1815 through 1852
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
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
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