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Boston: Edgar’s Allan Poe birth
U.S: James Madison is inaugurated as the fourth president. -
US: United States Supreme Court decision in which the Supreme Court first ruled a state law unconstitutional.
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England: George III’s period begin and his son takes over rules as a prince regent
US: First Bank of the United States charter expires -
World: Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia in June
U.S: War of 1812: U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion. -
Boston: Battle of Boston Harbor
U.S: Madison 's second inauguration.
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U.S: British capture Washington, DC, and set fire to White House and Capitol.
Treaty of Ghent is signed, officially ending the war.
World: French defeated by allies (Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Portugal) in War of Liberation
Napoleon exiled to Elba
Bourbon king Louis XVIII takes the French throne.
George Stephenson builds the first practical steam locomotive. -
US: Battle of New Orleans
England: Battle of Waterloo
World: Napoleon defeated by Wellington at Waterloo
Congress of Vienna: victorious allies change the map of Europe.
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US: Indiana becomes the 19th state. U.S. presidential election, 1816: James Monroe elected president, Daniel D. Tompkins vice presiden
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U.S: James Monroe is inaugurated as the fifth president.
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US: Illinois becomes the 21st state
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U.S: Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States.
Landmark Supreme Court decision upholds the right of Congress to establish a national bank, a power implied
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US: Missouri Compromise
England: George IV becomes king.
The police force is founded in London. -
England + US: Great Britain formally acknowledges American independence in the Treaty of Paris.
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Boston is incorporated as a city. Colony for freed American slaves established in Liberia.
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No big events take held
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World: Belgian revolution establishes independence from Netherlands. Indian Removal Act.
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US: Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history.
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World: First Parliamentary Reform Bill passed. Death of Sir Walter Scott (poet).
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US: Jackson's second inauguration.
England: Slavery abolished in British Empire. -
England: The houses of parliament are destroyed by fire
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World: Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
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England: Victoria comes to the throne after the death of William IV
US: Martin Van Buren is inaugurated as the eighth president.
Mob kills Elijah P. Lovejoy, Illinois abolitionist publisher. -
England: Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist' is published
People's Charter advocates social and political reform
London-Birmingham line opens and the railway boom starts
U.S: More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians are forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma -
World: First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China, over importation of drugs into China.
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England: Vaccination for the poor is introduced. Victoria marries Albert of Saxe-Coburg. 1840 End of British practice of deporting convicts to Australia
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England: China cedes Hong Kong to Britain
US: William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as the ninth president, He dies one month later and is succeeded in office by his vice president, John Tyler. -
England: Income tax is introduced for the first time during peacetime
World: Use offirst anesthetic -
US: Annexation of Texas
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US: declare war to mexico
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US: War concludes in Mexico.
World: Louis Philippe abdicates; Louis Napoleon elected president of French Republic. -
US: Gold fever is growing. Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore.