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Ebenezer Blish
Generation:5
Born:April 1st, 1744 O.S. (Julian calendar)
BirthplaceWest Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Died:September 2nd, 1801, at about age 57
Burial:West Barnstable, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, USA
Father:Deacon Joseph Blish
Mother:Hannah (Child) Blish
Occupation(s): ---
Marriages:None known
Children:None known

Ebenezer Blish
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Ebenezer Blish

1744 through 1801

1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1727-1760 Reign of King George II (Hanover)
1740-1748 Austrian war of the succession
  1745   Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar)
  1749   Sign Language for deaf-mutes
  1752   Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender
  1752   Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
1754-1763 French-Indian war
  1755   Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead
1756-1763 Seven years war
  1758   Halleys Comet (1st predicted appearance)
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
  1760   Bifocals
  1765   Steam Engine
  1765   HMS Victory launched
  1769   San Francisco bay discovered
  1770   Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob
1772-1775 Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook
  1772   Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England
  1773   Boston Tea Party
  1774   1st Continental Congress meets
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War against the British
1775-1782 British war in India
  1776   Declaration of Independence
  1778   Congress forbids import of slaves into America
  1778   France joins war against Britain
  1780   Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity
  1781   Uranus discovered
  1783   1st working hot air balloon
  1784   Thomas Jeffersons proposal to ban slavery defeated
  1786   The Dollar is adopted
  1786   First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany)
  1787   Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress
  1787   New Jersey enters the union - 3rd
  1787   Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd
  1787   Delaware enters the union - 1st
  1788   Maryland enters the union - 7th
  1788   Massachusetts enters the union - 6th
  1788   Connecticut enters the union - 5th
  1788   Georgia enters the union - 4th
  1788   New Hampshire enters the union - 9th
  1788   Virginia enters the union - 10th
  1788   New York enters the union - 11th
  1788   Constitution goes into effect
  1788   South Carolina enters the union - 8th
1789-1796 George Washington selected 1st President
  1789   North Carolina enters the union - 12th
  1789   US Army Established
  1790   Rhode Island enters the union - 13th
  1790   1st official US census
  1790   Coast Guard Established
  1791   Federal Bill of rights adopted
  1791   Vermont enters the union -14th
1792-1815 Napoleonic war
  1792   Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves
  1792   Kentucky enters the union - 15th
  1793   Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves)
  1793   Marie Antoinette beheaded
  1794   Slavery abolished in French colonies
  1794   US Navy Established
  1794   US Post Office Established
  1796   Tennesee enters the union - 16th
  1796   Vaccination against Smallpox
1796-1800 John Adams elected 2nd president of US
  1796   Frances presses get right of free speech
  1798   Lithography
  1798   Mississippi organized as a territory
  1798   US Marine Corps Established
1798-1800 Undeclared war with France
  1799   Rosetta Stone found
  1800   US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
  1800   1st Battery (Volta)
1800-1809 Thomas Jefferson elected president of US
  1800   Russia annexes Georgia