1812 through 1893
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
1792-1815 Napoleonic war
1809-1816 James Madison elected president of US
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
1824-1828 John Quincy Adams president of US
1824 Internal Combustion Engine
1824 Erie canal finished
1826 1st railroad tunnel (England)
1827 Ohms Law formulated
1827 1st Black newspaper Freedoms Journal
1827 Ships propeller (screw)
1828 1st railroad in the US
1828-1836 Andrew Jackson president of US
1828 1st Websters Dictionary
1829 1st US patent on a typewriter
1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic
1830-1837 Reign of King William IV (Hanover)
1830 Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded
1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US
1832 Horse-drawn trolleys in New York
1832 Black Hawk War
1833 Telegraph
1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies)
1834 Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage
1835-1842 2nd Seminole War
1835 Halleys Comet
1835 Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of coming of lord by 1891
1836 Texas war for independence from Mexico
1836 Arkansas enters the union -25th
1836 Battle of the Alamo
1837 Michigan enters the union - 26th
1837-1840 Martin Van Buren president of US
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1837 Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation
1838-1839 Forced relocation of Cherokee
1839-1842 Opium war between China and the English
1841-1844 John Tyler president of US
1842 Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English
1844 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York
1845 Texas enters the union - 28th
1845-1848 James K Polk president of US
1845 Florida enters the union - 27th
1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine
1846 Iowa enters the union - 29th
1846-1848 The Mexican-US War
1848 NY allows women to own real estate
1848 Oregon organized as a territory
1848 Wisconsin enters the union - 30th
1848-1856 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill
1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US
1849 Fizeau measures speed of light
1850 Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory
1850 US pop reaches 23 million
1850 California enters the union - 31st
1850 New Mexico organized as a territory
1850 World pop. est. at 1.1 billion
1850 W. H. F. Talbot develops idea of halftone printing
1851 Gold rush in Australia
1852-1859 3rd Cholera pandemic
1853-1856 Franklin Pierce president of US
1853 Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory
1854-1856 Crimean War
1854 Nebraska organized as a territory
1854 Kansas organized as a territory
1856 Celluloid, the first thermoplastic
1857-1860 James Buchanan president of US
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
1857 Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens
1858 Minnesota enters the union - 32nd
1858 India bill transfers government of India to England
1859 Darwin pub. Origin Of Species
1859 Oil Well
1859 Oregon enters the union - 33rd
1860 South Carolina Secedes from the Union
1860 Rifled barrel invented
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US
1861 Gold rush in New Zealand
1861 Colorado organized as a territory
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist
1861 North Dakota organized as a territory
1861-1865 Civil War
1861 South Dakota organized as a territory
1861 Nevada organized as a territory
1861 Kansas enters the union - 34th
1861 Transcontinental Telegraph completed
1861 The Apache Declare War on the US
1862 US Homestead act
1863 Arizona organized as a territory
1863 Idaho organized as a territory
1863 West Virginia enters the union - 35th
1863 Battle of Gettysburg
1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
1864 Louisiana organized as a territory
1864 Nevada enters the union - 36th
1865 Ku Klux Klan founded
1865 President Lincoln assassinated
1865 Lister invents Disinfection
1866 Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts)
1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US
1867 Confederation of Canada
1867 Diamonds discovered in South Africa
1867 Dynamite
1867 Nebraska enters the union - 37th
1867 Alaska purchased from Russia
1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain
1868 Helium discovered (Norman Lockyer)
1869 Suez canal opened
1869 Trans-continental railroad completed
1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US
1869 Cutty Sark built
1869 Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold
1870 US black men can vote
1870 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels)
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war
1871 Great Fire destroys Chicago
1873 Color Photographs
1873-1878 Depression, banks fail
1876 Colorado enters the union - 38th
1876 Little Big Horn - Battle
1876 Telephone (Bell, Latimer)
1876 US Centennial
1877 Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings
1877-1880 Ruthorford B Hayes president of US
1878 1st commercial telephone exchange in US
1879 Electric Light Bulb (Edison)
1879 Zulu war
1881 James A Garfield president of US
1881-1885 Chester Arthur president of US
1881 President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care)
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
1884 1st subway
1884 Motorcycle
1885 Automobile
1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US
1886 Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)
1887 X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths
1888 70...77 rpm musical records
1889 Holerith invents the punch card
1889 Washington enters the union - 42nd
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
1889 Montana enters the union - 41st
1889 South Dakota enters the union - 40th
1889 North Dakota enters the union - 39th
1890 Idaho enters the union - 43rd
1890 Wyoming enters the union - 44th
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee
1890 Oklahoma organized as a territory
1891 Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled
1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
1893 Movies
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