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George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
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Washington accompanies his tubercular brother Lawrence to Barbados on a rest cure. While there, he is exposed to smallpox. The experience leaves him immune to the disease but most likely contributes to making him unable to have children later on down the road.
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In route to defending a strategic point, Washington and his forces encounter and slaughter a small detachment of French forces, including their commander, Noble Monsieur Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville. The Battle of Jumonville Glen, as it came to be known, is generally considered the first encounter of the French and Indian War.
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The marriage to Martha Custits made Washington a very envied man.
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Washington is appointed commander in chief of the armed forces of the United Colonies.
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After a series of defeats around New York, Washington has a surprise victory against the British in a startling attack in Trenton. He will follow it up with another spectacular victory at Princeton a week later.
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Secretary of the Congress Charles Thomson informs Washington that he has just been elected president of the United States.
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John Adams is offically the second Preseident of the United States.
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With our relationships with France worsening, this convinces Washington to accept nominal command of American military forces. He is commissioned lieutenant general, the rank he will hold until his death.
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Washington died at Mount Vernon on December 14, 1799, from a throat infection called epiglottis.