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1752: Half-brother Lawrence (age 34) dies. George Washington joins the Masonic Lodge in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and begins his military career.
Washington takes a message from the governor of Virginia to French military forces in the Ohio Valley, demanding that they leave. He becomes an international figure when his journal from that expedition is published in America and Europe.
The future king of France, Louis XIV, is born. (1754) |