Event of Interest

1759 British general James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.

1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure

1806 Buenos Aires captured by British.

1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn.

1847 New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires.

1857 Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the seige of Cawnpore.