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- 1743 – Thomas Jefferson is born (after the change in 1752 from the Julian, or Old Style, Calendar, the date was adjusted to April 13, which became common usage). He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson and was born at Shadwell, on the Rivanna River in a part of Goochland County that became Albemarle County in 1744.
- 1854 – Benjamin Tonsler was born near the small community of Earlysville in Albemarle County. He was from the last generation of black American educators born into slavery.
- 1942 – An order of the United States Secretary of War establishes the institution "to be known as the School of Military Government" at the University of Virginia.
- 1985 – The Radisson Hotel, later to become the Omni Charlottesville Hotel, opens on the western end of a newly extended Downtown Mall.