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19th Century American History
1801 The United States elects third president Thomas Jefferson.
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1804 Lewis and Clark expeditions go beyond Mississippi
1812 United States goes to war with Britain.
1812 The White House is burned during the War of 1812
1820 The Missouri Compromise
1823 President Monroe issues the Monroe Doctine
1832 Noah Webster publishes History of the United States.
1836 Texas gains her independence from Mexico
1836 U.S. takes the Alamo
1838 Many Eastern Native Americans are forced to move west, Trail of Tears
1840 All of Canada becomes one self-governing union
1846 U.S. goes to war with Mexico
1848 New Mexico and California are relinquished to the U.S.
1849 Beginning of the Gold Rush
1850 Jeans invented in California U.S.
1856 Anti-slavery Republican party first formed in the U.S.
1861 Civil War from 1861-65
1862 The last wars with Native Americans in the U.S.
1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union
1865 Slavery is outlawed in the U.S. by amendment.
1866 Reconstruction of southern states.
1867 Britain makes Canada a domain.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
1877 Thomas Edison invents the gramophone or record player.
1883 Thomas Edison invents the electric lightbulb
1886 American Federation of Labor is organized.
1896 Henry Ford's First Automobile
1898 The Spanish-American war






19th Century European History
1800 Italian scientist invents electric cell.
1801 Reign of Tzar Alexander I of Russia
1804 First oil lamp made in England.
1804 Napolean becomes Emperor of the French.
1806 Napolean brings the Holy Roman Empire to an end
1807 Britain abolishes slave trade.
1808 Peninsular War in Spain.
1812 First tin cans produced in England.
1815 Battle of Waterloo. Final defeat of Napolean.
1815 The miner's safety lamp is invented
1821 Greek War
1825 An Englishman opens the first steam powered railroad.
1827 Frenchman takes first photograph.
1830 Revolution in France
1830 Kingdom of Belgium founded.
1833 British Abolish slavery
1838 Alexandria Victoria is crowned Queen of England
1844 Factory Act of Britain.
1848 Publication of the Communist Manifesto.
1848 Revolution throughout Europe.
1850 Henry Bessemer converts iron to steel.
1851 The Great Exhibition in England.
1853 Crimean War
1861 Tzar Alexander II abolishes serfdom in Russia.
1863 Polish rebel against Russia.
1867 Disraeli's Second Reform Bill in Britian.
1868 Gladstone becomes prime minister.
1871 Unification of Germany.
1874 Disraeli's last government
1876 Queen Victoria crowned Emporess of India by Disraeli.
1881 Tzar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated
1882 Germany, Austria, and Italy form a Triple Alliance
1885 First motor cars sold by Germany's Karl Benz
1895 Film projector invented.
1895 The wireless telegraph is invented by Marconi.






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