Jun 12 The first naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br)

Jun 22 First Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

Jun 22 The first Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

Jun 14 The U.S. Army is founded.

Jun 15 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army

Jun 14 US Army founded

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

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

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

Oct 13 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet

Oct 27 US Navy established

Oct 30 Congress authorizes four vessels for the defense of the United Colonies.

Oct 23 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army

Oct 08 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army

Oct 16 Portland, Maine burned by British

Jul 10 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army

Jul 16 John Adams graduates Harvard

Jul 22 George Washington takes command of the troops

Jul 25 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

Jul 26 The Post Office is esablished by the Continental Congress with Ben Franklin as postmaster general.

Jul 03 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass

Jul 17 The first military hospital approved

Jul 18 Continental Congress resolves that each colony provide armed vessels

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

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