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The Missouri Compromise was passed. This allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state. Maine was admitted as a free state.
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Emperor Napoleon I died in exile. He was placed in exile on the island of St. Helena for 5 years before his death in 1821.
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First public High School opens in Boston, Massachusetts. It is called English High School today, and is located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
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Brazil gains its independence from Portugal. This day is now a National Holiday in Brazil. It is similar to the United States's Fourth of July.
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James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine." This document declares that nations in the Western Hemisphere must be left alone by all nations or else.
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First steam locomotive construction workshop in New Castle, England.
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Congress passes the Indian Removal Act. President Andrew Jackson forced the Native Americans west and many of them died.
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American Temperance Society formed in Boston, Massachusetts. The Temperance Society was a group who pledged to abstain from drinking alcoholic beverages. Within 10 years, 1.5 million pledged to abstain from alcohol use.
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Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II and an army of around 14,000 wiped out the Janissary.
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FIrst Mardi Gras celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mardi Gras is a pre-Lenten celebration dating back to the Romans. It also has been celebrated in Paris since the Middle Ages.
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The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published. It was published in America on April 21, 1828.
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This act was passed to stop an uprising in Ireland. It removed many of the substantial restrictions on Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom. Catholics could now sit on Parliament.
