| William Board Sr. |
| Generation: | 5 |
| Born: | December 18th, 1743 |
| Died: | May ?, 1814, aged about 71 years |
| Father: | John Board, Sr. |
| Mother: | Jemima (Henderson) Board |
| Occupation(s): | --- |
| Marriages: | • Mary (Yates) Board |
| Children: | None known |
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1231-1808 Papal Inquisition 1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition 1727-1760 Reign of King George II (Hanover) 1740-1748 Austrian war of the succession 1743 1st settlement in S. Dakota 1745 Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar) 1749 Sign Language for deaf-mutes 1752 Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender 1752 Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod 1754-1763 French-Indian war 1755 Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead 1756-1763 Seven years war 1758 Halleys Comet (1st predicted appearance) 1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover) 1760 Bifocals 1765 Steam Engine 1765 HMS Victory launched 1769 San Francisco bay discovered 1770 Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob 1772-1775 Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook 1772 Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 1st Continental Congress meets 1775-1783 American Revolutionary War against the British 1775-1782 British war in India 1776 Declaration of Independence 1778 Congress forbids import of slaves into America 1778 France joins war against Britain 1780 Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity 1781 Uranus discovered 1783 1st working hot air balloon 1784 Thomas Jeffersons proposal to ban slavery defeated 1786 The Dollar is adopted 1786 First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) 1787 Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress 1787 New Jersey enters the union - 3rd 1787 Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd 1787 Delaware enters the union - 1st 1788 Maryland enters the union - 7th 1788 Massachusetts enters the union - 6th 1788 Connecticut enters the union - 5th 1788 Georgia enters the union - 4th 1788 New Hampshire enters the union - 9th 1788 Virginia enters the union - 10th 1788 New York enters the union - 11th 1788 Constitution goes into effect 1788 South Carolina enters the union - 8th 1789-1796 George Washington selected 1st President 1789 North Carolina enters the union - 12th 1789 US Army Established 1790 Rhode Island enters the union - 13th 1790 1st official US census 1790 Coast Guard Established 1791 Federal Bill of rights adopted 1791 Vermont enters the union -14th 1792-1815 Napoleonic war 1792 Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves 1792 Kentucky enters the union - 15th 1793 Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) 1793 Marie Antoinette beheaded 1794 Slavery abolished in French colonies 1794 US Navy Established 1794 US Post Office Established 1796 Tennesee enters the union - 16th 1796 Vaccination against Smallpox 1796-1800 John Adams elected 2nd president of US 1796 Frances presses get right of free speech 1798 Lithography 1798 Mississippi organized as a territory 1798 US Marine Corps Established 1798-1800 Undeclared war with France 1799 Rosetta Stone found 1800 US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC 1800 1st Battery (Volta) 1800-1809 Thomas Jefferson elected president of US 1800 Russia annexes Georgia 1802 Babylonian cuniform deciphered 1803 Fulton propels vessel by steampower 1803 Louisiana Territory Purchased 1803 Ohio enters the union - 17th 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. 1805 Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US 1805 Morphine isolated 1807 Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage 1808 Import of new slaves into US Is banned 1808 Pompeii excavation begins in earnest 1809-1816 James Madison elected president of US 1809 Charles Darwin born 1810 US pop. reaches 7.2 million 1810 Homeopathy founded 1812-1814 War of 1812 1812 Missouri organized as a territory 1812 Louisiana enters the union - 18th |