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| Adjutant Gates, Horatio |  |
| Appointed Adjutant General of the Continental Army
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| Battle of Bunker Hill Gage, Thomas |  |
| 17th June Bunker Hill British victory during a siege of American rebels in Boston
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| Battle of Bunker Hill Warren, Joseph | |
| 17th June Bunker Hill Killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill
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| Battle of Bunker Hill Washington, George | |
| 17th June Bunker Hill Commander-in-Chief during the Battle of Bunker Hill
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| Battle of Lexington Gage, Thomas | |
| 19th April Lexington Uses troops to seize military stores & precipitates the Battle of Lexington
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| Battle of Lexington Parker, John | |
| 19th April Lexington Commands the Minutemen
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| Birth Ampere, Andre-Marie |  |
| 20th Jan Lyons Birth of Andre-Marie Ampere
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| Birth Grimston, James Walter | |
| 26th Sep Birth of James Walter Grimston
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| Birth Bahadur Shah II |  |
| 24th Oct Birth of Bahadur Shah II
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| Capture Montgomery, Richard | |
| Saint Johns Americans under General Richard Montgomery capture the British fort of Saint Johns
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| Commander Washington, George | |
| 3rd July Appointed Commander of the Continental forces
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| 3rd July Appointed Commander-in-Chief
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| 3rd July Appointed Commander of the Continental forces
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| Continental Congress, 2nd Hancock, John | |
| 24th May Elected President of the Second Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Randolph after Henry Middleton declined the nomination
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| Coronation Louis XVI | |
| 11th June Paris Fails to escape France in support of the emigres through the nth east frontier
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| Death Bathurst, Allen | |
| 16th Sep Death of Allen Bathurst
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| Discovery of Georgia Cook, James | |
| South Names the southern most point of Sth Georgia, Cape Disappointment
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| South Sights Sth Georgia & sails around it, he thinks it is connected to Antarctica
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| Famine Louis XVI | |
| April Paris Famine in Paris, April-May
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| Lord Advocate Dundas, Henry Melville | |
| Appointed Lord Advocate
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| Major Warren, Joseph | |
| Appointed Major General
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| Navy Warren, Joseph | |
| 30th Oct The USAnavy is founded
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| Peerage Bathurst, Henry | |
| 16th Sep Bathurst Created 2nd Earl Bathurst of Bathurst, Sussex
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| 16th Sep Battlesden Created 2nd Baron Bathurst of Battlesden, co. Bedford
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| Pope Pius VI |  |
| Vatican Appointed Pope
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| President Warren, Joseph | |
| Appointed President of the provincial Congress
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| Reform Washington, George | |
| 3rd July Begins transforming the army while maintaining the Siege of Boston
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| Resignation Gage, Thomas | |
| London Resigns after the battle of Bunker Hill as Governor of Massachusetts
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