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Thomas Jefferson is born in Shadwell, Virginia, the oldest son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph.
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In march the Stamp Act was passed by parliament taxing all printed materials including newspapers, bills, legal documentrs, licences, almanacs, dice, and playing card.
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Peter Jefferson dies while Thomas Jefferson was only 14 and he was put in charge of his fathers land and slaves. (Shmoop.com)
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Jefferson began his studies and the College of William & Mary
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Jefferson begins finishes his studies at College of William & Mary and begins reading law with George Wythe.
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Jefferson conludes his studies wiwth Wythe after 5 yearsand is admitted into the Virginia Bar
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Tension between citizens and British Soldiers were escalating when they arrived in Massachusetts. On this night targuements escalated into Britsish soldiers opening fire on colonists killing 5 of them. (BostonMassacre.net)
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Jefferson marries Martha Wayles Skelton, the recently widowed daughter of the wealthy planter John Wayles Sketlon.
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His first child named Martha Jefferson, is born in Monticello.
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In protest of the Tea Act, Samuel Adams and many colonists disguised as native americans and dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor, also known as the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia to coordinate response to the Intolerable Acts.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord take place and mark the start of the American Revolutionary War. Also known as the shot heard round the world.
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The American colony adopted the Delaration of Independance and separated from Great Britain.
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The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom is a statement about both freedom of religion and the separation of church and state.
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Jeffersons wife dies and leaves Jefferson shattered.
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The house of Burgess grants freedom to all slaves who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
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Jefferson leads the Confederation Congress as a Virginia representative. In 1784, he drafts a report that will serve as the basis for the influential Northwest Ordinances which will frame how the United States is to settle the West.
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Thomas Jefferson dies in his bed in Monticello, on the same day as John Adams, fifty years to the day after the publication of the Declaration of Independence. (Shmoop.com)
