Person report

★28 May 1754
French and Indian War: Led by 22-year-old George Washington, a company of colonial militia from Virginia ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens in the Battle of Jumonville Glen.

★27 Apr 1777
American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.

★21 Jan 1789
The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.

★11 Sep 1789
Alexander Hamilton, co-writer of The Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

★04 Aug 1791
The signing of the Treaty of Sistova brought an end to the Austro-Turkish War.

★25 Sep 1800
French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S. ships became involved, France withdrew from its invasion of Curaçao.

★01 Jan 1808
As a result of the lobbying efforts by the abolitionist movement, the importation of slaves into the United States was officially banned, although slavery itself was not yet abolished.

★30 Dec 1813
War of 1812: British forces captured Buffalo, New York, and engaged in considerable plundering and destruction.

★16 Jun 1819
A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund.

★10 May 1824
The National Gallery in London opened to the public, in the former townhouse of the collector John Julius Angerstein.

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