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1748 |
Lord Fairfax, Virginia land owner, commissioned a survey of the Patterson Creek Manor, which later became part of West Virginia. The surveyor was accompanied by the nephew of Lord Fairfax and the nephew’s best friend, George Washington (16). The survey was unusually erroneous. Links: USA, Virginia, West Virginia, WashingtonG 
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1753 Oct |
Robert Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia, called a meeting to discuss the eviction of British settlers from homesteads west of the Appalachian Mountains by French soldiers from Canada. Major George Washington volunteered to deliver a letter of trespass to French authorities in the Ohio Valley. Links: Britain, USA, France, Virginia, Pennsylvania, WashingtonG
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1754 Jan 6 |
Major George Washington, while returning to Virginia, encountered a party of English settlers and militiamen at Will’s Creek sent by Gov. Dinwiddie to establish a fort and trading post at the Forks of the Ohio. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Maryland, WashingtonG
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1754 May 28 |
Col. George Washington led a 40-man detachment that defeated French and Indian forces in a skirmish near Great Meadows, Pa. Links: USA, France, Pennsylvania, AmerIndian, WashingtonG
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1754 Jul 3 |
George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity (later Pittsburgh) in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French, leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley. This marked the beginning of the French and Indian War also called the 7 Years' War. In 2005 Fred Anderson authored “The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War.” Links: USA, France, Pennsylvania, Washington, AmerIndian, WashingtonG
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1754 Dec |
Lt. Col. George Washington resigned his commission. Links: WashingtonG
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1755 Jul 9 |
General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia, which was on its way to attack France's Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh). Gen. Braddock's troops were decimated at Fort Duquesne, where he refused to accept George Washington's advice on frontier style fighting. British Gen'l. Braddock gave his bloody sash to George Washington at Fort Necessity just before he died on Jul 13. Links: Britain, USA, France, Pennsylvania, AmerIndian, WashingtonG
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1755 Jul 13 |
Edward Braddock, British general, died Following the July 9 battle at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Links: Britain, USA, Pennsylvania, WashingtonG
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1758 Nov 25 |
In the French and Indian War British forces under General John Forbes captured Fort Duquesne (the site of present day Pittsburgh, est. 1754). George Washington participated in the campaign. Forbes renamed the site Fort Pitt after William Pitt the Elder, who di-rected British military policy in the Seven Years' War of 1756-'63. Before his arrival, the French had burned the fort and retreated. Links: Britain, USA, France, Pennsylvania, AmerIndian, WashingtonG
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1775 Oct 13 |
The U.S. Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. The Continental Congress authorized construction of two warships. The 1st ship in the US Navy was the schooner Hannah. It was commissioned by George Washington and outfitted at Beverly, Mass. In 2006 Ian W. Toll authored “Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy. Links: USA, Massachusetts, WashingtonG
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1776 Dec 23 |
Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, “The American Crisis,” which included the line "These are the times that try men's souls…" was read out loud by George Washington to the Continental Army. Links: USA, , WashingtonG
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1777 Jan |
George Washington mandated inoculations for the soldiers under his command in the Continental Army, writing that if smallpox were to break out, “we should have more to dread from it, than from the Sword of the Enemy”. Links: USA, Microbiology, WashingtonG
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1777 Dec 2 |
British officers under Gen. Howe met in the Philadelphia home of Lydia Darragh to discuss plans to the attack American forces on December 5, just prior to Gen. Washington’s planned move to Valley Forge. Mrs. Darragh listened in on the plans and sent word to Whitemarsh of the impending attack. Links: Britain, USA, Pennsylvania, WashingtonG, Espionage
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1779 |
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) painted the portrait “George Washington at Princeton.” Links: Artist, USA, WashingtonG
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1781 Feb |
Gen. Washington, sensitive to the pleas of the Virginia Governor, ordered Lafayette south with a picked force of some 1,200 New England and New Jersey troops. Links: USA, Virginia, WashingtonG
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1781 Oct 19 |
Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis, surrounded at Yorktown, Va., by American and French regiments numbering 17,600 men, surrendered to George Washington and Count de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Va. Cornwallis surrendered 7,157 troops, including sick and wounded, and 840 sailors, along with 244 artillery pieces. Losses in this battle had been light on both sides. Cornwallis sent Brig. Gen. Charles O'Hara to surrender his sword. At Washington's behest, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln accepted it. Washington himself is seen in the right background of “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown” by artist John Trumbull. After conducting an indecisive foray into Virginia, Lt. Gen. Charles Lord Cornwallis retired to Yorktown on August 2, 1781. On August 16, General Washington and Maj. Gen. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, began marching their Continental and French armies from New York to Virginia. The arrival of a French fleet, and its victory over a British fleet in Chesapeake Bay, sealed the trap. Links: Britain, USA, France, Virginia, WashingtonG
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1787 |
George Washington at this time owned some 30,000 acres in the West. Links: USA, WashingtonG
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1789 Apr 30 |
George Washington was inaugurated and took office in New York as the first president of the United States. He took his oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street and spoke the words “So help me God,” which all future US presidents have repeated. The oath as prescribed by the Constitution makes no mention of God of the Bible. Links: USA, NYC, God, Religion, WashingtonG
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1789 |
Dentist John Greenwood (1760-1819) carved his first dentures for George Washington out of hippopotamus ivory. Greenwood had served as a private under Washington at the Battle of Trenton in 1776. Links: USA, Dental, WashingtonG
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1790 Jan 8 |
President Washington delivered the 1st "State of the Union" address in NYC. Links: USA, WashingtonG
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1790 Mar 1 |
President Washington signed a measure authorizing the first US Census. The Connecticut Compromise was a proposal for two houses in the legislature-one based on equal representation for each state, the other for population-based representation-that resolved the dispute between large and small states at the Constitutional Convention. Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman's proposal led to the first nationwide census in 1790. The population was determined to be 3,929,625, which included 697,624 slaves and 59,557 free blacks. The most populous state was Virginia, with 747,610 people and the most populous city was Philadelphia with 42,444 inhabitants. The average cost of this year’s census was 1.13 cents per person. Links: USA, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, WashingtonG, Census
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1790 Mar 21 |
Thomas Jefferson (46) reported to President Washington in New York as the new US Secretary of state. Links: USA, NYC, WashingtonG, JeffersonT
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1790 Apr 10 |
President George Washington signed into law the first United States Patent Act. The Patent Board was made up of the Secretary of State, Secretary of War and the Attorney General and was responsible for granting patents on "useful and important" inventions. In the first three years, 47 patents were granted. Until 1888 miniature models of the device to be patented were required. [see July 31] The US Patent and Trademark Office’s subject grouping scheme includes a major component called a class and a minor one called a subclass. A class distinguishes one technology from another. Subclasses of the USPTO delineate processes, structural features and functional features of the technology in that particular class. By 2015 there were 474 classes and over 160,000 codes. Links: USA, Technology, WashingtonG, Patent
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1791 Mar 29 |
Pres. George Washington and French architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant examined the site along the Potomac River that would become the US capital. Maryland and Virginia had ceded land to the federal government to form the District of Columbia. Chosen as the permanent site for the capital of the United States by Congress in 1790, President Washington was given the power by Congress to select the exact site—an area ten-miles square, made up of land given by Virginia and Maryland. Washington became the official federal capital in 1800. In 2008 Fergus Bordewich authored “Washington: The Making of the American Capital.” Links: USA, Architect, DC, WashingtonG
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1792 Apr 14 |
Pres. George Washington appointed David Rittenhouse, the foremost scientist of America, the first director of the US Mint at a salary of $2000 per annum. Rittenhouse was then in feeble health and lived at the northwest corner of Seventh and Arch Streets, then one of the high places of Old Philadelphia, where he had an observatory and where he later died and was first buried. Links: USA, Money, DC, WashingtonG
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1792 |
George Washington signed a law giving shipowners “allowances” (i.e. subsidies) to offset tariffs they had to pay on their inputs. This was part of an effort to rebuild new England’s cod industry. Links: USA, WashingtonG
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1792 |
A US military campaign led by General Arthur St. Clair against Native Americans in Ohio ended in complete disaster. Of the 1,400 US regulars and militia who set out in pursuit of Native Americans, some 650 were killed and 250 wounded when adversaries caught them unprepared for battle. Lawmakers launched the first congressional investigation of US executive branch actions. President George Washington responded with wary cooperation, aware he was setting precedents for presidents to come. Links: USA, Ohio, AmerIndian, WashingtonG
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1795 Jul 10 |
Pres. George Washington pardoned the Whiskey rebels. The spirits producers had rioted in 1791 against a tax on their goods. Links: USA, Liquor, WashingtonG
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1799 Dec 14 |
George Washington (b.1732), the first president of the United States, died at his Mount Vernon, Va., home. Richard Brookhiser authored "Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington." The Washingtons at this time had 317 slaves. His 5 stills in Virginia turned out some 12,000 gallons of corn whiskey a year. In 1993 Richard Norton Smith authored "George Washington and the New American Nation." In 2010 Ron Chernow authored “Washington: A Life.” Links: USA, Biography, WashingtonG
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1846 Feb 23 |
The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia tolled for the last time, to mark George Washington’s birthday. A hairline fracture had developed since 1817 and a failed attempt to repair it resulted in the crack. In 2010 Tristram Riley-Smith authored “”The Cracked Bell: American and the Afflictions of Liberty.” Links: USA, Pennsylvania, WashingtonG
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2001 Jan |
Christie’s sold a miniature portrait of George Washington to an anonymous bidder for $1.2 million. The oval portrait, painted by John Ramage, also contained plaited strands of Washington’s hair inside its case. Links: Artist, Hair, WashingtonG
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2007 Jan |
In Barbados the George Washington House and Museum was completed following an 8-year restoration project. The site stood just outside Bridgetown. Links: USA, Barbados, WashingtonG
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2007 Feb 15 |
A new version of the US $1 coin, paying tribute to American presidents, went into general circulation. A unknown number were mistakenly struck without their edge inscription “In God We Trust.” George Washington appeared on the first coin. Links: USA, Money, God, WashingtonG
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2013 Sep 27 |
In Virginia George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate formally opened the new $47 million Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. Links: USA, Virginia, WashingtonG
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