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1.Benjamin Franklin flies a kite in a lightning storm to prove that lightning is electricity.\

2.George lll becomes the King of Great Britan, Ireland and the 1.6 million colonists in America

3. The British army under General Howe occupies New York

4.Captain James Cook charts the Alaskan coast and is the first European to explore Hawii

5.Harvard Medical School opens

6.Thanksgiving is celebrated as a national holiday for the first time

7.George Washington becomes the first president of the United States

8.Philadelphia becomes the nations capital

9.The new city of Washington D.C. become the nations new capital

10.The War of 1812 is ended by the Treaty of Ghent