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was a naval engagement fought between British and French-led forces on October 21, 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. It took place west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar -
took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century -
Banking Crisis of 1819 were economic crises in the United States of America principally caused by the end of years of warfare between France and Great Britain -
Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent John Quincy Adams in a landslide. -
led to widespread unemployment, economic depression, devaluing of cotton and paper money, and bank and financial failures -
marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. -
War is declared between Great Britain and Persia -
After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, 11 Southern states seceded (or withdrew) from the Union and set up an independent government--the Confederate States of America. -
The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruin. -
Lasting from September 1873 until 1878/9, the economic downturn then became known as the Long Depression after the stock market crash of 1929.