1732: Born in Virginia

1759—74: Serves as member of the Virginia House of Burgesses

1775: Unanimously elected by the Continental Congress to command the Continental Army

1787: Serves as chairman of the Constitutional Convention

1789—97: Serves as first U.S. president

1793: Declares American neutrality when war breaks out between Britain and France

1794: Federal troops called to suppress the armed insurgence in western Pennsylvania called the Whiskey Rebellion

1799: Dies in Virginia