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- 1775 – John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore and governor of the British colony of Virginia, wrote the document known as Dunmore’s Proclamation. It promised freedom to any indentured servants, enslaved African Americans, or others held in bondage by American revolutionaries, so long as they were willing to bear arms for British troops fighting against American forces during the Revolutionary War.
- 1916 – In the 1916 United States presidential election, Charlottesville gave Woodrow Wilson (D) a majority of 501 over Charles E. Hughes (R), the total vote standing: Wilson, 618; Hughes, 117.