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Revolution
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The First General Hospital
The first general hospital opens in Philadelphia, offering medical care to people who are ill--except for those with an incurable or infectious disease. -
Edward Braddock Is Mortally Wounded
British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded in a French and Indian ambush near Fort Duquesne in western Pennsylvania. Twenty-three year-old George Washington assumes command of the retreating army of British and colonial troops. -
British Levy Taxes
The British government begins to levy taxes on the colonists to help pay the cost of the French and Indian War and the ongoing protection of the American colonies. The Sugar Act places new taxes on sugar, wines, coffee, indigo and other products imported directly to America. -
boston tea party
ictory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war's conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs. They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war. Royal ineptitude compounded the problem. A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend Acts (1767) and -
"Intolerable Acts"
British Parliament passes the "Intolerable Acts," closing the port of Boston, forbidding the colonists to hold public meetings without the governor's approval, and requiring Massachusetts residents to house and feed British troops. -
AMERICAIN REVOLUTION
The American Revolution was a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. They first rejected the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them from overseas without representation, and then expelled all royal officials. -
new trade route opens
A new trade route opens for American merchants when the "Empress of China" sails from New Jersey around Cape Horn to the Orient, opening a profitable trade with China. -
Constitution Becomes Effective
The Constitution becomes effective, creating a new system of government for America made up of three branches--the Executive (the president), the Legislative (the Senate and the House of Representatives) and the Judicial (the Supreme Court). -
The Constitution becomes effective
The Constitution becomes effective, creating a new system of government for America made up of three branches--the Executive (the president), the Legislative (the Senate and the House of Representatives) and the Judicial (the Supreme Court). -
French revolution ends
French Revolution, also called Revolution of 1789, the revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789. Hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789,” denoting the end of the ancien régime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848. -
George Washington dies
Less than three years after his retirement from the Presidency, George Washington dies at the age of 67 at his Mount Vernon, Virginia plantation. He is mourned by millions of Americans. -
Construction begins on the National Road
Construction begins on the National Road, a main route for settlers moving west and farmers shipping farm products to eastern cities. By the time it was completed in 1838, the road ran from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois. -
Maria Mitchell of Nantucket
Maria Mitchell of Nantucket, Massachusetts discovers a new comet, later becoming the first woman professor of astronomy in the United States. -
Naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau writes Walden
Naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau writes Walden, a book which suggests that life is best lived simply, in harmony with nature and with few material possessions. -
The New York Daily Graphic
The New York Daily Graphic prints the first halftone newspaper photograph, a practice which became popular by the early 1900s. Before this time, magazines and newspapers depended upon drawings to illustrate their articles. -
Titanic Sank
The Great Titanic Sank -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. -
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary seeks German support for a war against Serbia in case of Russian militarism. Germany gives assurances of support. -
Germany warns Russia.
Germany warns Russia to stop mobilizing. Russia says mobilization is against Austria-Hungary only. -
Germany declares war on Russia
the Imperial German Government have used every effort since the beginning of the crisis to bring about a peaceful settlement. In compliance with a wish expressed to him by His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, the German Emperor had undertaken, in concert with Great Britain, the part of mediator between the Cabinets of Vienna and St. Petersburg; but Russia, without waiting for any result, proceeded to a general mobilisation of her forces both on land and sea. -
Germany declares war on France and Belgium.
On the afternoon i3rd of aug in 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France, moving ahead with a long-held strategy, conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen, for a two-front war against France and Russia. Hours later, France makes its own declaration of war against Germany, readying its troops to move into the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which it had forfeited to Germany in the settlement that ended the Franco-Prussi