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The United States electoral congress decided the winner of the election. After many votes in the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Jefferson was declared the winner over Aaron Burr and John Adams
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April 2, 1801: At the Battle of Copenhagen, the British Navy defeated a Danish and Norwegian fleet in action related to the Napoleonic Wars.
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Summer 1802: President Thomas Jefferson read a book by explorer Alexander Mackenzie, who had traveled across Canada to the Pacific Ocean and back. The book helped inspire what would become the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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The United States concluded the purchase of the Louisiana Purchase with France
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its westward voyage by heading up the Missouri River.
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November 15, 1805: The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean.
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Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis, completing their expedition to the Pacific.
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The importation of slaves was prohibited by a law passed by the U.S. Congress, but the law would not take effect until the January 1, 1808.
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January 1, 1808: The law banning importation of slaves into United States took effect.
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Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky
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Margaret Fuller, editor, writer, and feminist icon, was born in Massachusetts.
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Work began on the National Road, the first federal highway.
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British novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.
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The Casselsmans Bridge was built in Maryland as part of the National Road
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On the morning after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key saw the American flag still flying and wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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The volcano at Mt. Tambora in Indonesia erupted in a series of explosions over a span of days. Volcanic ash blown into the atmosphere would affect weather worldwide for a year.
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1816 became known as "The Year Without a Summer" as volcanic ash from the Mt. Tambora volcanic eruption caused lower temperatures throughout the world.
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in 1817 a legendary supernatural creature, The Bell Witch, began terrorizing a family on a Tennessee farm.
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Abolitionist author Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland.
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Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, was born in Germany.
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Harriet Tubman is believed to have been born about 1820. As was the case with many slaves, the date of her birth was thought unimportant and was not recorded.
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Photographer Alexander Gardner was born in Scotland.
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Grant a later Civil War general and president of the United States, was born in Ohio.
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United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
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Thomas Jackson, also called Stonewall, was Confederate general in the Civil War, was born in Virginia
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The Erie Canal was officially opened across New York, from Albany to Buffalo.
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John Adams died in Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson died in Virginia, on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Composer Beethoven died in Austria, at the age of 56.
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Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
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Vanderbilt began operating his own steamboats in New York Harbor.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in the United States
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The first American political convention was held in Maryland
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Andrew Jackson was elected to his second term as president.
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Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite was born in Sweden.
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Andrew Jackson was reported by the U.S. Congress during a disagreement. It was later erased.
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Industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland.
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Former U.S. president James Madison died in Virginia at 85 years old.
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The Panic of 1837, which was huge financial crisis of the 19th century.
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John Wilkes Booth who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, was born in Maryland
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John D. Rockefeller, who invented Standard Oil was born in New York.
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1840 the election was won by William Henry Harrison by his slogan campaign
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President William Henry Harrison died after only one month in office
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1st known sewing machine was patented in Washington DC
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The first major wagon train headed for the northwest on the Oregon Trail with 1000 pioneers
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The first telegram was sent from the U.S. Capitol to Baltimore.
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The U.S. Congress established a date for elections, which is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
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The Donner Party who were American settlers in wagons, became stranded in the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains and resorted to cannibalism to survive.
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Abraham Lincoln took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Former president John Quincy Adams died in the collapsing of the U.S. Capitol building
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the 2nd and final time
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The Compromise of 1850 was introduced in the US Congress.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was published.
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Franklin Pierce sworn in as President of the United States
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act signed into law. The legislation, designed to not have so much tension over slavery, but it really had the opposite effect on slavery
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The tension/violence over slavery will become known as “Bleeding Kansas” which began in the territory of Kansas.
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James Buchanan elected president of the United States.
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7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon, California
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John Brown and abolitionist holds antislavery convention.
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The first oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania to a depth of 69 feet it be exact.
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Annie Oakley, sharpshooter who became famous was born in Ohio.
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Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the president of the United States.
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General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
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President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Abraham Lincoln won a second term as president in the election of 1864.
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The Thirteenth Amendment which states that slavery is abolished in the USA and it was passed by US Congress.
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First train robbery in United States by the Reno brothers.
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Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
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The Erie Railroad War, a fight to control shares of a railroad which was between Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, and Cornelius Vanderbilt which played out in the newspapers
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress
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Can opener or tin opener was just variety of knifes before 1870. In 1870 the final can opener was invented but then it turned out to be unsuccessful. The inventor was William Lyman.
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The Great Chicago Fire happened and burned most of the city of Chicago,
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A stock market crashed sets off the Panic of 1873, one of the great financial panics of the 19th century.
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Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins who became famous as the Siamese Twins, died at the age of 62.
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Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of Ab Lincoln was trailed to be insane by her son, Robert Todd Lincoln.
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In 1876 Melville Bissell invented a carpet sweeper with revolving brushes. Which the brushes picked up the dust and dirt in the house. Everyday use for cleaning.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, known as The Commodore, has died in New York City
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Thomas Edison patented the phonograph
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The first automatic telephone switching system was patented.
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Thomas A. Edison used electric Christmas lights for the first time on the outside of his lab in New Jersey.
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James Garfield was inaugurated as president of the United States.
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Famous outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford
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The Brooklyn Bridge was opened
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Mark Twain published the famous Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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The disassembled Statue of Liberty arrived in New York from a French boat
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The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor.
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Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
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Stone made his prototype by winding strips of paper around a pencil. Then he glued it together. He then experimented with paraffin-coated manila paper.
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The jukebox used paper rolls, metal disks to play a musical selection on the instrument/instruments, enclosed within the device. Invented by Louis Glass and William S Arnold
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Sitting Bull, legendary Sioux leader, died at the age of 59 in South Dakota.
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Carnegie Hall opened in New York City.
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The shredded wheat was the first cereal that was the first. Which was invented in 1892 by Henry Perky in Colorado. He saw a man eating boiled wheat with cream. The idea cooked for a while in Perky’s mind.
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Thomas A. Edison finished building his first motion picture studio.
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The U.S. Congress designated the first Monday of September as a legal holiday, Labor Day
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Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address
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Harriet Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, died in Connecticut at the age of 85.
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William McKinley was inaugurated as president of the United States.
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The United States declared war on Spain.
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Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation
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The first maneuverable balloon was invented in 1900. It was invented by Ferdinand von Zeppelin. The feature of Zeppelin's design was a fabric-covered metal framework and contains a number of individual gasbags.
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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J C Penney opens his first store in Wyoming
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1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose
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Baltimore has a huge fire, over 1,500 buildings destroyed in the fire
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US Forest Service forms
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Willis Carrier recieves a US patent for the world's first air conditioner
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1st Portland Rose festival held in Portland, Oregon
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1st time the ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
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William Howard Taft inaugurated as 27th US President
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The Boy Scouts of America was formed
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Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
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Juliette Gordon Low forms USA girl scouts
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Post offices begins postal deliveries
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1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
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John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields"
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
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US President Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term
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US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight savings time
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Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford the founder of the company, as president of the Ford Motor Company
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1st Black baseball league, called the National Negro Baseball League is formed
