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February 11. The electors' votes for president are officially opened and counted in Congress.
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February 17, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson is elected president and Aaron Burr becomes vice president.
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January 18. Jefferson asks Congress for funds for an expedition to explore the Mississippi River and beyond in search of a route to the Pacific. Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's private secretary, begins planning the expedition, which forms late in 1803.
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January 17 Aaron Burr is captured near New Orleans, Louisiana and tried with treason.
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Alabama is atmitted as a slave state. This edition brought the number of free and slave states to equal.
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Major transportation achievement which made New York and New York City ascend commercially.
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Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He is eighty-three years old.
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Jackson was elected. This election was a very harsh one with both representative throwing shade. This was also the election of the corrupt bargain
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The underground railroad was established
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The depression begins with "the 1837 panic".
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The first telegraph message is sent by Samuel Morse from Washington to Baltimore.
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After santa ana is overthrown a war with Mexico sparks
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was published on this day, a book that would have a massive impact in society.
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John Brown raid on Harpers Ferry was to try to initiate a slave army rebellion. This idea of an enslaved population rising up was quickly shot down be the slave owners.
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The man most associated with freeing slaves is elected and put into office.
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The Union last its second Battle at Bull Run
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General Lee surrenders and hands over the war.
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Lincoln is shot and killed in the theatre while attending a show.
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The 15th amendment is ratified giving the right to vote to blacks but now women.
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Jim Crow laws were enacted in Tennessee, causing massive segrigation, Federal troops were sent to Vicksburg to protect blacks.