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George Washington is born
George Washington is born and becomes a very close friend to Alexander Hamilton. -
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King George the Third starts suffering from Porphyria.
King George III starts suffering from Porphyria. This causes him to go mad and is the reason the American Revolution began. -
King George is born.
King George is born and will cause the American Revolution and put Alexander Hamilton on the path to greatness. -
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Founding of King's College
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Birth of Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton is born on the island of Nevis on the West Indies. His fathers name is James and his mothers name is Rachell Faucett. -
Elizabeth Schuyler is born.
Elizabeth Schuyler was born and will grow up to be Alexander Hamilton's wife. -
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Hamilton moves to Danish Island of St. Croix
Alexander Hamilton's family moves to the island of St. Croix and shortly after moving there in this year, Alex's father James leaves his family and goes away. -
Stamp Act
This is one of the events that lead to the American Revolution and Alexander Hamilton's role in the Revolution. This act made it so that the colonists who bought paper had to get it stamped so that it shows that they paid the taxes. -
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Alexander Hamilton begins clerking at St.Croix counting house.
When he starts clerking here, he impresses the owner so much that the owner starts paying for his education. This is the reason why ale has an education. -
Alexander Hamilton's mother dies.
Aleander's mother dies from yellow fever. This causes Alex to lose both his parents. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was never really a massacre and was just made to look like a massacre by Paul Reverre. What happenned was that a crowd of people were harrasing a group of soldiers when one of the soldiers thought that he heard fire and started shooting. Five civillians died in this encounter. When the soldiers were put on trial, John Adams was their defendant. -
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Alexander Hamilton was sent to grammar school in New Jersey.
The owner of the store Alexander Hamilton worked at and a small group of people provide the money to send Hamilton away to a grammar school in New Jersey. -
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Alexander goes to King's College in New York.
Alexander goes to this college to finish his studies. This college later becomes Columbia Universities. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord were shot resulting in the beginning of the American Revolution. This will lead to Alexander Hamilton becoming famous. -
Alexander Hamilton protects King's College's owner from a mob
A mob of people try to attack King's College and Alexander Hamilton tries to talk them out of it. This gives the owner of the college who was the reason why the people were mobbing the place time to flee. This resluted in the college closing down and Alex not getting a degree. -
Alexander becomes the leader of the 1st battalion, 5th Field Artillery Unit
Today, this unit is the oldest one in the USA army and is the only one remaining from the revolution. -
The decleration is read for the first time in public in New York
The decleration of Independence is read for the first time in public and this means that they have decide to form America and this will lead to the making of Alexander Hamilton into the Treasurer. -
Alexander's artillery unit takes part in the successful capture of the fort of Trenton
Alexander's artillery unit takes part in the capture of the fort of Trenton getting his unit respect. -
Hamilton participates in the battle of Princeton
Hamilton participates in the Battle of Princeton. -
Hamilton is promoted to liutenant colonel.
Washington promotes Hamilton to lieutenant colonel and makes him aide-de-camp. This causes Washington and Hamilton to become close friends. -
Hamilton fights in the battle of Monmouth.
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Hamilton sends a letter to Continental Congress PresidentJohn Jay.
Alexander Hamilton sends a letter to him saying that they should make an offer saying that if slave join the army, then they will give them freedom. -
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Alexander meets Elizabeth Schuyler.
Alexander meets Elzabeth Schuyler. They fall deeply in love and get married. -
Alexander marries Elizabeth.
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Alexander resigns from the army.
Alexander and Washington have a fight. He then resigns from service. -
Alexander asks Washington to be reinstated.
Alexander is eager for some action and asks Washington if he can get reinstated back into the army. Washington refuses him and he is rejected. -
Alexander leads a unit in the Battle of Yorktown.
Alexander goes down to Yorktown desperate for some action and ends up leading the people in their battle. Cornwall surrenders 5 days later, -
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Alexander leaves active military service.
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Alexander Declines all future payments for service in the millitary.
Alexander Hamilton sends a letter to Washington saying that he does not want to be payed for any future military services and livees like a normal person. -
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Alexander is made the continental tax collector.
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Hamilton arrives in Philadelphia as an elected representative to the Continental Congress.
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Tresspass Act is released.
New York enacts the Trespass Act, allowing patriots whose homes had been taken by Tories during the Revolution to recover damages. This statute interferes an act of the Treaty of Paris, which will ban state laws interfering with debts and contracts between Patriots and Tories. -
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Treaty of Paris ends revolution.
The treaty of Paris ends the revolutionary war. The Hamiltons family will start living in 57 Wall Street, New York. -
Legislature strips Tories of freedom to vote.
Alexander Hamilton takes up defense for Tories when this happens in New York. -
Bank of New York
Bank of New york is established and opened with Alexander Hamilton's help. -
Alexander sets up an Anti-Savery group.
At a meeting in New York, Hamilton and 31 others set forth the guiding principles for an anti-slavery group. -
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Hamilton is elected to the New York legislature.
This will lead to him being elected as a delegate for New York. -
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Alexander Hamilton spends time with the sonstitutional convention
Alexander is the only one who supports the creation of a strong federal government. Because of this, he got angry about how no one supported hi and since he needed to make money for his family and as a result, he left the convention and only came back for the last couple of weeks. -
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The constitution is signed and approved.
The convention works through the whole summer and everyone approves the constitution including Alexander Hamilton. The 13 colonies need to accept the constitution before it can come into affect. -
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Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay begin writing The Federalist.
Alexander Hamilton with a couple of is friends start writing The Federalist. These papers are more commonly know as the Federalist Papers. These papers have articles that support the acceptance of the constitution. -
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Alexander Hamilton becomes Secretary of Treasury
Alexander Hamilton becomes secretary of treasury as a result of George Washington becoming the first president and being chosen by him. This makes Alexander Hamilton famous for being the first treasurer of America. -
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Alexander Hamilton starts an affair with Maria Reynolds.
Alexnader Hamilton meets and begins an affair with Maria Reynolds. When this Sex Scandal is revealed, it costed Alexander his reputation and maybe even the Presidency he worked very hard for. -
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Alexander Hamilton's affair is revealed.
Alexander Hamilton reveals his affair with Maria Reynolds and is temporarily stripped of political power and it destroys his reputation. -
George Washington's death
Alexander Hamilton's close friend, George Washington dies and Alexander Hamilton gets deeply affected emotionally. -
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A published letter in the newspaper says that Alexander Hamilton expressed a terrible opinion of Burr.
This letter caused Alexander and Burr to exchange letters that caused the tension to grow between them and caused the duel between them which caused Alexander's death. -
Duel between Alexander and Burr.
Alexander and Burr have a duel which mortally wounds Alexander. -
Alexander Hamilton's death.
Alexander dies after a day of physical torture from the wounds he recieved from the duel between Burr and him.