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These are just a few key events to provide some perspective.
1454 Mar: Mainz, Germany. The Gutenberg Bible is available for sale. (4)
1492: Christopher Columbus
discovers America. (5)
1620: Mayflower lands at New Plymouth, Mass. to found
Plymouth Colony under Miles Standish (1, p278)
1752 Sep 14: Great Britian adopts our current Gregorian calendar. Yesterday they still were using the Julian calendar, and yesterday was Sep 2. (2, p28) (7)
1753 Jan 1: The new year 1753 begins on the newly adopted Gregorian calendar. With the Julian calendar, Great Britian and most Christian countries began a new year on Mar 25 instead of Jan 1. (2, p29) (7)
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1790: First US Federal Census.
1807 Aug 17: Robert
Fulton's steamboat opens the age of steamboat travel with its first
successful trip up the Hudson river from New York to Albany. (3)
1861 Apr 12: US
Civil War begins with the Confederate army taking Ft. Sumter, Charleston,
SC. (1, p424)
1865 Apr 9: Lee surrenders to Grant
at Appomattax Courthouse, effectively ending the US
Civil War. (1, p428)
1865 Apr 14: President Abraham Lincoln
assasinated.
1865 May 26: Surrender of last Conferedate
army at Shreveport, LA. (1, p428)
1941 Dec 7: Pearl Harbor. (6)
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Notes
1. Bernard Grun, The Timetables of History (Simon & Schuster, 1979).
2. Milton Rubincam, Pitfalls in Genealogical Research (Ancestry. Inc., 1987).
3. Kirkpatrick Sale, The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream (The Free Press, A Division of Simon & Schuster, 2001).
4. "The Printing of the Bible," www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/4.html (University of Texas at Austin, 2007 Oct 30; accessed 2007 day 30)..
5. "1492: An Ongoing Voyage," http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html (Ibiblio.org, accessed 2005 Jan 8).
6. "HyperWar: A Hypertext History of the Second World War," http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ (Ibiblio.org, accessed 2005 Jan 8).
7. "Time to Take Note: The 1752 Calendar Change" in Ancestry Magazine (Ancestry.com, 2000 Nov/Dec). Available online at www.ancestry.com/lea...le.aspx?article=3358 (Accessed 2008 Jan 6).
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