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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 | 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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1808 |
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| 6 | 1810 |
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| 7 | 1811 |
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| 8 | 1812 |
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 1814 |
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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 1816 |
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| 13 | 1817 |
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| 14 | 1818 |
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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 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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| 19 | 1823 |
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| 20 | 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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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 1826 |
- 27 Nov 1826: John Walker invents the modern friction match.TiS BH
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1806 - 1826 (20 years)