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Wednesday, 25 March 2026
1756 Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania. 
1760 Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
1763 Mackinaw Michigan, Chippewas captured Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1769 A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history
1770 James Hewitt, composer.
1783 Montgolfier brothers launch inaugural hot-air balloon (unmanned).
1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1784 Mme Thible is recorded as becoming inaugural woman to fly (in a balloon)
1784 Mme Thible is recorded as becoming 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
1789 US constitution comes into force.
1792 In this year, Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
1792 John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies.
1793 Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34.
1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
1798 Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Ital adventurer/spy/librarian, dies at 73
1800 White House completed and President and Mrs John Adams move in
1801 James Pennethorne, architect
1802 Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel
1803 Gabriel James Rains, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute.
1809 Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, Danish painter/architect, dies at 65.
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist is born.
1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1812 The Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory
1815 Paul Jones Semmes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863.
1816 Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union).
1818 John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44.
1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1825 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies
1826 Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39.
1828 Alexander William Campbell, Brig general (Confederate Army).
1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
1832 3rd national black convention meets (Phila)
1833 Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier
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