George Crocker1791 through 1823
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
1789-1796 George Washington selected 1st President
1791 Federal Bill of rights adopted
1791 Vermont enters the union -14th
1792-1815 Napoleonic war
1792 Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves
1792 Kentucky enters the union - 15th
1793 Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves)
1793 Marie Antoinette beheaded
1794 Slavery abolished in French colonies
1794 US Navy Established
1794 US Post Office Established
1796 Tennesee enters the union - 16th
1796 Vaccination against Smallpox
1796-1800 John Adams elected 2nd president of US
1796 Frances presses get right of free speech
1798 Lithography
1798 Mississippi organized as a territory
1798 US Marine Corps Established
1798-1800 Undeclared war with France
1799 Rosetta Stone found
1800 US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
1800 1st Battery (Volta)
1800-1809 Thomas Jefferson elected president of US
1800 Russia annexes Georgia
1802 Babylonian cuniform deciphered
1803 Fulton propels vessel by steampower
1803 Louisiana Territory Purchased
1803 Ohio enters the union - 17th
1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition
1804 Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis.
1805 Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US
1805 Morphine isolated
1807 Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage
1808 Import of new slaves into US Is banned
1808 Pompeii excavation begins in earnest
1809-1816 James Madison elected president of US
1809 Charles Darwin born
1810 US pop. reaches 7.2 million
1810 Homeopathy founded
1812-1814 War of 1812
1812 Missouri organized as a territory
1812 Louisiana enters the union - 18th
1815 French outlaw slavery in France
1815 Battle of Waterloo
1815 Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed
1816 Photographic Negative
1816 Indiana enters the union - 19th
1816 Stethoscope
1817-1825 Erie canal constructed
1817 Alabama organized as a territory
1817 Mississippi enters the union - 20th
1817-1824 James Monroe president of US
1817 Pentrich Revolution - Englands last revolution
1817-1823 1st Cholera pandemic
1818 Jackson Purchase - Kentucky lands
1818 Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic
1818 Illinois enters the union - 21st
1819 Alabama enters the union - 22nd
1819 Oersted discovers electro-magnetism
1819 Arkansas organized as a territory
1820-1830 Reign of King George IV (Hanover)
1820 Maine enters the union - 23rd
1821-1829 Greek war of Independence
1821 Missouri enters the union - 24th
1821 US pop. reaches 9.2 million
1821 1st US womens college
1822 Florida organized as a territory
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