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The Vermont Republic officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. [1] The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of Quebec ...
The View from Vermont: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2006). Holbrook, Stewart H. Ethan Allen; Klyza, Christopher McGrory and Stephen C. Trombulak. The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies) (1999) Lockard, Duane.
1799 Russian America 1867 Department of Alaska [21] 1884 District of Alaska [21] 1912 Territory of Alaska [21] 1959 Alaska [21] Arizona: Native Americans: 1768 The Californias 1805 Alta California 1822 Alta California Territory 1846 U.S. provisional government of New Mexico: 1850 New Mexico Territory
This is a timeline of geopolitical changes around the world between 1500 and 1899. It includes dates of declarations of independence, changes in country name, changes of capital city or name, and changes in territorial ownership such as the annexation, occupation, cession, concession, or secession of land.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Vermont in the American Civil War (5 C, 11 P) Vermont in the American Revolution (3 C, 8 P)
1651-1664: Couronian colonization of Africa. 1717: Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. 1775-1783: American War of Independence. 1776: Creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. 1776: The original Thirteen Colonies of the United States, also known as the United Colonies, declare independence from Britain.
After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $156,960,000 in 2023), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
Russia explored the area that became Alaska, starting with the Second Kamchatka expedition in the 1730s and early 1740s. Their first settlement was founded in 1784 by Grigory Shelikhov. [41] The Russian-American Company was formed in 1799 with the influence of Nikolay Rezanov, for the purpose of buying sea otters for