Dates, "on this day in history" Options

I'm also setting up an ephemerid, which will show events (once added in) of what happened on such and such and day.

So, what I'm looking for is the date, the event, and a brief description of the event.

[Villaret-Joyeuse]

In what format do you want them? (Word, Excel, Filemaker Pro, etc)

If you have a file you want to email to me, Word is fine. What I'm ASKING for is posted replies.

[Villaret-Joyeuse]

23 August 1793 - The Royalists in charge of Toulon surrender the city to the British fleet under Lord Hood.--added 12/23

[I'll add more, by editing this post.]

By the way, in the forum here, is "in my face" which means I'll remember to ADD the dang things. (Instead of leaving it in my overfull email )

[M.G.Flanigan]

Is this fourm for anyone to add in dates and there events?

The dates/events I'm looking for are 16th to 18th century, currently. ESPECIALLY having to do with nautical history. Anything earlier than 16th century or later than 18th is fine, too...but my focus at this point in time is the period I mentioned.

[M.G.Flanigan]

ya i already new that but what i ment was is anyone allowed to give you quotes of that era?

Yup. That's why my request is posted here...for as much input as I can get.

[M.G.Flanigan]

Here are some events I am sure you already know about but I will put them here anyway. Sorry about the summaries I included I know they are to long you can shorten or disregard them all if you like.


Battle of Camperdown 11 October 1797
A Dutch fleet of 16 ships under Admiral Jan de Winter set sail with equipment and 15,000 troops for irish rebels hoping to take advantage of unrest in the Royal Navy. The British North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan intercepted the Dutch. At the end of the clash the Dutch had suffered 5000 casualties and had lost nine ships of the line and a number of frigates. Duncan had not lost one vessel.

Cape St Vincent 14 February 1797
Admiral Sir John Jervis blockading the spanish port of St. Vincent with his 15 british ships of the line intercepts 27 spanish ships of the line trying to escape out to sea. the spanish were very spread out in a 20 mile line. By the battle's end, four Spanish ships had been taken and 3000 men lost. The British lost only 300.

---added 01/04/04 SW---

This post has been edited by SeaWitch: Jan 5 2004, 06:08 AM

[Villaret-Joyeuse]

21 Jan 1793 - King Louis XVI (Louis Capet) goes to the guillotine.


--added 3/15/04--

[Guest_Commodore Shiflett USN_*]

Dates in American Naval History: January
January 1
January 2
January 3
January 4
1863 - Blockading ship USS Quaker City captures sloop Mercury carrying despatches emphasizing desperate plight of the South.

January 5
1855 - USS Plymouth crew skirmish with Chinese troops
1875 - CDR Edward Lull begins expedition to locate best ship canal route across Panama. Route followed 30 years later.
January 6
January 7
January 8
1847 - Battle of San Gabriel (Navy, Marines, Army defeat Mexicans in CA)
January 9
1861 - Union steamer Star of the West fired on in Charleston Harbor
January 10
1847 - American naval forces occupy Los Angeles.
January 11
1863 - CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston
January 12
1813 - US Frigate Chesapeake captures British Volunteer
1848 - Attack on Sloop Lexington, San Blas, Mexico
January 13
1865 - Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC
January 14
1813 - US Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero
1815 - HMS Endymion, Tenedos and Pomone capture USS President
January 15
1865 - In largest amphibious operation of war, Union forces capture Ft. Fisher, Wilmington, NC, by joint amphibious force.
January 16
January 17
1832- USS Peacock makes contact with Vietnamese court officials
January 18
January 19
1840 - LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast
January 20
1783 - Hostilities cease between Great Britain and the United States
January 21
January 22
1800 - CAPT Thomas Tingey ordered to duty as first Superintendent of the Washington Navy Yard
January 23
January 24
January 25
January 26
1913 - The body of John Paul Jones is laid in its final resting place in the Chapel of Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
January 27
January 28
January 29
January 30
1862 - Launching of first turreted warship, USS Monitor
January 31
--above added 3/15/04--

Dates in American Naval History: February
February 1
February 2
1800 - USS Constellation (CAPT Thomas Truxtun) captures la Vengeance
1862 - USS Hartford, Capt David G. Farragut, departs Hampton Roads for Mississippi River campaign
February 3
1801 - Senate approves peace treaty with France ending undeclared naval war that began 1798
February 4
1779 - John Paul Jones takes command of Bonhomme Richard, Ship(East Indiaman) 46 guns
February 5
1854 - Dedication of first chapel built on Navy property, Annapolis, MD
February 6
1862 - Union gunboat squadron captures Fort Henry, Tennessee River
February 7
1800 - USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to cross the Equator.
1815 - The Board of Naval Commissioners, a group of senior officers, is established to oversee the operation and maintenance of the Navy, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy.
February 8
1862 - Joint amphibious force capture Roanoke Island, key to Albemarle Sound
February 9
1799 - USS Constellation (CAPT Truxtun) captures French l'Insurgente
February 10
1862 - Union gunboats destroy Confederate ships at Elizabeth City, NC
February 11
1862 - SecNav directs formation of organization to evaluate new inventions and technical development which eventually led to National Academy of Science.
February 12
February 13
1854 - Admiral Perry anchors off Yokosuka, Japan to receive Emperor's reply to treaty proposal
February 14
1778 - John Paul Jones in Ranger receives first official salute to U.S. Stars and Strips flag by European country, at Quiberon, France.
1813 - Essex becomes first U.S. warship to round Cape Horn and enter the Pacific Ocean
1814 - USS Constitution captures British Lovely Ann and Pictou
1840 - Officers from USS Vincennes make first landing in Antarctica on floating ice
February 15
1856 - USS Supply, commanded by LT David Dixon Porter, sails from Smyrna, Syria, bound for Indianola, Texas, with a load of 21 camels intended for experimental use in the American desert west of the Rockies.
February 16
1804 - Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."
1815 - USS Constitution captures British Susannah
February 17
1864 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks USS Housatonic
February 18
February 19
1814 - USS Constitution captures British brig Catherine
February 20
1815 - USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart, captures HMS Cyane and sloop-of-war Levant
February 21
February 22
1865 - RADM Porter's gunboats' bombardment cause surrender of Wilmington, NC .
February 23
1795 - U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established. This is the Navy Supply Corps Birthday.
February 24
1813 - USS Hornet, Captain James Lawrence, captures HMS Peacock
February 25
1861 - Saratoga, member of U.S. African Squadron, captures slaver sloop Express
February 26
1811 - Congress authorizes first naval hospital
February 27
February 28
1844 - Explosion of Peacemaker, experimental 14 inch gun, on board USS Princeton.

Dates in American Naval History: March
March 1
March 2
1859 - Launch of Saginaw at Mare Island, first Navy ship built on West Coast of U.S.
March 3
1776 - First amphibious landing operation. Continental naval squadron under Commodore Esek Hopkins lands Sailors and Marines, commanded by Captain Samuel Nicholas, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, capturing urgently-needed ordnance and gunpowder.
March 4
March 5
March 6
1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in Gulf of Mexico
1862 - USS Monitor departed New York for Hampton Roads, VA
March 7
March 8
1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry opens treaty negotiations with Japan
1862 - Ironclad ram CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and Congress
March 9
1798 - Appointment of first surgeon U.S. Navy, George Balfour
1847 - Commodore David Connor leads successful amphibious assault near Vera Cruz, Mexico
1862 - First battle between ironclads, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
March 10
1783 - USS Alliance (CAPT John Barry) defeats HMS Sybil in final naval action of Revolution in West Indies waters
March 11
March 12
March 13
March 14
1863 - RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
March 19
March 20
1833 - CDR Geisinger of Peacock negotiates first commercial treaty with King of Siam
March 21
March 22
1820 - Commodore Stephen Decatur dies after duel with Capt. James Barron
March 23
1815 - USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin in battle lasting 22 minutes
March 24

March 25
1813 - USS Essex takes Neryeda, first capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific

March 26
March 27
1794 - Congress authorizes construction of 6 frigates, including Constitution
1799 - USS Constitution recaptures American sloop Neutrality from France

March 28
1800 - Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass Cape of Good Hope
1814 - HMS Phoebe and Cherub capture USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile. Before capture, Essex had captured 24 British prizes during the War of 1812.
1848 - USS Supply reaches the Bay of Acre, anchoring under Mount Carmel near the village of Haifa, during expedition to explore the Dead Sea and the River Jordan.
March 29
March 30
March 31
1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry negotiates Treaty of Kanagawa to open trade between U.S. and Japan
--added 3/16/04--


Dates in American Naval History: April
April 1
April 2
1781 - Frigate Alliance captures 2 British privateers, Mars and Minerva
1827 - First Naval Hospital construction begun at Portsmouth, VA
April 3
1797 - CAPT Thomas Truxtun issued first known American signal book using numerary system
April 4
1776 - Continental Navy frigate Columbus captures HM Tender Hawke, first American capture of British armed vessel
1854 - Sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai
April 5
April 6
1776 - Sloop-of-war Ranger, frigate Queen of France and frigate Warren capture British Hibernia and 7 other vessels
1862 - Naval Gunfire from Tyler and Lexington help save Union Troops at Battle of Shiloh
April 7
1776 - Continental brig Lexington captures British Edward
April 8
April 9
1861 - Second relief convoy for Fort Sumter left New York
April 10
April 11
1783 - Congress declares end of war with Great Britain
April 12
1861 - Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, SC
April 13
1847 - Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico
1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces
April 14
April 15
April 16
1863 - Union gunboats pass Confederate batteries at Vicksburg
April 17
1778 - Sloop-in-war Ranger captures British brig
April 18
1848 - U.S. Navy expedition to explore the Dead Sea and the River Jordan, commanded by LT William F. Lynch, reaches the Dead Sea.
April 19
1783 - George Washington proclaims end of hostilities
1861 - President Lincoln orders blockade of Southern ports from SC to Texas
April 20
1796 - Congress authorizes completion of 3 frigates
1861 - Norfolk Navy Yard abandoned and burned by Union forces.
April 21
1861 - USS Saratoga captures slaver, Nightingale.
April 22
1778 - Captain John Paul Jones of Ranger led landing party raid on Whitehaven, England
April 23
April 24
1778 - Continental Navy sloop Ranger captures HMS Drake
1862 - Battle of New Orleans; Union Navy under David Farragut runs past forts into Mississippi River
April 25
1862 - Union naval forces occupy New Orleans, LA
April 26
April 27
1805 - Naval forces capture Derne, Tripoli; raise first U.S. flag over foreign soil
1813 - U.S. Navy and Army forces capture York (now Toronto), Canada
1861 - President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports
1865 - Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.
April 28
April 29
1814 - USS Peacock captures HMS Epervier
April 30
1798 - Congress establishes Department of the Navy
--added 4/12/04

Dates in American Naval History: May
May 1
May 2
May 3
1861 - USS Surprise captures Confederate privateer Savannah
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 7
1779 - Continental Navy sloop Providence captures British brig Diligent off Cape Charles
1934 - USS Constitution completes tour of principal U.S. ports
May 8
May 9
May 10
1775 - Force under Ethan Allan and Benedict Arnold cross Lake Champlain and capture British fort at Ticonderoga, New York.
1800 - USS Constitution captures Letter of Marque Sandwich.
1862 - Confederates destroy Norfolk and Pensacola Navy Yards.
May 11
1862 - CSS Virginia blown up by Confederates to prevent capture.
May 12
1780 - Fall of Charleston, SC; three Continental Navy frigates (Boston, Providence, and Ranger) captured; and one American frigate (Queen of France) sunk to prevent capture
1846 - U.S. declares war against Mexico
May 13
May 14
1801 - Tripoli declares war against the United States
1836 - U.S. Exploring Expedition authorized to conduct exploration of Pacific Ocean and South Seas, first major scientific expedition overseas. LT Charles Wilkes USN, would lead the expedition in surveying South America, Antarctica, Far East, and North Pacific.
1845 - First U.S. warship visits Vietnam. While anchored in Danang for reprovisioning, CAPT John Percival commanding USS Constitution, conducts a show of force against Vietnamese authorities in an effort to obtain the release of a French priest held prisoner by Emperor of Annam at Hue.
May 15
1800 - CAPT Preble in Essex arrives in Batavia, Java, to escort U.S. merchant ships
May 16
1820 - Congress becomes first U.S. warship to visit China
May 17
May 18
1775 - Benedict Arnold captures British sloop and renames her Enterprise, first of many famous ships with that name
1798 - Appointment of Benjamin Stoddert as first Secretary of the Navy
May 19
May 20
1801 - Four warships sent to Mediterranean to protect American commerce
1815 - Commodore Stephen Decatur ( Frigate Guerriere) sails with 10 ships to suppress Mediterranean pirates' raids on U.S. shipping
1844 - USS Constitution sails from New York on round the world cruise
May 21
1850 - Washington Navy Yard begins work on first castings for the Dahlgren guns
May 22
May 23
1850 - Navy sends USS Advance and USS Rescue to attempt rescue of Sir John Franklin's expedition, lost in Arctic.
May 24
May 25
May 26
May 27
1813 - American joint operations against Fort George, Canada
May 28
1813 - Frigate Essex and prize capture five British whalers
May 29
1781 - Frigate Alliance captures HMS Atalanta and Trepassy off Nova Scotia
May 30
1814 - Navy gunboats capture three British boats on Lake Ontario near Sandy Creek, NY
May 31

Dates in American Naval History: June
June 1
1813 - HMS Shannon captures USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence. As the mortally wounded Captain Lawrence was carried below, he ordered "Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship!" These words would live on in naval history. Oliver Hazard Perry honored his dead friend Lawrence when he had the motto sewn onto the private battle flag flown during the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813.
June 2
June 3
1785 - Order to sell last ship remaining in Continental Navy, frigate Alliance. No other Navy were ships authorized until 1794.
June 4
June 5
1794 - First officers of the U.S. Navy under the Constitution are appointed. The first 6 captains appointed to superintend the construction of new ships were John Barry, Samuel Nicholson, Silas Talbot, Joshua Barney, Richard Dale, and Thomas Truxtun
June 6
June 7
1819- LT John White on merchant ship Franklin, anchored off Vung Tau is first U.S. naval officer to visit Vietnam
June 8
1830 - Sloop-of-war Vincennes becomes first U.S. warship to circle the globe
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry arrives at Uraga, Japan to begin negotiations for a treaty with Japan
June 9
June 10
1854 - U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, holds first formal graduation exercises. Previous classes graduated without ceremony.
June 11
1853 - Five Navy ships leave Norfolk, VA on 3 year exploring expedition to survey the far Pacific
June 12
June 13
June 14
1777 - John Paul Jones takes command of Ranger
1777 - Continental Congress adopts design of present U.S. Flag
1847 - Commodore Matthew Perry launches amphibious river operations by Sailors and Marines on Tabasco River, Mexico
June 15
June 16
June 17
1833 - USS Delaware enters drydock at Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, VA, the first warship to enter a public drydock in the United States
June 18
1812 - U.S. declares war on Great Britain for impressment of Sailors and interference with commerce
June 19
1864 - USS Kearsarge sinks Confederate raider Alabama off France
June 20
1813 - Fifteen U.S. gunboats engage 3 British ships in Hampton Roads, VA
1815 - Trials of Fulton I, built by Robert Fulton, are completed in New York. This ship would become the Navy's first steam-driven warship.
June 21
June 22
1807 - HMS Leopard attacks USS Chesapeake
1865 - Confederate raider Shenandoah fires last shot of Civil War in Bering Strait
June 23
June 24
1833 - USS Constitution enters drydock at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, MA, for overhaul. The ship was saved from scrapping after public support rallied to save the ship following publication of Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem, "Old Ironsides."
1926 - Office of Assistant SecNav set up to foster naval aeronautics; aircraft building increased
1948 - Berlin airlift initiated to offset the Soviet Union's blockade access of U.S., France, and Great Britain to their sectors of Berlin.
June 25
June 26
June 27
1813 - USS President anchors in Bergen, Norway
June 28
1794 - Joshua Humphreys appointed master builder to build Navy ships at an annual salary of $2,000.
1814 - USS Wasp captures HMS Reindeer
1865 - CSS Shenandoah captures 11 American whalers in one day
June 29
June 30
1815 - USS Peacock takes HMS Nautilus, last action of the War of 1812


Dates in American Naval History: July
July 1
1797 - Naval Regulations passed by Congress
1800 - First convoy duty; USS Essex escorts convoy of merchant ships from East Indies to U.S.
1801 - U.S. squadron under Commodore Dale enters Mediterranean to strike Barbary Pirates
1850 - Naval School at Annapolis renamed Naval Academy
1851 - Naval Academy adopts four year course of study
July 2
July 3
July 4
1776 - American colonies declare their independence from Great Britain
1777 - John Paul Jones hoists first Stars and Stripes flag on Ranger at Portsmouth, NH.
1801 - First Presidential Review of U.S. Marine Band and Marines at the White House.
1831 - U.S. concludes indemnity treaty with France.
1842 - First test of electrically operated underwater torpedo sinks gunboat Boxer
1863 - Confederates surrender of Vicksburg, MS, gives Union control of Mississippi River.
July 5
1814 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures British Stranger, Venus, Adiona, and Fortitude.
1815 - Commodore Stephen Decatur's squadron arrives at Tripoli to collect reparations for seizure of American merchant ships in violation of Treaty of 1805.
July 6
1747 - Birth of John Paul Jones at Arbigland, Scotland.
July 7
1798 - Congress rescinds treaties with France; Quasi War begins with Frigate Delaware capturing French privateer, Croyable.
1846 - Commodore John D. Sloat lands at Monterey and claims California for U.S.
July 8
1778 - Allied French fleet under Comte d'Estaing arrives in America.
1853 - Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his squadron into Tokyo Bay.
July 9
1846 - Sailors and Marines from USS Portsmouth occupy and raise flag over San Francisco.
July 10
July 11
1798 - Reestablishment of Marine Corps under the Constitution
July 12
1836 - Commissioning of Charles H. Haswell as first regularly appointed Engineer Officer.
July 13
1863 - USS Wyoming battled Japanese warlord's forces.
July 14
1813 - LT John M. Gamble, the first marine to command a ship in battle (prize vessel Greenwich in capture of British whaler Seringapatam)
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry lands and holds first meeting with Japanese at Uraga, Japan
July 15
July 16
1862 - Congress creates rank of Rear Admiral. David G. Farragut is named the first Rear Admiral
July 17
1858 - U.S. sloop Niagara departs Queenstown, Ireland, to assist in laying first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.
July 18
1775 - Continental Congress resolves that each colony provide armed vessels
1779 - Commodore Abraham Whipple's squadron captures 11 prizes in largest prize value of Revolutionary War.
1792 - John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France
1813 - U.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.
July 19
1812 - USS Constitution escapes from British squadron after 3 day chase off New Jersey
July 20
1846 - First visit of U.S. warships (USS Columbus and USS Vincennes) to Japan is unsuccessful in negotiating a treaty.
July 21
1823 - After pirate attack, LT David G. Farragut leads landing party to destroy pirate stronghold in Cuba.
July 22
1802 - Frigate Constellation defeats 9 Corsair gunboats off Tripoli.
July 23
July 24
1813- Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia.
July 25
1779 - Amphibious expedition against British in Penobscot Bay, ME
1863 - U.S. Squadron bombards Fort Wagner, NC
1866 - Rank of Admiral created. David G. Farragut is appointed the first Admiral in the U.S. Navy
July 26
1812 - Frigate Essex captures British brig Leander
July 27
July 28
July 29
1846 - Sailors and Marines from U.S. sloop Cyane capture San Diego, CA
1918 - Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Queenstown, Ireland
1945 - U.S. warships bombard Hamamatsu, Japan.
July 30
July 31
1815 - Commodore Stephen Decatur concludes agreement with Bey of Tunis to compensate U.S. for seizure of merchant ships during the War of 1812.
1865 - East India Squadron established to operate from Sunda Strait to Japan.

Dates in American Naval History: August

August 1
1801 - U.S. schooner Enterprise captures Tripolitan ship Tripoli
August 2
August 3
1804 - American Squadron, including USS Constitution, attacks Tripoli <../docs/war1812/const3.htm>
1812 - Frigate Essex capture British brig Brothers
1861 - Construction of USS Monitor authorized
1861 - First manned ascent in a balloon from a ship, gunboat USS Fanny, to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, VA
August 4
1846 - Sailors and Marines from USS Congress capture Santa Barbara
1858 - First trans-Atlantic cable completed by USS Niagara and British ship Agamemnon
August 5
1832 - Frigate Potomac is first U.S. Navy ship to entertain royalty, King and Queen of Sandwich Islands, Honolulu
1864 - RADM David Farragut wins Battle of Mobile Bay, sealing off last Confederate port on Gulf Coast
August 6
1862 - CSS Arkansas destroyed by her commanding officer to prevent capture by USS Essex.
August 7
1782 - Badge of Military Merit (Purple Heart) established
August 8
1813- US Schooners Hamilton and Scourge founder in storm on Lake Ontario
August 9
1815 - CAPT Stephen Decatur concludes treaty for U.S. with Tripoli
1842 - Signing of Webster-Ashburton Treaty under which U.S. and Great Britain agreed to cooperate in suppressing the slave trade
1865 - Return of Naval Academy to Annapolis after 4 years at Newport, RI
August 10
August 11
1812 - USS Constitution captures and destroys brig Lady Warren
August 12
1812 - USS Constitution captures and destroys brig Adeona
August 13
1777 - American explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT.
1846 - Joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA
1870 - Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal
August 14
1813 - HMS Pelican captures USS Argus
August 15
1845 - U.S. Naval Academy established at Annapolis, MD on former site of Fort Severn.
August 16
1812 - USS Constitution recaptures American merchant brig Adeline
August 17
1812 - Frigate President captures British schooner L'Adeline in North Atlantic
August 18
1838 - Exploring Expedition under LT Charles Wilkes embarks on world cruise.
August 19
1812 - USS Constitution captures HMS Guerriere
1818 - CAPT James Biddle takes possession of Oregon Territory for U.S.
August 20
August 21
1800 - U.S. Marine Corps Band gave its first concert in Washington, D.C.
August 22
August 23
1864 - RADM David Farragut's squadron captures Fort Morgan at Mobile Bay winning control of Mobile Bay
August 24
1814 - British invasion of Maryland and Washington, D.C.; Washington Navy Yard and ships burned to prevent capture by the British
August 25
1843 - Steam frigate Missouri arrives at Gibralter completing first Trans-Atlantic crossing by U.S. steam powered ship.
August 26
1775 - Rhode Island Resolve: Rhode Island delegates to Continental Congress press for creation of Continental Navy to protect the colonies
1839 - Brig Washington seizes Spanish slaver, Amistad near Montauk Point, NY
1861 - Union amphibious force lands near Hatteras, NC
1865 - Civil War ends with Naval strength over 58,500 men and 600 ships
August 27
August 28
August 29
1861 - U.S. squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, NC
1862 - Union gunboat Pittsburgh support Army troops in landing at Eunice, Arkansas
1915 - Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. submarine sunk in accident
1916 - Congress passes act for expansion of Navy but most ships not completed until after World War I.
1964 - USS Boxer and 2 LSDs arrive off coast of Hispaniola to give medical aid to Haiti and Dominican Republic which were badly damaged by Hurricane Cleo.
August 30
August 31
1842 - Congress replaces the Board of Navy Commissioners, a group of senior officer who oversaw naval technical affairs, with the five technical Bureaus, ancestors of the Systems Commands. One of the 1842 Bureau, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, continues to serve under its original name.

Dates in American Naval History: September

September 1
1781 - French fleet traps British fleet at Yorktown, VA
September 2
September 3
1782 - As a token of gratitude for French aid during American Revolution, the U.S. gives America (first ship-of-the-line built by U.S.) to France to replace a French ship lost in Boston.
1783 - Signing of Treaty of Paris ends American Revolution
September 4
1804 - USS Intrepid (LT Richard Somers) blew up in failed attack on Tripoli
September 5
1776 - Adoption of first uniforms for Navy officers
1813- USS Enterprise captures HM brig Boxer off Portland, ME
September 6

September 7
1776 - David Bushnell attempts to destroy a British Ship of the Line, HMS Asia, in New York harbor with his submarine Turtle.
1814 - USS Wasp captures HMS Avon
1864 - USS Wachusett captures CSS Florida at Bahia, Brazil
September 8
September 9
1825 - USS Brandywine sails for France to carry the Marquis de Lafayette home after his year long visit to America.
1841 - First iron ship authorized by Congress
September 10
1813 - In Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, flying his "Don't give up the ship" flag, defeats British squadron and says: "We have met the enemy and they are ours..."
September 11
1814 - In Battle of Lake Champlain, Commodore Thomas Macdonough defeats a British Squadron.
September 12
September 13
1814 - British bombardment of Fort McHenry inspires the Star Spangled Banner.
1847 - Marine Brigade leads U.S. forces that storm Chapultepec Castle near Mexico City, inspiring one line of the Marine Hymn
September 14
September 15
September 16
1854 - CDR David G. Farragut takes possession of Mare Island, the first U.S. Navy Yard on the Pacific.
September 17
1861 - Union landing party from USS Massachusetts takes possession of Ship Island south of New Orleans, LA. This was the headquarters for ADM David Farragut's Gulf Coast Blockading Squadron.

September 18
September 19
September 20
September 21
1858 - Sloop Niagara departs Charleston, SC, for Liberia with African slaves rescued from slave ship.
September 22
1776 - John Paul Jones in Providence sails into Canso Bay, Nova Scotia, and attacks British fishing fleet.
September 23
1779 - Captain John Paul Jones in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard captures HMS Serapis.
September 24
September 25
September 26
1781 - French fleet defeats British at Yorktown, VA
September 27
September 28
1822 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures 5 pirate vessels
1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships
September 29
September 30
1800 - U.S. concludes treaty of peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.

Dates in American Naval History: October
October 1
1800 - U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana.
1844 - Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters.
October 2
1799 - Establishment of Washington Navy Yard
October 3
October 4
1821 - LT Robert F. Stockton sails from Boston for Africa to carry out his orders to help stop the international slave trade.
October 5
1863 - Confederate David seriously damages USS New Ironsides with a spar torpedo off Charleston, South Carolina.
October 6
October 7
1864 - USS Washusett captures Confederate raider CSS Florida in harbor of Bahia, Brazil.
October 8
1812 - Boat party under Lt. Jesse D. Elliott captures HMS Detroit and Caledonia in Niagara River.
1842 - Commodore Lawrence Kearny in USS Constitution addresses a letter to the Viceroy of China, urging that American merchants in China be granted the same treaty privileges as the British. His negotiations are successful.
October 9
October 10
1845 - Naval School, later the Naval Academy, opens in Annapolis, Maryland with 50 midshipmen and seven faculty.
October 11
1776 - Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, New York. Although defeated, the American flotilla delayed the British advance and caused it to fall back into winter quarters.
1824 - Marquis de Lafayette visits the Washington Navy Yard during his year long tour of America. He returned to the yard the next day, October 12, to continue his visit.
October 12
October 13
1775 - Birthday of U.S. Navy <../faqs/faq31-1.htm>. The Continental Congress establishes Continental Navy, later the U.S. Navy.
1954 - USS Saipan begins relief and humanitarian aid to Haitians who were victims of Hurricane Hazel. The operation ended 19 October.
October 14
October 15
October 16
1885 - CAPT Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN, becomes Superintendent of the Naval War College
October 17
October 18
1812 - U.S. sloop of war Wasp captures HM brig Frolic.
1859 - U.S. Marines reach Harper's Ferry, VA and assault the arsenal seized by John Brown and his followers.
October 19
1843 - CAPT Robert Stockton in Princeton, the first screw propelled naval steamer, challenges British merchant ship Great Western to a race off New York, which Princeton won easily
October 20
1824 - U.S. Schooner Porpoise captures four pirate ships off Cuba.
October 21
1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts. The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy.
October 22
1846 - Miss Lavinia Fanning Watson of Philadelphia christens the sloop-of-war Germantown, the first U.S. Navy ship sponsored by a woman.
October 23
October 24
October 25
1812 - USS United States (CAPT Stephen Decatur) captures HMS Macedonian.
October 26
October 27
1864 - LT William Cushing, USN, sinks Confederate ram Albemarle with a spar torpedo attached to the bow of his launch.
October 28
1864 - Steamer General Thomas and gunboat Stone River destroy Confederate batteries on Tennessee River near Decatur, Alabama.
October 29
1814 - Launching of Fulton I , first American steam powered warship, at New York City. The ship was designed by Robert Fulton.
October 30
1775 - Congress authorizes four vessels for the defense of the United Colonies.
1799 - William Balch becomes Navy's first commissioned Chaplain.
October 31

Dates in American Naval History: November

November 1
1841 - "Mosquito Fleet" commanded by LCDR J. T. McLaughlin, USN, carries 750 Sailors and Marines into the Everglades to fight the Seminole Indians.
November 2
November 3
1853 - USS Constitution seizes suspected slaver H. N. Gambrill
November 4
November 5
1775 - Commodore Esek Hopkins appointed to Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy.
November 6
1851 - U.S. Navy expedition under command of LT William Lewis Herndon, on a mission to explore the valley of the Amazon and its tributaries, reaches Iquitos in the jungle region of the upper Amazon after their departure from Lima, Peru.
November 7
1861 - Naval forces under Rear Admiral Samuel F. DuPont capture Port Royal Sound, SC.
November 8
1861 - CAPT Charles Wilkes seizes two Confederate diplomats from the British steamer Trent, causing an international controversy with Great Britain (known as the Trent Affair).
November 9
November 10
1775 - Congress votes to raise two battalions of Continental Marines establishing the Marine Corps.
November 11
November 12
November 13
1776 - Captain John Paul Jones in Alfred with brig Providence captures British transport Mellish, carrying winter uniforms later used by Washington's troops.
November 14
1846 - Naval forces capture Tampico, Mexico.
November 15
November 16
1776 - First salute to an American flag (Grand Union flag) flying from Continental Navy ship Andrew Doria, by Dutch fort at St. Eustatius, West Indies.
1856 - Barrier Forts reduction began at Canton China.
November 17
November 18
November 19
1813- Capt. David Porter claims Marquesas Islands for the United States.
November 20
1856 - CDR Andrew H. Foote lands at Canton, China, with 287 Sailors and Marines to stop attacks by Chinese on U.S. military and civilians.
November 21
November 22

November 23
November 24
1852 - Commodore Matthew Perry sails from Norfolk, VA, to negotiate a treaty with Japan for friendship and commerce.
November 25
1775 - Continental Congress authorizes privateering.
November 26
1847 - LT William Lynch in Supply sails from New York to Haifa for an expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea. His group charted the Jordan River from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea and compiled reports of the flora and fauna of the area.
November 27
November 28
1775 - Congress adopts first rules for regulation of the "Navy of the United Colonies."
November 29
1775 - CAPT John Manley in schooner Lee captures British ordnance ship Nancy with large quantity of munitions.
November 30

Dates in American Naval History: December
December 1
1842 - Execution of three crewmembers of USS Somers for mutiny; Midshipman Philip Spencer, Boatswain Samuel Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small.
December 2
1775 - Congress orders first officers commissions printed.
December 3
1775 - LT John Paul Jones raises the Grand Union flag on Alfred. First American flag raised over American naval vessel.
December 4
December 5
1843 - Launching of USS Michigan at Erie, Penn., America's first iron-hulled warship, as well as first prefabricated ship.
December 6
1830 - Naval Observatory, the first U.S. national observatory, established at Washington, DC, under commander of Lieutenant Louis Malesherbes.
December 7
December 8
December 9
December 10
December 11
December 12
1862 - Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River.
1937 - Japanese aircraft sink USS Panay in Yangtze River near Nanking, China.
December 13
1775 - Continental Congress authorizes the building of 13 frigates, mounting 24 and 36 guns.
December 14
1814 - British squadron captures U.S. gunboats in Battle of Lake Borgne, LA.
December 15
December 16
1821 - LT Robert F. Stockton and Dr. Eli Ayers, a naval surgeon and member of American Colonizing Society, induce a local African king to sell territory for a colony which became the Republic of Liberia.
December 17
1846 - Ships under Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry capture Laguna de Terminos during Mexican War.
December 18
December 19
1870 - After a month at sea in a 22-foot boat, Coxswain William Halford, the lone survivor of 5, reaches Hawaii to seek help for crew of USS Saginaw, wrecked near Midway Island. Rescuers reach the 88 Saginaw survivors on 4 January 1871.
December 20
1822 - Congress authorizes the 14-ship West Indies Squadron to suppress piracy in the Caribbean.
December 21
1861 - Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor <../faqs/faq38-1.htm>, the Nation's highest award, for Naval personnel.
December 22
1775 - Congress commissions first naval officers: Esek Hopkins, Commander in Chief of the Fleet, Captains Dudley Saltonstall, Abraham Whipple, Nicolas Biddle, and John Hopkins. Lieutenants included John Paul Jones.
1841 - Commissioning of USS Mississippi, first U.S. ocean-going side-wheel steam warship, at Philadelphia.
December 23
1826 - Captain Thomas ap Catesby Jones of USS Peacock and King Kamehameha negotiate first treaty between Hawaii and a foreign power.
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December 24
1814 - Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812.
1864 - Naval Forces under Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter with Army forces under Major General Benjamin F. Butler begin unsuccessful two-day attack against Fort Fisher, NC.
December 25
December 26
1862 - Four nuns who were volunteer nurses on board Red Rover were the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
December 27
1777 - Floating mines intended for use against British Fleet found in Delaware River.
1814 - Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans. After loss of craft, the naval guns were mounted on shore to continue the fight.
December 28
December 29
1798 - First annual report by Secretary of the Navy, sent by Benjamin Stoddert.
1812 - USS Constitution (Captain William Bainbridge) captures HMS Java <../docs/war1812/const6.htm> off Brazil after a three hour battle.
1943 - USS Silversides (SS-236) sinks three Japanese ships and damages a fourth off Palau.
December 30
December 31
1862 - USS Monitor founders in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC.

[Villaret-Joyeuse]

(I had to write a lecture on the Russian Navy created by Peter the Great. The book I used had some dates, so I thought I would take the opportunity to enter them here.)


27 July 1714 - Battle of Hangö Head – Russian galley fleet commanded by Apraksin destroyed a weaker Swedish fleet commanded by S. Nils Ehrensköld. Russians lost one galley, 466 men killed and wounded. Swedes lost 10 galleys, 361 men killed and 941 taken prisoner.

24 May 1719 – Battle of Ösel Island - Three Russian 50-gun ships commanded by Naum Seniavin fights a small Swedish squadron (Wachmeister (48), a 24-gun frigate, 16-gun brig, a schooner) The Russians captured all the Swedish ships. First victory for Russian battleships!

25 May 1733 – The French Fleuron (60) and Gloire (46) captured the Russian Mitau (32).

5-6 July 1770 - Battle of Chesma – The Russians annihilate a larger Turkish fleet. Russians – (9 Battleships) Evropa (66), Sv. Yevstafy (66), Tr iSviatitelia (66), Sv. Yanuary (66), Tri Yerarkha (66), Rostislav (66), Ne Tron Menia (66), Sviatoslav (80), Saratov (66). (3 Frigates) Afrika (32), Nadezhda (32), Sv. Nikolai (26) and the bomb Grom. Turks had 20 battleships and frigates. On 5 July, the Russians forced the Turks flee to the Bay of Chesma. The Turkish Real Mustafa (84) and the Russian Sv. Yevstafy (66) caught fire and exploded. On the night of 6 July, the bomb Grom and several fireships set fire to the majority of the Turkish fleet.

28 October 1772 - Battle for Patras - Captain Mikhail Konyaev, with two ships-of-the-line and two frigates, destroyed eight Turkish frigates and eight xebecs defending the fortresses of Patras and Lepanto.

17 July 1788 – Battle of Hogland – The Russian Baltic fleet (17 battleships, 8 frigates) under Admiral Greig fought the Swedish fleet (20 battleships, 5 frigates). The Swedes captured the Vladislav (74), while the Russians captured the Prins Gustaf (70). Russians suffered 321 killed, 702 wounded, 783 captured, while the Swedes had 130 killed, 334 wounded, 687 captured. Strategic Russian victory as it fended off a possible attack on the capital.

26 July 1789 – Battle of Åland. Swedes (21 battleships, 13 frigates, 8 smaller craft) under Duke Carl against the Russians (20 battleships, 6 frigates) under Chichagov. Long-range skirmish.

24 August 1789 – First Battle of Svenskund-

19 July 1790 – The Russian Admiral Ushakov (10 battleships, 6 frigates) fought the Turkish fleet (10 battleships, 8 frigates) under Hussein Pasha. Indecisive, but checked the Turkish plan to attack the Crimea.

8 September 1790 – Battle of Tendra. Ushakov (10 battleships, 6 frigates) vs. Said Bey (14 battleships, 8 frigates). The Russians heavily damaged the Turkish fleet, forcing them to retreat. Turks lost 7 ship, 2 of which were captured by the Russians.

[Villaret-Joyeuse]

21 April 1798 : 74 canons Hercule is captured off of Brest by theH.M.S. Mars by Admiral Hood

1 August 1798 : Battle of Aboukir Bay

18 August 1798: Villeneuve, aboard the Le Généreux, captures the H.M.S. Leander

07 October 1800 : Surcouf, aboard 18-gun La Confiance, captures the 40-gun East Indiaman Kent.


(more to come)