The people who were at the first continental congress were: Nathaniel Folsom; John Sullivan; John Adams; Samuel Adams; Thomas Cushing; Robert Treat Paine; Stephen Hopkins; Samuel Ward; Silas Deane; Eliphalet Dyer; Roger Sherman; James Duane; John Jay; Philip Livingston; Isaac Low; Simon Boerum; John Haring; Henry Wisner; William Floyd; John Alsop; Stephen Crane; John De Hart; James Kinsey; William Livingston; Richard Smith; Edward Biddle; John Dickinson; Joseph Galloway; Charles Humphreys; Thomas Mifflin; John Morton; Samuel Rhoads; George Ross; Thomas McKean; George Read; Caesar Rodney; Samuel Chase; Robert Goldsborough; Thomas Johnson; William Paca; Matthew Tilghman; Richard Bland; Benjamin Harrison; Patrick Henry; Richard Henry Lee; Edmund Pendleton; Peyton Randolph; George Washington; Richard Caswell; Joseph Hewes; William Hooper; Christopher Gadsden; Thomas Lynch, Jr.; Henry Middleton; Edward Rutledge; and John Rutledge.
Napoleon invades Spain and forces King Ferdinand VII to abdicate. He places his brother, Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish Throne. With no Spanish government on the throne - Colonies must look after themselves.
