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unusual facts about Declaration of independence


Declaration

Declaration of independence, an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states


Abjuration

Another famous abjuration was brought about by the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe of July 26, 1581, the formal Declaration of Independence of the Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.

Anne Moncure Crane

An ancestor, Thomas Stone, had signed the Declaration of Independence - an illustrious connection that would later be attached to one of Crane's literary characters.

Aroline Sanborn

She was the wife of Dr. Samuel Bartlett (1811-1865), the great grandson of Josiah Bartlett, one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Azis Efendi Gjirokastra

Azis Efendi Gjirokastra was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence.

Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge

It is named after Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Virginia, who lived nearby at Berkeley Plantation.

Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics

Constructed in 1904, the Hospital for the Treatment of Consumption and Related Diseases was named after Benjamin Rush, the famous 18th-century Philadelphia physician and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Edward Dumbauld

In addition to his legal and judicial duties, Judge Dumbauld wrote extensively for scholars and general readers about the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Bill of Rights, as well as the Renaissance legal philosopher and treatise-writer Hugo Grotius.

Harrison family of Virginia

Nearby along Virginia State Route 5 and the Virginia Capital Trail, the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge, a major drawbridge across the James River, is named in honor of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia.

Indian King Tavern

The Indian King Tavern (also known as the Creighton House, or Creighton Tavern) was a colonial American tavern in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, which was the site of a 1777 meeting of the New Jersey General Assembly that officially ratified the Declaration of Independence and adopted its Great Seal.

J.E. Hamilton

Decedents on his mother's side include Samuel Huntington who was a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, and Major David Huntington who was the first gun maker in America and provided weapons for George Washington's army.

John Witherspoon

Witherspoon was portrayed in the musical 1776, about the debates over and eventual adoption of the Declaration of Independence, by Edmund Lyndeck in the 1969 stage play and by James Noble in the 1972 film.

Joseph Shinn House

Joseph Shinn was a member the fifth session (June-August 1776) of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey which ordered the arrest of the colony's last royal governor William Franklin, approved the Declaration of Independence and wrote New Jersey's first state constitution (1776).

Legionella

This epidemic among U.S. war veterans, occurring in the same city as—and within days of the 200th anniversary of—the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was widely publicized and caused great concern in the United States.

Muslim history in Palestine

On May 14, 1948, one day before the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine led by prime minister David Ben-Gurion, made a declaration of independence, and the state of Israel was established.

Nancy C. Detert

She is a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

New Carrollton, Maryland

Carrollton was named after early Maryland settler Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Old House, South Carolina

The site includes the grave of Thomas Heyward, Jr., a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.

Oldest public university in the United States

The college severed formal ties with Britain after the colonies declared independence, but remained private until financial troubles forced its closure after the Civil War.

On the Threshold of Liberty

From 1996 through 2008, National Public Radio used Isham's composition as the background music for the annual July 4 reading of the Declaration of Independence on the NPR program Morning Edition.

Oswald Eve

He attended the College of Philadelphia and was an associate of Dr. Benjamin Rush, later signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Patrick Henry County, Virginia

It was named in honor of Virginia patriot, Patrick Henry, who was serving as the first Governor of Virginia following the Declaration of Independence at the time.

Peso

The name of the currency remained unchanged despite the 1896 Philippine Revolution and the subsequent declaration of independence in 1898.

Richard Field Conover

He was a grandson of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Richard Heffner

He was the author of A Documentary History of the United States, a verbatim anthology of important public documents in American history, among them the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

Richard Sprigg Steuart

From 1828 Steuart served on the Board of Managers of the Maryland State Colonization Society, of which Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of the co-signers of the Declaration of Independence, was president.

Robert Morris University

Like its Illinois namesake, Robert Morris University is named after Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and financier of the American Revolution.

SS Abraham Clark

She was named after Abraham Clark, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey.

The Academy and College of Philadelphia

Twenty-one members of the Continental Congress were graduates of the school, and nine signers of the Declaration of Independence were either alumni or trustees of the university.

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

(July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.

Thomas Hopkinson

He enrolled his son Francis Hopkinson, later a signatory of the Declaration of Independence in the first classes at the Academy.

Thomas Rush

Sir Thomas' most famous name-bearing descendant is Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Tokai Sanshi

The story begins in Philadelphia, where the protagonist, while gazing upon the Liberty Bell and Declaration of Independence, runs into two beautiful women, one from Ireland and the other from Spain, whose names Kōren and Yūran, though decidedly Chinese, can be interpreted as Colleen and Yolanda.

Treaty of Watertown

The Treaty of Watertown, the first foreign treaty concluded by the United States of America after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, was signed on July 19, 1776, in the Edmund Fowle House in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts Bay.

West Branch Susquehanna Valley

In a remarkable coincidence, the Fair Play Men made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 beneath the "Tiadaghton Elm" on the banks of Pine Creek.

West Nottingham Academy

Famous graduates include Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton, both signers of the Declaration of Independence, and John Filson, historian, author and a founder of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Westernville, New York

Buried here are Gen. William Floyd, a famous Revolutionary War soldier and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Admiral Montgomery Sicard of Civil War fame, and Gustavus Swan.


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Aghagurty

It was the ancestral home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signatory of the American Declaration of Independence, whose grandfather, Charles Carroll the Settler, is believed to have been born in the locality—his father being known as Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty and Littermurna.

Austenasia

After sending a declaration of independence for their house in Carshalton to their local Member of Parliament, Tom Brake, Terry was named Emperor and Jonathan was named Prime Minister.

Christ Church, Philadelphia

Many other notable people are buried at nearby associated Christ Church Burial Ground including Benjamin Franklin and five signers of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Democratic Opposition of Slovenia

The most important achievement of the Coalition, however, was the declaration of independence of Slovenia on 25 June 1991, followed by a Ten-Day War in which the Slovenians rejected Yugoslav military interference.

Far right in the United Kingdom

The group gave strong support to Apartheid in South Africa and to Ian Smith's illegal declaration of independence in Rhodesia.

Granot

Avraham Granot (1890–1962), Zionist activist, Israeli politician and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence

Hugh McShane O'Neill

Robert Treat Paine Signer of the Declaration of Independence, cousin through his father

Israeli presidential election, 1952

Yitzhak Gruenbaum: A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, a minister in the provisional government, and though an adherent of Mapam, not a member of any political party.

James McLene

His early efforts at the Carpenter's Hall Council (Philadelphia, 1776), shortly before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, were instrumental in marshalling Pennsylvania's resolve to support the Flying Camp of the Continental Army.

Jose Bonilla

Juan José de Bonilla y Herdocia, Costa Rican politician, signer of Declaration of Independence

Joseph Palmer II

The official Declaration of Independence was signed in the main boardroom of the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos.

Josiah Bartlett

Despite the spelling difference, the character (played by Martin Sheen), who is also a former governor and Congressman from New Hampshire, is a fictional direct descendant of the New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Josip Manolić

His cabinet was mostly preoccupied with the process that would ultimately lead to Croatia's declaration of independence on 25 June 1991, as well as the rebellion of ethnic Serbs in Krajina.

Kokkina exclave

However, this declaration of independence was condemned as legally invalid by United Nations Security Council Resolution 541 (1983) and has yet to be recognized by any sovereign state except Turkey.

Letters Patent, 1947

With no method to allow for the incapacity of the sovereign, the Icelandic parliament was forced into passing an illegal declaration of independence, with the appointment of Sveinn Björnsson as regent.

Miss Kosovo

After Kosovo's declaration of independence, Miss Kosovo 2007 Yllka Berisha participated in the Miss Earth 2008 pageant but was unplaced.

Nature's God

God in Deism, that is used in the United States Declaration of Independence: "...the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."

Richard E. Brooks

Statue of Robert Treat Paine (a Signer of the Declaration of Independence) in Taunton, Massachusetts (1904)

Robert Paine

Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

Route 1 Rivalry

The other choices were "The Diamond State Trophy", a reference to Thomas Jefferson calling Delaware a "diamond among the states"; the "Battle for the Saddle", a reference to Caesar Rodney's ride to Philadelphia to cast Delaware's deciding vote for the Declaration of Independence; and the "Battle for the Hatchet", a reference to Delaware's Return Day tradition of burying a hatchet after elections.

Rush Glacier

The glacier was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), a noted American physician and philanthropist, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson

Dodson's artistic interests were broad, from the semi-classic French influence of her earlier works, such as La Danse, painted in 1867 but not exhibited until 1878, to the schools of the Italian Renaissance (inspired by her visits to Spain and Italy), followed by a period of realistic portraiture, including one of her more famous works, The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, painted in 1883.

Shatner

Mordechai Shatner (1904–1964), Zionist activist and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence

Shehecheyanu

After the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, read the Declaration of Independence, Rabbi Fishman, recited the Shehecheyanu blessing, and the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Sultan Abdul Samad Building

Among them was the declaration of independence of Malaysia (Malaya then) on 31 August, 1957 and the lowering of the Union Jack.

Tiruchirappalli district

During the British Raj, Tiruchirappalli was known as Trichinopoly, and was a district of the Madras Presidency; it was renamed upon India's declaration of independence in 1947.

Turkish Federated State of Cyprus

This unilateral declaration of independence was rejected by the UN and the Republic of Cyprus.

Vlora of Albania

Syrja Vlora, signatory of Albanian Declaration of Independence

West Branch Susquehanna River

The illegal settlers there were part of the "Fair Play Men" system of self-government, with their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776.

Xhemil Dino

He studied in Galatasaray University and after the declaration of independence of Albania he was elected deputy of Dibër.