List of events in The Brantleyverse

## 18th Century (1700-1799)

### 1701

War of the Spanish Succession begins-the last of Louis XIV's wars for domination of the continent. The Peace of Utrecht (1714) will end the conflict and mark the rise of the British Empire. Called Queen Anne's War in America, it ends with the British taking New Foundland, Acadia, and Hudson's Bay Territory from France, and Gibraltar and Minorca from Spain

### 1704

* Deerfield (Mass.) Massacre of English colonists by French and Indians. Johann Sebastian Bach's first cantata. Boston News Letter-first newspaper in America.

### 1706

* January 17th - Benjamin Franklin is born.

### 1707

* Giovanni da Verrazano explores the coast from Carolina north to Nova Scotia, enters New York harbor.

### 1729

* Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Isaac Newton's Principia translated from Latin into English.

### 1732

* February 22nd - George Washington is born.

* also: Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanack. James Oglethorpe and others found Georgia.

### 1735

* October 30th - John Adams is born.

* also: John Peter Zenger, New York editor, acquitted of libel in New York, establishing freedom of the press.

### 1740

* Capt. Vitus Bering, Dane employed by Russia, discovers Alaska. Frederick II "the Great" crowned king of Prussia.

### 1751

* March 16th - James Madison is born.

* also: The first Encyclopedia is published (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, d'Alembert)

### 1752

* Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod.
* The Liberty Bell was ordered from an English bell foundry to celebrate Pennsylvania's 50th anniversary.

### 1755

* Samuel Johnson's Dictionary first published. U.S. postal service established.

### 1756

* Seven Years' War (French and Indian Wars in America) (to 1763), in which Britain and Prussia defeat France, Spain, Austria, and Russia. France loses North American colonies.
* Spain cedes Florida to Britain in exchange for Cuba.

### 1757

* Beginning of British Empire in India as Robert Clive, British commander, defeats Nawab of Bengal at Plassey.

### 1759

* British capture Quebec from French. Voltaire's Candide. Haydn's Symphony No. 1.

### 1760

* The Industrial Revolution in England begins.

### 1762

* Catherine II ("the Great") becomes czarina of Russia. Jean Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract.

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tours Europe as six-year-old prodigy.

### 1765

* James Watt invents the steam engine. Britain imposes the Stamp Act on the American colonists.

### 1767

* March 15th - Andrew Jackson is born.
* July 11th - John Quincy Adams is born.

### 1770

* Troops fire on a group of people protesting English taxes.

### 1773

* February 9th - William Harrison is born.
* also: English tea is thrown into the harbor to protest a tax on tea.

### 1775

* Fighting at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, marks the beginning of the American Revolution.

### 1776

* July 4th - America becomes its own country.

### 1781

* British General Cornwallis surrenders to the Americans at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the fighting in the Revolutionary War.
* William Herschel discovers Uranus.

### 1782

* December 5th - Martin Van Buren is born.

### 1783

* Revolutionary War ends with Treaty of Paris.
* Ludwig van Beethoven's first printed works.

### 1784

* November 24th - Zachary Taylor is born.

### 1787

* December 2nd - Delaware becomes the first state.
* December 12 - Pennsylvania becomes the second state.
* December 18th - New Jersey becomes the third state.
* also: The Constitution of the United States signed, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni.

### 1788

* January 2nd - Georgia becomes the fourth state.
* January 9th - Connecticut becomes the fifth state.
* February 6th - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state.
* April 28th - Maryland becomes the seventh state.
* May 23rd - South Carolina becomes the eighth state.
* June 21st - New Hampshire becomes the ninth state.
* June 25th - Virginia becomes the tenth state.
* July 26th - New York becomes the eleventh state.

### 1789

* April 30th - George Washington becomes first president of The United States.
* November 21st - North Carolina becomes the twelfth state.
* also: The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille.

### 1790

* March 29th - John Tyler is born.
* May 29th - Rhode Island becomes the thirteenth state.
* also: Philadelphia temporary capital of U.S. as Congress votes to establish new capital on Potomac.

### 1791

* March 4th - Vermont becomes the fourteenth state.
* April 23rd - James Buchanan is born.
* also: U.S. Bill of Rights ratified.

### 1792

* June 1st - Kentucky becomes the fifteenth state, and Tennessee becomes the sixteenth state.

### 1793

* Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed.
* Reign of Terror begins in France.
* Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, spurring the growth of the cotton industry and helping to institutionalize slavery in the U.S. South.

### 1796

* Napoléon Bonaparte defeats Austrians.
* Edward Jenner introduces smallpox vaccination.

### 1797

* March 4th - George Washington's presidency becomes to an end, and John Adams becomes the second president of The United States.

### 1798

* Napoleon extends French conquests to Rome and Egypt. U.S. Navy Department established.

### 1799

* Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt. Napoleon leads coup that overthrows Directory, establishes the Consulate, becomes First Consul-one of three who rule France together.

## 19th Century (1800-1899)

### 1801

* March 4th - John Adams' presidency comes to an end, and Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president of The United States.

### 1803

* March 1st - Ohio becomes the seventeenth state.
* April 30th - Thomas Jefferson buys Louisiana from France, doubling the size of the country.
* July 23rd - Robert Emmet foments a rebellion in Ireland, in an unsuccessful attempt to secure its independence from Great Britain.

### 1804

* May - U.S. explorers Lewis and Clark head west on their two-year, 8,000-mile expedition to explore the new Louisiana Purchase territory.
* July 11th - Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton fight a  duel; Hamilton is killed and Burr is ruined.

### 1809

* March 4th - Thomas Jefferson's presidency comes to an end, and James Madison becomes the 4th president of The United States.

### 1811

* The first contracts for The National Road are signed and the first 10 miles are constructed westward from Cumberland, Maryland, which will make westward migration possible.
* November 7th - At the Battle of Tippecanoe, Indigenous peoples led by Tecumseh fight and lose a major battle opposing White settlement.

### 1812

* April 30th - Louisiana becomes the eighteenth state.

### 1814

* August 24th - The British burn the White House and the Capitol, but first lady Dolley Madison saves the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.
* December 23rd - Andrew Jackson becomes an American hero at the Battle of New Orleans.

### 1815

* July 15th - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders after a devastating loss at the Battle of Waterloo, ending the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.

### 1816

* December 11th - Indiana becomes the nineteenth state.

### 1817

* March 4th - James Madison's presidency comes to an end, and James Monroe becomes the 5th president of The United States.
* December 10th - Mississippi becomes the twentieth state.

### 1818

* December 3rd - Illinois becomes the twenty-first state.

### 1819

* December 14th - Alabama becomes the twenty-second state.

### 1820

* March 3rd - The Missouri Compromise, precariously balancing the practice of enslavement, holds the Union together, at least temporarily.
* March 15th - Main becomes the twenty-third state.

### 1821

* August 10th - Missouri becomes the twenty-sixth state.

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