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Explore April 9, 1740 – July 14, 1789

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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840
Boston Tea Party 1773-12-16
Siege of Boston 1775-04-19 - 1776-03-17
American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03
Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775-04-19
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
Treaty of Paris 1783-09-03
French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09
Storming of the Bastille 1789-07-14

People

George Washington age 8
President - United States
Catherine the Great age 10
Empress - Russian Empire
Louis XVI born 1754-08-23
King - France
George III age 1
King - Great Britain
George II age 56
King - Great Britain
Elizabeth of Russia age 30
Empress - Russian Empire
Peter III of Russia age 12
Emperor - Russian Empire
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor born 1741-03-13
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Anna of Russia age 47
Empress - Russian Empire
Selim III born 1761-12-24
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Abdul Hamid I age 15
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ivan VI of Russia born 1740-08-23
Emperor - Russian Empire
Qianlong Emperor age 28
Emperor - Imperial China
Frederick William II of Prussia born 1744-09-25
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Lotf Ali Khan born 1769-01-01
Shah - Iran
Jeongjo of Joseon born 1752-10-28
King - Joseon
Victor Amadeus III age 13
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
William Pitt the Younger born 1759-05-28
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Frederick North, Lord North age 7
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham age 9
Prime Minister - Great Britain
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 1
Prime Minister - Great Britain
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 2
Prime Minister - Great Britain
John Adams age 4
Vice President - United States
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville born 1759-10-25
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Madison born 1751-03-16
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Jefferson born 1743-04-13
Governor of Virginia - United States
Charles III of Spain age 24
King - Spain
Charles IV of Spain born 1748-11-11
King - Spain
Gustav III born 1746-01-24
King - Sweden
John Jay born 1745-12-12
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
John Hancock age 3
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
Peyton Randolph age 18
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
Henry Laurens age 16
President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress
Napoleon born 1769-08-15
Ludwig van Beethoven born 1770-12-01
Adam Smith age 16
Benjamin Franklin age 34
Jane Austen born 1775-12-16
Simón Bolívar born 1783-07-24
John Quincy Adams born 1767-07-11
Andrew Jackson born 1767-03-15
James Watt age 4
James Monroe born 1758-04-28
Martin Van Buren born 1782-12-05
Zachary Taylor born 1784-11-24
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
Horatio Nelson born 1758-09-29
Alexander Hamilton born 1755-01-11
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington born 1769-05-01
Shaka born 1787-07-01
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 75
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
Mahmud II born 1785-07-20
Charles XIV John born 1763-01-26
Robert Peel born 1788-02-05
Ferdinand VII born 1784-10-14
Aaron Burr born 1756-02-06
Joséphine de Beauharnais born 1763-06-23
Joachim Murat born 1767-03-25
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
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston born 1784-10-20
Joseph Bonaparte born 1768-01-07
George Canning born 1770-04-11
Toussaint Louverture born 1743-05-20
Mustafa IV born 1779-09-08
Samuel Adams age 17
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla born 1753-05-08
Jean-Jacques Dessalines born 1758-09-20
Michel Ney born 1769-01-10
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar born 1772-09-05
Elbridge Gerry born 1744-07-17
George Clinton age 8 months
Daniel D. Tompkins born 1774-06-21
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen born 1784-01-28
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher born 1742-12-21
William Wilberforce born 1759-08-24
William R. King born 1786-04-07
Agustín de Iturbide born 1783-09-27
Charles XIII born 1748-10-07
Richard Mentor Johnson born 1780-10-17
Spencer Perceval born 1762-11-01
Davy Crockett born 1786-08-17
John Marshall born 1755-09-24
Pyotr Bagration born 1765-07-10
Gustav IV Adolf born 1778-11-01
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born 1764-03-13
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly born 1761-12-27
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne born 1779-03-15
Daniel Webster born 1782-01-18
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool born 1770-06-07
Tecumseh born 1768-03-01
Louis-Nicolas Davout born 1770-05-10
Henry Addington born 1757-05-30
Guadalupe Victoria born 1786-09-29
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen born 1771-09-05
Vicente Guerrero born 1782-08-10
Daoguang Emperor born 1782-09-16
Henry Clay born 1777-04-12
Jiaqing Emperor born 1760-11-13
Frederick, Prince of Wales age 33
Benedict Arnold born 1741-01-14
Charles Felix born 1765-04-06
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich born 1782-11-01
Winfield Scott born 1786-06-13
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg born 1771-04-18
Edmund Randolph born 1753-08-10
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 10
John Paul Jones born 1747-07-06
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh born 1769-06-18
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve born 1763-12-31
Nathanael Greene born 1742-08-07
John Rutledge age 6 months
Yeongjo of Joseon age 45
Henry Knox born 1750-07-25
John Burgoyne age 18
Karl Mack von Leiberich born 1752-08-25
Albert Gallatin born 1761-01-29
Roger B. Taney born 1777-03-17
Timothy Pickering born 1745-07-17
Lewis Cass born 1782-10-09
Oliver Ellsworth born 1745-04-29
William L. Marcy born 1786-12-12
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 9
William H. Crawford born 1772-02-24
Thomas Gage age 22
Edward Livingston born 1764-05-28
Horatio Gates age 12
Levin August von Bennigsen born 1745-02-10
Louis McLane born 1786-05-28
Robert Smith born 1757-11-03
John Forsyth born 1780-10-22
Henry Clinton age 9
Banastre Tarleton born 1754-08-21
Samuel Dexter born 1761-05-14
Anthony Wayne born 1745-01-01
Oliver Wolcott Jr. born 1760-01-11
James McHenry born 1753-11-16
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester age 15
Bernardo de Gálvez born 1746-07-23
Richard Rush born 1780-08-29
Daniel Morgan age 3
William Wirt born 1772-11-08
John Breckinridge born 1760-12-02
Henry Dearborn born 1751-02-23
James Barbour born 1775-06-10
George W. Campbell born 1769-02-09
Levi Lincoln Sr. born 1749-05-15
William Bradford born 1755-09-14
John J. Crittenden born 1787-09-10
John Armstrong Jr. born 1758-11-25
John Canfield Spencer born 1788-01-08
Caesar Augustus Rodney born 1772-01-04
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville age 24
Federico Gravina born 1756-08-12
Pavel Chichagov born 1767-07-08
Felix Grundy born 1777-09-11
William J. Duane born 1780-05-09
William Pinkney born 1764-03-17
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville born 1742-04-28
William Eustis born 1753-06-10
Joel Roberts Poinsett born 1779-03-02
Cuthbert Collingwood born 1748-09-26
George M. Bibb born 1776-10-30
Alexander J. Dallas born 1759-06-21
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer born 1758-09-01
John M. Berrien born 1781-08-23
Samuel D. Ingham born 1779-09-16
Walter Forward born 1786-01-24
Tekle Giyorgis I born 1751-01-01
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer born 1782-05-30
Peter Buell Porter born 1773-08-14
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne born 1780-07-02
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough born 1781-08-31
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley born 1766-04-29
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey born 1781-12-08
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester born 1756-04-28
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto born 1782-11-16
Gigar born 1745-01-01
Charles Philip Yorke born 1764-03-12
John Graham born 1774-01-01
Henry Goulburn born 1784-03-19
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington born 1780-06-21
John Charles Herries born 1778-08-01