Master Timeline

Timeline created by kmurphy90 in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1790	Prov shipping surpasses Newport's	Sterngass
01/01/1820	First hotel in Newport: Francis Brinley House, later the Bellevue	Sterngass: sometime in 1820s?
01/01/1825	The Fashionable Tour published	Weiss
01/01/1831	Tourism picked up after new hotel	Weiss. What hotel?
01/01/1836	"Quite a swarm of strangers" in Newport	Sterngass
12/14/1844	Ocean House built	Sterngass: Milestone, 300 guest CAP
01/01/1846	Bay State Steamboat Co.	TIME Mag article. Precursor of the Old Colony/Fall River Line (steamboat)
01/01/1847	Regular steamboat service from NY to Newport in 1847	Weiss
01/01/1859	Newport: "celebrated watering place"	Weiss
07/01/1863	Fall River RR merged with Newport and Fall River RR to make Old Colony and Newport RR	Wikipedia
02/05/1864	RR from Newport to Fall River completed	Old Colony RR Wikipedia
01/01/1870	Private summer homes surpass hotels	Weiss
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
12/10/1775 to 10/25/1779	British occupation during Revolution	Wikipedia?
08/10/1780 to 01/01/1781	Rochambeau and other French troops post up in Newport	Wiki?
01/01/1807 to 01/01/1812	Embargo and Nonintercourse Acts	Restricted American ships from engaging in foreign trade between the years of 1807 and 1812. The Acts were diplomatic responses by presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison designed to protect American interests and avoid war. They failed, and helped cause the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain. -- Wikipedia
01/01/1815 to 01/01/1828	No new construction in Newport	Sterngass
04/12/1861 to 04/09/1865	CIVIL WAR