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

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

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

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

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

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

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