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Fifth Of July
Fifth of July may refer to: Dates * July 5 * Independence Day (Venezuela) * Fifth of July (New York) Other uses * ''Fifth of July'' (play) by Lanford Wilson * '' The Fifth of July'', album by Watershed {{disambiguation, date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 5
Events Pre-1600 * 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava ( Corabia, Romania) and Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius. * 1316 – The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada. * 1584 – The Maronite College is established in Rome. * 1594 – Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka. 1601–1900 * 1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. * 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes '' Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica''. * 1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins. * 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. * 1803 – The Convention of Artlenburg is sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independence Day (Venezuela)
Independence Day (), also known as the Fifth of July (''Cinco de Julio'') is the national independence holiday of Venezuela, marked every year on July 5 which celebrates the anniversary since the enactment of the 1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence, making the country the first Spanish colony in South America to declare independence. In recent years, it is also marked as National Armed Forces Day (''Día de la Fuerza Armada Nacional'') to honor the faithful service of all the serving men and women and veterans of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela. The Caracas Independence Day parade, or Joint Civil-Military Parade of the 5th of July () is one of the largest in the Americas. The other independence holiday is on 19 April, honoring the declaration of a local junta in Caracas on 19 April 1810, launching the road towards the First Republic of Venezuela and the start of the independence struggle. History The holiday marks the anniversary since the event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Of July (New York)
The Fifth of July is a historic celebration of an Emancipation Day in New York (state), New York, marking the culmination of the state's History of slavery in New York (state)#Gradual abolition, 1827 abolition of slavery after a gradual legislative process. State law passed under Governor Daniel D. Tompkins a decade earlier had designated Independence Day, the Independence Day (United States), Fourth of July, as when abolition would take effect, but the danger of Mass racial violence in the United States, racist violence led African Americans to celebrate on the following day instead. These celebrations continued on July 5 for years in New York, although in a reduced fashion after 1834, with the effect of both the New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834), anti-abolitionist riots and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, British Slavery Abolition Act. The tradition largely merged into August 1 British abolition anniversary celebrations, though it was noted as late as 1859. The holiday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Of July (play)
''Fifth of July'' is a 1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ... play by Lanford Wilson. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment in the wake of the Vietnam War. It premiered on Broadway theatre, Broadway in 1980 and was later produced as a Television film, made-for-television movie. The play is part of the Talley Trilogy, a series of Wilson plays revolving around the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. The other plays, both set on July 4, 1944, are ''Talley's Folly'', a One-act play, one-act dialogue between Sally Talley and her husband-to-be, Matthew Friedman, and ''Talley & Son'', the story of a power struggle between Sally's father and grandfather. Plot summary Kenneth Talley Jr. is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
