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The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, Cali

The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California)

The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California)

Events Before

  1. John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the firs

    John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies

  2. Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, bound for the Pacific Ocean on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour

    Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, bound for the Pacific Ocean on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour

  3. Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London

    Philip Astley (8 January 1742 – 20 October 1814) was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus".

  4. First mustard manufactured in America is advertised in Philadelphia

    First mustard manufactured in America is advertised in Philadelphia

  5. 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens in Pennsylvania

    1st American chartered fire insurance company opens in Pennsylvania

Events After

  1. Date of action in Victor Herbert and Grant Stewart's opera "Madeleine"

    Date of action in Victor Herbert and Grant Stewart's opera "Madeleine"

  2. British soldiers kill five men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attuc

    British soldiers kill five men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks is the first to die and is later held up as an early Black martyr. The Boston Massacre or Incident on King Street galvanizes anti-British feelings.

  3. British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia. Writes in his log book that “what we have as yet seen of thi

    British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia. Writes in his log book that “what we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand.”

  4. British Captain James Cook, aboard HMS Endeavour, first lands in Australia at Botany Bay

    HMS Endeavour was a Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. She was launched in 1764…

  5. Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France

    Marie Antoinette was the queen of France from 1774 until the fall of the monarchy in 1792 and her subsequent execution during the French Revolution. Born an archduchess of Austria, she was the…

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