights passes Congress - |
| 1790-1799 | =1790: - 8 Jan 1790: George Washington delivers first State of the Union - - 1 Feb 1790: First session of the US Supreme Court - - 17 April 1790: Ben Franklin dies - 16 July 1790: Congress declares Washington, DC new capital =1791: - 23 April 1791: James Buchanan is born - 19 Aug 1791: Benjamin Banneker writes to Thomas Jefferson, urging justice for African Americans - 4 Nov 1791: Native Americans deliver crushing defeat at the Battle of the Wabash - 15 Dec 1791: Bill of Rights is finally ratified - =1792: - 20 Feb 1792: Postal Service Act regulates US Post Office Department - 5 April 1792: George Washington exercises first presidential veto - 8 May 1792: Militia act establishes conscription under federal law - 17 May 1792: New York Stock Exchange had its beginnings - 18 July 1792: Naval hero John Paul Jonas dies in Paris - 21 Sept 1792: Monarchy abolished in France - 13 Oct 1792: White House cornerstone laid - =1793: - 21 Jan 1793: King Louis XVI executed - 12 Feb 1793: Congress enacts first fugitive slave law - 13 July 1793: Charlotte Corday assassinates French revolutionary Jen-Paul Marat - 10 Aug 1793: Louvre Museum opens - 18 Sept 1793: George Washington lays the Capitol cornerstone - 11 Oct 1793: Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia - 16 Oct 1793: Marie Antoinette is beheaded - 28 Dec 1793: Writer Thomas Paine is arrested in France - =1794: - 27 July 1794: Robespierre overthrown in France - 20 Aug 1794: Battle of Fallen Timbers - 26 Aug 1794: President George Washington decides to subdue Whiskey Rebellion - =1795: - 18 Aug 1795: George Washington signs Jay Treaty with Britain - 2 Nov 1795: James Polk is born - =1796: - 14 May 1796: Early smallpox vaccine is tested - 17 Sept 1796: George Washington prepares final draft of farewell address - 9 Oct 1796: Editorial accuses Thomas Jefferson of affair with enslaved woman - Link, - 19 Oct 1796: Editorial accuses Thomas Jefferson of affair with enslaved woman - =1797: - 24 May 1797: Thomas Jefferson inquires about a former flame (Maria Cosway) - 22 Oct 1797: First parachute jump is made over Paris - =1798 - 6 Jan 1798: Frontiersman Jedediah Smith is born - 26 Apr 1798: Mountain man James Beckwourth is born - 18 June 1798: President John Adams oversees passage of first of Alien and Sedition Acts - 11 July 1798: US Marine Corps formally re-established - also created the US Marine Band - 14 July 1798: Sedition Act becomes Federal Law - =1799: - 6 Jan 1799: Frontiersman Jedediah Smith is born - 19 July 1799: Rosetta Stone Found - 12 Nov 1799: First meteor shower on record - 14 Dec 1799: George Washington dies - |
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