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The begging of king williams war as hostilties in europe between the french and english spill over to the colonies ,
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in new york, the newely appionted govener of new england
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el pueblo de Nuestra senor lareina de los angles was founded in 1781 the citizen ship of the pueblo used asphaly from local seeps to water proof the roofs thier house as a fuel
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in march queen anne ascends english throne in may england declares war on france after deather of the king of spain charts II to stop the union of france and spain
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In May, the Carolina colony is officially divided into North Carolina and South Carolina. In June, the Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves into that colony. In Massachusetts, the first sperm whale is captured at sea by an American from Nantucket.
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The population of American colonists reaches 475,000. Boston (pop. 12,000) is the largest city, followed by Philadelphia (pop. 10,000) and New York (pop. 7000).
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February 22, George Washington is born in Virginia. Also in February, the first mass is celebrated in the only Catholic church in colonial America, in Philadelphia. In June, Georgia, the 13th English colony, is founded.
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The Currency Act is passed by the English Parliament, banning the issuing of paper money by the New England colonies.
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John Adams is elected second president of the U.S. Jefferson is elected vice president, having received the second largest number of electoral votes.
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Adams inaugurated as President - Jefferson is inaugurated as vice president of the United States and begins gathering information on rules of parliamentary practice. As vice president, Jefferson presides over the Senate.
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The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
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Electors meet in their states and cast votes for the next president of the United States. A tie vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr does not become known till the end of the month. This throws the election into the House of Representatives which addresses the matter on February 11, 180
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The expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departs, moving up the Missouri River. (Lewis and Clark map, with annotations... Geography and Map Division)
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Ohio outlaws slavery -- September. James Callender makes the accusation that Thomas Jefferson has "for many years past kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves," Sally Hemings. It is published in the Richmond Recorder that month, and the story is soon picked up by Federalist presses around the country. Callender, a Republican, has previously been an avid investigator of Federalist scandals. In 1798, Jefferson had helped pay for the publication of Callender's pamphlet The Prospect Before Us
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efferson nominates James Monroe and William Pinckney as joint commissioners to Great Britain. British warships have been boarding and searching American ships and seizing American as well as British seamen, claiming that they are British deserters. Jefferson hopes to resolve the issue and maintain American neutrality in the conflict between Great Britain and France.
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Aaron Burr is captured near New Orleans. He escapes but is recaptured and imprisoned. In April, Burr is charged with treason and tried in Richmond in a federal circuit court presided over by John Marshall.* Burr is acquitted. Later, with other charges pending, Burr escapes to England. (*Winfield Scott, then a young lawyer, attends the trial as a spectator.)
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British burn Capitol building in Washington
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Napoleon finally, finally defeated at Waterloo.
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Georgia prohibits Manumission -- Karl Marx born in Germany
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Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine immediately gives right to vote and education to all male citizens. The compromise also prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N lat. (southern boundary of Missouri). The 36°30' proviso held until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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Mexico becomes a republic – outlaws slavery
- In disputed election, John Quincy Adams (John Adams’ son) is elected President, defeating populist Andrew Jackson.
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john milne an english became a pefessor of geology and mining at the imperial
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin published - Jossiah Priest publishes Bible defense of slavery
Franklin Pierce elected president; Napoleon III's Second Empire established in France; California encourages Chinese to immigrate and work on railroads -
Fort Sumter fired on, surrenders
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Union loses Battle of Fredericksburg and over 12,600 men, South loses about 5,300.
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walking stick has a very unusal form form of handle wich appears to be and sumkind of prehistoric
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Battle of Wounded Knee – 200 Native American women and children massacred by U.S. troops. Wounde Knee
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australia declares the indepenece from fedration of UK COLINIES,NIGERIA BECOMES A BRITISH PROTECATOR.
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NSW scores 918 all out vs south australia in 560 mintues
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1st soccer game between belgium (8) & Netherlands (0) , clevland Bock baker give up a record of 23 singles as white sox
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WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT
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The Armory Show opens in New York City introducing Modern art both American and European to the American public.
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President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe
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19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote
1920 - Sacco and Vanzetti arrested -
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets a record 68 points over a two-day period, setting off the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and triggering the Great DepressionThe Museum of Modern Art opens to the public in New York City American Samoa officially becomes a U.S. territory
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The electors' votes for president are officially opened and counted in Congress, which already knows that the vote is tied between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives meets separately and continues balloting for six days. On February 17, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson is elected president and Aaron Burr becomes vice president.
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Scopes Trial, whose outcome found that the teaching of evolution in the classroom "does not violate church and state or state religion laws but instead, merely prohibits the teaching of evolution on the grounds of intellectual disagreement"
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming -
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the Anglo population in the english colonies in america reaches 275000
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Scopes Trial, whose outcome found that the teaching of evolution in the classroom "does not violate church and state or state religion laws but instead, merely prohibits the teaching of evolution on the grounds of intellectual disagreement"
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heavy cast signed sterling handle wich appears to be gold platium
