...Date... AGE Event
1759/--/-- -1 - French poet and dramatist Voltaire publishes his philosophical novel Candide.
1759/--/-- -1 - Josiah Wedgwood establishes his first pottery works.
1759/--/-- -1 - The Botanical Gardens are founded at Kew in London.
1759/--/-- -1 - The British defeat the French at Niagara; Amherst captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1759/--/-- -1 - The British under Wolfe defeat Montcalm at Quebec; Wolfe dies from his wounds.
1759/--/-- -1 - The Russians defeat Frederick II at Kunersdorf.
1759/04/02 0 *** Majors, John Samuel - Born
1760/--/-- 0 - English architect Robert Adam begins the design of Syon House.
1760/--/-- 0 - English novelist Laurence Sterne publishes the first volumes of Tristram Shandy.
1760/--/-- 0 - George II dies; he is succeeded by his grandson George III as king of England.
1760/--/-- 0 - The British under Amherst capture Montreal, ending French resistance in North America.
1760/--/-- 0 - The Russians invade Prussia and burn Berlin.
1761/--/-- 1 - Franz Josef Haydn becomes court composer to Prince Esterhazy.
1761/09/02 2 - George III crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1762/--/-- 2 - American Indian religious leader, the Delaware Prophet, is active in the Ohio Valley.
1762/--/-- 2 - Britain seizes Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.
1762/--/-- 2 - British animal painter George Stubbs completes the Horse Attacked by a Lion.
1762/--/-- 2 - Catherine II (Catherine the Great) succeeds her husband as empress of Russia.
1762/--/-- 2 - France cedes Louisiana to Spain to prevent British control of the region.
1762/--/-- 2 - French philosopher Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile.
1762/--/-- 2 - Peter III succeeds Elizabeth as emperor of Russia, but is deposed and murdered.
1762/--/-- 2 - The Russians end their alliance with Austria against Prussia.
1762/--/-- 2 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs at the Imperial court in Vienna at age 6.
1763/--/-- 3 *** Wright, Nancy (Majors) [Wife] - Born
1763/--/-- 3 - Augustus III dies; he is succeeded (1764) by Stanislaw II, the last king of Poland.
1763/--/-- 3 - Britain returns Cuba and the Philippines to Spain in exchange for Florida.
1763/--/-- 3 - France cedes Canada and all territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
1763/--/-- 3 - France recognizes British dominance in India.
1763/--/-- 3 - French forces withdraw from Germany; Prussia retains Silesia.
1763/--/-- 3 - James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time.
1763/--/-- 3 - The Ottawa chief Pontiac leads an uprising against the British.
1763/--/-- 3 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian Wars.
1763/--/-- 3 - The Wahhabi Saudis begin to establish control over Arabia.
1764/--/-- 4 - German historian Johann Winckelmann publishes his History of the Art of Antiquity.
1764/--/-- 4 - Thomas Chatterton forges the Rowley poems at the age of 12.
1765/--/-- 5 - Francis I dies; he is succeeded by Joseph II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1765/--/-- 5 - French artist Francois Boucher is appointed court painter to Louis XV.
1765/--/-- 5 - George Grenville's Stamp Act imposes a tax on all publications in the American colonies.
1765/--/-- 5 - Horace Walpole publishes his Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto.
1765/--/-- 5 - Lancelot Capability Brown designs the gardens at Blenheim Palace.
1765/--/-- 5 - Robert Clive is appointed governor of Bengal in India.
1765/--/-- 5 - Samuel Adams helps to found the Sons of Liberty to oppose the Stamp Act.
1765/--/-- 5 - Sir William Blackstone begins his Commentaries on the Laws of England.
1766/--/-- 6 - Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield.
1766/--/-- 6 - English chemist Henry Cavendish isolates hydrogen gas for the first time.
1766/--/-- 6 - French artist Jean Honore Fragonard paints The Swing.
1766/--/-- 6 - German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing publishes Laocoon.
1766/--/-- 6 - The Declaratory Act imposes Parliament's right to make laws in the colonies.
1766/--/-- 6 - The Nautical Almanac provides the first practical method for determining longitude.
1766/--/-- 6 - The Stamp Act is repealed after strong opposition from American colonists.
1767/--/-- 7 - German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck writes his opera Alceste.
1767/--/-- 7 - German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn publishes Phaedon.
1767/--/-- 7 - The Burmese destroy the Siam capital of Ayutthaya; the Bangkok Period begins.
1767/--/-- 7 - The Mason-Dixon line establishes the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary.
1767/--/-- 7 - The Townshend Acts impose a tax on imports to North America.
1768/--/-- 8 - Genoa sells its rights in Corsica to France.
1768/--/-- 8 - Joshua Reynolds becomes the first president of the Royal Academy in London.
1768/--/-- 8 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville claims the Pacific island of Tahiti for France.
1768/--/-- 8 - The Russo-Turkish War is renewed.
1768/--/-- 8 - The first weekly numbers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are issued.
1769/--/-- 9 - American pioneer Daniel Boone explores a route through the Cumberland Gap.
1769/--/-- 9 - French forces in Corsica defeat Pasquale Paoli; Corsica becomes a province of France.
1769/--/-- 9 - James Watt patents a condenser to improve the performance of steam engines.
1769/--/-- 9 - Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac is assassinated by a Peoria Indian.
1769/--/-- 9 - Richard Arkwright invents a spinning frame to mechanize cotton weaving.
1769/--/-- 9 - The Comtesse du Barry becomes the official mistress to Louis XV.
1769/--/-- 9 - The Gurkhas conquer Nepal.
1770/--/-- 10 - A brawl between British troops and colonists leads to the Boston Massacre.
1770/--/-- 10 - British explorer James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile.
1770/--/-- 10 - English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints The Blue Boy.
1770/--/-- 10 - English navigator James Cook explores New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.
1770/--/-- 10 - Lord North becomes prime minister of Britain.
1770/--/-- 10 - Louis, the future king of France, marries Marie Antoinette.
1770/--/-- 10 - The British Parliament repeals the Townshend Acts.
1770/--/-- 10 - Thomas Jefferson begins building Monticello, his house in Virginia.
1771/--/-- 11 - Governor Tyron defeats the Regulators (dissident farmers) in North Carolina.
1771/--/-- 11 - Gustav III succeeds his father as king of Sweden.
1772/--/-- 12 - American artist Benjamin West paints The Death of Wolfe.
1772/--/-- 12 - English artist Joshua Reynolds paints a Portrait of Samuel Johnson.
1772/--/-- 12 - Poland is partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria.
1773/--/-- 13 - American colonists throw British tea into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
1773/--/-- 13 - Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith writes the play She Stoops to Conquer.
1773/--/-- 13 - Calcutta is established as the capital of British India.
1773/--/-- 13 - Don Cossack Yemelian Pugachev leads the Peasant's Revolt in Russia.
1773/--/-- 13 - Pope Clement XIV persecutes the Jesuits.
1774/--/-- 14 - Britain passes the Intolerable Acts and closes the port of Boston.
1774/--/-- 14 - British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen.
1774/--/-- 14 - Edmund Burke's speech On American Taxation defends the colony's rights.
1774/--/-- 14 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther.
1774/--/-- 14 - Louis XV dies; he is succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI as king of France.
1774/--/-- 14 - Rhode Island becomes the first state to abolish slavery.
1774/--/-- 14 - The Quebec Act grants religious liberty to Roman Catholics in Canada.
1774/--/-- 14 - The Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji ends the Russo-Turkish War.
1774/--/-- 14 - The first Continental Congress meets and condemns Britain's Intolerable Acts.
1774/--/-- 14 - Warren Hastings is appointed as the first Governor-General of British India.
1775/--/-- 15 - American patriot Patrick Henry states "Give me liberty, or give me death."
1775/--/-- 15 - Americans under Montgomery occupy Montreal, but fail to capture Quebec.
1775/--/-- 15 - British troops and colonial militia clash at Lexington, starting the American Revolution.
1775/--/-- 15 - British troops suffer heavy losses at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1775/--/-- 15 - French dramatist Caron de Beaumarchais writes the Barber of Seville.
1775/--/-- 15 - Paul Revere rides to Lexington to warn of approaching British troops.
1775/--/-- 15 - Revolutionary War Begins
1775/--/-- 15 - The Continental Congress chooses George Washington to head the Continental Army.
1776/--/-- 16 - American General Charles Lee is captured by the British.
1776/--/-- 16 - Ann Lee establishes a Shaker community at Wartervliet in New York.
1776/--/-- 16 - British forces are evacuated from Boston.
1776/--/-- 16 - British forces under Sir Henry Clinton bombard Charleston harbor.
1776/--/-- 16 - Charles Burney publishes the first volume of A General History of Music.
1776/--/-- 16 - David Bushnell's submarine the Turtle makes an abortive attack on British ships.
1776/--/-- 16 - Economist Adam Smith publishes the Wealth of Nations.
1776/--/-- 16 - Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1776/--/-- 16 - Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin organizes the Russian Black Sea fleet.
1776/--/-- 16 - Howe defeats Washington at White Plains; Washington retreats across the Delaware.
1776/--/-- 16 - Nathan Hale is executed by the British as a spy.
1776/--/-- 16 - Swiss banker Jacques Necker is appointed director of the treasury by Louis XVI.
1776/--/-- 16 - The British under Howe defeat Washington on Long Island and occupy New York.
1776/--/-- 16 - The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
1776/--/-- 16 - The Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) literary movement begins in Germany.
1776/--/-- 16 - Thomas Paine publishes his Revolutionary War pamphlet Common Sense.
1776/--/-- 16 - Washington defeats British forces at Trenton and Princeton (1777).
1777/--/-- 17 - Burgoyne capitulates to Horatio Gates' American forces at Saratoga.
1777/--/-- 17 - Christianity is introduced into Korea.
1777/--/-- 17 - French chemist Lavoisier proves that air is composed of oxygen and nitrogen.
1777/--/-- 17 - General Burgoyne captures Ticonderoga and defeats the Americans in Pennsylvania.
1777/--/-- 17 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The School for Scandal is produced.
1777/--/-- 17 - The British under Howe capture Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee.
1777/--/-- 17 - The British under Howe defeat Washington's Continental Army at Brandywine Creek.
1777/--/-- 17 - The Continental Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as the American flag.
1777/--/-- 17 - The Marquis de Lafayette offers his services to the Continental Congress.
1777/--/-- 17 - Washington's Continental Army spends a hard winter at Valley Forge.
1778/--/-- 18 - English novelist Fanny Burney writes Evelina.
1778/--/-- 18 - France enters the American War of Independence in support of the colonies.
1778/--/-- 18 - Franz Anton Mesmer opens a Paris practice to treat patients using magnetism.
1778/--/-- 18 - John Singleton Copley paints Watson and the Shark.
1778/--/-- 18 - La Scala opera house opens in Milan, Italy.
1778/--/-- 18 - Portugal transfers its rights in Equatorial Guinea to Spain.
1778/--/-- 18 - Washington clashes with British forces under Clinton at Monmouth, N.J.
1779/--/-- 19 - American forces under Sullivan campaign against the Iroquois on the New York border.
1779/--/-- 19 - An American squadron led by John Paul Jones attacks British shipping.
1779/--/-- 19 - British explorer James Cook is killed by natives on Hawaii.
1779/--/-- 19 - George Rogers Clark recaptures Vincennes from the British.
1779/--/-- 19 - Samuel Crompton develops his spinning mule for England's cotton industry.
1779/--/-- 19 - Samuel Johnson begins writing The Lives of the Poets
1779/--/-- 19 - Spain declares war on Britain and lays siege to Gibraltar.
1779/--/-- 19 - War breaks out between Dutch settlers and the Xhosas in South Africa.
1780/--/-- 20 - Americans under Horatio Gates are defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, S.C.
1780/--/-- 20 - Andre's capture exposes Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1780/--/-- 20 - English spy John Andre is caught and executed by the Americans.
1780/--/-- 20 - Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter lead guerrilla forces against the British.
1780/--/-- 20 - Luigi Galvani begins experiments on the effect of electricity on nerves and muscles.
1780/--/-- 20 - Maria Theresa dies; Joseph II inherits the crown of Bohemia and Hungary.
1780/--/-- 20 - Peruvian Indians under Tupac Amaru revolt against Spainish rule.
1780/--/-- 20 - The British under Clinton occupy Charleston, S.C. and capture the garrison.
1780/--/-- 20 - The Derby horse race is established in England.
1780/--/-- 20 - The Gordon Riots begin in London against Catholic emancipation.
1780/--/-- 20 - Venetian artist Francesco Guardi paints the Gondola on the Lagoon.
1781/--/-- 21 - American forces under Daniel Morgan defeat the British at the Battle of Cowpens.
1781/--/-- 21 - English astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
1781/--/-- 21 - German philosopher Immanuel Kant publishes his Critique of Pure Reason.
1781/--/-- 21 - The British defeat Hyder Ali the Muslim ruler of Mysore (now Karnataka) in India.
1781/--/-- 21 - The British under Cornwallis surrender to the Americans at Yorktown.
1781/--/-- 21 - The French aid Washington in the siege of Yorktown.
1782/--/-- 22 - Henry Grattan's Patriot party achieves legislative independence for Ireland.
1782/--/-- 22 - Kamehameha I begins a ten-year war for control of Hawaii.
1782/--/-- 22 - Peace talks open in Paris between Britain and America.
1782/--/-- 22 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos writes Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
1782/--/-- 22 - Rama I founds the Chakkri dynasty in Siam (Thailand) with Bangkok as its capital.
1782/--/-- 22 - The design for the Great Seal of the United States is adopted by the Continental Congress.
1782/--/-- 22 - Tippu Sultan succeeds his father as ruler of Mysore (now Karnataka) in India.
1783/--/-- 23 - An earthquake kills 30,000 people at Calabria in Italy.
1783/--/-- 23 - Britain cedes all lands west to Mississippi River
1783/--/-- 23 - Britain recognizes the independence of the United States at the Treaty of Paris.
1783/--/-- 23 - British forces abandon New York, their last stronghold in North America.
1783/--/-- 23 - French scientist Jacques Charles demonstrates the first hydrogen-inflated balloon.
1783/--/-- 23 - Peace Treaty ends Revolutionary War
1783/--/-- 23 - Revolutionary War Ends
1783/--/-- 23 - Russia gains control of the Crimea after three centuries of Turkish rule.
1783/--/-- 23 - The British return Florida to Spain under the terms of the Treaty of Paris.
1783/--/-- 23 - The Montgolfier brothers make the first manned flight in a hot air balloon.
1783/--/-- 23 - William Pitt (the Younger) becomes prime minister of Britain at age 24.
1783/--/-- 23 - William Pitt II becomes English Prime Minister at 24
1784/--/-- 24 - American inventor Oliver Evans develops the first automated flour mill.
1784/--/-- 24 - Ben Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses
1784/--/-- 24 - French dramatist Caron de Beaumarchais writes the Marriage of Figaro.
1784/--/-- 24 - French neoclassical artist Jacques Louis David paints The Oath of Horatii.
1784/--/-- 24 - Grigory Shelekhov founds the first Russian colony in America at Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1784/--/-- 24 - Thomas Jefferson's proposes a ban on slavery in the western territories.
1785/--/-- 25 - English poet William Cowper publishes The Task.
1785/--/-- 25 - French navigator La Perouse sails to the Pacific to find the Northwest Passage.
1785/--/-- 25 - Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight across the English Channel.
1785/--/-- 25 - New York City becomes the temporary capital of the United States.
1785/--/-- 25 - Newspaper publisher John Walter founds The Times of London.
1786/--/-- 26 - Daniel Shays leads a rebellion against the state government in Massachusetts.
1786/--/-- 26 - First ice cream made commercially in NYC
1786/--/-- 26 - Francisco de Goya becomes court painter to Charles III of Spain.
1786/--/-- 26 - Frederick II dies; he is succeeded by his son Frederick William II as king of Prussia.
1786/--/-- 26 - Lord Cornwallis succeeds Warren Hastings as governor-general of India.
1786/--/-- 26 - Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect.
1786/--/-- 26 - Shay's Rebellion, MASS
1786/--/-- 26 - Singapore, Penang and Melaka are ceded to Britain as the Straits Settlements.
1786/--/-- 26 - Swiss climbers make the first ascent of Mount Blanc.
1787/--/-- 27 - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison write the first Federalist essays.
1787/--/-- 27 - American inventor John Fitch launches a steam-powered ferry boat on the Delaware.
1787/--/-- 27 - Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes the opera Don Giovanni.
1787/--/-- 27 - British reformer William Wilberforce declares his aims to abolish slavery.
1787/--/-- 27 - Constitutional Convention
1787/--/-- 27 - Henry Holland builds the first Royal Pavilion at Brighton for the Prince Regent.
1787/--/-- 27 - Royall Tyler's The Contrast becomes the first stage comedy to be produced in the U.S.
1787/--/-- 27 - The Assembly of Notables is summoned by Louis XVI to reform French taxation.
1787/--/-- 27 - The British found Freetown and establish Sierra Leone as a colony for freed slaves.
1787/--/-- 27 - The Constitutional Convention meets in Philadelphia to draw up a U.S. Constitution.
1787/--/-- 27 - The Continental Congress excludes slavery from the Northwest Territory.
1787/--/-- 27 - The Marylebone Cricket Club (M.C.C.) is formed in London, England.
1787/--/-- 27 - Turkey declares war on Russia, beginning a new Russo-Turkish War.
1788/--/-- 28 - "The Federalist" published
1788/--/-- 28 - A crop failure in France leads to bread riots.
1788/--/-- 28 - Austria joins Russia in the war against Turkey.
1788/--/-- 28 - Captain Arthur Phillip founds the first Australian penal colony at Sydney Cove.
1788/--/-- 28 - Constitution ratified
1788/--/-- 28 - French physicist Lagrange publishes his Analytical Mechanics.
1788/--/-- 28 - George III of England has his first attack of mental illness.
1788/--/-- 28 - Mozart composes 3 symphonies: E-flat, G minor and Jupiter in less than 7 weeks.
1788/--/-- 28 - Swedish forces under Gustav III attack Russia.
1788/--/-- 28 - Warren Hastings is impeached for maladministration in India.
1789/--/-- 29 - A National Assembly is declared in France, ending the power of the States-General.
1789/--/-- 29 - Alexander Hamilton becomes the first U.S. secretary of the treasury.
1789/--/-- 29 - Austrian forces capture Belgrade from the Turks.
1789/--/-- 29 - Bill of Rights adopted
1789/--/-- 29 - English poet and artist William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence.
1789/--/-- 29 - French Revolution begins
1789/--/-- 29 - French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon makes busts of Jefferson and Washington.
1789/--/-- 29 - George Washington (Federalist) becomes president of the United States
1789/--/-- 29 - Jeremy Bentham publishes An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
1789/--/-- 29 - Louis XVI is forced to capitulate; France becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1789/--/-- 29 - Mutinous sailors seize H.M.S. Bounty and take refuge on Pitcairn Island.
1789/--/-- 29 - The Federalist party is formed by supporters of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
1789/--/-- 29 - The French National Assembly formulates a Declaration of the Rights of Man.
1789/--/-- 29 - The French Revolution begins with an attack on the Bastille.
1789/--/-- 29 - The Supreme Court of the United States is founded with John Jay as Chief Justice.
1789/--/-- 29 - The Tammany Hall political organization is founded in New York.
1789/--/-- 29 - The first national Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the U.S.
1789/--/-- 29 - Tippu Sultan begins the Third Mysore War against the British in India.
1789/--/-- 29 - Washington is elected as the first U.S. president; John Adams becomes vice-president.
1789/--/-- 29 - Wm. Blake publishes "Songs of Innocence"
1790/--/-- 30 - Leopold II succeeds Joseph II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1790/--/-- 30 - New England captains extend whaling into the Pacific Ocean about this time.
1790/--/-- 30 - Philadelphia replaces New York as the temporary capital of the U.S.
1790/--/-- 30 - Seat of government moves from NYC to Philadelphia
1790/--/-- 30 - Sweden and Russia sign a peace treaty.
1790/--/-- 30 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1790/--/-- 30 - The bolero Spanish dance is introduced about this time.
1790/--/-- 30 - Thomas Jefferson proposes a decimal (metric) system; Congress rejects the suggestion.
1791/--/-- 31 - Austria returns Belgrade to the Turks.
1791/--/-- 31 - Chinese author Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in publishes The Dream of the Red Chamber.
1791/--/-- 31 - Emperor Joseph II ends the war between Austria and Turkey.
1791/--/-- 31 - James Boswell publishes his Life of Samuel Johnson.
1791/--/-- 31 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are captured while trying to leave France.
1791/--/-- 31 - Marquis de Sade writes the novel Justine from his prison cell.
1791/--/-- 31 - Miami Indian chief Little Turtle defeats an American force under General Arthur St. Clair.
1791/--/-- 31 - Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is performed for the first time.
1791/--/-- 31 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant designs the new U.S. capital of Washington, D.C.
1791/--/-- 31 - The Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution) is ratified.
1791/--/-- 31 - The First Bank of the United States is founded.
1791/--/-- 31 - The Province of Quebec is divided into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
1791/--/-- 31 - Thomas Paine publishes The Rights of Man in defense of the French revolution.
1791/--/-- 31 - Thomas Sheraton publishes The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book.
1791/--/-- 31 - Tom Paine "The Rights of Man"
1791/--/-- 31 - Toussaint l'Ouverture leads a slave revolt in Haiti against the French.
1791/--/-- 31 - Vermont becomes the 14th state of the Union.
1792/--/-- 32 - Architect James Hoban wins the competition to design the White House.
1792/--/-- 32 - Charles Bulfinch designs the Connecticut State House (now Hartford City Hall).
1792/--/-- 32 - First U.S. Trade Union of shoemakers
1792/--/-- 32 - France declares war on Austria and Prussia, beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
1792/--/-- 32 - Francis II succeeds Leopold II to become the last Holy Roman Emperor.
1792/--/-- 32 - George Washington is reelected as president.
1792/--/-- 32 - German philosopher Fichte writes an Essay toward a Critique of All Revelations.
1792/--/-- 32 - Gustav III of Sweden is assassinated at a masquerade in Stockholm.
1792/--/-- 32 - Jefferson leads the Democratic-Republican party in opposition to the Federalists.
1792/--/-- 32 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the Union.
1792/--/-- 32 - Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
1792/--/-- 32 - New insurrections begin in France; Louis XVI is imprisoned by the Commune of Paris.
1792/--/-- 32 - Russia and Prussia invade Poland, which is still recovering from the Partition of 1772.
1792/--/-- 32 - Swiss scientist Aime Argand develops a practical oil lamp using a tubular wick.
1792/--/-- 32 - The Columbia River is discovered by Boston trader Robert Gray.
1792/--/-- 32 - The French Republic adopts the guillotine as a uniform method of execution.
1792/--/-- 32 - The French under Dumouriez halt the Prussians and defeat the Austrians at Jemappes.
1792/--/-- 32 - The National Convention proclaims France a Republic.
1792/--/-- 32 - The Treaty of Jasso ends the Russo-Turkish War.
1792/--/-- 32 - The dollar is selected as the U.S. unit of currency.
1792/--/-- 32 - Thomas Paine publishes the Rights of Man and is outlawed for treason in England.
1793/--/-- 33 - Britain, Holland, Spain and Sardinia form a new anti-French coalition.
1793/--/-- 33 - Eli Whitney invents cotton gin; revives dying slave economy of South
1793/--/-- 33 - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
1793/--/-- 33 - France adopts the metric system of measurement.
1793/--/-- 33 - France raises the first national army of conscripts to oppose the Coalition forces.
1793/--/-- 33 - French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette executed
1793/--/-- 33 - French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat is murdered by Charlotte Corday.
1793/--/-- 33 - Fugitive Slave Act
1793/--/-- 33 - George Washington lays the cornerstone for the Capitol building in Washington D.C.
1793/--/-- 33 - J.-L. David paints "The Dead Marat"
1793/--/-- 33 - Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first U.S. balloon flight in Philadelphia.
1793/--/-- 33 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed; the Reign of Terror begins in France.
1793/--/-- 33 - Russia and Prussia seize Polish lands as part of the Second Partition of Poland.
1794/--/-- 34 - Ann Ward Radcliffe publishes her gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho.
1794/--/-- 34 - French engineer Claude Chappe invents the semaphore signaling system.
1794/--/-- 34 - Jay's Treaty settles disputes between Britain and the U.S.
1794/--/-- 34 - Militia under General Henry Lee suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania.
1794/--/-- 34 - Robespierre's execution ends the Reign of Terror in France; the Thermidorian Reaction begins.
1794/--/-- 34 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko leads a revolt of Polish peasants against Russia.
1794/--/-- 34 - The British occupy the French island of Corsica for a two-year period.
1794/--/-- 34 - The Qajar (Kajar) dynasty is founded in Persia (Iran).
1794/--/-- 34 - U.S. forces under Anthony Wayne defeat the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1795/--/-- 35 - American artist Charles Wilson Peale paints the Staircase group.
1795/--/-- 35 - Austrian composer Franz Josef Haydn completes the 12 London symphonies.
1795/--/-- 35 - France claims the island of Hispaniola.
1795/--/-- 35 - Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the insurrectionists in Paris.
1795/--/-- 35 - Prussia and Spain sue for peace with France.
1795/--/-- 35 - Scottish explorer Mungo Park reaches the Gambia and Niger Rivers.
1795/--/-- 35 - Scottish geologist James Hutton publishes his Theory of the Earth.
1795/--/-- 35 - Spain recognizes U.S. claims to West Florida (Mississippi).
1795/--/-- 35 - Stanislaw II abdicates as the last king of Poland.
1795/--/-- 35 - The British capture Cape Province (South Africa) from the Dutch.
1795/--/-- 35 - The Constitution of 1795 establishes a Directory to rule France.
1795/--/-- 35 - The Methodists separate from the Church of England.
1795/--/-- 35 - The final Partition of Poland is made among Russia, Prussia and Austria.
1796/--/-- 36 - English novelist Fanny Burney publishes Camilla.
1796/--/-- 36 - English physician Edward Jenner develops vaccination against smallpox.
1796/--/-- 36 - George Washington declines to serve as president for a third term.
1796/--/-- 36 - Gilbert Stuart paints a portrait of Washington (used later on the dollar bill).
1796/--/-- 36 - John Adams is elected as the 2nd U.S. president; Jefferson becomes vice-president.
1796/--/-- 36 - Napoleon defeats the Austrian and Sardinian armies in Italy.
1796/--/-- 36 - Napoleon marries Josephine, the widow of the vicomte de Beauharnais.
1796/--/-- 36 - Napoleon restores Corsica to French rule.
1796/--/-- 36 - Samuel Hahnemann publishes his findings on homeopathic treatment.
1796/--/-- 36 - Spain sides with France in the war against Britain.
1796/--/-- 36 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the Union.
1796/--/-- 36 - The British seize Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the Dutch.
1797/--/-- 37 - Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) to France.
1797/--/-- 37 - British wood engraver Thomas Bewick publishes A History of British Birds.
1797/--/-- 37 - David Thompson surveys the Mississippi headwaters for the North West Company.
1797/--/-- 37 - John Adams (Federalist) becomes president of the United States
1797/--/-- 37 - Nelson defeats the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent, and the Dutch at Camperdown.
1797/--/-- 37 - The British capture the Spanish colony of Trinidad.
1797/--/-- 37 - The Directory appoint Talleyrand as minister of foreign affairs for France.
1797/--/-- 37 - The Treaty of Campo Formio ends the war of the First Coalition against France.
1797/--/-- 37 - The Venetian Republic is dissolved; Venice is ruled by Austria.
1798/--/-- 38 - Alien and Sedition Act
1798/--/-- 38 - America's first professional author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland.
1798/--/-- 38 - Britain, Austria, Russia and Turkey form a Second Coalition against France.
1798/--/-- 38 - Economist Thomas Malthus publishes An Essay on the Principle of Population.
1798/--/-- 38 - Eli Whitney uses early mass production techniques to manufacture muskets.
1798/--/-- 38 - French armies occupy Rome and invade Switzerland, creating the Helvetic Republic.
1798/--/-- 38 - Haydn composes "The Creation"
1798/--/-- 38 - Lord Wellesley becomes governor-general of India.
1798/--/-- 38 - Napoleon's army invades Egypt and defeats the Mamelukes at the Battle of the Pyramids.
1798/--/-- 38 - The French fleet is destroyed by Nelson at Abukir Bay, cutting off Napoleon's forces in Egypt.
1798/--/-- 38 - The U.S. Congress passes the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts.
1798/--/-- 38 - The XYZ Affair leads to the Quasi War between France and the U.S.
1798/--/-- 38 - The territory of Mississippi becomes part of the United States.
1798/--/-- 38 - William Wordsworth publishes Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
1798/--/-- 38 - Wolfe Tone leads a revolt against the British by the Society of United Irishmen.
1799/--/-- 39 *** Majors, Louisa (Koger) [Daughter] - Born to Majors, John Samuel and Wright, Nancy (Majors) North Carolina
1799/--/-- 39 - A 33,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered at the Lena River in Russia.
1799/--/-- 39 - Britain becomes the first nation to introduce a national income tax.
1799/--/-- 39 - City Hotel, the first American structure designed as a hotel, opens in New York.
1799/--/-- 39 - Humboldt and Bonpland begin their scientific expedition in South American.
1799/--/-- 39 - Napoleon attacks Syria to prevent a Turkish invasion of Egypt, but is defeated at Acre.
1799/--/-- 39 - Napoleon becomes Consul
1799/--/-- 39 - Napoleon returns to France as first consul; the Consulate replaces the Directory.
1799/--/-- 39 - Ranjit Singh establishes a Sikh kingdom in northwest India.
1799/--/-- 39 - Russian forces under Suvorov defeat the French in Italy, but are held at Zurich.
1799/--/-- 39 - The Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering hieroglyphics, is discovered in Egypt.
1799/--/-- 39 - The Russian-American Company is founded to administer the Alaskan fur trade.
1799/--/-- 39 - Tippu Sultan is killed in battle with the British; the Mysore empire is destroyed.
1800/--/-- 40 - Black slave Gabriel leads an abortive uprising near Richmond, Virginia.
1800/--/-- 40 - France regains Louisiana from Spain under the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1800/--/-- 40 - Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invents the first electric battery.
1800/--/-- 40 - Jefferson defeats Adams in the U.S. presidential election, but ties with Burr.
1800/--/-- 40 - Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) arrives in the Ohio River valley around this time.
1800/--/-- 40 - Library of Congress founded
1800/--/-- 40 - Madame de Stael publishes The Influence of Literature Upon Society.
1800/--/-- 40 - Napoleon commissions Cambaceres to develop the Napoleonic Code of law.
1800/--/-- 40 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo.
1800/--/-- 40 - Seat of government moves from Philadelphia to Washington, DC
1800/--/-- 40 - The Library of Congress is founded in Washington D.C.
1800/--/-- 40 - The seat of U.S. government is transferred to Washington, D.C.
1800/--/-- 40 - Volta invents electric battery
1801/--/-- 41 - Alexander I becomes emperor of Russia after the murder of his father Paul I.
1801/--/-- 41 - Barbary pirates begin the Tripolitan War; a U.S. squadron sails to the Mediterranean.
1801/--/-- 41 - Castlereagh secures passage of the Act of Union, which unites Britain and Ireland.
1801/--/-- 41 - Chemists Proust and Berthollet debate the constancy of chemical composition.
1801/--/-- 41 - Jefferson is selected as the 3rd U.S. president; Burr becomes vice-president.
1801/--/-- 41 - Nelson defeats the Danish fleet at Copenhagen.
1801/--/-- 41 - Robert Fulton demonstrates his 3-man submarine the Nautilus.
1801/--/-- 41 - The British defeat Napoleon's army of Egypt at Alexandria.
1801/--/-- 41 - The Peace of Luneville ends the war between France and Austria.
1801/--/-- 41 - The Union Jack becomes the official flag of the United Kingdom.
1801/--/-- 41 - Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1802/--/-- 42 - Alexander von Humboldt climbs Mt. Chimborazo, setting a world height record.
1802/--/-- 42 - American artist Benjamin West paints Death on a Pale Horse.
1802/--/-- 42 - Britain returns the island of Minorca to Spain.
1802/--/-- 42 - Napoleon is created First Consul for life.
1802/--/-- 42 - The French capture Haitian leader Toussaint, but are defeated by Christophe.
1802/--/-- 42 - The Treaty of Amiens brings a temporary halt to the French Revolutionary Wars.
1803/--/-- 43 - Britain declares war on France, beginning the Napoleonic Wars.
1803/--/-- 43 - Britain establishes a new penal colony on Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
1803/--/-- 43 - Dalton devises table of elements
1803/--/-- 43 - English scientist John Dalton describes his atomic theory.
1803/--/-- 43 - France sells Louisiana to the U.S.
1803/--/-- 43 - Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of Australia.
1803/--/-- 43 - Ohio is inaugurated as the l7th state of the Union.
1803/--/-- 43 - Robert Emmet leads an Irish rebellion in Dublin; he is captured and executed.
1804/--/-- 44 *** Wright, Nancy (Majors) [Wife] - Died
1804/--/-- 44 - American politician Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1804/--/-- 44 - Dessalines declares Haitian independence and names himself Emperor Jacques I.
1804/--/-- 44 - English engineer Richard Trevithick builds the first steam locomotive.
1804/--/-- 44 - Francis II assumes the title of emperor of Austria.
1804/--/-- 44 - Fulani leader Usman dan Fodio leads a holy war against the Hausa in Nigeria.
1804/--/-- 44 - Jefferson is reelected as U.S. president; Clinton becomes vice-president.
1804/--/-- 44 - Lewis and Clark expedition encounters Native Americans
1804/--/-- 44 - Lewis and Clarke Expedition
1804/--/-- 44 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark begin exploring the American north-west.
1804/--/-- 44 - Napoleon becomes Emperor
1804/--/-- 44 - Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France.
1804/--/-- 44 - Serbian nationalists revolt against the Turks.
1804/--/-- 44 - Stephen Decatur leads a U.S. navy skirmish into Tripoli harbor.
1805/--/-- 45 - American explorers Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean.
1805/--/-- 45 - Austria sues for peace with France at the Treaty of Pressburg.
1805/--/-- 45 - Britain, Austria, Russia and Sweden form a Third Coalition against France.
1805/--/-- 45 - Muhammad Ali is appointed Pasha (governor) of Egypt by the Ottoman sultan.
1805/--/-- 45 - Nelson defeats the Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar, but is killed during the action.
1805/--/-- 45 - The French defeat Austro-Russian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz.
1805/--/-- 45 - The Shawnee Prophet, brother of Tecumseh, begins planning an Indian uprising.
1806/--/-- 46 - Emperor Jacques I is assassinated; Haiti is divided between Christophe and Petion.
1806/--/-- 46 - Napoleon begins the Continental System, closing European ports to British vessels.
1806/--/-- 46 - Napoleon forces the abdication of Francis II; the Holy Roman Empire is dissolved.
1806/--/-- 46 - Noah Webster publishes "Compendious" Dictionary of the English Language"
1806/--/-- 46 - Prussia joins the Coalition against France, but is defeated at Jena-Auerstadt.
1806/--/-- 46 - Revolutionary leader Francisco de Miranda makes an abortive invasion of Venezuela.
1806/--/-- 46 - The British employ Congreve rockets against a French invasion fleet.
1806/--/-- 46 - U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike is sent west to descend the Red River.
1806/--/-- 46 - William Murdock installs gas lighting in a Manchester cotton mill.
1807/--/-- 47 - Aaron Burr is tried for treason and acquitted.
1807/--/-- 47 - Beethoven completes his Fifth Symphony and begins the Sixth (Pastoral).
1807/--/-- 47 - British chemist Humphry Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium.
1807/--/-- 47 - Congress passes the Embargo Act in response to interference with U.S. shipping.
1807/--/-- 47 - German philosopher Hegel publishes The Phenomenology of the Spirit.
1807/--/-- 47 - Napoleon defeats the Russian armies; Russia and Prussia sue for peace at Tilsit.
1807/--/-- 47 - Portugal refuses to observe the blockade against England; France invades Portugal.
1807/--/-- 47 - Robert Fulton's steamship the Clermont makes its maiden voyage.
1807/--/-- 47 - Sir Humphry Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium
1807/--/-- 47 - The Janissaries depose Sultan Selim III and place Mustafa IV on the Ottoman throne.
1807/--/-- 47 - The U.S. frigate Chesapeake is involved in an incident with a British man-of-war.
1807/--/-- 47 - The slave trade is outlawed throughout the British Empire.
1808/--/-- 48 - Beethoven composes "Fifth Symphony"
1808/--/-- 48 - Congress prohibits importing of African slaves
1808/--/-- 48 - Francisco de Goya paints The Third of May, depicting the cruelty of war.
1808/--/-- 48 - French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac isolates the element boron.
1808/--/-- 48 - German artist Caspar David Friedrich exhibits The Cross in the Mountains.
1808/--/-- 48 - Japanese artist Buncho paints True View of Mount Hiko.
1808/--/-- 48 - John Jacob Astor founds the American Fur Company.
1808/--/-- 48 - Napoleon appoints his brother Joseph as king of Spain.
1808/--/-- 48 - Napoleon occupys Spain
1808/--/-- 48 - The British under Wellington aid Portugal against France in the Peninsular War.
1809/--/-- 49 - Frenchman Nicolas Appert develops the first effective method for canning food.
1809/--/-- 49 - German artists Overbeck and Pforr found the Nazarenes.
1809/--/-- 49 - James Madison (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1809/--/-- 49 - John Stevens' steamboat the Phoenix makes the first ocean-going voyage.
1809/--/-- 49 - Lamarck publishes his theories of evolution in Zoological Philosophy.
1809/--/-- 49 - Metternich draws Austria into the War of the Fifth Coalition against France.
1809/--/-- 49 - Napoleon annexes the Papal States and takes Pope Pius VII prisoner.
1809/--/-- 49 - Russia seizes Finland from Sweden; King Gustav IV Adolf abdicates.
1809/--/-- 49 - The French defeat the Austrians at Wagram; Francis II accepts the Treaty of Schonbrunn.
1810/--/-- 50 - A rebellion against Spain breaks out in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1810/--/-- 50 - American settlers rebel against the Spanish in West Florida.
1810/--/-- 50 - Kamehameha I becomes ruler of Hawaii and establishes the Kamehameha dynasty.
1810/--/-- 50 - Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla leads a rebellion against Spanish rule.
1810/--/-- 50 - Revolutions in Latin America lead to independent nations
1810/--/-- 50 - Separatists movements in Latin America
1810/--/-- 50 - The Krupp arms factory is established at Essen in Germany.
1810/--/-- 50 - Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese army holds the French on the outskirts of Lisbon.
1811/--/-- 51 - Bolivar and Miranda lead the Venezuelan congress in a declaration of independence.
1811/--/-- 51 - First steamboat to sail down Mississippi reaches New Orleans
1811/--/-- 51 - George III becomes mentally unstable; the Prince of Wales assumes power as regent.
1811/--/-- 51 - Henri Christophe declares himself king of northern Haiti.
1811/--/-- 51 - Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro develops the concept known as Avogadro's law.
1811/--/-- 51 - Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility"
1811/--/-- 51 - Jose Artigas raises a force to expel the Spanish from the Banda Oriental (Uruguay).
1811/--/-- 51 - Mexican rebel leader Hidalgo y Costilla is captured and executed.
1811/--/-- 51 - Native Americans defeated in Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory
1811/--/-- 51 - The Luddites riot in England against the mechanization of the textile industry.
1811/--/-- 51 - The building of the National Road, the first U.S. federal highway, begins in Maryland.
1811/--/-- 51 - The first rowing race in the United States is held in New York.
1811/--/-- 51 - The ruling Mameluke aristocracy is massacred in Cairo by Muhammad Ali.
1811/--/-- 51 - William Henry Harrison defeats the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
1812/--/-- 52 - An earthquake destroys Caracas in Venezuela, killing 12,000.
1812/--/-- 52 - English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson illustrates the Tour of Dr. Syntax.
1812/--/-- 52 - General William Hull surrenders Detroit to the British.
1812/--/-- 52 - Georges Cuvier develops his theory of catastrophism through the study of fossils.
1812/--/-- 52 - Grimm's Fairy Tales are published in Germany.
1812/--/-- 52 - John Nash begins the oriental conversion of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
1812/--/-- 52 - Louisiana is inaugurated as the 18th state of the Union.
1812/--/-- 52 - Napoleon defeated in Russia
1812/--/-- 52 - Napoleon invades Russia with 450,000 men.
1812/--/-- 52 - Napoleon's army retreats from Moscow; only 40,000 men reach France.
1812/--/-- 52 - Rebel leader Morelos y Pavon defeats the Mexican royalist forces at Oaxaca.
1812/--/-- 52 - Spanish forces defeat Bolivar and Miranda in Venezuela; Miranda is imprisoned.
1812/--/-- 52 - Stephen Decatur's frigate United States defeats the British frigate Macedonian.
1812/--/-- 52 - Swiss explorer Jakob Burckhardt rediscovers the ancient city of Petra.
1812/--/-- 52 - Territorial and shipping disputes lead to the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1812/--/-- 52 - The French defeat the Russians at Borodino; Napoleon occupies Moscow.
1812/--/-- 52 - The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution defeats 2 British frigates.
1812/--/-- 52 - The ancient city of Petra (now in present-day Jordan) is rediscovered by Johann Burckhardt.
1812/--/-- 52 - The first coal gas generating station is chartered in London to provide gas lighting.
1812/--/-- 52 - War of 1812 Begins
1812/--/-- 52 - Wellington defeats the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.
1813/--/-- 53 - 14 Luddites are hanged at York in England.
1813/--/-- 53 - English novelist Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1813/--/-- 53 - James Wilkinson captures a fort at Mobile, the last Spanish possession in West Florida.
1813/--/-- 53 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Leipzig by the Sixth Coalition.
1813/--/-- 53 - Oliver Hazard Perry's ships destroy the British fleet on Lake Erie.
1813/--/-- 53 - British Indian leader Tecumseh is killed in the Battle of the Thames.
1813/--/-- 53 - Rebel forces invade Venezuela and capture Caracas; Bolivar is declared the Liberator.
1813/--/-- 53 - Robert Southey is made poet laureate of England.
1813/--/-- 53 - Wellington defeats the French in Spain at Vitoria and invades southern France.
1813/--/-- 53 - William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames.
1814/--/-- 54 - Actor Edmund Kean makes his debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
1814/--/-- 54 - Andrew Jackson annihilates the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1814/--/-- 54 - Andrew Jackson crushes Creek Resistance in South
1814/--/-- 54 - British forces burn Washington, D.C., but are repulsed at Fort McHenry.
1814/--/-- 54 - Coalition armies invade France; Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to the island of Elba.
1814/--/-- 54 - French artist Ingres paints The Grand Odalisque.
1814/--/-- 54 - George Stephenson constructs his first steam locomotive.
1814/--/-- 54 - Louis XVIII assumes the French throne.
1814/--/-- 54 - New England states discuss their secession from the Union at the Hartford Convention.
1814/--/-- 54 - Pope Pius VII returns to Rome; the Jesuit order is reestablished.
1814/--/-- 54 - The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1814/--/-- 54 - Treaty of Ghent
1814/--/-- 54 - U.S. forces under Thomas Macdonough destroy the British fleet on Lake Champlain.
1815/--/-- 55 - French Monarchy re-established
1815/--/-- 55 - Napoleon escapes from Elba and marches on Paris during the Hundred Days.
1815/--/-- 55 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo; he is exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
1815/--/-- 55 - The Americans defeat the British at New Orleans before news of peace arrives.
1815/--/-- 55 - The Barbary States sue for peace with the U.S.
1815/--/-- 55 - The Spanish army reconquers Venezuela; Bolivar flees to Jamaica.
1815/--/-- 55 - The Spanish capture and execute the Mexican rebel leader Morelos y Pavon.
1815/--/-- 55 - The first Gurkha regiment is formed by the British army.
1815/--/-- 55 - War of 1812 Ends
1816/--/-- 56 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville is performed in Rome.
1816/--/-- 56 - Indiana is inaugurated as the 19th state of the Union.
1816/--/-- 56 - Maria I of Portugal dies; she is succeeded by John VI who remains in exile in Brazil.
1816/--/-- 56 - Nepal is made a protectorate of British India.
1816/--/-- 56 - Shaka begins establishing the Zulu empire in South Africa.
1816/--/-- 56 - The British Museum buys the Elgin Marbles (smuggled from Greece by Lord Elgin).
1816/--/-- 56 - The United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (Argentina) declare independence.
1817/--/-- 57 - Construction begins on Erie Canal in New York
1817/--/-- 57 - Construction of the Erie Canal begins in New York State.
1817/--/-- 57 - First Seminole War
1817/--/-- 57 - French physician Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
1817/--/-- 57 - James Monroe (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1817/--/-- 57 - Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins defeat the Spanish in Chile.
1817/--/-- 57 - Mississippi is inaugurated as the 20th state of the Union.
1817/--/-- 57 - Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th U.S. president; Tompkins becomes vice-president.
1817/--/-- 57 - Sir Walter Scott writes the Scottish adventure novel Rob Roy.
1818/--/-- 58 - Arthur Schopenhauer publishes The World as Will and Representation.
1818/--/-- 58 - Bernardo O'Higgins becomes the supreme director of independent Chile.
1818/--/-- 58 - Composer Franz Schubert becomes the music teacher to Count Esterhazy's family.
1818/--/-- 58 - English chemist Sir Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
1818/--/-- 58 - Illinois is inaugurated as the 21st state of the Union.
1818/--/-- 58 - John Keats "Endymion"
1818/--/-- 58 - Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley publishes the horror novel Frankenstein.
1818/--/-- 58 - Sir John Ross sails in search of the Northwest Passage.
1818/--/-- 58 - Thomas Love Peacock publishes his comic novel Nightmare Abbey.
1818/--/-- 58 - Treaty with Britain sets 49th parallel
1819/--/-- 59 - Alabama is inaugurated as the 22nd state of the Union.
1819/--/-- 59 - American artist Washington Allston paints Moonlit Landscape.
1819/--/-- 59 - Bolivar defeats the Spanish in Colombia at the Battle of Boyaca.
1819/--/-- 59 - Lord Byron begins his satirical poem Don Juan.
1819/--/-- 59 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles acquires Singapore for the East India Company.
1819/--/-- 59 - Spain surrenders East and West Florida to the U.S. in the Adams-Onis Treaty.
1819/--/-- 59 - The Prado Museum is inaugurated in Madrid.
1819/--/-- 59 - The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
1819/--/-- 59 - Treaty with Spain sets boundaries
1820/--/-- 60 - Carbonari Italian nationalists rebel against the rule of Ferdinand I in Naples.
1820/--/-- 60 - English poet John Keats writes Ode To a Nightingale.
1820/--/-- 60 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Prometheus Unbound.
1820/--/-- 60 - Fed offers land at $1.25 an acre
1820/--/-- 60 - French navigator Dumont d'Urville discovers the Venus de Milo on the island of Melos.
1820/--/-- 60 - French poet Alphonse de Lamartine publishes Meditations Poetiques.
1820/--/-- 60 - Henri Christophe commits suicide; Haiti is united under Jean Pierre Boyer.
1820/--/-- 60 - Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes the virtual dictator of Argentina.
1820/--/-- 60 - Maine is inaugurated as the 23rd state of the Union.
1820/--/-- 60 - Missouri Compromise
1820/--/-- 60 - Percy Bysshe Shelly "Prometheus Unbound"
1820/--/-- 60 - Russian Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen sights land in the Antarctic.
1820/--/-- 60 - Stephen H. Long explores the Rocky Mountain region.
1820/--/-- 60 - The Missouri Compromise admits Missouri to the Union as a slave state.
1820/--/-- 60 - The Prince Regent becomes King George IV on the death of George III.
1820/--/-- 60 - The first American missionaries are admitted to Hawaii.
1820/--/-- 60 - The first free American slaves to be resettled in Africa land in Liberia.
1820/--/-- 60 - U.S. navy hero Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel.
1820/--/-- 60 - Washington Irving publishes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
1821/--/-- 61 - American captain John Davis is the first to land on the continent of Antarctica.
1821/--/-- 61 - Bolivar forms Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama).
1821/--/-- 61 - Brazil annexes the Banda Oriental (Uruguay).
1821/--/-- 61 - English landscape artist John Constable paints The Hay Wain.
1821/--/-- 61 - King John VI is reinstated on the Portuguese throne.
1821/--/-- 61 - Mexican Independence
1821/--/-- 61 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation
1821/--/-- 61 - Missouri Compromise
1821/--/-- 61 - Missouri is inaugurated as the 24th state of the Union.
1821/--/-- 61 - Napoleon dies on Saint Helena.
1821/--/-- 61 - Revolutionary general San Martin enters Lima and declares Peru independent.
1821/--/-- 61 - Revolutionary leader Iturbide declares Mexican independence from Spain.
1821/--/-- 61 - Simon Bolivar defeats the Spanish forces in Venezuela and Ecuador.
1821/--/-- 61 - The Cherokee Indian Sequoya develops the Cherokee written language.
1821/--/-- 61 - The Greek War of Independence begins against Turkey.
1821/--/-- 61 - Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater is published.
1821/07/09 62 - George IV crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Char
1822/--/-- 62 - American surgeon William Beaumont begins his study of the gastric process.
1822/--/-- 62 - Antonio Jose de Sucre defeats the Spanish in Ecuador at the Battle of Pichincha.
1822/--/-- 62 - British statesman Lord Castlereagh commits suicide.
1822/--/-- 62 - Denmark Vesey leads a slave revolt in Charleston; 35 blacks are executed.
1822/--/-- 62 - Dom Pedro, son of Portuguese King John VI, declares Brazil independent.
1822/--/-- 62 - Egyptian leader Muhammad Ali completes the conquest of northern Sudan.
1822/--/-- 62 - French scholar Jean Francois Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics.
1823/--/-- 63 - Charles Babbage begins work on his difference engine, a precursor of the computer.
1823/--/-- 63 - Charles Lamb publishes his Essays of Elia in The London Magazine.
1823/--/-- 63 - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof fabric used in mackintosh raincoats.
1823/--/-- 63 - General Santa Anna leads a coup against Mexican Emperor Agustin I (Iturbide).
1823/--/-- 63 - James Fenimore Cooper publishes the first volume of The Leatherstocking Tales.
1823/--/-- 63 - Japanese artist Hokusai begins a series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
1823/--/-- 63 - Ludwig van Beethoven completes his 9th Symphony.
1823/--/-- 63 - Monroe Doctrine
1823/--/-- 63 - Rugby football originates at Rugby School in England.
1823/--/-- 63 - The Monroe Doctrine warns Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
1824/--/-- 64 - De Sucre defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Ayacucho, liberating Peru.
1824/--/-- 64 - Disputes over the border of India lead to war between Britain and Burma.
1824/--/-- 64 - English poet Lord Byron travels to Greece to aid the patriots but dies of a fever.
1824/--/-- 64 - Jons Jakob Berzelius discovers the element silicon about this time.
1824/--/-- 64 - Sadi Carnot lays the foundations for the second law of thermodynamics.
1824/--/-- 64 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 64 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 64 - The National Gallery is founded in London.
1824/05/14 65 *** Koger, Rachel (Littrell) [Granddaughter] - Born to Koger, Thomas and Majors, Louisa (Koger)
1825/--/-- 65 - Adams is inaugurated as the 6th U.S. president; Calhoun becomes vice-president.
1825/--/-- 65 - American painter Thomas Cole founds the Hudson River School about this time.
1825/--/-- 65 - English literary critic William Hazlitt publishes The Spirit of the Age.
1825/--/-- 65 - John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1825/--/-- 65 - Kappa Alpha, the first social fraternity, is formed at Union College, New York.
1825/--/-- 65 - Mountain man James Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake.
1825/--/-- 65 - Nicholas I is made emperor of Russia; the Decembrists revolt breaks out.
1825/--/-- 65 - The Central American Federation declares its independence from Mexico.
1825/--/-- 65 - Thomas Cole establishes Hudson River school of landscape painting
1825/--/-- 65 - Uruguayan leader Lavalleja precipitates a war between Brazil and Argentina.
1825/--/-- 65 - Welsh reformer Robert Owen founds a community at New Harmony, Indiana.
1826/--/-- 66 - American engineer John Stevens builds the first U.S. steam locomotive.
1826/--/-- 66 - Andre Ampere publishes his Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomenon.
1826/--/-- 66 - British engineer Thomas Telford builds the Menai suspension bridge in Wales.
1826/--/-- 66 - Felix Mendelssohn composes his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at age 17.
1826/--/-- 66 - German poet Heine begins the publication of Reisebilder (Travel Pictures).
1826/--/-- 66 - Ohm's law establishes the relationship of electrical voltage, current and resistance.
1826/--/-- 66 - Revolutionary leader Antonio Jose de Sucre is elected first president of Bolivia.
1827/--/-- 67 - American frontiersman Davy Crockett is elected to Congress.
1827/--/-- 67 - Audubon publishes " Birds of America"
1827/--/-- 67 - Britain, France and Russia demand that Turkey ends the war with Greece.
1827/--/-- 67 - English inventor John Walker introduces the first friction matches.
1827/--/-- 67 - French landscape artist Camille Corot paints the Bridge at Narni.
1827/--/-- 67 - Mountain man Jedediah Smith pioneers an overland route to California.
1827/--/-- 67 - Ornithologist John James Audubon begins the publication of his Birds of America.
1827/--/-- 67 - The Allied navies destroy the Turkish and Egyptian fleet at Navarino in Greece.
1828/--/-- 68 - Composer Frederic Chopin begins concert tours at age 18.
1828/--/-- 68 - Greeks win War of Independence from Ottoman Empire
1828/--/-- 68 - Lavalleja's Thirty-three Immortals achieve Uruguayan independence from Brazil.
1828/--/-- 68 - Noah Webster publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1828/--/-- 68 - Rammohun Roy founds the Brahmo Samaj religious society in India.
1828/--/-- 68 - The Duke of Wellington becomes prime minister of Britain.
1828/--/-- 68 - Virtuoso violin player Niccolo Paganini performs in Vienna.
1829/--/-- 69 - Andrew Jackson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1829/--/-- 69 - Delacroix paints "Death of Sardanapalus"
1829/--/-- 69 - Explorer Charles Sturt charts the Murray River in Australia.
1829/--/-- 69 - Jackson introduces spoils system
1829/--/-- 69 - Jackson is inaugurated as the 7th U.S. president; Calhoun continues as vice-president.
1829/--/-- 69 - Lord Bentinck bans the Indian custom of suttee (the burning of widows).
1829/--/-- 69 - Louis Braille publishes his braille system of writing for the blind.
1829/--/-- 69 - Serbia becomes an autonomous principality under Prince Milos.
1829/--/-- 69 - Sir Robert Peel reorganizes the London police; his policemen are nicknamed Bobbies.
1829/--/-- 69 - Sir Robert Peel sponsers the Catholic Emancipation Act in Britain.
1829/--/-- 69 - The convict-free British colony of Western Australia is founded.
1829/--/-- 69 - The first U.S. encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, is begun.
1830/--/-- 70 - Belgium asserts its independence from the Netherlands.
1830/--/-- 70 - British geologist Charles Lyell begins publishing his Principles of Geology.
1830/--/-- 70 - Fructuoso Rivera is elected as first president of Uruguay.
1830/--/-- 70 - George Catlin begins his paintings of North American Indians about this time.
1830/--/-- 70 - Greece becomes independent from Turkey.
1830/--/-- 70 - Hector Berlioz composes his first major work the Symphonie Fantastique.
1830/--/-- 70 - Indian Removal Act moves eastern Indians west of Mississippi
1830/--/-- 70 - Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church at Fayette, New York.
1830/--/-- 70 - Louis Philippe is chosen as the citizen king of France.
1830/--/-- 70 - Philipon publishes the satirical weekly La Caricature, with contributions by Daumier.
1830/--/-- 70 - Polish rebellions are suppressed by Russia.
1830/--/-- 70 - Simon Bolivar resigns as dictator of Gran Colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- 70 - The Indian Removal Act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to Indian Territory.
1830/--/-- 70 - The July Revolution in France forces the abdication of Charles X.
1830/--/-- 70 - The Women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book is published in the U.S.
1830/--/-- 70 - The locomotive Best Friend of Charleston is in use on the first U.S. railroad.
1830/--/-- 70 - William IV succeeds George IV as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1831/--/-- 71 - British naturalist Charles Darwin sails to South America aboard H.M.S. Beagle.
1831/--/-- 71 - Cyrus McCormick invents a mechanical reaper.
1831/--/-- 71 - Explorer James Clark Ross determines the position of the north magnetic pole.
1831/--/-- 71 - Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini founds the Young Italy movement.
1831/--/-- 71 - Jose Antonio Paez becomes the first president of Venezuela.
1831/--/-- 71 - King Louis Philippe founds the French foreign legion.
1831/--/-- 71 - Leopold I is selected as the first king of Belgium.
1831/--/-- 71 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his theory of electromagnetic induction.
1831/--/-- 71 - Nat Turner leads a black slave revolt in Virginia; he is captured and hanged.
1831/--/-- 71 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin completes his masterpiece Eugene Onegin.
1831/--/-- 71 - The crown colony of British Guiana (Guyana) is formed.
1831/--/-- 71 - Victor Hugo "Hunchback of Notre Dame"
1831/--/-- 71 - William Lloyd Garrison publishes the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.
1832/--/-- 72 - George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) publishes her first novel Indiana.
1832/--/-- 72 - Japanese artist Hiroshige begins work on Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido.
1832/--/-- 72 - Samuel F.B. Morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph
1832/--/-- 72 - The Black Hawk War is the last major Indian conflict east of the Mississippi River.
1832/--/-- 72 - The Democratic party is formally established as a national organization.
1833/--/-- 73 - A Bavarian prince becomes King Otto of Greece.
1833/--/-- 73 - Britain occupies the Falkland Islands.
1833/--/-- 73 - Carl von Clausewitz's classic study of warfare On War is published.
1833/--/-- 73 - General Santa Anna becomes president of Mexico.
1833/--/-- 73 - Isabella II succeeds Ferdinand VII, King of Spain; the Carlist Wars begin.
1833/--/-- 73 - President Jackson withdraws federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1833/--/-- 73 - Santa Anna elected President of Mexico
1833/--/-- 73 - The American Anti-Slavery Society is inaugurated in Philadelphia.
1833/--/-- 73 - Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published in English.
1834/--/-- 74 - A Quadruple Alliance is formed to aid Isabella II of Spain and Maria II of Portugal.
1834/--/-- 74 - American inventor Jacob Perkins patents the first practical ice-making machine.
1834/--/-- 74 - British politician Sir Robert Peel founds the Conservative Party.
1834/--/-- 74 - Indian Territory founded
1834/--/-- 74 - Slavery abolished in British Empire
1834/--/-- 74 - The Carlist Wars resume in Spain.
1834/--/-- 74 - The Hansom cab is designed; it becomes the standard horse-drawn cab in London.
1834/--/-- 74 - The Whig party is formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party.
1834/07/07 75 *** Majors, Louisa (Koger) [Daughter] - Died
1835/--/-- 75 - American settlers begin the Texas Revolution against Mexican rule.
1835/--/-- 75 - Attempts to move the Seminole Indians begins the second Seminole War.
1835/--/-- 75 - Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen publishes Tales Told for Children.
1835/--/-- 75 - French politician Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America.
1835/--/-- 75 - James Gordon Bennett founds the New York Herald newspaper.
1835/--/-- 75 - Second Seminole War in Florida
1836/--/-- 76 - American educator William Holmes McGuffey begins editing his Readers.
1836/--/-- 76 - American inventor Samuel Colt begins manufacturing the first revolver.
1836/--/-- 76 - American literary figure Ralph Waldo Emerson founds the Transcendental Club.
1836/--/-- 76 - Arkansas is inaugurated as the 25th state of the Union.
1836/--/-- 76 - Boer (Afrikaner) settlers begin the Great Trek into the South African interior.
1836/--/-- 76 - Bolivian president Santa Cruz invades Peru and forms the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
1836/--/-- 76 - Charles Barry designs Westminster Palace in the Gothic Revival style.
1836/--/-- 76 - Charles Dickens publishes his first popular work The Pickwick Papers.
1836/--/-- 76 - John C. Calhoun supports the gag rules to prevent Congress debating slavery.
1836/--/-- 76 - Republic of Texas forms
1836/--/-- 76 - Russian author Nikolai Gogol writes his play The Inspector General.
1836/--/-- 76 - Santa Anna's army storms the Alamo in Texas, killing the defenders.
1836/--/-- 76 - Texans under Sam Houston defeat Santa Anna at the San Jacinto River.
1836/--/-- 76 - Texas Revolution
1836/--/-- 76 - The Arc de Triomphe, the world's largest triumphal arch, is completed in Paris.
1837/--/-- 77 - Britain's refusal to grant more home rule in Canada leads to the Rebellions of 1837.
1837/--/-- 77 - British scientist Charles Wheatstone designs an electric telegraph system.
1837/--/-- 77 - Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"
1837/--/-- 77 - Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype method for taking permanent photographs.
1837/--/-- 77 - Martin Van Buren (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1837/--/-- 77 - Michigan is inaugurated as the 26th state of the Union.
1837/--/-- 77 - Mikhail Lermontov writes the Death of a Poet, inspired by the death of Pushkin.
1837/--/-- 77 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is killed in a duel.
1837/--/-- 77 - Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle publishes The French Revolution.
1837/--/-- 77 - Seminole Indian leader Osceola is captured.
1837/--/-- 77 - Van Buren is inaugurated as the 8th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1837/--/-- 77 - William IV dies; Victoria succeeds him as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1837/06/-- 78 - Victoria succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1838/--/-- 78 - Boer (Afrikaner) leader Andries Pretorius defeats the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River.
1838/--/-- 78 - British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner paints the Fighting Temeraire.
1838/--/-- 78 - Charles Wilkes heads a U.S. Navy expedition to Antarctica.
1838/--/-- 78 - Cherokee "Trail of Tears"
1838/--/-- 78 - French philosopher Auguste Comte inaugurates the science of sociology.
1838/--/-- 78 - Iowa Territory organized
1838/--/-- 78 - John Deere develops a steel-tipped plow capable of turning heavy prairie soil.
1838/--/-- 78 - Samuel F.B. Morse develops the Morse code for electric telegraph systems.
1838/--/-- 78 - Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan makes the first pedal-driven bicycle.
1838/01/26 78 *** Majors, John Samuel - Died
1838/06/08 79 - Victoria crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Will
In 1759 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
By 1838 Transportation was by:
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
in addition.
In 1759 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
In 1759 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1759 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1759 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1759 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
By 1838 War Making was by:
Submarine
in addition.
In 1759 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:58:31