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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Boston Tea Party 1773-12-16
Siege of Boston 1775-04-19 - 1776-03-17
Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775-04-19
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga 1775-05-10 - 1775-05-10
Battle of Bunker Hill 1775-06-17
Battle of Quebec (1775) 1775-12-31 - 1775-12-31
Battle of Sullivan's Island 1776-06-28 - 1776-06-28
Declaration of Independence 1776-07-04
Battle of Long Island 1776-08-26
Battle of Valcour Island 1776-10-11 - 1776-10-13
Battle of White Plains 1776-10-28 - 1776-10-28
Battle of Fort Washington 1776-11-16 - 1776-11-16
Battle of Trenton 1776-12-26
Battle of Princeton 1777-01-03
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) 1777-07-02 - 1777-07-06
Battle of Bennington 1777-08-16 - 1777-08-16
Battle of Brandywine 1777-09-11
Battle of Saratoga 1777-09-19 - 1777-10-17
Battle of Germantown 1777-10-04
Treaty of Alliance 1778-02-06
Battle of Monmouth 1778-06-28
Battle of Rhode Island 1778-08-29 - 1778-08-29
Battle of Stony Point 1779-07-16 - 1779-07-16
Penobscot Expedition 1779-07-24 - 1779-08-14
Siege of Savannah 1779-09-16 - 1779-10-18
Battle of Flamborough Head 1779-09-23 - 1779-09-23
Siege of Charleston 1780-03-29 - 1780-05-12
Battle of Waxhaws 1780-05-29 - 1780-05-29
Battle of Springfield 1780-06-23
Battle of Camden 1780-08-16 - 1780-08-16
Battle of Kings Mountain 1780-10-07
Battle of Cowpens 1781-01-17 - 1781-01-17
Articles of Confederation 1781-03-01
Siege of Pensacola 1781-03-09 - 1781-05-10
Battle of Guilford Courthouse 1781-03-15
Battle of the Chesapeake 1781-09-05 - 1781-09-05
Battle of Eutaw Springs 1781-09-08 - 1781-09-08
Siege of Yorktown 1781-09-28 - 1781-10-19
Battle of the Saintes 1782-04-09 - 1782-04-12

People

Peter the Great age 48
Emperor - Russian Empire
Catherine the Great born 1729-05-02
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI born 1754-08-23
King - France
Frederick the Great age 8
King - Kingdom of Prussia
George III born 1738-06-04
King - Great Britain
George II age 36
King - Great Britain
George I age 60
King - Great Britain
Elizabeth of Russia age 10
Empress - Russian Empire
Peter III of Russia born 1728-02-21
Emperor - Russian Empire
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor born 1741-03-13
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Catherine I of Russia age 36
Empress - Russian Empire
Anna of Russia age 27
Empress - Russian Empire
Peter II of Russia age 4
Emperor - Russian Empire
Abdul Hamid I born 1725-03-20
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed III age 46
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Mustafa III age 3
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor age 11
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Ivan VI of Russia born 1740-08-23
Emperor - Russian Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 8
Emperor - Imperial China
Kangxi Emperor age 66
Emperor - Imperial China
Frederick William I of Prussia age 31
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Yongzheng Emperor age 41
Emperor - Imperial China
Emperor Kōkaku born 1771-09-23
Emperor - Japan
Victor Amadeus III born 1726-06-26
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Jeongjo of Joseon born 1752-10-28
King - Joseon
Yeongjo of Joseon age 25
King - Joseon
Gyeongjong of Joseon age 31
King - Joseon
Tekle Giyorgis I born 1751-01-01
Emperor - Ethiopia
Frederick North, Lord North born 1732-04-13
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham born 1730-05-13
Prime Minister - Great Britain
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne born 1737-05-02
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Benjamin Lincoln born 1733-01-24
Secretary of War - United States
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 4
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington born 1769-05-01
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger born 1759-05-28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Perceval born 1762-11-01
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Marshall born 1755-09-24
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born 1764-03-13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool born 1770-06-07
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington born 1757-05-30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Albert Gallatin born 1761-01-29
House of Representatives - United States
Timothy Pickering born 1745-07-17
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton born 1754-08-21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter born 1761-05-14
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan born 1736-07-06
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn born 1751-02-23
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell born 1769-02-09
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. born 1749-05-15
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis born 1753-06-10
House of Representatives - United States
Sidney Smith born 1764-06-21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch born 1748-10-19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne born 1780-07-02
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer born 1764-11-01
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane born 1758-04-23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester born 1756-04-28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore born 1757-05-15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Chandler born 1762-02-01
House of Representatives - United States
Peleg Wadsworth born 1748-05-06
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley born 1782-04-15
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Jefferson born 1743-04-13
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Clinton born 1739-07-26
Governor of New York - United States
John Hancock born 1737-01-23
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Benjamin Harrison V born 1726-04-05
Governor of Virginia - United States
Button Gwinnett born 1735-04-10
Governor of Georgia - United States
Thomas Nelson Jr. born 1739-01-06
Governor of Virginia - United States
John Adams born 1735-10-30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Philip Schuyler born 1733-11-20
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine born 1731-03-11
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd born 1734-12-17
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Livingston age 4
New York State Senate - United States
Lewis Morris born 1726-04-08
New York State Senate - United States
James Duane born 1733-02-06
New York State Senate - United States
Charles III of Spain age 4
King - Spain
Gustav III born 1746-01-24
King - Sweden
John Jay born 1745-12-12
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
Adolf Frederick of Sweden age 10
King - Sweden
Peyton Randolph born 1721-09-10
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
Henry Laurens born 1724-03-06
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
George Washington born 1732-02-22
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - United States
Napoleon born 1769-08-15
Ludwig van Beethoven born 1770-12-01
Adam Smith born 1723-06-01
Benjamin Franklin age 14
Jane Austen born 1775-12-16
James Madison born 1751-03-16
John Quincy Adams born 1767-07-11
Andrew Jackson born 1767-03-15
James Watt born 1736-01-19
James Monroe born 1758-04-28
William Henry Harrison born 1773-02-09
Marie Antoinette born 1755-11-02
Maximilien Robespierre born 1758-05-06
Edward Jenner born 1749-05-17
Alexander I of Russia born 1777-12-23
Maria Theresa age 3
Horatio Nelson born 1758-09-29
Alexander Hamilton born 1755-01-11
Wilhelm von Humboldt born 1767-06-22
William IV born 1765-08-21
Klemens von Metternich born 1773-05-15
Paul I of Russia born 1754-10-01
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord born 1754-02-02
George IV born 1762-08-12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 55
Georges Danton born 1759-10-26
Louis XVIII born 1755-11-17
José de San Martín born 1778-02-25
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor born 1768-02-12
Charles X of France born 1757-10-09
Louis Philippe I born 1773-10-06
Charles XIV John born 1763-01-26
Aaron Burr born 1756-02-06
Selim III born 1761-12-24
Joséphine de Beauharnais born 1763-06-23
Joachim Murat born 1767-03-25
Marquis de Lafayette born 1757-09-06
George Stephenson born 1781-06-09
John C. Calhoun born 1782-03-18
Muhammad Ali of Egypt born 1769-03-04
Mikhail Kutuzov born 1745-09-16
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor born 1747-05-05
Joseph Bonaparte born 1768-01-07
George Canning born 1770-04-11
Toussaint Louverture born 1743-05-20
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just born 1767-08-25
Mustafa IV born 1779-09-08
Samuel Adams born 1722-09-27
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès born 1748-05-03
Charles IV of Spain born 1748-11-11
William I of the Netherlands born 1772-08-24
Frederick William III of Prussia born 1770-08-03
Lazare Carnot born 1753-05-13
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla born 1753-05-08
Jean-Jacques Dessalines born 1758-09-20
Bernardo O'Higgins born 1778-08-20
Michel Ney born 1769-01-10
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar born 1772-09-05
Elbridge Gerry born 1744-07-17
Daniel D. Tompkins born 1774-06-21
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher born 1742-12-21
William Wilberforce born 1759-08-24
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville born 1729-11-11
Charles XIII born 1748-10-07
Ioannis Kapodistrias born 1776-02-10
Richard Mentor Johnson born 1780-10-17
Frederick William II of Prussia born 1744-09-25
Frederick VI of Denmark born 1768-01-28
Pyotr Bagration born 1765-07-10
Gustav IV Adolf born 1778-11-01
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly born 1761-12-27
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies born 1751-01-12
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne born 1779-03-15
Jean Lannes born 1769-04-10
Daniel Webster born 1782-01-18
Tecumseh born 1768-03-01
Louis-Nicolas Davout born 1770-05-10
André Masséna born 1758-05-06
Marie Thérèse of France born 1778-12-19
Francisco de Miranda born 1750-03-28
Maria Carolina of Austria born 1752-08-13
Charles Cornwallis born 1738-12-31
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen born 1771-09-05
Józef Poniatowski born 1763-05-07
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz born 1776-03-10
Luis Alejandro Berthier born 1753-11-20
Eugène de Beauharnais born 1781-09-03
Henry Clay born 1777-04-12
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland born 1738-04-14
Jean-de-Dieu Soult born 1769-03-29
Jiaqing Emperor born 1760-11-13
Frederick, Prince of Wales age 13
Auguste de Marmont born 1774-07-20
Benedict Arnold born 1741-01-14
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville born 1759-10-25
Charles Felix born 1765-04-06
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia born 1779-05-08
Rama II born 1768-02-24
Charles Emmanuel IV born 1751-05-24
Edward, Duke of Kent born 1767-11-02
Victor Emmanuel I born 1759-07-24
Jean Victor Marie Moreau born 1763-02-14
Francis I of the Two Sicilies born 1777-08-19
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily born 1782-04-26
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia born 1766-01-06
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) born 1759-10-25
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) born 1779-01-24
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald born 1765-11-17
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover age 33
Benjamin Rush born 1746-01-04
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily born 1772-06-06
Bernardino Rivadavia born 1780-05-20
William I of Württemberg born 1781-09-27
Frederick I of Württemberg born 1754-11-06
William V, Prince of Orange born 1748-03-08
Maria Luisa of Spain born 1745-11-24
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan born 1762-04-29
Jean Baptiste Kléber born 1753-03-09
Nicolas Oudinot born 1767-04-25
Ferdinand III of Tuscany born 1769-05-06
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier born 1768-02-13