Introduction. The mission was founded in 1776, by the Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Saint John of Capistrano, a 14th-century theologian and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782.. "Father Serra's Church", also known as ...

The 1776 Commission, also nicknamed the 1776 Project, was an advisory committee established in September 2020 by then–U.S. President Donald Trump to support what he called "patriotic education". The commission, which included no historians specializing in United States history, released The 1776 Report on January 18, 2021, two days before the end of Trump's term.

The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the "Great American Eclipse" by the media, was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the contiguous United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. It was also visible as a partial solar eclipse from as far north as Nunavut in northern Canada to as far south as northern South America.In northwestern Europe …

Another report says he was ambushed and killed at first fire. Yet another account recalls a brutal attack on Dessalines by his men. It says he was shot at twice and hit once. Then his head was split open by a sabre's blow and he was finally stabbed three times with a dagger, with the crowd shouting "the tyrant is killed".

Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963 following the assassination of President Kennedy and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency. A Democrat from Texas, he ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1964 election, winning in a landslide over …

This is a list of countries and dependent territories ranked by population density, measured by the number of human inhabitants per square kilometer or square mile, and also sortable by total area and by population.The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.The list also includes unrecognized but de facto …

The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The Journal, along with its Asian editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online.

Christianity is the most prevalent religion in the United States.Estimates suggest that between 65% and 75% of the US population is Christian (about 230 to 250 million). The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (150 to 160 million), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 to 75 million) and other minority …

Cherokee–American wars (1776–1794) Northwest Indian War (1785–1795) Nickajack Expedition (1794) Sabine Expedition (1806) War of 1812 (1811–1815) Tecumseh's War (1811–1813) ... A northern newspaper carried a report [citation needed] that more than 80 civilians were killed by Indians in Florida in 1839. By the end of 1843, 3,824 Indians ...

The Battle of Fort Washington was fought in New York on November 16, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.It was a British victory that gained the surrender of the remnant of the garrison of Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan Island.It was one of the worst Patriot defeats of the war. After defeating the …