Template:On this day/May 15

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May 15:

• 1776 – At the fifth and final Revolutionary Convention of Virginia, members voted unanimously to instruct the Virginia delegates at the Second Continental Congress to introduce a resolution calling for independence. Immediately on learning that the Virginia Convention had called for independence, Thomas Jefferson, a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, wrote at least three drafts of a Virginia constitution. Jefferson's drafts are not only important for their influence on the Virginia government, they are direct predecessors of the Declaration of Independence.