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December 14, 1799
The Death of George Washington at Mt.Vernon, Virginia
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1798
Congress passes the Alien and Sedition Acts
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August 1, 1795
The Treaty of Greenville
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August 20, 1794
The Battle of Fallen Timbers
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1794
Whiskey Rebellion, Pennsylvania
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January 1, 1793
1793 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
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1791
The National Bank is created
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1791
The Bill of Rights is ratified
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July 14, 1789
The French Revolution begins
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November 1, 1788
George Washington Elected President
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June 1788
New Hampshire becomes the 9th state to ratify the Constitution, ensuring its adoption
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1787
Philadelphia Convention
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1787
Shays's Rebellion, Massachusetts
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1787
The Northwest Ordinance
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September 3, 1783
The Peace of Paris ends the American Revolution
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June 7, 1782
1732-1782, Colonel William Crawford.
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1781
The last major battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Yorktown, occurs
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October 1777
The Battle for Saratoga turns the tide in favor of the colonists
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July 4, 1776
The Second Continental Congress signs the Declaration of Independence
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1776
Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense is published
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June 17, 1775
The Battle of Bunker Hill
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May 1775
The Second Continental Congress convenes
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April 19, 1775
Fighting breaks out at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts
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1774
Parliament passes the Coercive or Intolerable Acts in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party
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December 1773
The Boston Tea Party
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Feb. 9, 1773
1773-1841, William Henry Harrison
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March 5, 1770
Boston Massacre
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March 5, 1770
Crispus Attucks dies in the Boston Massacre
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1767
The Townshend Acts raise tensions between colonists and the British government
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1765
Parliament passes the Stamp Act
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1764
The British government institutes the Revenue and Sugar Act
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1763
Proclamation of 1763
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1763
The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' (French and Indian) War
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1760
British capture Quebec
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November 1758
The British capture Fort Duquesne and re-name it Fort Pitt
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1756
The Seven Years' (French and Indian) War begins
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July 9, 1755
The British fail to oust the French from the Ohio Valley
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1754
The Albany Congress
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1745
British and colonial soldiers capture Louisbourg, a French fortress on Nova Scotia
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September 1739
Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
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1733
Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanack
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February 22, 1732
The birth of George Washington
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1730
James Oglethorpe founds the colony of Georgia
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1726
Jonathan Edwards takes charge of the Congregational Church in Northampton, MA
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1715
The Yamasee War begins between South Carolinians and Native Americans.
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1704
The first newspaper is published in the English colonies, Boston
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1704
The Delaware colony is founded
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1702
French invasions of the Rhine River region prompt increasing German immigration to the colonies
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