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1775

Lexington and Concord

April 19, 1775

At dawn on Lexington green, a British column found 77 militiamen in formation. A shot was fired - no one knows by whom - and eight Americans died. Further on at Concord the militia turned the redcoats back; by sunset of that long April day they had shot the army's advance to pieces along sixteen miles of road.

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Before: September 5, 1774: First Continental Congress Meets
After: January 10, 1776: Paine's Common Sense

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Before: 1771: Russian Conquest of Crimea Begins
After: December 26, 1776: Washington Crosses the Delaware

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.