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Richard Trevithick developes high-pressure steam engine
Thomas Jefferson becomes American President -
Napoleon sells Louisiana to America to finance his wars
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Death of Emmanuel Kant (philosopher)
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark start fact-finding voyage across America
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Napoleon makes himself Emperor of France
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British under Lord Horatio Nelson defeat Napoleon at Trafalgar
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1806 German Empire re-organized by Napoleon - end of Holy Roman Empire
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Prussians defeated by Napoleon at Jena
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Slave trade abolished in Britain
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1808 Napoleon takes Spain but loses it again in Peninsula Wars
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Uprising in Germany and Austria - war against Napoleon renewed
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4th President James Madison takes office
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Napoleon's Grand Army destroyed - retreat from Moscow
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1814 Congress of Vienna - after Napoleon's defeat, Russia gains Poland and Finland,
Netherlands acquires Belgium, and Prussia obtains Saxony and Ruhr -
1814 Bourbon monarchy restored with Louis XVIII
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1814 George Stevenson builds first steam locomotive
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British forces burn Washington before negotiating peace for Canada
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Napoleon escapes exile in Elba and re-takes Paris
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British under Duke of Wellington finally defeat Napoleon at Waterloo
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5th President James Monroe elected
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Spain cedes Florida territory to America
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Death of King George III of England
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Brazil becomes nominally independent of Portugal
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1824 Charles X succedes as King of France
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1825 First railway (Stockton to Darligton) opened
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6th president elected John Quincy Adams
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1826 Dutch steamship "Curaçao" first to cross Atlantic
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1829 Catholic Emancipation Act passed in Britain
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7th President Andrew Jackson elected president
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1830 French capture Algeria from Turks
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1830 Belgian revolution establishes independence from Netherlands
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1831 Greece gains independence from Turkey with help from Britain
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1832 First Parliamentary Reform Bill passed
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1834 Carlist Wars in Spain
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1837 Queen Victoria comes to British throne
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1837 Early photography pioneered by Louis Daguerre
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8th President Martin Van Buren
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1838 Trail of Tears - mass relocation of American Indians
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1840 Upper and Lower Canada re-unified
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9th President William Henry Harrison elected
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10th president John Tyler elected
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11th president elected James K Polk
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1846 Great Potato Famine in Ireland
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1848 Texas becomes part of America after wars with Mexico
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1848 California Gold Rush begins
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1849 Self-government established in Canada
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12th president Zachary Taylor elected
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13th president Millard Filmore elected
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14th president of the United States elected
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15th president elected James Buchanan
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1861 Abraham Lincoln becomes President of America
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1861 Start of American Civil War
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1863 Abraham Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address speech
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1865 Abolition of slavery in America
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1865 End of American Civil War
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17th president elected Andrew Johnson
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1866 Swede Alfred Nobel produces dynamite
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1866 Anti-black Ku Klux Klan formed
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1867 America buys Alaska from Russia
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1867 Confederation of Canada
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18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant
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1870 Prussia war against France culminates in Siege of Paris
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1873 First Republic of Spain declared
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1874 Benjamin Disraeli becomes British Prime minister for second time
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1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
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1876 Great Famine in Southern India kills over 5 million
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1876 Dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz begins in Mexico
