King George III, British Monarch over American Colonies
Exploration: Spain explores Northwest Coast
Explorer is Juan Perez (Northwest)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996
Westward Expansion:
The Battle of Point Pleasant (the only major action of
Dunmore's War) happens 10 October 1774 between the Virginia Militia
and the Shawnee and Mingo Indians in the Ohio Valley (modern day
West Virginia). William Vardeman II participates in the Battle of
Point Pleasant. Vardeman is a private in Captain
Campbell's Company and paid for 41 days of service. Future Shawnee Chief Tecumseh is a child at the time
and his father, Puckinswah, is killed in the battle. The Shawnee
lose and are forced to surrender the land south of the Ohio River
to Virginia.
Source:
My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone
This free ebook preview provides a major portion of an interview of Nathan Boone, the youngest son of frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
He and his wife recollect interesting stories they knew about his father's
exploits on the American frontier.
Science:
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
In 1774 Benjamin Franklin was "stripped of his cherished position as
postmaster general in London for his role in inciting the colonial
uprising." (See 1772) Franklin and Priestly (see above) were good
friends and met at London coffee houses with other scientists called "The
Club of Honest Whigs" to compare scientific discoveries.
Johnson, Steven. The Invention of Air. New York: Riverhead, 2008.
Englishman, Joseph Priestly, (1733-1804), Discoverer of Oxygen
Clergyman and experimenter. Priestly’s experiments in 1774 of a plant growing
under
a glass revealed the atmosphere was restored inside the glass allowing mice to breathe
longer than without the plant.
“What Priestley was observing is dioxygen, otherwise known as “free oxygen” or
O2, a molecule formed by the union of two oxygen atoms.”
Through his experiments on air Priestley found that "air is not an elementary substance, but a composition," or mixture, of gases." (Priestly) was the first to discover that breathable air was a concoction of plants, and with (Benjamin) Franklin’s help he was able to grasp and describe the far-reaching consequences that process would have on our understanding of Earth’s environment.
He invented soda water, water suffused with carbon dioxide. The method earned the Royal Society's coveted Copley Prize and was the precursor of the modern soft-drink industry.
His support for the American and French revolutions so enraged his countrymen that he was forced to flee England in 1794.
He settled in Pennsylvania.
Johnson, Steven. The Invention of Air. New York: Riverhead, 2008.