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1774 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
, a British galley which blockaded the eastern passage......Oct. 28, 1778 General Assembly grants £ 500 for distressed inhabitants of Newport......January, 1779 British embark for New York......Oct. 11-25, 1779 French army lands at Newport......July 10, 1780 Public reception given to General Washington in Newport......March 6, 1781 General Assembly authorizes manumission of slaves, makes free negroes or mulattoes born in the State after March 1, 1784, and repeals slavery act of 1774......Feb. 23, 1784 Marine Society, instituted in 1754 under the name of The fellowship Club, is chartered......June, 1785 Stephen Hopkins dies near Providence......July 13, 1785 First spinning-jenny in the United States made and put in operation by Daniel Jackson, of Providence......1786 Act passed for emitting £ 100,000 in bills of credit, and making the same a legal tender at par......1786 Newport, incorporated as a city, June 1, 1784, resumes its old form of town government.
May 22nd, 1744 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
egroes on the western shores of Africa. This was the inception of the American Colonization Society......August, 1773 People of Newport in town-meeting resolve that any one aiding or abetting the unloading, receiving, or vending of tea sent by the East India Company or others while subject to duty in America, is an enemy to his country......Jan. 12, 1774 General Assembly at Newport elects Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward delegates to Continental Congress......June 15, 1774 Act of May 22, 1744, creating the Artillery Company of the county of Providence, amended by changing the name to The cadet Company of the county of Providence ......June, 1774 Three hundred pounds of tea publicly burned in Market Square at Providence, with copies of ministerial documents and other obnoxious papers......March 2, 1775 Gov. Joseph Wanton suspended from office, to which he had just been elected for the seventh time, for upholding the action of the British government......May 3, 1775 Adm
1784 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
anted under the United States law is made to Rev. William Patten, of Newport, for a book entitled Christianity the true theology......May 9, 1795 Marine corps of artillery chartered at Providence......1801 College of Rhode Island changed to Brown University in honor of Nicholas Brown......1804 British occupy Block Island......1813 Commodore Oliver H. Perry leaves Newport to take command of the American squadron on Lake Erie......1813 Friends' school at Portsmouth established in 1784, but discontinued after four years, is revived and established at Providence......1814 President James Monroe visits Rhode Island......June 30, 1817 Rhode Island Historical Society incorporated......1822 Reception given General Lafayette at Providence......Aug. 23, 1824 Commodore Perry dies, aged thirty-four, of yellow fever, on the United States schooner Nonesuch in the harbor of Port Spain, island of Trinidad; buried with military honors at Newport......Dec. 4, 1826 Act estab
1786 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
787 Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers incorporated......March, 1789 Congress subjects to duty all goods from Rhode Island not of her own production......May, 1789 Assembly addresses the President and Congress of the eleven States, assigning reasons for opposing the Constitution, setting forth its attachment to its democratic charter, and the fear that it would be limited by the new federal system......September, 1789 Act passed repealing the legal tender act of 1786, and promising to redeem the paper at the rate of 15 to 1......Oct. 12, 1789 After long and bitter opposition the convention assembled at Newport, adopts the federal Constitution and bill of rights by 34 to 32, 5 P. M. Saturday......May 29, 1790 Providence Bank, the oldest in the State, goes into operation......1791 First known copyright granted under the United States law is made to Rev. William Patten, of Newport, for a book entitled Christianity the true theology......May 9, 179
August 5th, 1778 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
9, 1778 British destroy seventy flat-bottomed boats and property on the Kickemuit River, and burn the church and a number of houses at Warren......May 25, 1778 William Ellery, Henry Marchant, and John Collins sign the Articles of Confederation......July 9, 1778 French fleet of eleven sail-of-line ships, under Count d'estaing, appearing off Brenton's Reef, six British war-vessels attempt to leave the harbor. They are pursued, and are run ashore and set on fire by their crews......Aug. 5, 1778 While the French fleet, dispersed by storms, refits at Boston, the British attack the Americans on Butts Hill; the Americans lose 211 men, the British somewhat more......Aug. 29, 1778 Americans under General Sullivan retreat from Rhode Island to Tiverton, Aug. 30, 1778, and the British fleet with the army of Sir Henry Clinton arrives at Newport......Aug. 31, 1778 Maj. Silas Talbot, with the sloop Hawk, captures the Pigot, a British galley which blockaded the eastern passage.....
April (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
0 tons, by George H. Corliss, of Providence, is set in motion at the opening of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia by President U. S. Grant and Dom Pedro II., Emperor of Brazil......May 10, 1876 There being no choice for governor at the April election, Henry Lippitt, Republican, is chosen by the legislature......May 30, 1876 First board of harbor commissioners appointed by the governor......June 14, 1876 State board of health established......1878 Legislature elects Alfred H. Littlefield, Republican, governor, there being no choice at the election in April......May 25, 1880 Act passed abolishing the tribal authority and relation of the Narraganset Indians......1880 Congress awards the first-class gold medal to Mrs. Ida Lewis Wilson, keeper of Lime Rock light-house, who, since 1859, had saved thirteen lives at the risk of her own......1881 Senator Ambrose E. Burnside, born at Liberty, Ind., 1824, governor of Rhode Island, 1866-69, dies......Sept. 3, 1881 C
July 12th, 1723 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
issues paper money (£ 5,000), to defray the expenses of war......Aug. 16 1710 Latin school in Newport opened by Mr. Galloway......1711 First quarantine act, against small-pox......1711 First edition of the laws of Rhode Island printed in Boston......1719 Thirty-six pirates, captured by Captain Solgard, of British ship Greyhound, off the southeast coast of Long Island, are brought to Newport, tried, and twenty-six sentenced and hanged on Gravelly Point, opposite the town......July 12, 1723 Property qualification for suffrage established, requiring a freehold of value of £ 100 or an annual income of £ 2......Feb. 18, 1724 Boundary-line with Connecticut signed at Westerly......Sept. 27, 1728 George Berkely, dean of Derry, afterwards bishop of Cloyne, arrives in Rhode Island and purchases a farm in Middletown, near New York......Jan. 23, 1730 [After two and a half years he returned to England, giving his farm and a collection of books to Yale College.] Assembly
June 30th, 1817 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
Marine corps of artillery chartered at Providence......1801 College of Rhode Island changed to Brown University in honor of Nicholas Brown......1804 British occupy Block Island......1813 Commodore Oliver H. Perry leaves Newport to take command of the American squadron on Lake Erie......1813 Friends' school at Portsmouth established in 1784, but discontinued after four years, is revived and established at Providence......1814 President James Monroe visits Rhode Island......June 30, 1817 Rhode Island Historical Society incorporated......1822 Reception given General Lafayette at Providence......Aug. 23, 1824 Commodore Perry dies, aged thirty-four, of yellow fever, on the United States schooner Nonesuch in the harbor of Port Spain, island of Trinidad; buried with military honors at Newport......Dec. 4, 1826 Act establishing public schools throughout the State......January, 1828 Race riot in Providence begins between sailors and negroes, military aid is calle
January, 1828 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-rhode-island
tablished at Providence......1814 President James Monroe visits Rhode Island......June 30, 1817 Rhode Island Historical Society incorporated......1822 Reception given General Lafayette at Providence......Aug. 23, 1824 Commodore Perry dies, aged thirty-four, of yellow fever, on the United States schooner Nonesuch in the harbor of Port Spain, island of Trinidad; buried with military honors at Newport......Dec. 4, 1826 Act establishing public schools throughout the State......January, 1828 Race riot in Providence begins between sailors and negroes, military aid is called in and the riot act read......Sept. 21-24, 1831 City of Providence incorporated......Nov. 22, 1832 Company incorporated to construct a railroad from Providence to Stonington in 1832, and railroad building commenced......1835 Fort Adams in Newport Harbor, begun in 1824, is completed......1839 Convention of delegates elected by friends of extension of suffrage, without regard to the law regula
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