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- 1744 – Namesake of Charlottesville, Sophia Charlotte (Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz), was born in a small north-German duchy in the Holy Roman Empire. Descended directly from an African branch of the Portuguese Royal House, she became the wife of King George III in 1761 and later queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1818.
2022 – A Virginia historic marker for Gregory Hayes Swanson was unveiled outside the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library's Central Branch to commemorate his successful lawsuit against the University of Virginia to be admitted in 1950.