State coordinate
New Jersey's Admission Birth Card: The King of Hearts
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
New Jersey (NJ) entered the Table 1 record on December 18, 1787. Card Blueprints uses December 18 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1787 is unused.
Coordinate: the King of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/king-of-hearts.
New Jersey's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists New Jersey at number 3 of 50. Pennsylvania entered the same year, at number 2. Georgia follows at number 4, in 1788. Delaware and Pennsylvania also enter the table in 1787, so 1787 carries 3 of the 50 dates.
- Order in Table 1
- 3 of 50
- Date kind
- Ratification — an original state, dated by its ratification of the Constitution
- Date used
- December 18, 1787
- Month and day used
- December 18 (the year 1787 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 12 + 18) = 13
- Coordinate
- King of Hearts — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing December 18
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1787-12-18 (plus 1776-07-04, unused)
New Jersey on the record
New Jersey is a state located in both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the heavily urbanized Northeast megalopolis, it is bordered to the northwest, north, and northeast by New York State; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and Delaware. At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km2), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest U.S. state by land area. According to a 2025 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, it is the 11th-most populous state, with over 9.5 million residents, its highest estimated count ever. The state capital is Trenton, and the state's most populous city is Newark. New Jersey is the most densely populated U.S. state, and is the only U.S. state in which every county is deemed urban by the U.S. Census Bureau. New Jersey was first inhabited by Paleo-Indians as early as 13,000 BC. The Lenape were the dominant Indigenous group when Europeans arrived in the early 17th century, and they were subdivided into dialectal groups such as the Munsee, in the north, and the Unami and the Unalachtigo, elsewhere. Dutch and Swedish colonists founded the first European settlements in the state, with the British later seizing control of the region and establishing the Province of New Jersey, named after the Channel Island of Jersey. The colony's fertile lands and relative religious tolerance drew a large and diverse population. New Jersey was among the Thirteen Colonies that supported the American Revolution, hosting several pivotal battles and military commands in the American Revolutionary War earning the title "Crossroads of the American Revolution". New Jersey remained in the Union during the American Civil War and provided troops, resources, and military leaders in support of the Union Army.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article New Jersey (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article; the admission date itself comes from CRS R47747, not Wikipedia.
Constitution ratification date
New Jersey is one of the original 13. CRS R47747 Table 1 records the date this state ratified the Constitution (December 18, 1787), not an admission act.
Wikidata P571 also lists 1776-07-04 for Q1408. Those extra inception values are not used. This page maps the CRS Table 1 date 1787-12-18.
States that share December 18
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the King of Hearts
No other state maps to this card.
FAQ
- What date does New Jersey use?
- December 18, 1787 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 ratification date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is New Jersey's admission birth card?
- The King of Hearts. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the state.
- Where do the dates come from?
- Primary: CRS R47747 Table 1. Secondary: Wikipedia’s list of U.S. states by date of admission. Optional Wikidata P571 matched the CRS day for every state QID used here.
Get your own coordinate
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Sources: CRS R47747 Table 1 (congress.gov, PDF R47747.16) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union). Optional Wikidata P571 cross-check via REST wbgetentities (no SPARQL).