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ОглавлениеPRINCIPAL EVENTS OF WASHINGTON’S LIFE
| 1732 | Washington born February 22, Westmoreland County, Virginia |
| 1743 | Father, Augustine Washington, dies |
| 1752 | District adjutant general of Virginia militia, Major; inherits Mount Vernon |
| 1753 | Envoy from Governor of Virginia to French army on the Ohio |
| 1754 | Victorious commander in first battle of French and Indian War, Colonel |
| 1755 | Volunteer aide to British General Braddock; appointed Commander in Chief of Virginia militia, Colonel |
| 1758–74 | Elected to Virginia House of Burgesses |
| 1759 | Marries Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis, widow of John Custis (by whom she is mother of two children) |
| 1774–75 | Elected to First and Second Continental Congresses |
| 1775–83 | General and Commander in Chief of the Army of the United Colonies; field commander mostly in middle colonies |
| 1775–76 | Commands in victory at Boston |
| 1776 | Fortifies New York city, loses battle of Long Island, evacuates New York, eventually retreats to New Jersey and across Delaware River to Pennsylvania; recrosses for victory at Trenton |
| 1777 | Commander in victory at Princeton; retreats after battles of Brandywine, Germantown; winter at Valley Forge |
| 1778 | Commander in victory at Monmouth; winter at Middlebrook |
| 1779–80 | British shift war to the south; Washington plans with French allies, skirmishes with British in middle colonies |
| 1781 | Abandons plan against New York, conceives and commands victorious Yorktown campaign |
| 1783 | Resigns commission to Congress, retires to Mount Vernon |
| 1784–86 | Hosts interstate conference on Potomac navigation, promotes further conferences on trade, taxes |
| 1787 | Elected President of Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia |
| 1789–97 | First President of the United States |
| 1789 | Unanimous vote by electoral college; Inauguration; appoints cabinet; tours New England (except Rhode Island) |
| 1790 | Policies as to defense, finance, and foreign affairs; visits Rhode Island |
| 1791 | Plans Washington, D.C., with L’Enfant; tours southern states |
| 1792 | First of two vetoes (apportionment of House); unanimous choice of electoral college for President |
| 1793 | Second Inauguration; Neutrality Proclamation; requests recall of French ambassador Genêt; Jefferson resigns as Secretary of State to lead opposition party |
| 1794 | Appoints John Jay special ambassador to Britain; suppresses Whiskey Rebellion; Hamilton resigns as Secretary of the Treasury |
| 1795 | Submits Jay Treaty to Senate for ratification |
| 1796 | Rejects House request for Jay Treaty documents; refuses third term, issues Farewell Address |
| 1797 | Attends Inauguration of President Adams; retires to Mount Vernon |
| 1798 | At Adams’s insistence, appointed Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief as war threatens with France |
| 1799 | Dies of severe cold, December 14; buried in family vault at Mount Vernon, December 18 |
| 1802 | Martha Washington dies and is buried in family vault at Mount Vernon |
