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New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade
Events · 1762
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the first meeting of the Confederation Congress
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USS Monitor battles CSS Virginia
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
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German immigrant Rudolph Wurlitzer starts his music company in Cincinnati
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the Adams-Onís Treaty (the Florida Purchase) between US & Spain
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Noah Webster's Bible
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- 1700s · 50
Liberty Bell cast
Events · 1752
the British Empire adopts the Gregorian Calendar, skipping 11 days from 3 Sept to 13 Sept
Events · 1752
French and Indian War
Events · 1754
the Albany Congress
Events · 1754
the great Lisbon earthquake destroys most of Portugal's capital (100,000+ d.)
Events · 1755
New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade
Events · 1762
the Stamp Act Congress
Events · 1765
Encyclopædia Britannica first published
Events · 1768
lightning bolt/gunpowder explosion in Brescia (Italy), 3,000 d
Events · 1769
the Boston Massacre
Events · 1770
Brit John Newton, slave ship captain, writes his poem "Amazing Grace"
Events · 1772
the Boston Tea Party
Events · 1773
the First Continental Congress
Events · 1774
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
Events · 1775
Paul Revere's Ride (actual event, not poem)
Events · 1775
Benjamin Franklin appointed 1st postmaster general
Events · 1775
the first meeting of the Second Continental Congress
Events · 1775
Declaration of Independence signed
Events · 1776
Declaration of Independence
Events · 1776
New York City (occupied by Gen. Howe)
Events · 1776
The Battle of Trenton
Events · 1776
The Battles of Saratoga
Events · 1777
the adoption of the flag by resolution of the 2nd Continental Congress
Events · 1777
The Battle of Yorktown
Events · 1781
the Congress of the Confederation, or Confederation Congress
Events · 1781
the first meeting of the Confederation Congress
Events · 1781
Constitution
Events · 1787
Delaware
Events · 1787
New Jersey
Events · 1787
Pennsylvania
Events · 1787
Connecticut
Events · 1788
Georgia
Events · 1788
Maryland
Events · 1788
Massachusetts
Events · 1788
New Hamphire
Events · 1788
New York
Events · 1788
South Carolina
Events · 1788
Virginia
Events · 1788
The mutiny onboard the HMS Bounty
Events · 1789
Bill of Rights
Events · 1789
North Carolina
Events · 1789
the Storming of the Bastille [civil insurgents vs. Royal government]
Events · 1789
Rhode Island
Events · 1790
Vermont
Events · 1791
United States Bill of Rights ratified
Events · 1791
Court-Martial Trials of Bounty crew
Events · 1792
Kentucky
Events · 1792
Tennessee
Events · 1796
Irish Rebellion fails to overthrow British rule in Ireland
Events · 1798
British PM William Pitt the Younger institutes tax to pay for weapons and equipment
Events · 1798
- 1800s · 134
HMS Invincible (~400 d, 196 rescued)
Events · 1801
the 'Louisiana Purchase'
Events · 1803
Ohio
Events · 1803
the Louisiana Purchase by the US from the French First Republic for $15M
Events · 1803
The Battle of Trafalgar
Events · 1805
Battle of Trafalgar
Events · 1805
Parliament passes bill that abolishes the slave trade in the British Empire
Events · 1807
Anglo-American War
Events · 1812
Moscow, to deny shelter to Napoleon
Events · 1812
Louisiana
Events · 1812
Washington D.C. (White House & Capital)
Events · 1814
Battle of Waterloo
Events · 1815
Mt. Tambora (>71,000 d)
Events · 1815
Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to St Helena
Events · 1815
Indiana
Events · 1816
Mississippi
Events · 1817
Illinois
Events · 1818
Alabama
Events · 1819
the Adams-Onís Treaty (the Florida Purchase) between US & Spain
Events · 1819
Maine
Events · 1820
American whaling ship Essex attacked and sunk by a sperm whale
Events · 1820
Missouri
Events · 1821
Monroe Doctrine
Events · 1823
Scotland Yard
Events · 1829
Postmaster general becomes part of Presidental Cabinet
Events · 1829
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints formed
Events · 1830
the 'Trail of Tears' or the forced displacement of 60,000 native Americans
Events · 1830
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is founded by Joseph Smith
Events · 1830
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
Events · 1831
John Bull (British-built steam locomotive) operates for the first time
Events · 1831
2nd voyage survey expedition of HMS Beagle includes Charles Darwin
Events · 1831
Noah Webster's Bible
Events · 1833
United Kingdom (mainland)
Events · 1834
Sir Henry Rawlinson began studying the Behistun Inscription in earnest
Events · 1835
Texas Rangers
Events · 1835
Arkansas
Events · 1836
Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio
Events · 1836
the Battle of the Alamo
Events · 1836
Michigan
Events · 1837
Spain (mainland)
Events · 1837
the Pyramid of the Magician ruins were rediscovered
Events · 1838
The mutiny onboard the La Amistad
Events · 1839
diethyl ether
Events · 1842
Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message
Events · 1844
nitrous oxide
Events · 1844
Florida
Events · 1845
Texas
Events · 1845
Newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coins the term "manifest destiny"
Events · 1845
Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living
Events · 1845
Iowa
Events · 1846
the Oregon Treaty, the boundary dispute between US & UK
Events · 1846
chloroform
Events · 1847
Wisconsin
Events · 1848
the California Gold Rush
Events · 1848
the Mexican Cession ceded land to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Events · 1848
American railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage survives head being impelled by a tamping iron
Events · 1848
France (post Bonaparte)
Events · 1848
David Rice Atchison, purported US president for a day
Events · 1849
California
Events · 1850
German-American artist Emanuel Leutze paints famous Washington Crossing the Delaware
Events · 1851
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
Events · 1852
The Crimean War
Events · 1853
German immigrant Rudolph Wurlitzer starts his music company in Cincinnati
Events · 1853
the Gadsden Purchase/the Treaty of Mesilla between US & Mexico
Events · 1853
Minnesota
Events · 1858
street letter boxes installed
Events · 1858
Oregon
Events · 1859
Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
Events · 1859
Pony Express mail service active
Events · 1860
Pony Express express mail service begins
Events · 1860
Pony Express started
Events · 1860
Pony Express mail service ends
Events · 1861
transcontinental telegraph completed
Events · 1861
Battle of Bull Run (1st battle)
Events · 1861
Kansas
Events · 1861
The American Civil War
Events · 1861
USS Monitor battles CSS Virginia
Events · 1862
railway mail service begins experimentally
Events · 1862
Lincoln says to HBS, "so you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war"
Events · 1862
West Virginia
Events · 1863
the Siege of Vicksburg [USA vs. CSA]
Events · 1863
Atlanta by Gen. Sherman
Events · 1864
Nevada
Events · 1864
Abraham Lincoln
Events · 1865
United States
Events · 1865
Edward Roberts patents "oil well torpedo"
Events · 1865
the Alaska Purchase from the Russian Empire by the US for $7.2M
Events · 1867
Government of Canada established
Events · 1867
first use of a traffic light, red and green lights
Events · 1868
transcontinental railroad completed at Promontory Summit
Events · 1869
John Henry's duel against the drilling machine
Events · 1870
Chicago
Events · 1871
Henry Stanley finds David Livingstone in central Africa
Events · 1871
Great Boston Fire destroys 800 buildings, 30 d.
Events · 1872
Battle of Little Big Horn
Events · 1876
Colorado
Events · 1876
the origins of the Betsy Ross myth
Events · 1876
the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Events · 1876
George Wright becomes the first batter in National League history
Events · 1876
'Great Railroad Strike' resolved using U.S. Army against the railroad workers
Events · 1877
domestic mail divided into four classes
Events · 1879
James Garfield
Events · 1881
the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Events · 1881
Trial of Charles J. Guiteau for the assassination of US president James A. Garfield
Events · 1881
Kraktoa (>36,000 d)
Events · 1883
Brooklyn Bridge completed & opened
Events · 1883
Oxford English Dictionary began publication [Vol. 1, A & B]
Events · 1884
first Fabergé egg crafted for Alexander III
Events · 1885
special delivery begins
Events · 1885
Sitting Bull signs a four-month contract with Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Events · 1885
Talgai Skull discovered
Events · 1886
Punxsutawney Phil tradition begins
Events · 1886
Asa Griggs Candler acquires control of the Coca-Cola recipe
Events · 1888
Johnstown Flood, USA (~2,200 d)
Events · 1889
Montana
Events · 1889
Washington
Events · 1889
South Dakota
Events · 1889
North Dakota
Events · 1889
Idaho
Events · 1890
Wyoming
Events · 1890
Armenian genocide, 1,200,000 d.
Events · 1890
The Rose Parade (or Tournament of Roses Parade or the Tournament of Roses)
Events · 1890
Assassination of David Hennessy/New Orleans lynchings
Events · 1891
the Sierra Club is founded
Events · 1892
Trial of Lizzie Borden for the double murder of her father and stepmother
Events · 1893
first US peacetime income tax was passed via the Revenue Act or the Wilson-Gorman tariff
Events · 1894
The Three Trails of Oscar Wilde
Events · 1895
Mark Twain accepts offer from Robert S. Smythe and embarks on a year-long around-the-world lecture tour
Events · 1895
J. W. Westcott II, a post office boat with its own zip code, begins delivering mail to ships
Events · 1895
Klondike Gold Rush
Events · 1896
Crush, TX staged train crash, 3 d
Events · 1896
Utah
Events · 1896
Battle of San Juan Hill
Events · 1898
Nome Gold Rush
Events · 1899
