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During the War of 1812, the British Army conducted an expedition between August 19 and 29, 1814, that took and burned the capital city. In the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, the British routed an American militia, which had gathered at Bladensburg, Maryland to protect the capital. The militia then abandoned Washington without a fight.
The city was founded in 1791, ... As the national capital, ... a joint men's ATP Tour 500- and women's WTA Tour 500-level tennis tournament, ...
1751: Georgetown founded 1752 – February: First survey of Georgetown completed. [1]1784 – October 7: Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts motions “that buildings for the use of Congress be erected on the banks of the Delaware near Trenton, or of the Potomac, near Georgetown, provided a suitable district can be procured on one of the rivers as aforesaid, for a federal town”.
She was the first woman and second African American to lie in honor in the Capitol. In February 2018, the evangelical Rev. Billy Graham became the fourth private citizen to lie in honor in the Rotunda. [75] On September 24, 2015, Pope Francis gave a joint address to Congress, the first Pope to do so. [76]
Mary Lyon (1797–1849) founded the first woman's college, Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts in 1837. Mary Lyon (1797–1849) founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837. It was the first college opened for women and is now Mount Holyoke College, one of the Seven Sisters. Lyon was a deeply religious Congregationalist who ...
Spence School, Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, and New York School of Applied Design for Women [62] founded. U.S. Immigrant Inspection Station begins operating on Ellis Island. Vogue fashion magazine begins publication. [72] 1893 August 24:1893 Hurricane wipes out Hog Island, causes a 30-foot storm surge, and kills at least 34.
Munich remains the capital of the German state of Bavaria. Braunschweig (Brunswick) Brunswick, Duchy of: Germany: 1815 1918 Brunswick became part of the German Empire in 1871, and lost sovereignty fully in 1918. Braunschweig remained the capital of the German Free State of Brunswick until 1946 when it became part of the German state of Lower ...
Burns was also the first woman elected in the state of Oregon. Women were elected to all other town offices as well. [345] [346] 1912. Clara C. Munson, first woman mayor of Warrenton, Oregon also the first woman elected mayor following the passage of the equal suffrage law in Oregon. [347]