Vermont: Timeline

1609   Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain was a French [i] geographer [i], draftsman [i], explorer [i] ... 

 claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France France

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1749   Benning Wentworth Benning Wentworth

Benning Wentworth was the colonial governor of New Hampshire [i] from. ... 

 issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.

1775   American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force called the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, led by Benedict Arnold Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold was a general [i] in the Continental Army [i] during the American Revolutionary War [i]. ... 

 and Ethan Allen Ethan Allen

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1777   Vermont declares its independence from New York New York

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 becoming an independent country, a status it retained until it joined the United States United States

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 as the 14th state in 1791.

1791   Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state U.S. state

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1819   August 6 Norwich University founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States

1938   The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.

1991   Vermont celebrates its bicentennial statehood.

2000   The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.

2001   The 2001 anthrax attacks 2001 anthrax attacks

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States [i], also known as "Amerithrax" from its FBI codename, occ ... 

 continue as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey, to Senators United States Senate

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 Tom Daschle of South Dakota South Dakota

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 and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.