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1805: Red Jacket's speech defending Native American religion. [3] 1823: President James Monroe's State of the Union Address to Congress in which he first stated the Monroe Doctrine. 1837: The American Scholar speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the First Parish in Cambridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Manifesto of the Province of Flanders (1790) was the first foreign derivation of the Declaration; [6]: 113 others include the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (1811), the Liberian Declaration of Independence (1847), the declarations of secession by the Confederate States of America (1860–61), and the Vietnamese Proclamation of ...
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
Bill Clinton became the first Democrat to serve as president in more than a decade when he took the oath of office on January 20, 1993. Maya Angelou read an original poem "On the Pulse of Morning ...
Year Name Summary References 1905: Declaration of Boulogne: Defines "Esperantism" as a movement to promote the widespread use of Esperanto. 1909: Declaration of London: An international code of maritime law. 1916: Proclamation of the Irish Republic: Proclaims Irish independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1919
August 28, 2025, will mark the 62nd anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which he delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 in Washington, D.C ...
Time span 1st [12] Protects freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and the right to petition the government. September 25, 1789: December 15, 1791: 2 years, 81 days 2nd [13] Protects the right to keep and bear arms. September 25, 1789 December 15, 1791 2 years, 81 days 3rd [14]
"The golden age of America begins right now," Trump, who was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, Monday, said in a roughly 30-minute inaugural address. "From this day forward, our ...