Robert Fulton: Timeline

Robert Fulton is born

Nov 14, 1765

Revolutionary War began

Apr 18, 1775

Battle at Lexington and Concord, Massachussetts

Revolutionary War ended

Nov 23, 1783

Treaty of Paris ended the war

Robert Livingston appointed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York

Mar 3, 1784

Exact date unknown
Grand Master: Head of an order of chivalry or Freemasons

John Fitch had the idea to make a steam powered vehicle

Mar 3, 1785

Exact date unknown

John Fitch built the first full-sized vessel

Aug 22, 1787

John Fitch built a second, larger vessell

Jul 3, 1788

Exact date unknown
July 1788

George Washington was elected the first president of the United States

Feb 4, 1789

Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin

Mar 14, 1794

It was not validated until 1807

Robert Fulton's trip to Paris

Jan 23, 1797

He became famous as an inventor, he met Robert Livingston in Paris

Livingston and Fulton are granted a 20 year monopoly on steamboat transportation on the Hudson River by the New York State Legislature

Mar 3, 1798

Exact date unknown

John Fitch died

Jul 2, 1798

Committed suicide

Thomas Jefferson is elected president

Feb 17, 1801

36 House of Representative votes

John Deere was born

Feb 7, 1804

Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston built and tested their first successful steamboat

Aug 17, 1807

The Clermont, however it initially failed

The steamboat, New Orleans, was launched

Mar 3, 1811

Exact date unknown
Fall of 1811

Peter Cooper invents and demonstrates the tied-driven ferry

Mar 3, 1811

Exact date unknown
Demonstrated in New York Harvor

Both Fulton and Livingston became members of the Erie Canal Commission.

Mar 3, 1811

Exact date unknown

Samuel Morse went to London Royal academy of Arts

Mar 3, 1811

Exact date unknown

Robert Fulton dies

Feb 24, 1815

Dies from pneumonia

Samuel Morse started his full time career as a painter

Mar 3, 1815

Exact date unknown

Gibbons vs. Ogden

Mar 3, 1824