census

By megan8

  • Colonel Robert Gibbin Johnson

    Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proves that tomatoes are not poisonous by eating one in public on September 28, 1820.

  • saturday evening post

    The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper on

  • The first boat

    The first boat leaves Buffalo, NY, enroute to New York City via the Erie Canal

  • Thomas jefferson and john adams die

    Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die

  • 1st bank robbery

    The first bank robbery in U.S. history occurs at the City Bank of New York

  • 1st attempted assassination of the president

    The first attempted assassination of a U.S. president (Andrew Jackson) fails when Richard Lawrence's gun misfires

  • 1st circus

    P.T. Barnum begins his first circus tour of the United States

  • U.S. gets Antarctica

    Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming it for the United States

  • 1st telegraph

    Samuel B. Morse sends the message, "What hath God wrought" over the first telegraph line from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD.

  • patents the sewing machine

    Elias Howe patents the sewing machine

  • 13th president

    Millard Fillmore is sworn into office as the 13th President of the United States, following Zachary Taylor's death

  • wins cup in the yacht race

    "America" wins the first America's Cup yacht race

  • slaves

    The U.S. Supreme Court's "Dred Scott Decision" rules that slaves do not become free when transported into a free state.

  • oil well

    Drilling is completed on the first productive commercial oil well in Titusville, PA,

  • The pony express

    The Pony Express leaves Sacramento, CA, for St. Joseph, MO,

  • Russia sells Alaska

    Russia finalizes its sale of Alaska to the U.S.,

  • transcontinental railroad

    Ceremonies at Promontory, UT, celebrate completion of the transcontinental railroad

  • 1st black senator

    Missouri Republican Hiram Rhoades Revels becomes the first black Senator

  • the great chicago fire

    The Great Chicago Fire" begins

  • 1st kentucky durby

    The first Kentucky Derby is run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY,

  • oriential telephone company

    Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company,

  • the first vaudeville theater

    The first Vaudeville theater opens in Boston, MA,

  • first wall street journal published

    The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published