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French and Indian War
The French kicked very English speaking trader out of the upper Ohio. -
Protest and Rebellion
Benjamin Franklin’s chopped up snake “Join or Die” is the the first American political cartoon. -
Social and Domestic
George Washington inherits Mount Vernon from his half brother Lawrence -
British colonial America
Britain passes sugar act -
British colonial America
Britain repeals the stamp act -
American Revolution
British troops fire into an unruly crowd in Boston,Massachusetts killing five -
Protest and Rebellion
The British parliament closes Boston’s port with the first of its Coercive Act -
American Revolution
George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American Flag -
Science
Benjamin Franklin irritated at needing two pairs of spectacles commissions from a lens-grinder the first bifocals -
US President
George Washington unanimously elected first president of the United States is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York -
US President
George Washington is unanimously elected for a second term as president of the USA -
Napoleonic era
In the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price doubling the size of the USA -
Exploration
Lewis and Clark make their way through the Rockies and reach the Pacific -
Commerce and Industry
The gold rush to California gathers pace during 1849, causing the prospectors to become known as 'forty-niners' -
American civil war
Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War
