July 14

Event:
1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua is founded by the Spanish Franciscan friar Junípero Serra. It is the third mission in the twenty-one mission chain in Alta California.

Celebrate Birth:
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (b. 1743 – July 20, 1816) Russian poet whose works are traditionally assigned to the literary Classicism with his best verse full of antitheses and conflicting sounds.

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July 12

Event:
1776 At the request of the British, General Washington meets with British General Howe’s representatives in New York and listens to vague offers of clemency for the American rebels. Washington politely declines, then leaves.

Celebrated Birth:
Josiah Wedgwood (b. 1730 – January 3, 1795) English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery.

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July 11

Event:
1776 Captain James Cook begins his third Pacific expedition.

1780 A French force under the command of Count de Rochambeau arrives in Newport, Rhode Island with 6000 French soldiers. A British blockade will keep them there for almost a year.

Birth:
1767 John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams and sixth President of The United States.

Celebrated Birth:
Pierce Butler (b. 1744 – February 15, 1822) South Carolina member of the Constitutional Convention, signed the United States Constitution.

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July 10

Event:
1776 A statue of King George III is pulled down in New York City. The lead from the statue is melted and turned into musket balls

1778 Louis XVI, King of France, officially declares war against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1781 Thomas McKean of Delaware becomes the second President of the United States in Congress Assembled under the Articles of Confederation. He replaces Samuel Huntington, who resigned due to poor health. It was while he was serving that Congress received information of the British surrender from George Washington. His term ended on November 4, 1781 when John Hanson of Maryland took office.

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July 9

Event:
1776 George Washington receives a copy of the Declaration of Independence from the Second Continental Congress and has it read to his troops.

1776 The New York assembly votes to authorize its delegates to the Congress to vote in favor of independence. As a result an angry mob in New York City topples the equestrian statue of George III.

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July 8

Event:
1776 The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence is held before a huge crowd in Philadelphia.

1777 The Continental frigate Hancock is captured by the British ships Rainbow and Flora. The prisoners are taken to Halifax.

1778 General George Washington enters West Point and sets up headquarters.

1781 The abolishment of slavery in Massachusetts is upheld by the State Supreme Court.

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July 7

Event:
1770 The Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

1776 Silas Dean arrives in Paris France. The Committee of Secret Correspondence had sent him on a secret mission, even kept secret from the Continental Congress, to procure clothing and munitions for an army of 25,000.

1777 The Battle of Hubbardton, an engagement in the Saratoga campaign is fought. British forces under General Simon Fraser caught up with the American rear guard of the forces withdrawing from Fort Ticonderoga. It was the only battle of the revolution fought on Vermont soil.

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July 6

Event:
1775 The Second Continental Congress approves the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, a statement authored jointly by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson. Obligatory professions of loyalty to the king were made, but it contained a thinly veiled threat that if matters were not made right, then independence was the likely consequence.

1776 The Pennsylvania Evening Post prints the Declaration of Independence. This is the first public printing of the document.

1777 The British under General John Burgoyne retakes Fort Ticonderoga. This is a major lost for the America.

1785 The dollar is chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. They are the first nation to adopt a decimal coinage system.

Birth:
1766 Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist.

Celebrated Birth:
John Paul Jones (b. 1747 – July 18, 1792) America naval hero.

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July 5

Event:
1775 The Second Continental Congress makes a final effort to seek reconciliation with Britain and end the fighting. The chief advocate of this effort was John Dickinson, a conservative delegate from Pennsylvania, who authored the Olive Branch Petition. The appeal is directed to George III personally. It issues a sharp protest against repressive British policies and asks the king to halt the war, repeal the Coercive Acts to bring about reconciliation. The king refused to receive the petition when it arrived to him in August of 1775.

1776 John Hancock president of the Second Continental Congress orders that copies of the Declaration of Independence be sent to the states.

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July 4

Event:
1776 At a little after 11 o’clock, after many hours of debate during the previous two days and thirty-nine revisions to the committee’s draft, including the deletion of language that denounced King George III for promoting the slave trade, the Declaration of Independence was approved. John Hancock, as President of Congress, and Charles Thompson, Secretary of Congress signed the document. The New York again delegation abstained from the vote, but approved the Declaration five days later.

1776 The Continental Congress forms a committee to design a seal to be used by Congress. After six years and three committees, Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress, presented a seal using elements of previous attempts for approval on June 20, 1782. It is first used on September 16, 1782 to verify signatures that authorized George Washington to negotiate prisoners exchange with the British.

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