James Edward Oglethorpe, a philanthropist and an English general, along with twenty-one other men, created a charter to settle a new colony which they named Georgia in honor of King George II. The grant established land between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers as well as the waters of these rivers.
The first gold is found by James W. Marshall in California gold rush on january 24th, 1848
China had invaded Vietnam
The Fourteen Points.
This was Wilson's plan to eliminate the causes of war.