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1743 Apr 13 |
Thomas Jefferson (d.1826), the third president of the United States (1801-1809), was born in present-day Albemarle County, Va. He called slavery cruel but included 25 slaves in his daughter’s dowry, took enslaved children to market and had 10-year-old slaves working 12-hour days in his nail factory. He stated that blacks were “in reason inferior” and “in imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous.” “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." "History, in general, only informs us what bad government is." Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT 
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1768 |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US President (1801-1809), was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1774 |
Thomas Jefferson (31), US President (1801-1809), wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America " and retired from his law practice. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1777 |
Thomas Jefferson (34), US President (1801-1809), drafted Virginia’s Statute for Religious Freedom. It was passed by Virginia’s General Assembly in 1786. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1779 |
Thomas Jefferson (36), US President (1801-1809), was elected as the 2nd Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry. Jefferson served for 2 years with James Madison (28) in his cabinet. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT, MadisonJ
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1781 Sep 6 |
Martha Jefferson (b.1748), wife of Thomas Jefferson, died. Links: USA, JeffersonT
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1783 |
Thomas Jefferson (40) of Virginia, US President (1801-1809) began serving in US Congress and continued for two years. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1784 |
Virginia Congressman Thomas Jefferson (41) became the US Commissioner and Minister to France. He continued there to 1798 and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams. Links: USA, France, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1786 Jan 16 |
The Council of Virginia passed the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom. Thomas Jefferson had drafted The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in 1779 three years after he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Links: USA, Virginia, Religion, JeffersonT
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1787 |
Thomas Jefferson toured Bordeaux while serving as US ambassador to France. He purchased cases Haut-Brion, d’Yquiem, and Margaux for himself and George Washington. Links: USA, France, Wine, JeffersonT
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1789 Sep 26 |
Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State; John Jay the first chief justice of the United States; Samuel Osgood the first Postmaster-General; and Edmund Jennings Randolph the first Attorney General. The US Congress had created the position of attorney general as a part-time gig. The salary lagged well behind other executive positions, and lacked congressional appropriations for office space and supplies. Links: USA, JeffersonT
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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 Mar 22 |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) became the first US Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, he served on the first Board of Arts, the body that reviewed patent applications and granted patents. Jefferson was one of a triumvirate that served as both America’s first patent commissioner and first patent examiner. Links: USA, JeffersonT, Patent
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1797 |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States (1801-1809), began serving as US Vice President. He was also elected president of the American Philosophical Society this year and continued to 1815. A philosopher-statesman of the Enlightenment, Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, was George Washington’s first Secretary of State and vice-president under John Adams. Links: USA, JeffersonT
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1798 |
US Vice President Thomas Jefferson and Virginia Congressman James Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. Jefferson became the active head of Republican Party. The Virginia Senate agreed to the Virginia Resolution on Dec 24. Links: USA, Virginia, Kentucky, JeffersonT
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1798 |
In the Kentucky Resolutions Thomas Jefferson protested the Alien and Sedition Acts and maintained that "free government is founded in jealousy, not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power." Links: USA, Virginia, Kentucky, JeffersonT
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1802 |
James Callender, an English-born journalist, published a report in the Richmond, Va., Recorder about Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with the slave Sally Hemmings [Hemings]. In 1997 Annette Gordon-Reed published: "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, an American Controversy." DNA tests of descendants in 1998 indicated that Jefferson fathered at least one child with Hemmings, her youngest son Eston Hemmings in 1808. Dr. Eugene Foster, author of the DNA report, later said the DNA tests showed that any one of 8 Jefferson males could have fathered Eston. In 2008 Annette Gordon-Reed authored “The Hemmingses of Monticello: An American Family.” Links: USA, Virginia, Journalism, Slavery, Biography, JeffersonT
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1802 |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US President (1801-1809) said: “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1804 Jul 11 |
Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton (47), former first Treasury Secretary, in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J. A warrant for Burr’s arrest was soon issued in New Jersey and New York, where Hamilton died. In 1999 Richard Brookhiser wrote "Alexander Hamilton: American." In 2001 Joanne B. Freeman edited his writings and published: Alexander Hamilton: Writings." Links: USA, New York, New Jersey, Biography, JeffersonT
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1804 Nov 27 |
Pres. Jefferson issued a nationwide proclamation to military and public officials warning of a conspiracy to attack Spanish territory in Texas. He had opened negotiations with Spain to purchase Texas territory west of New Orleans. Jefferson had heard rumors that Aaron Burr had begun plotting an invasion of Texas. Jefferson ordered Gen. James Wilkinson to move federal troops into defensive positions between the Sabine River and New Orleans. Wilkinson, unbeknownst to Jefferson, was a close confidant of Burr and also worked as a spy in the employ of Spanish officials in Mexico. Links: USA, Mexico, Texas, JeffersonT
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1805 Mar 4 |
Pres. Thomas Jefferson delivered his 2nd inaugural address. Links: USA, JeffersonT
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1806 Mar 29 |
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the National Road, the first federally financed interstate. Although it took decades to finish, the National Road helped open the land west of the Appalachians to settlers and commerce. It was later lengthened, paved and renamed U.S. 40, but was eclipsed in the 1960s by Interstate 70, a parallel superhighway. Links: USA, JeffersonT
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1806 Oct |
Gen. James Wilkinson, senior brigadier general of the United States Army and the first Governor of Louisiana Territory, sent to President Jefferson a letter in which he painted the actions of Aaron Burr in the worst possible light, while portraying himself as innocent of any involvement in an alleged Burr conspiracy to create an independent country in the center of North America including the Southwestern United States and parts of Mexico. Jefferson ordered Burr's arrest, and Burr was apprehended near Natchez, Mississippi. Links: USA, Louisiana, JeffersonT
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1807 Mar 3 |
US Pres. Thomas Jefferson signed into law a bill passed by Congress a day earlier to shut down the foreign slavery trade. Congress gave all traders nine months to cease their operations in the United States. Links: USA, Black History, Slavery, JeffersonT
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1809 |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US president (1801-1809) retired to Monticello, Va. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1819 |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president. The university opened for classes in 1825. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1823 Dec 2 |
President Monroe, replying to the 1816 pronouncements of the Holy Alliance, proclaimed the principles known as the Monroe Doctrine, "that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by European powers." His doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere insured that American influence in the Western hemisphere remain unquestioned. Former US Pres. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) helped Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT, MonroeJ
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1826 Jul 4 |
Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president, died at age 83 at one o'clock in the afternoon and was buried near Charlottesville, Virginia. He was the founder of the Univ. of Virginia and wrote the state’s statute of religious freedom. In 1981 Dumas Malone, aged 89 and nearly blind, published "The Sage of Monticello," the sixth and final volume of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jefferson. In 1997 Joseph J. Ellis won the National Book Award in nonfiction for "American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson." "Nothing gives one person so much of an advantage over another as to remain unruffled in all circumstances." Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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1836 Sep 14 |
Aaron Burr, the 3rd US Vice President, died. He had served as vice-president under Thomas Jefferson. Burr is alleged to have fathered a black illegitimate son named John Pierre Burr. In 1999 Roger W. Kennedy authored "Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in Character." In 2007 Nancy Isenberg authored “Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr.” Links: USA, Black History, Biography, JeffersonT
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1987 |
William Koch of Germany paid some $500,000 for 4 bottles of French wine said to have been discovered in Paris in 1985 and allegedly once owned by Thomas Jefferson. By 2006 Koch’s investigations led him to believe they were fakes, which he attributed to Hardy Rodenstock (born as Meinhard Goerke), a German collector and dealer. Links: France, Germany, Wine, Scam, JeffersonT
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1998 Oct 31 |
A genetic study was released suggesting President Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings. Links: BioTech, Slavery, JeffersonT
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2005 Oct 4 |
The US Mint unveiled the design for a new Jefferson nickel called the Jefferson 1800, designed by Jamie Franki. It will begin circulating in 2006. Links: USA, Money, JeffersonT
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2013 Apr 19 |
David Rubenstein, co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, announced his donation of $10 million to help visitors see the full plantation of Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello, Va. Links: USA, Virginia, JeffersonT
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2021 Oct 18 |
New York City officials voted unanimously to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from Council chambers, but delayed a decision on where to put it. For the last two decades, some Black and Latino Council members, citing Jefferson’s history as a slaveholder, called for the statue to be banished. Links: USA, NYC, JeffersonT
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