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Richard Trevithick developes high-pressure steam engine.
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Thomas Jefferson becomes American President
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A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal
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Napoleon sells Louisiana to America to finance his wars
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Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded by a bullet to the head in a duel with his political adversary Aaron Burr
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Lewis and Clark make their way through the Rockies and reach the Pacific
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Lewis and Clark get back to St Louis with a wealth of information about the unopened west of the continent.
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Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America
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US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river
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Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain
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An American army attacks and destroys Tecumseh's base at Prophetstown.
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American forces push north into Canada and enter York (the modern Toronto), burning the parliament buildings and archives
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American warships win a victory over the British on Lake Erie, strengthening the US presence in the Great Lakes.
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The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA
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US president James Monroe warns European nations against interfering in America, in the policy which becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine.
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The Republican party in the USA splits into National Republicans and Democratic Republicans
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The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers.
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The opponents of US president Andrew Jackson, mockingly called King Andrew, become known as the Whig party
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Sam Houston destroys a Mexican army near the San Jacinto river, completing the seizure of Texas from Mexico
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US inventor Samuel Morse gives the first public demonstration, in Philadelphia, of his electric telegraph
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Five American Indian tribes are forcibly escorted to a new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi in the process that becomes known as the Great Removal
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Joseph Smith and the Mormons create the thriving town of Nauvoo in Illinois on the Mississippi
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The Irish, fleeing from the potato famine at home, become the main group of immigrants to the USA.
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Texas becomes part of America after wars with Mexico
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Abraham Lincoln becomes President of America
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End of American Civil War
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