Orris Clapp1794 through 1813
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
1789-1796 George Washington selected 1st President
1792-1815 Napoleonic war
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
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