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The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in 1774, with 12 of the original 13 colonies in attendance, and agreed to a boycott of British goods. Louis XVI became king of France, beginning a reign that would end in 1793 with the French Revolution and his execution by guillotine. In England, scientist, philosopher and theologian Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen gas as one component of air.
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia to define American rights and organize a plan of resistance to the Coercive Acts imposed by the British Parliament.
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