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- 1772 – Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter Martha (Patsy) Jefferson is born at Monticello. Thomas and his wife Martha will have six children, only two of whom will live to adulthood.
- 2005 – The Charlottesville Pavilion amphitheater opens, featuring a distinctive white roof that some derided as a “lobster trap” or a “Conestoga wagon.”
- 2005 – Mary Lee Settle, a famous American writer of the 20th century who lived in Charlottesville throughout much of her later life, teaching courses at the University of Virginia, died at a hospice in Ivy at the age of 87 while working on her last book, an imagined biography of Thomas Jefferson.