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Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 1,274
1776-03-02 - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1776-03-04 - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
1776-05-02 - France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1776-08-10 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1776-08-27 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1776-08-29 - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1776-09-21 - Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
1776-10-26 - Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1776-11-16 - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
1776-12-19 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
1777-03-08 - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1777-07-02 - Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
1777-07-06 - British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1777-07-07 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1777-08-16 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1777-08-28 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1777-09-03 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1777-09-11 - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1777-09-26 - British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution
1777-10-07 - Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Hts
1777-12-17 - France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
1778-01-20 - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
1778-05-01 - American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
1778-06-28 - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
1778-07-10 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1778-09-19 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1779-09-28 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1780-05-04 - American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1780-05-05 - 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
1780-05-29 - Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
1780-06-23 - American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
1780-08-16 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1780-10-07 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1780-10-16 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War.
1780-11-05 - French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1781-09-28 - 9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown
1781-10-06 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
1782-04-19 - John Adams secured the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government and the house that he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became the first American embassy.
1782-07-01 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1783-04-18 - Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1783-05-18 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1784-01-26 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
1784-09-21 - 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet & General Advertiser)
1784-11-26 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1785-07-06 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
1786-11-07 - The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1787-04-16 - 1st American comedy, "The Contrast," made its debut in NYC
1787-06-20 - Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789-01-21 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
1789-06-09 - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
1789-10-02 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1789-11-06 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1790-03-13 - John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1790-04-10 - Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1790-08-10 - Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1792-04-02 - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
1793-06-11 - 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1793-07-22 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1793-12-09 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1794-03-27 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794-06-04 - Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
1796-07-08 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
1797-01-30 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1797-04-17 - Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America.
1797-05-10 - 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
1797-07-10 - 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1801-05-10 - First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1803-07-04 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1804-07-11 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1804-07-12 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel.
1805-06-10 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
1805-07-08 - American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
1805-11-18 - Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1805-11-19 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st European Americans to cross continent
1805-11-25 - Opera "Thaïs" 1st American performance
1806-03-29 - Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1808-04-06 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
1809-03-04 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1809-07-16 - The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declared its independence from Spanish Crown and formed the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, lead by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
1810-02-01 - 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1812-08-05 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
1812-10-25 - US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1813-01-22 - Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1813-04-27 - Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1813-05-27 - Americans capture Ft George, Canada
1813-10-05 - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1814-05-11 - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh
1814-07-03 - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1814-07-05 - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1814-07-25 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1814-09-11 - Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
1816-05-05 - American Bible Society organized (NY)
1816-05-11 - American Bible Society forms (NY)
1816-12-28 - American Colonization Society organizes
1817-04-15 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1817-05-15 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1819-04-02 - 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
1819-08-06 - Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1820-02-06 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1821-02-22 - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 9,097
1755-01-11 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
1755-05-21 - Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1755-09-09 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
1756-01-29 - Henry Lee III, American General
1757-09-06 - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
1758-09-10 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1759-06-21 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1760-01-03 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
1760-12-02 - John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
1762-10-23 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
1763-02-01 - Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
1764-05-26 - Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
1768-06-09 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1769-10-07 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1770-06-20 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
1771-01-17 - Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel (Wieland)
1774-05-07 - William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833)
1774-08-28 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975)
1775-12-14 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
1777-06-12 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
1779-03-02 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
1779-08-22 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1780-02-19 - Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)
1780-09-25 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1781-03-04 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1781-11-29 - Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)
1783-07-24 - Simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
1783-12-12 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
1784-04-29 - Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1785-07-14 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
1786-09-10 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
1786-10-11 - Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)
1786-12-12 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
1787-04-19 - Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
1789-06-15 - Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
1789-10-08 - John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)
1790-10-23 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
1792-10-03 - Francisco Morazán, Central American statesman
1793-01-06 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
1793-01-14 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
1793-03-28 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
1794-03-31 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
1794-08-11 - James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
1794-10-10 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
1794-12-14 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1795-09-01 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1795-10-16 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
1796-04-10 - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
1796-05-04 - William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
1796-07-26 - George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)
1796-08-25 - James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
1797-05-06 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1797-07-29 - Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1798-04-26 - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
1799-05-11 - John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836)
1799-06-23 - John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
1799-11-03 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1799-11-17 - Titian Ramsey Peale, US, artist/naturalist (American Ornithology)
1800-08-21 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801-04-26 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
1801-05-16 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
1801-06-14 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1801-09-10 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1802-02-16 - Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866)
1802-04-04 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
1802-11-09 - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1802-11-19 - Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
1803-06-29 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1803-08-18 - Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881)
1803-08-27 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1803-09-29 - Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1803-11-14 - Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
1804-01-21 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1804-04-26 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
1804-06-24 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
1805-01-08 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
1805-01-08 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
1805-06-21 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
1805-07-29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
1805-10-23 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
1805-11-28 - John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America
1805-12-12 - Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
1806-01-20 - Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag)
1806-03-09 - Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
1806-05-06 - Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
1806-06-12 - John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1806-10-03 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
1807-01-19 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
1808-01-06 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
1808-01-19 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
1808-02-26 - Nathan Kelley,American architect, active mainly in Ohio, (d.1871)
1808-06-03 - Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
1808-07-09 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887)
1808-08-03 - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
1808-11-01 - John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1809-10-11 - Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
1809-10-22 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
1809-12-24 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
1810-01-10 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)
1810-04-21 - John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 200 of 3,298
1806-12-22 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
1807-03-04 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1807-05-13 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
1807-05-17 - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1808-02-14 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
1808-05-18 - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)
1808-09-03 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1808-09-17 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1809-01-21 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1810-10-15 - Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
1811-12-08 - Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe(b. 1787)
1814-08-21 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1815-08-06 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1815-08-18 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1816-11-06 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1817-01-16 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
1818-02-13 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
1818-05-10 - Paul Revere, American patriot, dies
1819-07-01 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1820-08-28 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1820-09-21 - Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)
1821-01-04 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland
1821-10-11 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
1821-10-24 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1825-01-08 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1825-07-11 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1826-07-08 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1829-05-17 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1831-05-27 - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1834-07-14 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
1835-07-06 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
1835-12-13 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
1836-01-30 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
1836-03-06 - James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
1836-03-06 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
1837-10-01 - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
1838-10-03 - Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
1839-04-01 - Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
1842-09-15 - José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b. 1792)
1843-04-17 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
1844-05-18 - Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
1846-01-05 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
1846-04-04 - Solomon Sibley, American senator from Michigan Territory (b. 1769)
1847-03-11 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
1848-03-29 - John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
1849-07-12 - Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady Of The United States (b. 1768)
1849-10-07 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
1850-03-03 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
1850-03-21 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
1850-03-28 - Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1850-04-12 - Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (b. 1788)
1850-11-19 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
1851-05-22 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1851-09-10 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
1851-09-11 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
1851-09-14 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
1852-07-09 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
1852-09-20 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
1853-04-13 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
1854-01-18 - Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies
1854-03-11 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1855-06-16 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1855-06-29 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1856-01-16 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
1856-10-19 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
1857-07-04 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
1857-08-27 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1812)
1858-03-26 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)
1859-08-02 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
1860-01-13 - William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
1860-02-25 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
1860-07-01 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
1861-08-12 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
1861-08-17 - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
1862-05-21 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1862-11-11 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1863-07-03 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1863-07-27 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1863-11-02 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
1864-04-04 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
1864-09-04 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
1864-10-01 - Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1864-10-26 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1865-06-02 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
1865-06-21 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1865-11-17 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1866-03-28 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1866-05-29 - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
1866-06-07 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1867-09-25 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1867-10-03 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
1867-10-04 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
1868-03-04 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1868-05-10 - Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
1868-05-23 - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
1868-06-22 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
1868-09-19 - William Sprague, American minister and politician from (b. 1809)
1869-01-01 - Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
1869-07-22 - John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1870-02-14 - St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
