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- 1758 – Born at Monroe Hall, James Monroe was the second of five children of Spence and Elizabeth Jones Monroe, “small” planters who raised tobacco on their farm in Westmoreland County of approximately 500 acres. Elected President of the United States in 1816 and in 1820, James Monroe resolved long-standing grievances with the British, acquired Florida from Spain in 1819, and proclaimed the “Monroe Doctrine” in 1823.
- 1919 – 1918 flu pandemic in Charlottesville-Albemarle: One-year-old Elizabeth Paker Blakey of Earlysville was the last Spanish influenza death in Albemarle County.