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| 1616 | Argall, Samuel |  |
| Virginia Appointed Deputy Governor of Virginia
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| 1732 | Washington, George | |
| 22nd Feb Birth of George Washington
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| 1735 | Adams, John | |
| 30th Oct Washington Birth of John Adams
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| 1743 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| 13th April Washington Birth of Thomas Jefferson
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| 1754 | Franklin, Benjamin | |
| Albany Proposes a "plan for union" of British colonies, Britain reject the idea
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| 1765 | Otis, James | |
| Massachusetts The Massachusetts Governor's house is burned because of his support for the Stamp Act
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| 1766 | Otis, John Fitzgerald | |
| Washington Opposes Navigation Act writs on natural law to defend privacy & property
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| 1773 | Pitts, Lendall | |
| 16th Dec Boston Causes the British Parliament to place Boston under military rule
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| 16th Dec Boston Holds a tea party & throws tea overboard, followed by other American ports
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| 1776 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| Washington Legislates for the elective principle for officers of State
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| Washington Legislates for the separation of Church & State
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| Washington Virginia Bill of Rights, embodies sovereignty by means of the separation of powers
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| 4th July Declares Government by consent of the people
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| 1781 | Lincoln, Benjamin | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of War by Congress
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| 1781 | Washington, George | |
| Washington Attempts are made to avoid over centralization after independence
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| Washington The Articles of Confederation give Congress minimum powers over individual states
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| 1785 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| Washington Public lands are surveyed & divided into townships
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| Washington Townships divided into sections & sold to developers for not less than $1 per acre
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| 1787 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| Washington A population of 60,000 can form a State of the Union
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| Washington For every 5,000 free males there will a non-voting delegate in Congress
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| Washington For every 5,000 free males there will be a legislature & Governor
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| 1787 | Washington, George | |
| Washington Appointed President of the USA, 1st President , 1st term
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| 1789 | Jay, John | |
| Washington Appointed First Chief justice of the USA
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| 1794 | Jay, John | |
| 19th Nov Washington Settles disputes between the USA.index.html title="History of USA">United States & Britain
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| 1794 | Monroe, James | |
| 2nd Aug Paris Appointed Ambassador to France
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| 1800 | Fillmore, Millard | |
| 7th Jan Birth of Millard Fillmore
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| 1801 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| Washington Appointed President of the USA, 3rd President
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| 1803 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| 1st Mar Ohio Ohio becomes the 17th State of the Union
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| 1809 | Smith, Samuel | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of State of the
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| 1814 | Adams, John Quincy | |
| Washington Negotiates the end of the War
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| 1816 | Thompson, David | |
| The USA-Canada border is established by a 10 yr survey by David Thompson
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| 1817 | Calhoun, John Caldwell | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of War
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| 1820 | Crawford, William | |
| Washington Constitution al changs are put through Congress by William Crawford
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| Washington Put through Congress by William Crawford
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| Washington The President & the Senate will appoint Government offices every 4 yrs
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| 1820 | Monroe, James | |
| Washington The President & the Senate are to appoint Government offices every 4 yrs
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| 1821 | Barbour, Philip Pendleton | |
| Washington Appointed Speaker of Congress
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| 1821 | Crawford, William | |
| 17th July Florida Spain cedes Folrida to the USA
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| 1823 | McLean, John | |
| Washington Appointed Postmaster General
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| 1823 | Monroe, James | |
| Washington Admams persuades Monroe to resist the Holy Alliance 's conquest of Spain's colonies
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| 2nd Dec Washington Congress states the American continent is not for colonization
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| 2nd Dec Washington Congress states the US will remain neutral in Europe
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| 1824 | Monroe, James | |
| Liberia Supports the creation of Liberia for slave labour in Africa
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| Liberia The capital of Liberia is named after James Monroe
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| 1825 | Barbour, James | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of War
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| 1825 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 9th Feb Washington Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1825 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts | |
| Appointed Minister of Mexico, 1st such appointment
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| 1828 | Barbour, James | |
| Appointed Minister to Britain
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| 1828 | Harrison, William Henry | |
| Appointed Minister to Colombia
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| 1829 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| Appointed President of the USA, 7th President
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| Washington Builds the basis of the modern Democratic Party & initiates the spoils system
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| 1830 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 29th April Washington The Preemption Act offers settlers $1.25 an acre
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| 29th April Washington The Preemption Act offers settlers cultivating land $1.25 an acre
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| 7th May Washington The treaty of Commerce & Navigation is signed with the Ottoman Empire
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| 28th May Washington The Indian Removal Act removes Indians to lands west of the Mississippi
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| 15th July Praire du Chien Indian tribes cede most of Iowa, Missouri & Minnesota
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| 15th July Iowa Under the treaty of Praire du Chien Indian tribes cede Iowa, Missouri & Minnesota
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| 1831 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 5th April Washington A commercial treaty is concluded with Mexico
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| 1832 | Calhoun, John Caldwell | |
| Washington Champions the rights of South Carolina to "nullify" Legislation passed by Congress
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| Resigns after President Jackson threatens to send 50,000 into Sth Carolina
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| 1832 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| South Carolina Sth Carolina claims the Union is a pact of independent states & can nullify Congress
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| South Carolina Threatens to send a force of 50,000 into South Carolina if it resists the Union
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| 9th May Washington Seminole Chiefs cede land in Florida & agree to move west of the Mississippi River
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| 16th May Washington A Treaty of trade & peace is signed with Chile
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| 22nd May Wins the Democratic President ial Nomination
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| 17th June Washington A Tariff Act is passed favouring northern manafacturers over southern cotton growers
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| 17th June Washington A Tariff Act is passed favouring Northern manafacturers over Southern cotton growers
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| 1836 | Austin, Stephen Fuller | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of State of the independent Republic of Texas
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| 1837 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 3rd Mar Texas Recognizes the "lone star" Republic of Texas
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| 1837 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of War
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| 1839 | Polk, James Knox | |
| Washington Appointed Senator of Tenessee
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| 1841 | Harrison, William Henry | |
| Washington Appointed President of the USA, 9th President
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| Death of William Henry Harrison, after 1 month in office
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| 1841 | Tyler, John | |
| Washington Appointed Vice President
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| 1844 | Calhoun, John Caldwell | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1845 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| 8th Dec Davis takes his seat in Congress
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| 1846 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| Davis resigns his seat in Congress
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| 1847 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| 5th Dec Davis takes hist seat in the Senate
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| 1849 | Fillmore, Millard | |
| Appointed Vice President of the USA
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| 1849 | Young, Brigham | |
| Utah Appointed Governor of Utah
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| 1851 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| 4th Mar Davis enters his new term as senator from Mississippi
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| 1853 | Dobbin, James Cochran | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of the Navy
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| 1857 | Davis, Jefferson | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Orleans on Military Affairs
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| 1860 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 10th Nov South Carolina Sth Carolina decides to secede from the Union
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| 1861 | Hamlin, Hannibal | |
| 6th Nov Washington Appointed Vice President of the USA
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| 1861 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 29th Jan Kansas Kansas becomes the 34th US State
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| 6th Nov Washington Appointed President of the USA, 16th President , 1st term, 1st Republican
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| 10th Nov by 1861 all but 3 slave states have joined the Southern Confederacy
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| 1862 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 1st Jan Washington Says "the old south must be destroyed and replaced by new propositions & ideas"
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| 1st Jan Washington Signed by Lincoln proclaiming the freedom of slave s
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| 1st Jan Washington The "Proclamation of Emancipation" is signed by Lincoln
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| 1864 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| Re-elected President of the USA on a National Union ticket with a large majority
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| 7th June Nominated for the Presidency
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| 7th June Washington The Republican s nominate Abraham Lincoln for a 2nd term
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| 1865 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 8th Nov Washington Appointed President of the USA, 16th President , 2nd term
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| 1867 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 1st Mar Nebraska Nebraska becomes the 37th State of the Union
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| 1869 | Colfax, Schuyler | |
| Washington Appointed Vice President of the USA
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| 1869 | Grant, Ulysses Simpson | |
| Washington Appointed President of the USA, 18th President
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| 1873 | Grant, Ulysses Simpson | |
| 8th Sep Financial panic is caused by over-production & withdrawal of foreign capital
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| 1877 | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | |
| Washington Appointed President of the USA, 19th President
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| Wins the election after an electoral commission rules in his favour
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| 1877 | Wheeler, William A | |
| Washington Appointed Vice President of the USA
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| 1880 | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | |
| 1st Mar Pennsylvania Pennsylvania becomes the 1st State to abolish slave ry
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| 1881 | Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | |
| 1st Mar All the US states ratify the Articles of Confederarion
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| 1881 | Lincoln, Robert Todd | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of War
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| 1889 | Harrison, Benjamin | |
| Washington Appointed President of the USA, 23rd President
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| 1889 | Lincoln, Robert Todd | |
| Appointed Minister to Britain
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| 1889 | Morton, Levi P | |
| Washington Appointed Vice President of the USA
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| 1892 | Harrison, Benjamin | |
| 10th June Washington Appointed President ial Candidate by the National Convention
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| 1894 | Cleveland, Grover | |
| 8th Aug Washington The Republic of Hawaii is officially recognized by the USA
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| 18th Aug Washington The Bureau of Immigration is established by Congress
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| 27th Aug Washington Wilson Gormon Tariff Act, 1st graduated income tax
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| 27th Aug Washington Wilson Gormon Tariff Act, passed without Cleveland's signature
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| 22nd Nov Washington The US & Japan sign a commercial Treaty in Washington
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| 1895 | Cleveland, Grover | |
| 12th June Washington Calls for citizens not to aid Cuban insurgents who are rising up against Spanish rule
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| 21st Dec Washington At the request of the President Congress authorizes the Venezuelan Boundary Commission
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| 1896 | Cleveland, Grover | |
| 4th Jan Washington Utah enters the Union as the 45th state
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| 10th Jan Utah Utah becomes the 45th state of the Union
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| 20th Mar Coronet US Marines land in Nicaragua, to protect US citizens at the outbreak of revolution
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| 1896 | McKinley, William | |
| Wins the presidential election for the 1st time
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| 1897 | Hobart, Garret A | |
| Washington Appointed Vice President of the USA
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| 1897 | McKinley, William | |
| Washington Appointed President of the USA, 25th President
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| 1898 | McKinley, William | |
| The Supreme Court rules that a child born in the USA.index.html title="History of USA">United States to Chinese immigrants is a US citizen, and therefore could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act
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| 1899 | Root, Elihu | |
| Washington Appointed Secretary of War
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| 1900 | McKinley, William | |
| 21st June Nominated for the Presidency
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| Oct Wins the presidential election for the 2nd time
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| 1901 | Fairbanks, Charles W | |
| Washington Appointed Vice President of the USA
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