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1. 1732George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the first child of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington.
2. 1758He commanded the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War and represented Frederick County in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1758.
3. 1759On January 6, 1759, he married the widow Martha Dandridge Custis; at Mount Vernon he grew tobacco and wheat and owned many slaves.
4. 1775In June 1775 the Second Continental Congress unanimously chose him as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
5. 1776He crossed the Delaware to win at Trenton (1776) and Princeton (1777), and with French forces won the decisive victory at Yorktown in 1781.
6. 1787He presided over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
7. 1789Unanimously elected, he was inaugurated as the first U.S. president on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City, and served until 1797.
8. 1797Retired to Mount Vernon from 1797, he died there on December 14, 1799, after developing an inflamed throat and difficulty breathing.