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1 | 1613 |
- 21 Feb 1613—15 Mar 1917: The Romanov Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia, begins when 16 year old Mikhail Romanov is elected as Czar.Russiapedia Hillwood
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2 | 1760 |
- 25 Oct 1760—29 Jan 1820: George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.HistoricUK LoC
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3 | 1784 |
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4 | 1787 |
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5 | 1788 |
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6 | 1789 |
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7 | 1790 |
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8 | 1791 |
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9 | 1792 |
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10 | 1793 |
- 21 Jan 1793: Louis XVI, the last King of France, is executed by guillotine.LEF LoC
- 12 Sep 1793: Due to an outbreak of yellow fever, Philadelphia is quarantined.PBS IA
- 18 Sep 1793: The cornerstone to the U. S. Capitol building is laid by George Washington.USSenate AoC
- 16 Oct 1793: Marie-Antoinette is beheaded.CdV SIMag
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11 | 1794 |
- 4 Feb 1794: France abolishes slavery in all of its colonies.GMU LoC
- 14 Mar 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.OurDocs MassMoments
- 23 Jun 1794: Jews are once again allowed to settle in Kiev, by order of Catherine the Great, expanding the Pale of Settlement.NJOP SL
- 1 Aug 1794—25 Sep 1794: The Whiskey Rebellion occurs after Congress attempts to levy an excise tax on distilled goods.ABT PSU
- 26 Aug 1794: U. S. President Washington decides it's time to put down the Whiskey Rebellion.ORO LoC
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12 | 1795 |
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13 | 1796 |
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14 | 1797 |
- 10 Mar 1797: Thomas Jefferson presents a scientific paper on a Megalonyx fossil to the American Philosophical Society that is considered the first American contribution to vertebrate paleontology.USNA SA
- 2 May 1797: Lorenzo Carter becomes the first permanent settler of Cleveland.CH TCD
- 21 Oct 1797: USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides", is launched.MassMoments UCM
- 22 Oct 1797: Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.TiS LoC
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15 | 1798 |
- 14 Jul 1798: The Sedition Act becomes federal law, endangering liberty in the fragile new nation.OurDocs BoRI
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16 | 1799 |
- 19 Jul 1799: The Rosetta Stone is found.tST ET
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17 | 1800 |
- 24 Apr 1800: President John Adams approves $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress" - the Library of Congress.LoC FedReg
- 1 Nov 1800: John Adams moves into the White House, the first President to do so.Whitehouse WHHA
- 17 Nov 1800: The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D. C.USSenate
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18 | 1801 |
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19 | 1802 |
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20 | 1803 |
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21 | 1804 |
- 26 Mar 1804: U. S. Congress allows for the "voluntary" removal of Indians east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana Territory in exchange for land, setting the stage for the Trail of Tears.Avalon USNA
- 14 May 1804: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the Corps of Discovery begin their westward expedition.USArmy USBoR
- 11 Jul 1804: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton have a pistol duel. Burr is unscathed, Hamilton dies the next day from his injuries.PBS LoC
- 10 Oct 1804: A "snow hurricane" strikes Massachusetts.MassMoments NEHS
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22 | 1805 |
- 18 Nov 1805: Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific.L&C
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23 | 1806 |
- 23 Sep 1806: Lewis and Clark complete their expedition.NPS SIMag
- 7 Oct 1806: Ralph Wedgwood receives the first patent for carbon paper.W I R E D
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24 | 1807 |
- 2 Mar 1807: Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves is passed through the U. S. Congress in order to stop any new slaves being brought into the country.Avalon USState
- 25 Mar 1807: The slave trade is abolished in Great BritainGovTrack Canada
- 17 Aug 1807: Robert Fulton's steamboat, Clermont, begins its first successful trip up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany.PBS OHC
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25 | 1808 |
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26 | 1810 |
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27 | 1811 |
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28 | 1812 |
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29 | 1813 |
- 16 Apr 1813: The first order for a product made with interchangeable parts in the U. S. goes to Simeon North, a pistol manufacturer in Berlin, Connecticut.W I R E D ASoAC
- 10 Sep 1813: The U. S. Fleet defeats the British Royal Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie.OHC NPS
- 26 Oct 1813: Canadian troops and their Mohawk allies win an important victory over invading American forces in the Battle of the Châteauguay.NPS MC
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30 | 1814 |
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31 | 1815 |
- 8 Jan 1815: An American force of 3000 men defeats a British force of around 8000 men in the Battle of New Orleans - even though the War of 1812 was already over with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.HBoNO LoC
- 10 Apr 1815: Mount Tambora begins the largest eruption in recorded history which causes the following year to be known as the "year without a summer".NASA SIMag
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32 | 1816 |
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33 | 1817 |
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34 | 1818 |
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35 | 1819 |
- 22 May 1819: The first steam powered vessel to cross the Atlantic, the S.S. Savannah, "put to sea with steam and sails" on a historic trip that would take her to England, Sweden and Russia with stops in Norway and Denmark before returning home.AAQ NSSavannah
- 23 Oct 1819: The first Protestant missionaries for Hawaii sail out of Boston. MassMoments TiCH
- 14 Dec 1819: Alabama becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
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36 | 1820 |
- 29 Jan 1820—26 Jun 1830: George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.HistoricUK
- 15 Mar 1820: Maine becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com MassMoments
- 28 Jun 1820: The tomato is demonstrated to be non-poisonous.GN B-F
- 20 Nov 1820: The whaling ship Essex is rammed and sunk by a sperm whale 2,000 miles off the west coast of South America, inspiring the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville.W I R E D
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37 | 1821 |
- 7 Feb 1821: Captain John Davis, a seal hunter, is the first person to step foot in Antarctica.AC BHL
- 10 Aug 1821: Missouri becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
- 16 Nov 1821: The Santa Fe Trail opens for business.NPS SFT
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38 | 1822 |
- 30 Mar 1822: Florida becomes an official U. S. territory.USF SSHB
- 11 Sep 1822: The Catholic Church finally agrees with science and allows that the Earth revolves around the Sun.W I R E D FT
- 30 Sep 1822: Joseph Marion Hernández, born José Mariano Hernández, becomes the first Hispanic elected to Congress.USHouse USCongress
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39 | 1823 |
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40 | 1824 |
- 11 Mar 1824: The Bureau of Indian Affairs is established.BIA USNA
- 21 Oct 1824: Joseph Aspdin, a stone mason from Yorkshire, England, receives a patent for Portland cement.CK Nature
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41 | 1825 |
- 9 Feb 1825: John Quincy Adams is elected by Congress as the 6th president of the United States of America, 1825 - 1829.UVA LoC
- 11 May 1825: Gas lighting is installed along Broadway in New York City.TiS GoogleBooks
- 4 Jul 1825—1835: Ground is broken on the Farmington Canal and completed ten years later.CTHist FVTC
- 26 Oct 1825: The Erie Canal is completed.EC LoC
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42 | 1826 |
- 27 Nov 1826: John Walker invents the modern friction match.TiS BH
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43 | 1827 |
- 27 Feb 1827: A parade takes place during Mardi Gras in New Orleans beginning the tradition that continues today.History.com

- 7 Apr 1827: The first friction matches are sold by its inventor.MITTR S-o-T
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44 | 1828 |
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45 | 1829 |
- 2 Mar 1829: The Perkins School for the Blind is incorporated in Boston originally as New England Asylum for the Blind.MassMoments Perkins
- 17 Mar 1829: The Massachusetts Horticultural Society is organized with General Henry Dearborn elected its first president..GoogleBooks CA
- 16 Aug 1829: The original "Siamese Twins", Chang and Eng Bunker, arrive in Boston.CC Muse
- 29 Sep 1829: Scotland Yard begins operation.GAF AP
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46 | 1830 |
- 26 Mar 1830: The first printed copies of the Book of Mormon are available for sale in Palmyra, New York.DN PBS
- 6 Apr 1830: Joseph Smith and his followers organize the Church of Christ, the Mormon Church.LDS PBS
- 28 May 1830: The Indian Removal Act is signed into law.LoC SI
- 26 Jun 1830—20 Jun 1837: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.HistoricUK
- 28 Aug 1830: The superiority of steam-power is demonstrated when the first American built locomotive, Tom Thumb, races a horse-drawn B&O rail car.FHWA B&ORRM
- 15 Sep 1830: The first railroad fatality occurs when a member of Parliament, William Huskisson, steps in front of George Stephenson's Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.AO tNM
- 29 Nov 1830—5 Oct 1831: The November Uprising begins when Poles rebel against Russian occupation.W&W GS
- 6 Dec 1830: The United States Naval Observatory is established, first as the Depot of Charts and Instruments.USNA NASA
- 25 Dec 1830: The Best Friend of Charleston begins the first regular passenger service in America.A-R SCM
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47 | 1831 |
- 10 Mar 1831: The French Foreign Legion is created.FFL FFL2
- 31 Mar 1831: Both Montréal and Québec City are incorporated.BiogCA Montreal
- 21 Aug 1831: Nat Turner begins a bloody slave revolt in Virginia.ZEP

- 29 Aug 1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetism.APS EDN
- 27 Dec 1831: The H.M.S. Beagle, with a crew of seventy-three men, sets sail out of Plymouth, England. On board is a young naturalist named Charles Darwin.
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