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May 16, 2024 · September 5, 1774 — The First Continental Congress Convenes at City Tavern in Philadelphia. At 10:00 on the morning of September 5, 1774, the delegates of the First Continental Congress met for the first time at City Tavern in Philadelphia. They were there to discuss a unified colonial response to the Intolerable Acts.
6 days ago · The people of the state of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, a.d. 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States by the federal government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the states, fully justified this state in then withdrawing from the federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the ...
2 days ago · t. e. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [6] [17] [18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge ...
2 days ago · The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, with the assistance of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. The document defined the rights of the people of the independent states. On July 2, 1776, the members of the Second Continental Congress voted in favor of independence. On July 4, 1776, the delegates then held a second vote ...
4 days ago · The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
May 9, 2024 · Juan Seguín (born October 27, 1806, Bexar, New Spain [now San Antonio, Texas]—died August 27, 1890, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico) was a Tejano (Texan of Hispanic descent) revolutionary and politician who helped establish the independence of Texas. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, Stephen Austin —a friend of Seguín’s father ...
May 5, 2024 · Kenneth Whittemore. Pilgrim Hopkins Heritage Society Historian. P.O. Box 712543. Santee, CA 92072-2543. Send e-mail to: lineage@pilgrimhopkins.com. This web site produced 5 May 2024 by Personal Ancestral File, a product of. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
