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French engineer Sadi Carnot describes a perfect engine: one in which all energy input is converted to energy output. The ideas in his Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire will influence the formulation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics—which shows that such a perfect engine is an impossibility.
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Brazil was reconnized by the U.S.
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Ludwig van Beethoven composes his Ninth Symphony.
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House of Representetives begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams.Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president
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John Quincy Adams wins Corrupt Bargain presidential election
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Erie Canal Completed
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French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce makes the first photographic image in history.
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a protective tariff passed by the U.S. Congress that came to be known as the "Tariff of Abominations" to its Southern detractors because of the effects it had on the Antebellum Southern economy; it was the highest tariff in U.S. peacetime and its goal was to protect industry in the northern United States from competing European goods by increasing the prices of European products.
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French troops invade Algeria, and at home, a revolution forces the abdication of Charles V in favor of Louis Philippe, the "Citizen King."
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Indian Removal Act signed in 1830, provided for the immediate resettlement of native americans living in mississippi, alabama, florida, georgia, etc such as Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole
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Oregon Trail is beginning and seeking for Oregon Settlers. The first major wagon train to the northwest departs from Elm Grove, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail. A thousand pioneers head west
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this mass slave uprising resulted in the deaths of over 50 white men, women, and children - cautioned the world about the problems of freeing slaves
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Young British naturalist Charles Darwin sets sail from England aboard the H.M.S. Beagle bound for South America, where he will make discoveries leading to the formation of his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
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Whig Party formed Jackson vetoes re-chartering of the 2nd National Bank, which creates the Whig party. Jackson supporters renewed the Jefferson Democratic Party
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Andrew Jackson takes oath for second term of Presidency
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British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving freedom to all slaves throughout the British Empire.
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American inventor Cyrus H. McCormick patents his reaper, a horse-drawn machine for harvesting wheat.
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American inventor and painter American inventor and painter Samuel F. B. Morse constructs an experimental version of his telegraphconstructs an experimental version of his telegraph
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In Texas's war of independence with Mexico, the defenders of the Alamo, among them Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, are killed in a siege. on April 21, Texas wins the Battle of San Jacinto and secures its independence.
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Martin Van Buren takes oath and becomes president.
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Ecnomic downturn caused by loose lending practices of state banks' and overspeculation. Martin Van Buren spent most of his time in office attempting to stablize and lessen the economic situation
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Coronation of Queen Victoria in England.
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The forced movement of Cherokee Indians in 1838 to the land west of Mississippi River forced by the U.S. Army. it lasted 116 days and was 1,000 miles long, many Indians died
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Slaves take over a ship known as La Amistad and land in New York. After much controversy, slaves are able to return to their homeland and Spaniards are placed under arrest for illegal participation in the slave trade.
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William Henry Harrison takes office and becomes the 9th president of the United States and passes away exactly one month later.
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John Tyler is elected and becomes the 10th President of the United States after William Henry Harrison
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Publication of The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe.
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1846-1848 , Mexico broke relations with USA after annexation of Texas. Also, dispute over boundary of Texas and Americans were interested in New Mexico and California, as well. Polk sent Slidell to try and buy off the Mexicans... they wouldn't budge.Polk ordered Taylor to move army across Nueces River to the Rio Grande. They stayed stationed for a while,finally Mexicans crossed the river and attacked and started the war. America got New Mexico and California and it end
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After the Potatoe Famine in Ireland, many people fleed to America.
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland. Over the next eight years, she will undertake at least 20 secret missions into Maryland and Virginia to free more than 300 slaves through the so-called Underground Railroad.
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British inventor Henry Bessemer introduces his process for producing steel cheaply and efficiently.
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South Carolina secedes from the Union.
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