Mar 06 The first Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston

Mar 23 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"

Mar 22 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament

Mar 19 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)

Mar 07 Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria

Mar 19 Poland &Prussia sign trade agreement

Aug 05 First Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters Sab Francisco Bay

Aug 22 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion

Sep 25 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured

Feb 08 Leidse University 400th anniversary dinner

Feb 09 English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion

Feb 22 First US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10

Feb 15 Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI

Feb 01 Peasants in Bohemia revolt against servitude.

Feb 22 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland

Apr 18 Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"

Apr 18 At about 10 p.m., three men took to their horses to ride from Boston to Concord, MA to warn the citizens of the approaching British army. The famous poem, "Paul Revere's Ride", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, glorified the Bostonian as the lone rider. He was, in fact, accompanied by William Dawes and Samuel Prescott. Only Prescott made it all the way to Concord. Revere was nabbed by a British cavalry patrol near Lexington, MA (Dawes and Prescott escaped).

Apr 19 Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon. A shot is fired and the American revolution begins at the Lexington Common. That was the "shot heard round the world"

Apr 20 British begin siege of Boston As a result, New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

Apr 23 The birth of J.M Turner, English artist

Apr 18 American colonial patriot Paul Revere made his famous ride from Lexington to Concord, Massachusetts, warning the American people that the British “redcoats” had landed and will soon arrive

Apr 19 Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"

Apr 20 British begin siege of Boston

Nov 13 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal

Nov 10 United States Marine Corps founded

Nov 07 Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army

Nov 10 The United States Marines are organized.

Nov 12 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks

Dec 31 Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold

Dec 03 First official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)

Dec 22 Continental navy organized with 7 ships

Dec 25 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate

Dec 16 The birth of Jane Austen, English novelist

May 10 Second Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander

May 10 The second Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania; issues paper currency for first time

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