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French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (pictured), defining a set of individual…
The United States Department of the Treasury was founded following financial concerns in the new nation.
The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of…
French Revolution: Upset about the high price and scarcity of bread, thousands of Parisian women and allies marched…
The Brabant Revolution, sometimes considered to be the first expression of Belgian nationalism, began with the…
The Brabant Revolution, sometimes considered to be the first expression of Belgian nationalism, began with the…
The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation of the Un
Angered by high tax burdens and disfranchisement, farmers in western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays began an armed…
The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the fi
Second Anglo-Mysore War: British troops surrendered the fortress of Bednore in southwestern India to French and Mysorean
The States General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in The Hague became the fir
The States General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in The Hague became the fir
American Revolutionary War: US Colonel William Crawford began a failed expedition to destroy British-allied American Ind
The Congress of the Confederation adopted the Great Seal of the United States (obverse pictured), used to authenticate d
American Revolutionary War: Five American privateer vessels raided the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia…
The Badge of Military Merit (pictured), the precursor to the U.S. Purple Heart, was established as a military…
American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett (pictured) rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legis
American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of B