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  1. 2 days ago · The Saint-Domingue slave revolt in 1791. In 1789, the most populous French colonies were Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), Martinique, Guadeloupe, the Île Bourbon (Réunion) and the Île de la France. These colonies produced commodities such as sugar, coffee and cotton for exclusive export to France.

  2. 2 days ago · Portrait of Hamilton authoring the first draft of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. In 1787, Hamilton served as assemblyman from New York County in the New York State Legislature and was chosen as a delegate at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia by his father-in-law Philip Schuyler.

    • 1775–1776 (Militia), 1776–1782, 1798–1800
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  4. 1 day ago · The Constitution was written during the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 55 delegates to a Constitutional Convention that was called ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation (1781–89), the country’s first written constitution.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  5. 1 day ago · American Revolution. The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but also the original printing), is the founding document of the United States.

    • June–July 1776
    • July 4, 1776; 247 years ago
  6. 3 days ago · Introduction. The Pennsylvania Constitution, prefaced by a Preamble and Declaration of Rights, was framed by a specially elected convention that met from mid-July to the end of September 1776. Pennsylvania followed the Virginia model of declaring a bill of rights prior to articulating the kind of republican government that will be established.

  7. 1 day ago · En août 1775, Gilbert de La Fayette, âgé de 17 ans, est envoyé par son beau-père en garnison à Metz pour y parfaire sa formation militaire.

  8. 3 days ago · On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitutional Convention, whose president was George Washington, adopted the document that established our national government as a federal republic (Article IV, Section IV).

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