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ITScBd1508Nov30Andrea Palladio, the architect whose work inspired Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, is born
NAScBd1743Apr13Future US president and primary drafter of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson is born in Virginia
NAScGv1775Mar27Thomas Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress
NAScGv1776Jun11Congress appoints “Committee of Five” (Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft the Declaration of Independence
NACfAr Sep26Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane to negotiate treaty with France
NACfAr1781Jun03Jack Jouett rides to warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack
NAScGv1789Sep26George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson as first Secretary of State
NAScGv1790Mar21Thomas Jefferson reports to President George Washington in New York as Secretary of State
NAScGv  22Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State
NAMePr1791Aug19Benjamin Banneker sends a letter and his first Almanac to Thomas Jefferson
NAMePr1796Oct19Editorial accuses Thomas Jefferson of affair with slave
NA????1797May24Thomas Jefferson inquires about a former flame
NAScGv1801Feb17The House of Representatives decides that Thomas Jefferson should become the third president after an electoral tie with Vice Presidential nominee Aaron Burr in one of the most significant presidential elections in american history.
NAScGv Mar04Thomas Jefferson inaugurated as third president. Outgoing John Adams does not attend, becoming the first of only three presidents to do so
AF???? May14After Thomas Jefferson refuses to pay $225,000 in tribute, the pasha of Tripoli declares war on the U.S.
NAMvEx1803Jan18Thomas Jefferson requests funds for expedition by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
NAScGv1804Feb25Thomas Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
NA???? Mar26Thomas Jefferson presented with a "mammoth loaf" of bread
NAScGv Dec05Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. president/George Clinton2 vice-president
NAScLc1807Jun13Thomas Jefferson subpoenaed in Aaron Burr’s treason trial
NAScCm1809Apr19Thomas Jefferson sells servant to James Madison
NAMePr1810Oct12Thomas Jefferson composes romantic letter
NAMeCp1813May27Thomas Jefferson writes to John Adams to notify him that Benjamin Rush died
NAScGw1815Jan30Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Thomas Jefferson’s 6,500 volumes
NAScBd1826Jul04Both John Adams (age 90) and Thomas Jefferson (age 83) die



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