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

May 10 Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution

May 10 2nd Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania; issues paper currency for first time

May 17 In Philadelphia Pennsylvania, US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. (I wonder what we did?)

May 07 Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria

May 20 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain

Jan 17 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland

Jan 11 Francis Salvador becomes first Jew elected to office in America (SC)

Jan 25 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)

Jan 10 The birth of Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist

Jan 17 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Poland

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

Sep 25 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured

Jun 07 The United Colonies change their name to the United States.

Jun 17 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)

Jun 23 First regatta held on Thames, England

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