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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 20h

3rd of October 1776. The New Jersey Legislature proposed a resolution in Princeton to create an official state "Great Seal" featuring three plows, Liberty, Ceres, and a horse's head.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 20h

3rd of October 1776. The Continental Congress authorized the first issue of interest-bearing bonds known as Loan Office Certificates to raise funds for the American Revolutionary War

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 20h

3rd of October 1526. Master gunsmith Bartolomeo Beretta received a payment of 296 ducats from the Arsenal of Venice for 185 arquebus barrels, marking the first documented transaction and the birth of Beretta as the world's oldest continuously operating firearms manufacturer.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2nd of October 1776. Thomas Jefferson resigned from the Second Continental Congress to return home and serve in the newly formed Virginia House of Delegates.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2nd of October 1826. The community of Mechanicsburgh, Ohio, officially changed its name to West Chester

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1st of October 1776. Count Maurice Benyovszky, a military officer, adventurer, and traveler from the Kingdom of Hungary, was reportedly chosen by a coalition of local Malagasy tribes as their supreme ruler.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1st of October 1776. Washington County, Maryland officially became effective after being created from Frederick County by a resolution of the Maryland Constitutional Convention on September 6, 1776.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

30th of September 1776. General George Washington penned a deeply candid and frustrated letter to his cousin and Mount Vernon plantation manager, Lund Washington (often mistakenly referred to as his nephew).

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In a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, General George Washington writes on S...

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29th of September 1526. Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón and his expedition officially established the short-lived settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape either near present-day Georgetown, South Carolina or along the coast of Georgia.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29th of September 1776. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams www.masshist.org/digitaladams...

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Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 29 September 1776

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29th of September 1826. Lord Dalhousie ceremoniously turned the first sod at Entrance Valley to mark the start of construction for the first eight locks of the Rideau Canal National Historic Site, Parks Canada and the founding of Bytown (now Ottawa)

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

28th of September 1776. Pennsylvania adopted its first state Constitution after a constitutional convention chaired by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

27th of September 1826. Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered several deep-sky objects in the southern sky while observing from Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, including the open clusters NGC 2164 and NGC 1986, as well as the galaxy NGC 1313.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

26th of September 1826. British military engineer Lieutenant-Colonel John By and Governor General Lord Dalhousie met at a backwoods outpost to establish the headquarters for the construction of the Rideau Canal.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

26th of September 1776. The Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Silas Deane as commissioners to France to secure vital aid, military supplies, and a formal alliance for the American Revolution.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

24th of September 1776. General George Washington wrote a critical letter from Col. Morris's, on the Heights of Haerlem to John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, warning that the Continental Army was on the verge of dissolution. history.hanover.edu/courses/exce...

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

24th of September 1776. The St Leger Stakes was run for the very first time at Cantley Common in Doncaster, England.It was originally a two-mile sweepstakes for three-year-old horses.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22nd of September 1776. British forces in New York City arrested Haym Salomon, a Polish-born Jewish immigrant and businessman, under suspicion of spying for the Continental Army.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22nd of September 1826. U.S. Representative Sam Houston of Tennessee engaged in a famous pistol duel with General William A. White, a veteran of the Battle of New Orleans, gravely wounding him. The shootout took place just after sunrise on the Linkumpinch dueling field near Franklin, Kentucky.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22nd of September 1776. Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22nd of September 1776. NATHAN HALE EXECUTED Nathan Hale, a 21-year-old captain in the Continental Army, was executed by the British by hanging in Manhattan for gathering intelligence behind enemy lines

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21st of September 1776. These entries from the Pennsylvania Gazette detail the British retreat from Boston in March 1776. The author describes logistical issues with provisioning transports and the process of embarking troops.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21st of September 1776. The Great Fire of New York broke out just after midnight, starting at the Fighting Cocks Tavern near Whitehall Street on the southern tip of Manhattan

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21st of September 1776. The New York Provincial Congress officially established the Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies, making John Jay the head of America's first dedicated counterintelligence agency

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21st of September 1826. Dr. James Bird, a residency surgeon stationed at Satara, visited the ancient rock-cut Buddhist caves of Ajanta under instructions from Sir John Malcolm (who later became the Governor of Bombay).

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21st of September 1776. Continental Army Captain Nathan Hale was captured by British forces while attempting to return from an intelligence-gathering mission behind enemy lines on Long Island.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

20th of September 1776. The Delaware Constitution of 1776 was approved by a constitutional convention in New Castle on September 20, 1776, making Delaware the first state to adopt a new constitution after the Declaration of Independence.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

21st of September 1776. The Great Fire of New York broke out just after midnight, starting at the Fighting Cocks Tavern near Whitehall Street on the southern tip of Manhattan

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

20th of September 1526. An army of 3,800 troops led by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna launched a surprise attack on Rome, successfully capturing the Vatican and forcing Pope Clement VII to flee for his life.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

19th of September 1526. The indigenous leader Nicolás de San Luis Montáñez founded San Francisco de Acámbaro, which is located in the modern-day state of Guanajuato, Mexico

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

18th of September 1776. Letter from George Washington to John Hancock founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17th of September 1776. Secret congressional agent Silas Deane wrote from Paris to Robert Morris (and the Committee of Secret Correspondence) assuring him that he would forward a massive amount of military supplies and arms.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17th of September 1826. A major uprising known as the Edward Stone flatboat revolt occurred on the Ohio River. A group of roughly 75 enslaved men and women took control of their fate by striking down their captors to secure their freedom.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17th of September 1776. New Spain officially dedicated El Presidio de San Francisco. Led by Spanish Lieutenant José Joaquín Moraga, this fortified military outpost was established to secure Spain’s foothold in Alta California,

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17th of September 1776. The Model Treaty was approved by the U.S. Continental Congress as a template for commercial treaties with foreign powers like France and Spain during the American Revolution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_T...

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Model Treaty - Wikipedia

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

16th of September 1776. The Battle of Harlem Heights was fought as a crucial turning point in the American Revolutionary War. It provided George Washington’s Continental Army with its first battlefield victory of the campaign, occurring just one day after a humiliating American route at Kip's Bay.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

15th of September 1776. British forces under General William Howe launched an amphibious landing at Kip's Bay on Manhattan Island, forcing General George Washington and the Continental Army to retreat and abandon New York City.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

13th of September 1826. The very first living rhinoceros exhibited in the United States made its debut at The Peale Museum of New York City, which was managed by Rubens Peale (son of the famous artist and naturalist Charles Willson Peale).

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

13th of September 1776. The Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature) passed a critical resolution ordering one-fifth of the state’s militia to march to New York to reinforce General George Washington’s embattled Continental Army.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

13th of September 1826. Francis Martin Drexel and Catherine Hookey announces the birth of a son, whom they name Anthony Joseph Drexel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony...

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Anthony Joseph Drexel - Wikipedia

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

12th of September 1776. Captain Nathan Hale officially departed the Continental Army's camp at Harlem Heights to begin his ill-fated espionage mission behind British lines.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

12th of September 1826. William Morgan was taken from the jail in Canandaigua, New York, and abducted after threatening to publish a book exposing the secret rituals of Freemasonry.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

11th of September 1776. The Delaware Declaration of Rights was adopted by a constitutional convention in New Castle. It set foundational civil liberties for the newly formed state shortly after it broke away from both Great Britain and Pennsylvania.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

11th of September 1826. William Morgan (anti-Mason) was arrested in Batavia, New York, setting off a famous disappearance and political scandal.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

11th of September 1776. The Staten Island Peace Conference, a brief, three-hour diplomatic meeting, was held. It served as the final formal attempt at reconciliation during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10th of September 1776. The Delaware Constitutional Convention finalized the text of the first Delaware Constitution. Presided over by George Read, the delegates completed their work on this Friday date, signing off on Article 30 and concluding the drafting phase.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10th of September 1776. Captain Nathan Hale volunteered for a dangerous intelligence-gathering mission behind British lines on Long Island for General George Washington.

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10th of September 1826. An attempted arson attack targeted the print shop of David C. Miller in Batavia, New York, marking a severe escalation in the infamous William Morgan Affair. Miller, a local newspaper editor,

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1026 / 1526 / 1776 / 1826 News @200yearsago.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

9th of September 1776. John Adams and Ben Franklin shared a tiny inn room en route to a peace talk. Adams closed the window, fearing cold air. Franklin argued fresh air was healthier, lecturing Adams on breathing until Adams fell asleep. Two days later, their peace mission failed.

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