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Events

Industrial Revolution 1760 - 1840

Boston Tea Party 1773-12-16

American Revolutionary War 1775-04-19 - 1783-09-03

Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775-04-19

Siege of Boston 1775-04-19 - 1776-03-17

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

First inauguration of George Washington 1789-04-30

French Revolution 1789-05-05 - 1799-11-09

Storming of the Bastille 1789-07-14

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789-08-26

Haitian Revolution 1791-08-21 - 1804-01-01

United States Bill of Rights 1791-12-15

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-04-20 - 1802-03-25

Battle of Valmy 1792-09-20 - 1792-09-20

Battle of Jemappes 1792-11-06 - 1792-11-06

Execution of Louis XVI 1793-01-21

Battle of Neerwinden (1793) 1793-03-18 - 1793-03-18

Siege of Toulon (1793) 1793-08-29 - 1793-12-19

Reign of Terror 1793-09-05 - 1794-07-28

Battle of Hondschoote 1793-09-08 - 1793-09-08

Battle of Wattignies 1793-10-16 - 1793-10-16

Glorious First of June 1794-06-01 - 1794-06-01

Battle of Fleurus (1794) 1794-06-26 - 1794-06-26

Italian campaign of 1796–1797 1796-04-10 - 1797-10-17

Battle of Montenotte 1796-04-12 - 1796-04-12

Battle of Lodi 1796-05-10 - 1796-05-10

Smallpox vaccine 1796-05-14

Siege of Mantua (1796–1797) 1796-07-04 - 1797-02-02

Battle of Amberg 1796-08-24 - 1796-08-24

Battle of Würzburg 1796-09-03 - 1796-09-03

Battle of Biberach (1796) 1796-10-02 - 1796-10-02

Battle of Emmendingen 1796-10-19 - 1796-10-19

Battle of Arcole 1796-11-15 - 1796-11-17

Battle of Rivoli 1797-01-14 - 1797-01-15

Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) 1797-02-14 - 1797-02-14

Battle of Camperdown 1797-10-11 - 1797-10-11

French campaign in Egypt and Syria 1798-07-01 - 1801-09-02

Battle of the Pyramids 1798-07-21 - 1798-07-21

Battle of the Nile 1798-08-01 - 1798-08-03

Siege of Acre (1799) 1799-03-20 - 1799-05-21

Battle of Cassano (1799) 1799-04-27 - 1799-04-27

Battle of Trebbia (1799) 1799-06-17 - 1799-06-19

Battle of Abukir (1799) 1799-07-25 - 1799-07-25

Battle of Novi (1799) 1799-08-15 - 1799-08-15

Second Battle of Zurich 1799-09-25 - 1799-09-26

Coup of 18 Brumaire 1799-11-09 - 1799-11-10

Siege of Genoa (1800) 1800-04-20 - 1800-06-04

Battle of Marengo 1800-06-14 - 1800-06-14

Battle of Hohenlinden 1800-12-03 - 1800-12-03

Acts of Union 1800 1801-01-01

Battle of Alexandria (1801) 1801-03-21 - 1801-03-21

Battle of Copenhagen (1801) 1801-04-02 - 1801-04-02

Louisiana Purchase 1803-04-30

Napoleonic Wars 1803-05-18 - 1815-11-20

Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804-01-01

Napoleonic Code 1804-03-21

Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-05-14 - 1806-09-23

Battle of Ulm 1805-10-16 - 1805-10-19

Battle of Trafalgar 1805-10-21

Battle of Austerlitz 1805-12-02

Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire 1806-08-06

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt 1806-10-14

Battle of Eylau 1807-02-07 - 1807-02-08

Slave Trade Act 1807 1807-03-25

Battle of Friedland 1807-06-14

Peninsular War 1808-05-02 - 1814-04-17

Battle of Bailén 1808-07-16 - 1808-07-19

Battle of Vimeiro 1808-08-21 - 1808-08-21

Spanish American wars of independence 1808-09-25 - 1833-12-29

Battle of Corunna 1809-01-16 - 1809-01-16

Battle of Eckmühl 1809-04-21 - 1809-04-22

Battle of Aspern–Essling 1809-05-21 - 1809-05-22

Battle of Wagram 1809-07-05 - 1809-07-06

Battle of Talavera 1809-07-27 - 1809-07-28

Mexican War of Independence 1810-09-16 - 1821-09-27

Battle of Bussaco 1810-09-27 - 1810-09-27

Battle of Monte de las Cruces 1810-10-30 - 1810-10-30

Battle of Calderón Bridge 1811-01-17 - 1811-01-17

Battle of Lissa (1811) 1811-03-13 - 1811-03-13

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro 1811-05-03 - 1811-05-05

Siege of Cuautla 1812-02-19 - 1812-05-02

Siege of Badajoz (1812) 1812-03-16 - 1812-04-06

War of 1812 1812-06-18 - 1815-02-17

French invasion of Russia 1812-06-24 - 1812-12-14

Battle of Salamanca 1812-07-22 - 1812-07-22

Siege of Riga (1812) 1812-07-24 - 1812-12-18

Battle of Klyastitsy 1812-07-28 - 1812-08-01

Battle of Gorodechno 1812-08-12 - 1812-08-12

Siege of Detroit 1812-08-15 - 1812-08-16

Battle of Smolensk (1812) 1812-08-16 - 1812-08-18

First Battle of Polotsk 1812-08-17 - 1812-08-18

USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere 1812-08-19 - 1812-08-19

Battle of Borodino 1812-09-07

Battle of Tucumán 1812-09-24 - 1812-09-25

Battle of Queenston Heights 1812-10-13 - 1812-10-13

Second Battle of Polotsk 1812-10-18 - 1812-10-20

Battle of Maloyaroslavets 1812-10-24 - 1812-10-24

Battle of Krasnoi 1812-11-15 - 1812-11-18

Battle of Berezina 1812-11-26 - 1812-11-29

USS Constitution vs HMS Java 1812-12-29 - 1812-12-29

Battle of Frenchtown 1813-01-18 - 1813-01-23

Battle of Salta 1813-02-20 - 1813-02-20

Battle of York 1813-04-27 - 1813-04-27

Siege of Fort Meigs 1813-04-28 - 1813-05-09

Battle of Lützen (1813) 1813-05-02 - 1813-05-02

Battle of Bautzen (1813) 1813-05-20 - 1813-05-21

Battle of Fort George 1813-05-25 - 1813-05-27

Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor 1813-05-28 - 1813-05-29

Capture of USS Chesapeake 1813-06-01 - 1813-06-01

Battle of Stoney Creek 1813-06-06 - 1813-06-06

Battle of Vitoria 1813-06-21 - 1813-06-21

Battle of Großbeeren 1813-08-23 - 1813-08-23

Battle of the Katzbach 1813-08-26 - 1813-08-26

Battle of Dresden 1813-08-26 - 1813-08-27

Battle of Kulm 1813-08-29 - 1813-08-30

Battle of Dennewitz 1813-09-06 - 1813-09-06

Battle of Lake Erie 1813-09-10 - 1813-09-10

Battle of the Thames 1813-10-05 - 1813-10-05

Battle of Leipzig 1813-10-16 - 1813-10-19

Battle of Hanau 1813-10-30 - 1813-10-31

Battle of Crysler's Farm 1813-11-11 - 1813-11-11

Campaign in north-east France (1814) 1813-12-21 - 1814-04-06

Battle of Brienne 1814-01-29 - 1814-01-29

Battle of La Rothière 1814-02-01 - 1814-02-01

Battle of Champaubert 1814-02-10 - 1814-02-10

Battle of Montmirail 1814-02-11 - 1814-02-11

Battle of Vauchamps 1814-02-14 - 1814-02-14

Battle of Montereau 1814-02-18 - 1814-02-18

Battle of Orthez 1814-02-27 - 1814-02-27

Battle of Laon (1814) 1814-03-09 - 1814-03-10

Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube 1814-03-20 - 1814-03-21

Battle of Paris (1814) 1814-03-30 - 1814-03-31

Battle of Toulouse (1814) 1814-04-10 - 1814-04-10

Battle of Chippawa 1814-07-05 - 1814-07-05

Battle of Lundy's Lane 1814-07-25 - 1814-07-25

Siege of Fort Erie 1814-08-04 - 1814-09-21

Burning of Washington 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-25

Battle of Bladensburg 1814-08-24 - 1814-08-24

Battle of Plattsburgh 1814-09-06 - 1814-09-11

Battle of North Point 1814-09-12 - 1814-09-12

Battle of Baltimore 1814-09-12 - 1814-09-15

Congress of Vienna 1814-09-18 - 1815-06-09

Battle of Rancagua 1814-10-01 - 1814-10-02

Battle of Lake Borgne 1814-12-14 - 1814-12-14

Battle of New Orleans 1815-01-08

1815 eruption of Mount Tambora 1815-04-10

Battle of Ligny 1815-06-16

Battle of Quatre Bras 1815-06-16 - 1815-06-16

Battle of Wavre 1815-06-18 - 1815-06-19

Battle of Waterloo 1815-06-18

Siege of Cartagena (1815) 1815-08-26 - 1815-12-06

People

George Mathews born 1739-08-30

Governor of Georgia - United States

Peyton Randolph (governor) born 1779-01-01

Governor of Virginia - United States

David Brydie Mitchell born 1766-10-22

Governor of Georgia - United States

George Plater born 1735-11-08

Governor of Maryland - United States

Robert Bowie born 1750-03-01

Governor of Maryland - United States

John Hoskins Stone born 1750-01-01

Governor of Maryland - United States

Thomas Kirker born 1760-01-01

Governor of Ohio - United States

Elisha Lawrence born 1746-01-01

Governor of New Jersey - United States

Othniel Looker born 1757-10-04

Governor of Ohio - United States

David Emanuel born 1744-01-01

Governor of Georgia - United States

Levin Winder born 1757-09-04

Governor of Maryland - United States

William Sanford Pennington born 1757-01-01

Governor of New Jersey - United States

Jared Irwin born 1750-01-01

Governor of Georgia - United States

James Brice born 1746-08-26

Governor of Maryland - United States

Benjamin Ogle born 1749-01-27

Governor of Maryland - United States

Charles Carnan Ridgely born 1760-12-06

Governor of Maryland - United States

William Kennedy born 1775-01-01

Governor of New Jersey - United States

William Paca born 1740-10-31

Governor of Maryland - United States

Benjamin Harrison V age 9

Governor of Virginia - United States

Thomas Nelson Jr. born 1739-01-06

Governor of Virginia - United States

Button Gwinnett age 3 months

Governor of Georgia - United States

Lyman Hall age 11

Governor of Georgia - United States

Martin Van Buren born 1782-12-05

New York State Senate - United States

William H. Seward born 1801-05-16

New York State Senate - United States

Henry Wilson born 1812-02-16

Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States

Robert Treat Paine age 4

Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States

Philip Livingston age 19

New York State Senate - United States

Lewis Morris age 9

New York State Senate - United States

James Duane age 2

New York State Senate - United States

Simón Bolívar born 1783-07-24

President - Venezuela

Ferdinand VII born 1784-10-14

King - Spain

Charles III of Spain age 19

King - Spain

Joseph Bonaparte born 1768-01-07

King - Spain

Charles IV of Spain born 1748-11-11

King - Spain

Gustav III born 1746-01-24

King - Sweden

Charles XIII born 1748-10-07

King - Norway

Christian VIII born 1786-09-18

Monarch - Norway

Frederick VI of Denmark born 1768-01-28

Monarch - Denmark

Gustav IV Adolf born 1778-11-01

King - Sweden

Rama II born 1768-02-24

King - Thailand

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia born 1766-01-06

President - Paraguay

Alexandre Pétion born 1770-04-02

President - Haiti

Peyton Randolph age 13

President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress

Henry Laurens age 11

President of the Continental Congress - Continental Congress

Camilo Torres Tenorio born 1766-11-22

President - Colombia

Domingo Matheu born 1765-08-04

President - Argentina

José Miguel Pey born 1763-03-11

President - Colombia

Custodio García Rovira born 1780-03-02

President - Colombia

William I of the Netherlands born 1772-08-24

King - Netherlands

Adolf Frederick of Sweden age 25

King - Sweden

Bhimsen Thapa born 1775-08-01

Prime Minister - Nepal

Abraham Lincoln born 1809-02-12

Charles Darwin born 1809-02-12

Ludwig van Beethoven born 1770-12-01

Charles Dickens born 1812-02-07

Adam Smith age 12

Otto von Bismarck born 1815-04-01

Benjamin Franklin age 29

Richard Wagner born 1813-05-22

Jane Austen born 1775-12-16

Michael Faraday born 1791-09-22

Giuseppe Verdi born 1813-10-01

James Watt born 1736-01-19

Andrew Johnson born 1808-12-29

James Buchanan born 1791-04-23

Zachary Taylor born 1784-11-24

James K. Polk born 1795-11-02

John Tyler born 1790-03-29

Millard Fillmore born 1800-01-07

Franklin Pierce born 1804-11-23

Benjamin Disraeli born 1804-12-21

Marie Antoinette born 1755-11-02

Maximilien Robespierre born 1758-05-06

Ada Lovelace born 1815-12-10

Giuseppe Garibaldi born 1807-07-04

Napoleon III born 1808-04-20

Leo XIII born 1810-03-02

Charles Babbage born 1791-12-26

Edward Jenner born 1749-05-17

Nicholas I of Russia born 1796-07-06

Horatio Nelson born 1758-09-29

Robert E. Lee born 1807-01-19

William Ewart Gladstone born 1809-12-29

Shaka born 1787-07-01

Giuseppe Mazzini born 1805-06-22

William IV born 1765-08-21

Klemens von Metternich born 1773-05-15

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour born 1810-08-10

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord born 1754-02-02

George IV born 1762-08-12

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 70

Wilhelm I born 1797-03-22

Georges Danton born 1759-10-26

José de San Martín born 1778-02-25

Jefferson Davis born 1808-06-03

Benito Juárez born 1806-03-21

Adolphe Thiers born 1797-04-15

Charles X of France born 1757-10-09

Pedro I of Brazil born 1798-10-12

Louis Philippe I born 1773-10-06

Leopold I of Belgium born 1790-12-16

Charles XIV John born 1763-01-26

Elizabeth Cady Stanton born 1815-11-12

Patrice de MacMahon born 1808-06-13

Joséphine de Beauharnais born 1763-06-23

Joachim Murat born 1767-03-25

Muhammad Ali of Egypt born 1769-03-04

Mikhail Kutuzov born 1745-09-16

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder born 1800-10-26

Toussaint Louverture born 1743-05-20

Ferdinand I of Austria born 1793-04-19

Antonio López de Santa Anna born 1794-02-21

Lajos Kossuth born 1802-09-19

Oscar I born 1799-07-04

John A. Macdonald born 1815-01-11

Antonio José de Sucre born 1795-02-03

Jules Grévy born 1807-08-15

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla born 1753-05-08

Jean-Jacques Dessalines born 1758-09-20

Michel Ney born 1769-01-10

Sam Houston born 1793-03-02

Hannibal Hamlin born 1809-08-27

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen born 1784-01-28

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher born 1742-12-21

Mongkut born 1804-10-18

Agustín de Iturbide born 1783-09-27

Richard Mentor Johnson born 1780-10-17

Frederick VII of Denmark born 1808-10-06

Davy Crockett born 1786-08-17

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby born 1799-03-29

George M. Dallas born 1792-07-10

Pyotr Bagration born 1765-07-10

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento born 1811-02-15

Robert FitzRoy born 1805-07-05

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly born 1761-12-27

Daniel Webster born 1782-01-18

Tecumseh born 1768-03-01

Louis-Nicolas Davout born 1770-05-10

Charles Albert born 1798-10-02

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

David Farragut born 1801-07-05

Frederick, Prince of Wales age 28

Mohammad Shah Qajar born 1808-01-05

Benedict Arnold born 1741-01-14

Charles Felix born 1765-04-06

Emperor Ninkō born 1800-03-16

Rama III born 1788-03-31

Hong Xiuquan born 1814-01-01

George Meade born 1815-12-31

Bettino Ricasoli born 1809-03-09

Agostino Depretis born 1813-01-31

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke born 1798-01-14

Joseph Jenkins Roberts born 1809-03-15

Urbano Rattazzi born 1808-06-20

Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora born 1804-11-18

Bernardino Rivadavia born 1780-05-20

Winfield Scott born 1786-06-13

Justo José de Urquiza born 1801-10-18

Francisco de Paula Santander born 1792-04-02

Lajos Batthyány born 1807-02-10

Luigi Federico Menabrea born 1809-09-04

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg born 1771-04-18

Juan José Flores born 1800-07-19

Carlos Antonio López born 1790-11-04

Luigi Carlo Farini born 1812-10-22

Francisco Morazán born 1792-10-03

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 5

John Paul Jones born 1747-07-06

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve born 1763-12-31

Alexandros Mavrokordatos born 1791-02-11

Fructuoso Rivera born 1784-10-17

Nathanael Greene born 1742-08-07

Alexander H. Stephens born 1812-02-11

François Achille Bazaine born 1811-02-13

Salmon P. Chase born 1808-01-13

John Burgoyne age 13

Giovanni Lanza born 1810-02-15

Edwin Stanton born 1814-12-19

Karl Mack von Leiberich born 1752-08-25

Vicente López y Planes born 1785-05-03

Manuel Blanco Encalada born 1790-04-21

Konstantinos Kanaris born 1790-01-01

Zeng Guofan born 1811-11-26

Roger B. Taney born 1777-03-17

Henry Halleck born 1815-01-16

Lewis Cass born 1782-10-09

Joseph Hooker born 1814-11-13

Rafael Carrera born 1815-10-24

Ioannis Kolettis born 1773-01-01

William L. Marcy born 1786-12-12

Hamilton Fish born 1808-08-03

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben age 4

Jean-Pierre Boyer born 1776-02-15

James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie born 1812-04-22

Samuel J. Tilden born 1814-02-09

Thomas Gage age 17

Edward Livingston born 1764-05-28

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