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February 18th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
by a convention, July 4, 1786, is adopted by the legislature and declared......March, 1787 Ethan Allen, born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737, dies at Burlington......Feb. 12, 1789 New York consents to the admission of Vermont into the Union, renouncing her claims for $30,000, and the legislature of Vermont ratifies the agreement......Oct. 28, 1790 Vermont adopts the Constitution of the United States without amendments......Jan. 10, 1791 Vermont admitted by act of Congress of Feb. 18, to take effect......March 4, 1791 Constitutional convention meets at Windsor, July 4; completes its labors......July 9, 1793 Constitution of 1793 adopted by the legislature......Nov. 2, 1796 Gov. Thomas Chittenden resigns on account of failing health (1797), and dies at Williston......Aug. 25, 1797 University of Vermont and State agricultural school at Burlington, chartered 1791, opened......1800 Steamboat The Vermont launched at Burlington by John and James Winans......180
March 13th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
n of the peace from New York will be deemed an enemy to his country and the common cause......April 12-13, 1774 Benjamin Hough, an inhabitant of New Hampshire Grants, favoring New York, procures a commission as justice of the peace. He is found guilty of violating the resolution of April, 1774, publicly whipped, and sent to New York......Jan. 30, 1775 People, to resist the holding of court under royal authority at Westminster appointed for March 14, 1775, assemble at the court-house, March 13. A guard left during the night is fired upon by Sheriff Patterson and his posse a little before midnight, wounding ten, two mortally, and seven are taken prisoners. In the morning court is opened, but the judge and officers are imprisoned at Northampton by the mob......March 14, 1775 Ethan Allen, with eighty-three men, captures Fort Ticonderoga......May 10, 1775 Ethan Allen and thirty-eight men, captured in an attack on Montreal, sent in irons to England......Sept. 25, 1775 Conve
April 15th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
bilee at Burlington, celebrating the union of the lakes and the Atlantic by railroad through Vermont......June 25, 1850 Vermont State Teachers' Association organized......1850 Maine prohibition law passed......Dec. 20, 1852 State board of education established......1856 Capitol at Montpelier burned......Jan. 6, 1857 Personal liberty bill, to secure freedom to all persons within the State, passed......Nov. 25, 1858 Under the call of President Lincoln and Governor Fairbanks, April 15, the first Vermont regiment reaches New York City......May 10, 1861 Personal liberty bill of 1858 repealed as inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States......1861 Southern refugees in Canada, under Lieut. Bennett H. Young, rob the banks of St. Albans, escaping into Canada with over $200,000......Oct. 19, 1864 Norwich University removed to Northfield......1866 Vermont ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment......Nov. 9, 1866 Vermont ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment.....
May 8th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
to Congress to determine equitably the controversy between New York and Vermont......Oct. 21, 1779 Town of Royalton attacked by 300 Indians from Canada; many buildings burned......Oct. 16, 1780 Massachusetts assents to the independence of Vermont......March, 1781 Towns east of the Connecticut annexed to Vermont at their request......April, 1781 Col. Ira Allen, commissioner to exchange prisoners with the British, reaches Ile aux Noix, a few miles north of the Canadian line, about May 8, and spends seventeen days in conference; a union of Vermont with the British is proposed, under instructions from General Haldimand, by encouraging which Allen effects an exchange of prisoners and cessation of hostilities on the border......May, 1781 Jonas Fay, Ira Allen, and Bazaleel Woodward sent by the legislature to represent the cause of Vermont to the Continental Congress......June 22, 1781 First newspaper in Vermont, the Vermont Gazette, or Green Mountain Postboy, printed at We
July 4th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
7 Ethan Allen, born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737, dies at Burlington......Feb. 12, 1789 New York consents to the admission of Vermont into the Union, renouncing her claims for $30,000, and the legislature of Vermont ratifies the agreement......Oct. 28, 1790 Vermont adopts the Constitution of the United States without amendments......Jan. 10, 1791 Vermont admitted by act of Congress of Feb. 18, to take effect......March 4, 1791 Constitutional convention meets at Windsor, July 4; completes its labors......July 9, 1793 Constitution of 1793 adopted by the legislature......Nov. 2, 1796 Gov. Thomas Chittenden resigns on account of failing health (1797), and dies at Williston......Aug. 25, 1797 University of Vermont and State agricultural school at Burlington, chartered 1791, opened......1800 Steamboat The Vermont launched at Burlington by John and James Winans......1809 Flag-ship Saratoga, of twenty-six guns, and several small vessels, built upon Otter C
August 25th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
Waterbury......1888 State board of trade organized......1888 Redfield Proctor appointed Secretary of War......March 5, 1889 Australian ballot law passed at session......Oct. 1–Nov. 25, 1890 George F. Edmunds resigns from the United States Senate, to take effect Nov. 1......April 6, 1891 Ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham dies at Waterbury......July 26, 1891 Celebration of centennial of admission of Vermont into the Union and dedication of the battle monument (308 feet high) at Bennington......Aug. 19, 1891 Legislature called in special session concerning direct-tax money refunded by Congress......Aug. 25, 1891 Ex-Gov. John Gregory Smith dies at St. Albans......Nov. 6, 1891 Redfield Proctor appointed United States Senator, Aug. 25; qualifies......Dec. 7, 1891 Redfield Proctor elected United States Senator......Oct. 19, 1892 Justin S. Morrill dies at Washington, D. C......Dec. 28, 1898 Merchants' National Bank, Rutland. failed......March 26, 1900 Virgini
September 2nd (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
uld be the relinquishing of territory east of the Connecticut and west of the present New York State line, Aug. 20, 1781; the legislature dissolves its eastern and western unions......Feb. 22, 1782 Residents of Brattleboro, Guilford, and Halifax, in a petition prepared by Charles Phelps to Governor Clinton, of New York, complain of the Vermont government, and ask New York to assume jurisdiction over Windham county......April 30, 1782 Governor Chittenden commissions Gen. Ethan Allen, Sept. 2, to raise 250 volunteers, and march into Windham county as a posse comitatus to enforce Vermont laws. This force, doubled by volunteers from Windham county, arrests some twenty leaders of the rebellion, Charles Phelps escaping, Sept. 10; these leaders are tried at Westminster and banished from the State......Sept. 11, 1782 First school law; towns are empowered to form school districts and to elect trustees......Oct. 22, 1782 Legislature establishes post-offices and a postmaster-gener
September 10th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
, and Halifax, in a petition prepared by Charles Phelps to Governor Clinton, of New York, complain of the Vermont government, and ask New York to assume jurisdiction over Windham county......April 30, 1782 Governor Chittenden commissions Gen. Ethan Allen, Sept. 2, to raise 250 volunteers, and march into Windham county as a posse comitatus to enforce Vermont laws. This force, doubled by volunteers from Windham county, arrests some twenty leaders of the rebellion, Charles Phelps escaping, Sept. 10; these leaders are tried at Westminster and banished from the State......Sept. 11, 1782 First school law; towns are empowered to form school districts and to elect trustees......Oct. 22, 1782 Legislature establishes post-offices and a postmaster-general; the rates of postage to be the same as in the United States ......1784 Grant to Reuben Harmon, Jr., of Rupert, of the exclusive privilege of coining copper for a limited period......1785 As provided by State constitution, the fi
October (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
e driven off by armed settlers......July 19, 1771 Organization of the Green Mountain boys under command of Col. Ethan Allen, for opposing the Yorkers ......1771 Jehiel Hawley and James Breakenridge appointed by deputies of Bennington at Manchester, Oct. 21, to petition the King to confirm their grants from New Hampshire......Oct. 21, 1772 Green Mountain Boys visit Durham (Clarendon) twice, armed and with threats, to compel the inhabitants to acknowledge the New Hampshire title......October-November, 1773 Governor Tryon, of New York, by proclamation, commands Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember Baker, Robert Cochran, Peleg Sunderland, Silvanus Brown, James Breakenridge, and John Smith to surrender within thirty days, offering £ 150 for capture of Allen, and £ 50 each for capture of the others......March 9, 1774 Convention at Manchester resolves that whoever takes a commission of the peace from New York will be deemed an enemy to his country and the common cause......Apr
October 1st (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
of Bennington......Aug. 15-16, 1877 Revision of State laws of Vermont under act of 1878 completed......1880 Manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors prohibited......1882 State soldiers' home located at Bennington......Feb. 5, 1887 One hundred thousand dollars appropriated for a State insane asylum at Waterbury......1888 State board of trade organized......1888 Redfield Proctor appointed Secretary of War......March 5, 1889 Australian ballot law passed at session......Oct. 1–Nov. 25, 1890 George F. Edmunds resigns from the United States Senate, to take effect Nov. 1......April 6, 1891 Ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham dies at Waterbury......July 26, 1891 Celebration of centennial of admission of Vermont into the Union and dedication of the battle monument (308 feet high) at Bennington......Aug. 19, 1891 Legislature called in special session concerning direct-tax money refunded by Congress......Aug. 25, 1891 Ex-Gov. John Gregory Smith dies at St. Albans.....
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