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  • Russia replaced the Byzantine with the Julian calendar

  • Anton Graff, 18th cent. German painter

    This went from the 1700's to the 1800's.

  • In Birzai Augustus II and Russia's Czar Peter I signed a treaty

  • James III uprising took place in Scotland

  • The 1st lighthouse in US was lit in Boston Harbor (www.lighthouse.cc/boston/history.html)

    This was the first lighthouse in the US.

  • John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation, was born in Maryland

  • Jack Sheppard, English robber, was hung

  • King George commissioned Handel%u2019s "Music for the Royal Fireworks" to highlight the end of the War of the Austrian Succession

  • Rhode Island becomes first American Colony to renounce allegiance to King George III

  • The final U.S. Declaration of Independence is written

  • US Declaration of Independence was writen

  • After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation

  • He Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification

  • South Carolina ratifies Articles of Confederation

  • Virginia passes a law ceding it western land claims, leading to Maryland ratifying the Articles of Confederation

  • Articles of Confederation are ratified by Maryland, final state to do so

  • Continental Congress implements the Articles of Confederation

  • Great Britain formally announces it will cease hostilities with the U.S.A

  • Singed Treaty Of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris was ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784 and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784.

  • The Paris Peace Treaty

  • Delaware

  • Us Constitution Adopted

  • Pennsylvania

  • New Jersey

  • Georgia

  • Connecticut

  • Massachusetts

  • Maryland

  • South Carolina

  • New Hampshire

  • Virginia

  • New York

  • George Washington Took Office

    George Washington Took Office

    George Washington took office

  • North Carolina

  • Rhode Island

  • Vermont March 4, 1791

  • Kentucky

  • Tennessee

  • Treaty of Peace and Friendship, signed at Tripoli

  • George Washington Left Office

  • John Adams Took Office

  • Some 70 ships were lost in the Scottish Firth of Tay

  • Millard Fillmore, 13th US president (1850-1853), was born in Summerhill Locke, N.Y

  • John Adams Left Office

    John Adams Left Office

  • Ohio

  • Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist. "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live

    This event acoured from 1749-1803.

  • Louisana Purchase Treaty signed

  • Thomas Jefferson Took Office

    Thomas Jefferson Took Office

  • Thomas Jefferson Left Office

    Thomas Jefferson Left Office

  • John Madison Took Office

    John Madison Took Office

  • West Florida

  • The War of 1812

  • Louisiana

  • Tristan da Cunha

  • Indiana

  • John Madison Left Office

  • James Monroe Took Offiece

  • Mississippi

  • Red River Basin

  • Illinois

  • Adams-Onis Tready

  • Alabama

  • Maine

  • Missiori Compromise

  • Missouri

  • James Monroe Left Office

  • John Quincy Adams Took Office

  • John Quincy Adams Left Office

  • Andrew Jackson Took Office

  • Arkansas

  • Michigan

  • Andrew Jackson Left Office

  • Martin Van Buren Took Office

  • Martin Van Buren Left Office

  • William Henry Harrison Took Office

  • William Henry Harrison Left Office

  • John Tyler Took Office

  • Webser-Ashburton

  • Florida March 3, 1845

  • John Tyler Left Office

  • James K. Polk Took Office

  • Texas

  • Oregon Country

  • Iowa

  • Mexican Cession

  • Wisconsin

  • James K. Polk Left Office

  • Zachary Taylor Took Office

  • Zachary Taylor Left Office

  • Millard Fillmore Took Office

    Millard Fillmore Took Office

  • California

  • Millard Fillmore Left Office

  • Franklin Pierce Took Office

  • Guano Islands Act

  • Franklin Pierce Left Office

  • James Buchanan Took Office

  • Minnesota

  • Oregon

  • Kansas

  • Kansas Became a State

  • Missouri Constitutional Convention

  • James Buchanan Left Office

  • West Virginia

  • Gadsden Purchase

  • Nevada