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1753
| 1753 • First official Saint Patrick's Day. |
1778
Age: 25y
marriageCatherine Bourne Culpepper County, Virginia, USA ⇓ William and Catherine were first cousins 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1778 • American Revolutionary War: The tactically inconclusive Battle of Rhode Island takes place, after which the Continental Army abandons its position on Aquidneck Island. |
1779
Age: 26y
birth of childMoses Bourne Culpepper County, Virginia, USA ⇓ |
| 1779 • The spinning mule is perfected by the Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton. |
1783
May 18
Age: 30y
birth of childMorton Bourne Culpepper County, Virginia, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1783 • New Jersey earthquake: An earthquake of 5.3 magnitude strikes New Jersey. |
1785
Sep 25
Age: 32y
birth of childJane Bourne Culpepper County, Virginia, USA ⇓ |
| 1785 • Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. |
1790
Jan 30
Age: 37y
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birth of childWilliam Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1790 • The alleged London Monster is arrested in London: he later receives 40 years for 10 assaults. |
1792
Apr 20
Age: 39y
birth of childRebecca Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ |
| 1792 • Six men steal some of the former French Crown Jewels from a warehouse where the revolutionary government had stored them. |
1794
Jun 5
Age: 41y
birth of childJohn Davis Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ |
| 1794 • Battle of Maciejowice: Forces of the Russian Empire defeat Polish supporters of the Kościuszko Uprising; Tadeusz Kościuszko is wounded and captured. |
1794
Jun 5
Age: 41y
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birth of childJohn Davis Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1794 • The University of Tennessee is established at Knoxville. |
1797
Age: 44y
birth of childHenry Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ |
| 1797 • William Wilberforce marries Barbara Ann Spooner. |
1801
Age: 48y
birth of childAnn Nancy Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1801 • Toussaint L'Ouverture triumphantly enters Santo Domingo, the capital of the former Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, which has become a colony of Napoleonic France. |
1801
Age: 48y
birth of childSusan Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ |
| 1801 • Supreme Council, Scottish Rite (Southern Jurisdiction, USA) is founded. |
1804
Feb 4
Age: 51y
birth of childJames M Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ |
1820
Age: 67y
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residenceJessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ John Bourn and William Bourn lived right next door. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1820 • The Argentine Confederation (Argentina) establishes a penal colony in the Falkland Islands. |
1826
Aug 3
Age: 73y
| 1826 • Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of Australia, establishing a settlement near Albany. |