May 23 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution

May 09 English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

May 26 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain

Jan 20 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah GA

Jan 28 Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France

Jan 09 Connecticut becomes an American state

Jan 09 Connecticut becomes 5th state

Jan 29 Australia Day

Jan 22 The birth of Lord Byron, English poet

Jan 26 The first English convicts arrive in Australia

Jan 02 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution

Jan 26 The first group of European settlers arrives in Australia.

Jan 01 Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves

Jan 01 London's Daily Universal Register becomes the Times

Jan 02 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution

Jan 26 Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay New South Wales as a penal colony

Feb 06 Massachusetts becomes the sixth of the United States.

Feb 01 First US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet

Feb 09 Austria declares war on Russia

Feb 06 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

Apr 28 Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution

Apr 07 First settlement in Ohio, at Marietta

Apr 28 Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution

Apr 28 Maryland was one of the first of the United States of America, entering the Union as number seven on this day

Sep 13 New York becomes the capital of the United States (later replaced by Washington)

Sep 13 New York City becomes the US national capital, as authorized by the Congress of the Confederation.

Jun 21 US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify

Jun 25 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution

Jun 11 First British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC

Jun 25 The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state.

Dec 23 Maryland votes to cede a 10 mile area for District of Columbia

Aug 22 British create the settlement of Sierra Leone, Africa, for freed slaves

Oct 02 HMAS Sirius sets out from Port Jackson, Australia, to Cape Town for provisions.

Jul 26 New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution

Jul 26 New York ratifies the U.S. Constitution.

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