| 1538 |
First Parish Registers kept in England |
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| 1540 |
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Birth of John Maybury (approximate) |
| 1540-42 |
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado travelled through what later became Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma,
and Kansas |
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| 1547 |
Death of Henry VIII; Edward VI became King |
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| 1553 |
Death of Edward VI; Mary became Queen |
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| 1558 |
Death of Queen Mary; Elizabeth I became Queen |
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| 1559 |
Church of England established |
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| 1564 |
William Shakespeare born
St. Augustine founded in Florida by Spaniards |
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| 1565 |
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John Maybury married Margaret Bourder in Sussex |
| 1568 |
First bottled beer |
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| 1572 |
Last Inca Emperor executed |
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| 1576 |
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John Maybury "hammerman" married Alice Fuller in Sussex |
| 1580 |
Montaigne's Essays written |
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| 1584 |
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Mayburys in London |
| 1588 |
England defeated the Spanish Armada |
Mayburys in Shropshire |
| 1590 |
Compound microscope invented |
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| 1596 |
Water closet developed |
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| 1598 |
Systematic parish registers begin in parchment books with transcription of older records |
Mayburys in Derbyshire |
| 1600 |
East India Company chartered |
Mayberys in Warwick |
| 1603 |
Death of Queen Elizabeth I; James I became King |
John Maybury's wife, Alice, buried in Staffordshire
John Maybury (1570) working in Monmouthshire |
| 1605 |
Gunpowder Plot |
John Maybury (1570) working in Hampshire |
| 1607 |
English found Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia |
Mayburys in Shropshire |
| 1612 |
Galileo viewed the craters of the Moon |
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| 1616 |
Death of William Shakespeare |
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| 1617/18 |
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John Maybury buried at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire |
| 1620 |
Pilgrims land at Plymouth |
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| 1621 |
Dutch West India Company founded |
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| 1624 |
Death of James I; Charles I became King; New Amsterdam founded |
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| 1626 |
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Mayburys in Churchtowne, Lancashire |
| 1629 |
Massachusetts Bay Company Chartered |
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| 1632 |
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Meberys in Worcester
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| 1634 |
First Parish Registers kept in Ireland |
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| 1636 |
Harvard College founded |
Mabres in Somerset |
| 1640 |
Bay Psalm Book published |
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| 1642 |
Outbreak of civil wars in England, continued until 1651 |
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| 1649 |
King Charles executed |
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| 1653 |
Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector |
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| 1656 |
| Mayburys in Herefordshire |
| 1657 |
| John Maybury "forgeman" emigrated from Lancashire to Londonderry, Ireland |
| 1658 |
Death of Oliver Cromwell; his son, Richard became Lord Protector |
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| 1660 |
Restoration of the Monarchy to Charles II; Navigation Act of 1660 |
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| 1663 |
Religious Liberty in Rhode Island |
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| 1666 |
Great Fire of London |
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| 1671 |
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William Maybury "hammerman" hired by Sir William Petty to work in County Kerry, Ireland |
| 1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia |
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| 1679 |
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Francis Maybury in Henrico County, Virginia |
| 1685 |
Death Charles II; James II became King;
Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach |
Francis Maybury married Elizabeth Gilliam in Henrico County, Virginia |
| 1688-89 |
Siege of Derry |
Richard Mayberry "one of the brave defenders at the siege of Derry" |
| 1689 |
William and Mary made King and Queen |
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| 1692 |
William and Mary College founded |
Mayberrys in Gloucester |
| 1696 |
First practical steam engine |
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| 1701 |
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Francis Maybury in Virginia owned a nine year old Indian slave (later owned others) |
| 1702 |
Death of William III; Anne became Queen |
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| 1703 |
John Wesley born |
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| 1712 |
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Francis Maybury died in Surry County, Virginia |
| 1714 |
Death of Queen Anne; George I became King |
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| 1716 |
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Thomas Maybury I "ironmaster" appears in Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
| 1719 |
Robinson Crusoe published |
Mayburys in Brecon |
| 1727 |
Death of George I; George II became King |
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| 1730 |
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William Mayberry to Massachusetts from Londonderry, Ireland |
| 1734 |
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Francis Mayberry "hammerman" working at Principio Furnace in Maryland |
| 1735-37 |
John and Charles Wesley visited Georgia |
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| 1736 |
Methodist Movement in London |
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| 1742 |
Handel's "Messiah" |
Thomas Maybury I "ironmaster" builds Vestal Furnace in Frederick County, Virginia |
| 1747 |
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Thomas Maybury II "ironmaster" died in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |
| 1748 |
Ben Franklin electrical experiments |
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| 1750 |
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Frederick Mayberry arrived in New Jersey from Germany (tradition) |
| 1752 |
England adopted the Georgian Calendar |
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| 1754-63 |
French and Indian Wars |
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| 1760 |
Death of George II; George III became King |
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| 1769 |
First Steam Engine |
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| 1770 |
Ludwig Van Beethoven born |
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| 1774 |
First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia |
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| 1776 |
Declaration of Independence signed |
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| 1775-83 |
War for American Independence |
Col. Thomas Mayberry contracts with Continental Congress to make iron for Washington's army |
| 1781 |
Articles of Confederation ratified |
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| 1784 |
Episcopal Church founded
Methodist Church founded |
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| 1786-87 |
Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts |
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| 1788 |
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George Mayberry "ironmaster" in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley |
| 1789 |
George Washington became first United States President;
Beginning of French Revolution |
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| 1790 |
First United States Census |
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| 1791 |
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Justinian Mayberry in Frederick County, Maryland |
| 1797 |
John Adams became 2nd U.S. President |
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| 1801 |
Thomas Jefferson became President |
Frederick Mayberry died in Bedford County, Virginia |
| 1803 |
Louisiana Purchase |
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| 1809 |
James Madison became President
Edgar Allan Poe born |
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| 1812
| War with the British
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| 1817 |
James Monroe became President |
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| 1820 |
Missouri Compromise |
Richard Mayberry from Ireland to Canada
Death of Col. Thomas Mayberry in Charleston, South Carolina |
| 1825 |
John Quincy Adams became President |
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| 1827 |
First photographs made |
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| 1829 |
Andrew Jackson became President |
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| 1837 |
Martin Van Buren became President
Abolitionist Controversy |
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| 1841 |
William Henry Harrison became President |
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| 1844 |
First Telegram sent |
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| 1845 |
James K. Polk became President
Annexation of Texas |
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| 1846-48 |
Mexican-American War |
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| 1849 |
Zachary Taylor became President |
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| 1850 |
Zachary Taylor died; Millard Fillmore became President |
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| 1853 |
Franklin Pierce became President |
John Maybery emigrated from Mommouthshire to Australia |
| 1857 |
James Buchanan became President |
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| 1859 |
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Four Maybury brothers emigrate to Canada from County Kerry, Ireland |
| 1861 |
Abraham Lincoln became President |
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| 1861-65 |
War Between the States |
More than 400 Mayburys serve in Union and Confederate forces
Union and Confederate cousins, both named James Patrick Mabry, meet at Andersonville Prison |
| 1863 |
Emancipation Proclamation |
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| 1865 |
Abraham Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson became President |
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| 1869 |
Ulysses S. Grant became President
First Transcontinental Railroad completed |
Rich'd Hawkes. Maybury emigrated to Missouri from County Kerry, Ireland |
| 1877 |
Rutherford B. Hayes became President
First Telephone (1877) |
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| 1881 |
James A. Garfield became President; assassinated 6 months later
Chester A. Arthur became President |
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| 1884 |
Washington Monument completed |
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| 1885 |
Grover Cleveland became President |
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| 1886 |
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James P. Maybury emigrated to Australia from County Kerry, Ireland |
| 1889 |
Benjamin Harrison became President |
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| 1893 |
Grover Cleveland became President again |
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| 1894 |
First Automobile Patented |
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| 1897 |
William McKinley became President |
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| 1898 |
Spanish-American War |
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| 1901 |
William McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt became President |
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| 1903 |
Wright brothers' first flight (1903) |
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| 1909 |
William Howard Taft became President |
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| 1912 |
Titanic sinks in Atlantic |
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| 1913 |
Woodrow Wilson became President |
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| 1914-18 |
World War I; U.S. entered in 1917 |
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| 1921 |
Warren G. Harding became President |
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| 1923 |
Harding died in office; Calvin Collidge became President |
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| 1927 |
Lindbergh solos the Atlantic |
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| 1929 |
Herbert Hoover became President
Stock Market Crash |
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| 1929-39 |
Great Depression |
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| 1932 |
Lindbergh kidnapping |
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| 1933 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President
New Deal |
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| 1939-45 |
World War II |
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| 1945 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office; Harry S. Truman became President
United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United Nations Charter |
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| 1948 |
State of Israel founded
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| 1950-53 |
Korean War |
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| 1953 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower became President |
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| 1961 |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President |
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| 1962 |
Cuban Missle Crisis |
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| 1963 |
March on Washington (Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech)
John F. Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson became President |
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| 1964 |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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| 1968 |
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
First Moon Landing |
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| 1969 |
Richard M. Nixon became President |
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| 1973 |
Spiro T. Agnew resigned as Vice President
Gerald R. Ford appointed Vice President |
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| 1974 |
Richard Nixon resigned Presidency in Watergate scandal
Gerald Ford became President |
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| 1977 |
James Earl Carter became President |
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| 1981 |
Ronald Reagan became President |
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| 1986-87 |
Iran-Contra Scandal |
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| 1987 |
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The Mabry Family published |
| 1989 |
George H. W. Bush became President |
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| 1991 |
U.S.S.R. Disolves
Gulf War |
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| 1992-95 |
War in Bosnia |
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| 1993 |
William J. Clinton became President |
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| 1997 |
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The Mabry Family (reprint edition) |
| 2000 |
Controvery over counting of Florida's vote for President |
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| 2001 |
Florida election dispute appealed to Supreme Court;
5-4 vote gives Florida electoral votes
and the Presidency to George W. Bush
World Trade Center & Pentagon attacked by Al-Qaeda |
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| 2001 |
United States leads attack in Afghanistan |
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| 2003 |
United States leads attack in Iraq |
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| 2004 |
George W. Bush elected to 2nd term; Afghanistan/Iraq wars continue |
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| 2008 |
Barack Obama elected 44th President |
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| 2011 |
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The Mayburys published |
| 2012 |
Barack Obama elected to 2nd term; War in Iraq ends. |
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