US Timeline 1839-1848

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  • Michigan became the 26th state

    Michigan became the 26th state

  • John Quincy Adams argues rights of Amistad slaves

    John Quincy Adams argues rights of Amistad slaves

    John Quincy Adams argues for the right to free slaves on the Spanish slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court.
  • Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Fall of the House of Usher

    Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Fall of the House of Usher

  • Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

    Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

  • US population was 17,069,453.

    US population was 17,069,453.

  • William Harrison Inaugurated

    William Harrison Inaugurated

    William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as 9th President. After a very long inauguration ceromony, the 68-year-old Harrison contracts pneumonia and dies on April 4. Vice-President John Tyler becomes the 10th US President.
  • First detective story published

    First detective story published

    Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in Rue Morgue is considered to be the first detective story.
  • First Morse Code

    First Morse Code

    First Morse code communication was sent on a line built between Boston and Delaware. It read, “What hath God wrought”
  • Potato Famine leads to Irish immigrants

    Potato Famine leads to Irish immigrants

    A large number of Irish immigrants came to America because of a potato famine in Ireland.
  • A game called baseball?

    A game called baseball?

    Alexander Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers create the rules of baseball.
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    President Polk recommends to Congress that the US should aggressively expand west.
  • First conflict of Mexican American War

    First conflict of Mexican American War

    The first conflict of the Mexican American War occurs at Palo Alto, Texas. Five days later, Congress declared war on Mexico.
  • American Medical Association created

    American Medical Association created

    The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    Gold was discovered in California at Sutter’s Mill, starting the Gold Rush.