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| 1 | 1613 |
- 21 Feb 1613—15 Mar 1917: The Romanov Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia, begins when 16 year old Mikhail Romanov is elected as Czar.Russiapedia Hillwood
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| 2 | 1760 |
- 25 Oct 1760—29 Jan 1820: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.HistoricUK LoC
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| 3 | 1776 |
- 4 Jul 1776—1783: The United States is founded when the Second Continental Congress declares its independence from Great Britain.USHistory USNA
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| 4 | 1777 |
- 3 Jan 1777: Washington defeats the British in the Battle of Princeton.MtVernon BB
- 15 Jan 1777: New Connecticut declares its independence from Great Britain and the colony of New York. The name is changed to Vermont in June of that year.History.com UND
- 28 Jan 1777: British General Burgoyne submits a plan to cut off and isolate New England from the rest of the Colonies.History.com TXSAR
- 26 Apr 1777: Major General William Tryon, royal governor of New York, and 2000 British troops attack and destroy Danbury, Connecticut.DM ABT
- 14 Jun 1777: The Continental Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States of America.LoC SI
- 8 Jul 1777: Vermont abolishes slavery in its constitution.Avalon VT
- 9 Jul 1777: New York State elects its first, and longest serving, governor, George Clinton.POLITICO USNA
- 17 Oct 1777: British troops surrender at Saratoga.Saratoga AoC
- 15 Nov 1777: The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress.OurDocs LoC
- 29 Nov 1777: The first pueblo in California is established as San Jose, or El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadelupe.SJPL SJ.gov
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| 5 | 1778 |
- 18 Jan 1778: The first Europeans make landfall in Hawaii.W I R E D NPS
- 22 Apr 1778: John Paul Jones raids Whitehaven, England.JotAR JPJCM
- 11 Nov 1778: The Cherry Valley Massacre - Tory and Mohawk forces murder 47 townsfolk, mostly by tomahawk.CN SotS
- 10 Dec 1778: John Jay is elected president of the Continental Congress.USHouse History.com
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| 6 | 1779 |
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| 7 | 1780 |
- 3 Feb 1780: The first mass murder in America changes the way criminals are perceived.Courant CTMag
- 4 May 1780: The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is founded.TiS AAoA&S
- 19 May 1780: Smoke from forest fires cause The Dark Day of 1780.NEHS HI
- 21 Sep 1780: Treasonous American General Benedict Arnold, believing that he was unrewarded for his military successes, meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British.NCC LoC
- 9 Oct 1780: An expedition sets off from Harvard College to observe a solar eclipse from Penobscot Bay in Maine which is still controlled by Britain.USNA JSTOR
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| 8 | 1781 |
- 5 Jan 1781: Richmond, Virginia is captured and burned by American traitor and British general Benedict Arnold.AMN VAMoH&C
- 17 Jan 1781: the American militia, led by Colonel Daniel Morgan, defeat the British under Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton in the Battle of Cowpens.BB fold3
- 13 Mar 1781: British astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus while surveying the sky with his telescope.
UT EarthSky
- 15 Mar 1781: British troops under Cornwallis defeat a larger American force at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina.NPS BB
- 22 Aug 1781: The first slaves win their freedom in Massachusetts.MHS MassMoments
- 4 Sep 1781: The city of Los Angeles is founded.LACity LoC
- 6 Sep 1781: Benedict Arnold attacks and burns New London, Connecticut.CTHist FtGriswold
- 28 Sep 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins. American and French forces surround British forces.BB MtVernon
- 19 Oct 1781: Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at Yorktown.AoC LoC
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| 9 | 1782 |
- 7 Aug 1782: The Purple Heart is established by General George Washington at Newburgh, New York.NPHHoH USArmy
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| 10 | 1783 |
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| 11 | 1784 |
- 28 Feb 1784: John Wesley, an Anglican (Church of England) minister, charters the first Methodist Church in the United States.History.com IC
- 3 Jun 1784: The United States Army is established when Congress votes to form the 1st American Regiment for national service.USArmy HFS
- 21 Aug 1784: Benjamin Franklin makes mention of, in letters, bi-focal eyeglasses he had invented earlier about 1780.eNotes AS
- 23 Aug 1784—1788: The state of Franklin is created from parts of North Carolina and Tennessee.NCDNCR ETNHS
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| 12 | 1785 |
- 7 Jan 1785: The first international flight occurs when Blanchard and Jeffries fly a balloon across the English Channel.StratoCat SI
- 6 Jul 1785: Congress adopts "dollar" as the U. S. currency name.LoC LCC
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| 13 | 1786 |
- 8 Jun 1786: The first advertisement for commercially-made ice cream in the U. S. is published in the New York Post Boy.NYTimes OAA
- 8 Aug 1786: The value of a dollar is established by the U. S. Congress.LoC USHouse
- 29 Aug 1786: An armed uprising, Shays' Rebellion, begins in western Massachusetts when foreclosure processes are allowed to move forward against farmers who had previously served their country.STCC LH
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| 14 | 1787 |
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| 15 | 1788 |
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| 16 | 1789 |
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| 17 | 1790 |
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| 18 | 1791 |
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| 19 | 1792 |
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| 20 | 1793 |
- 21 Jan 1793: Louis XVI, the last King of France, is executed by guillotine.LEF LoC
- 12 Sep 1793: Due to an outbreak of yellow fever, Philadelphia is quarantined.PBS IA
- 18 Sep 1793: The cornerstone to the U. S. Capitol building is laid by George Washington.USSenate AoC
- 16 Oct 1793: Marie-Antoinette is beheaded.CdV SIMag
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| 21 | 1794 |
- 4 Feb 1794: France abolishes slavery in all of its colonies.GMU LoC
- 14 Mar 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.OurDocs MassMoments
- 23 Jun 1794: Jews are once again allowed to settle in Kiev, by order of Catherine the Great, expanding the Pale of Settlement.NJOP SL
- 1 Aug 1794—25 Sep 1794: The Whiskey Rebellion occurs after Congress attempts to levy an excise tax on distilled goods.ABT PSU
- 26 Aug 1794: U. S. President Washington decides it's time to put down the Whiskey Rebellion.ORO LoC
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| 22 | 1795 |
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| 23 | 1796 |
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| 24 | 1797 |
- 10 Mar 1797: Thomas Jefferson presents a scientific paper on a Megalonyx fossil to the American Philosophical Society that is considered the first American contribution to vertebrate paleontology.USNA SA
- 2 May 1797: Lorenzo Carter becomes the first permanent settler of Cleveland.CH TCD
- 21 Oct 1797: USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides", is launched.MassMoments UCM
- 22 Oct 1797: Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.TiS LoC
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| 25 | 1798 |
- 14 Jul 1798: The Sedition Act becomes federal law, endangering liberty in the fragile new nation.OurDocs BoRI
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| 26 | 1799 |
- 19 Jul 1799: The Rosetta Stone is found.tST ET
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| 27 | 1800 |
- 24 Apr 1800: President John Adams approves $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress" - the Library of Congress.LoC FedReg
- 1 Nov 1800: John Adams moves into the White House, the first President to do so.Whitehouse WHHA
- 17 Nov 1800: The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D. C.USSenate
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| 28 | 1801 |
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| 29 | 1802 |
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| 30 | 1803 |
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| 31 | 1804 |
- 26 Mar 1804: U. S. Congress allows for the "voluntary" removal of Indians east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana Territory in exchange for land, setting the stage for the Trail of Tears.Avalon USNA
- 14 May 1804: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the Corps of Discovery begin their westward expedition.USArmy USBoR
- 11 Jul 1804: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton have a pistol duel. Burr is unscathed, Hamilton dies the next day from his injuries.PBS LoC
- 10 Oct 1804: A "snow hurricane" strikes Massachusetts.MassMoments NEHS
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| 32 | 1805 |
- 18 Nov 1805: Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific.L&C
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| 33 | 1806 |
- 23 Sep 1806: Lewis and Clark complete their expedition.NPS SIMag
- 7 Oct 1806: Ralph Wedgwood receives the first patent for carbon paper.W I R E D
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| 34 | 1807 |
- 2 Mar 1807: Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves is passed through the U. S. Congress in order to stop any new slaves being brought into the country.Avalon USState
- 25 Mar 1807: The slave trade is abolished in Great BritainGovTrack Canada
- 17 Aug 1807: Robert Fulton's steamboat, Clermont, begins its first successful trip up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany.PBS OHC
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| 35 | 1808 |
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| 36 | 1810 |
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| 37 | 1811 |
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| 38 | 1812 |
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| 39 | 1813 |
- 16 Apr 1813: The first order for a product made with interchangeable parts in the U. S. goes to Simeon North, a pistol manufacturer in Berlin, Connecticut.W I R E D ASoAC
- 10 Sep 1813: The U. S. Fleet defeats the British Royal Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie.OHC NPS
- 26 Oct 1813: Canadian troops and their Mohawk allies win an important victory over invading American forces in the Battle of the Châteauguay.NPS MC
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| 40 | 1814 |
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| 41 | 1815 |
- 8 Jan 1815: An American force of 3000 men defeats a British force of around 8000 men in the Battle of New Orleans - even though the War of 1812 was already over with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.HBoNO LoC
- 10 Apr 1815: Mount Tambora begins the largest eruption in recorded history which causes the following year to be known as the "year without a summer".NASA SIMag
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| 42 | 1816 |
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| 43 | 1817 |
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| 44 | 1818 |
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| 45 | 1819 |
- 22 May 1819: The first steam powered vessel to cross the Atlantic, the S.S. Savannah, "put to sea with steam and sails" on a historic trip that would take her to England, Sweden and Russia with stops in Norway and Denmark before returning home.AAQ NSSavannah
- 23 Oct 1819: The first Protestant missionaries for Hawaii sail out of Boston. MassMoments TiCH
- 14 Dec 1819: Alabama becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
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| 46 | 1820 |
- 29 Jan 1820—26 Jun 1830: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.HistoricUK
- 15 Mar 1820: Maine becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com MassMoments
- 28 Jun 1820: The tomato is demonstrated to be non-poisonous.GN B-F
- 20 Nov 1820: The whaling ship Essex is rammed and sunk by a sperm whale 2,000 miles off the west coast of South America, inspiring the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville.W I R E D
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| 47 | 1821 |
- 7 Feb 1821: Captain John Davis, a seal hunter, is the first person to step foot in Antarctica.AC BHL
- 10 Aug 1821: Missouri becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 16 Nov 1821: The Santa Fe Trail opens for business.NPS SFT
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| 48 | 1822 |
- 30 Mar 1822: Florida becomes an official U. S. territory.USF SSHB
- 11 Sep 1822: The Catholic Church finally agrees with science and allows that the Earth revolves around the Sun.W I R E D FT
- 30 Sep 1822: Joseph Marion Hernández, born José Mariano Hernández, becomes the first Hispanic elected to Congress.USHouse USCongress
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| 49 | 1823 |
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| 50 | 1824 |
- 11 Mar 1824: The Bureau of Indian Affairs is established.BIA USNA
- 21 Oct 1824: Joseph Aspdin, a stone mason from Yorkshire, England, receives a patent for Portland cement.CK Nature
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| 51 | 1825 |
- 9 Feb 1825: John Quincy Adams is elected by Congress as the 6th president of the United States of America, 1825 - 1829.UVA LoC
- 11 May 1825: Gas lighting is installed along Broadway in New York City.TiS GoogleBooks
- 4 Jul 1825—1835: Ground is broken on the Farmington Canal and completed ten years later.CTHist FVTC
- 26 Oct 1825: The Erie Canal is completed.EC LoC
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| 52 | 1826 |
- 27 Nov 1826: John Walker invents the modern friction match.TiS BH
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| 53 | 1827 |
- 27 Feb 1827: A parade takes place during Mardi Gras in New Orleans beginning the tradition that continues today.History.com
- 7 Apr 1827: The first friction matches are sold by its inventor.MITTR S-o-T
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| 54 | 1828 |
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1777 - 1828 (51 years)