1817
March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America.
July 12 - Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, Born (d. 1862)
July 18 - Jane Austen, English novelist, Died (b. 1775)
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1817
March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America.
July 12 - Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, Born (d. 1862)
July 18 - Jane Austen, English novelist, Died (b. 1775)
1816
The feared Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat begins in January.
Known as the "Year Without A Summer" or "Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death" in the northern hemisphere due to global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815.
April 21 - Birth of Charlotte Brontë, British novelist
June 19 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Hudson Bay and Northwest fur-trading companies, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
July 9 - Argentina gains independence from Spain
November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election.
December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.
1815
War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans
February 3 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland...love cheese!!!
March 20 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
April 5-April 12 - Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies blows its top during an eruption event. Upwards of 92,000 are killed during this eruption. The event is the cause of 1816 becoming known as the Year Without a Summer.
June 18 - Battle of Waterloo ends the Napoleonic wars.
unknown date: First-class cricket begins :confused:
1814 - September 14
Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1813
Jan 10 - 14 Luddites executed at York
May 2 - battle at Lutzen
June 21 - battle of Vittoria
Oct 7 - France invaded
Oct 16-18 - Napoleon defeated at Leipsic
May 22 - Wagner born in Leipsic
Oct 9 - Verdi born
Kierkegaard born
Charles Harpur (Australian poet) born
Lagrange (greatest mathematician of C18th) dies
1812
February 7 - The last New Madrid Earthquake strikes New Madrid, Missouri, with an estimated moment magnitude of over 8. It has been said that it made the Mississippi River flow backwards for a time!
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Sixth Coalition/Patriotic War of 1812
War of 1812 (1812-1815)
1811 - birth of Franz Liszt!
1810
January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled
March 11 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
April 27 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
June 8 - Birth of Robert Schumann, German composer
July 20 - Colombia declares independence from Spain
September 16 - Dieciséis de septiembre, the Mexican War of Independence of the Republic of Mexico.
unknown date: King George III of the United Kingdom recognized as insane.
1809
Sir John Moore died at Corunna
Feb 12 - Abe Lincoln born, in a log cabin that he'd built himself.
Nice joke, Wiff! I remember when that one went around! :)
1808
January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned; this is also the earliest day under the United States Constitution that an amendment could be made restricting slavery. (How the Mighty have fallen! Why didn't they do that in the first place, pray tell?)
this is also the earliest day under the United States Constitution that an amendment could be made restricting slavery. (How the Mighty have fallen! Why didn't they do that in the first place, pray tell?)
Maybe because most of the Founding Fathers owned slaves?
Oh, while I'm here -
1807 -
Slave Trade abolished in the British Empire
Louis Agassiz born
H.W. Longfellow born
Constitution of Hayti - (article 2 "Slavery in Hayti is forever abolished")
And the Napoleonic War was still in full swing in Europe.
1806
No doubt you are quite correct, Wiff, my friend. Quite correct indeed.
Back to the year in question:
March 23 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their journey home.
March 29 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
May 30 - Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. (Another sterling founding father!)
1805
May 26 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France crowns himself King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy
June 4 - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London
October 21 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot
1804
Convict rebellion in Australia ends at Battle of Vinegar Hill, near Sydney.
White Lotus rebellion ends in China
Kant died - or appeared to die
Pierre Méchain, astronomer and cartographer, died
Nat. Hawthorne born
Benjamin Disraeli born
1803
January 4 - William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat".
January 30 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
February 21 - Edward Despard and six others are hanged, drawn and quartered for plotting to assassinate king George III and to destroy the Bank of England
February 24 - The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review.
March 1 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.
April 30 - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
May 18 - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France after France refused to withdraw from Dutch territory.
July 4 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. (A habit Goverment still keep-- do now, tell 'em later!)
July 5 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
July 23 - Robert Emmet's uprising in Ireland begins
July 26 - The wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon is opened, being the first public railway line of the world.
August 3 – British begin Second Anglo-Maratha War against Sindhia of Gwalior
September 20 - Irish rebel Robert Emmet is executed
September 23 - The Battle of Assaye in India – British-lead troops defeat Maratha forces
October 20 - Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, doubling the size of the United States.
November 30 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France had transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).
[Now let's see if I got this right. Jan. the deal is compleated. April, purchase actually made. July 4, purchase is publically announced. October, Congress, at least the Senate, finially ratifies the purchase. Nov. France actually gains possession of the land it has already sold to the USA. Anyone else see anything wrong with this picture? ]:confused: :rolleyes:
Bureaucracy at worK? :p
1802: Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia, better known as the "Moonlight Sonata," is performed for the first time...
1802
March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
April 26 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for life.
The estimated world population reached 1 billion people.
1801. On November 10th, Kentucky outlaws dueling. :)
1800
May 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy.
June 14 - Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.
June 2 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
June 27 - Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
Invention of the voltaic pile by Alessandro Volta: the first chemical battery.
1799 - November 9
Napoleon overthrows the French Directory
1798
July 11 - The United States Marine Corps was (re-?)established.
July 14 - The Alien and Sedition Acts become United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government
1797
February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.
February 22 - The Last invasion of Britain begins. French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales.
March 4 - John Adams succeeds George Washington as the President of the United States of America.
May 12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice, ending the 1070 years of independence of the city. The last doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, steps down.
August 30 - Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (died 1851
October 21 - December 17 - Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon.
Joseph Haydn composes the music to "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," the tune of which also became the music to the German national anthem, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles"
November 29 - Death of Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (born 1723)
1796
January 16 - First Dutch (and general) elections for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. The next Dutch general elections were in 1917.
February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
February 9 - The Qianlong Emperor abdicates at age 84 to make way for his son, the Jiaqing Emperor.
March 9 - Widow Joséphine de Beauharnais marries General Napoléon Bonaparte.
March 30 - Carl Gauss obtained conditions for the constructibility by ruler and compass of regular polygons and was able to announce that the regular 17-gon was constructible by ruler and compasses.
April 2 - The only night of would-be Shakespearean play of Vortigern and Rowena (actually written by William Henry Ireland) ends into audience's laughter.
April 27 - The Case of the Lyons Mail. During the night from the 27th to the 28th of April, five highwaymen attack the mail between Paris and Lyon, kill the postmen, and steal the funds sent to the armies in Italy.
May 10 - First Coalition: Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
May 14 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
May 15 - Napoleon's troops take Milan.
June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
July 10 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
July 11 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
September 8 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
September 17 - U.S. President George Washington issues his Farewell Address, which warns against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.
November: John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson in the U.S. presidential election
November 4 - The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Tripoli (see also 1797).
November 6 Old Style - Catherine II of Russia called Catherine "The Great" dies and is succeeded by her son Paul I of Russia. His wife Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg becomes Empress consort.
November 17 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
December 7 - U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president
1795
James Boswell dies
Thomas Linley, comoser, dies
Keats born
Duchy of Courland (Latvia) asorbed into Russia.
1794 - February 4
The French Republic abolishes slavery
1793
America's first circus started by John Bill Rickets
Louis XVI of France executed
Thousands died in yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
Nikolai Lobachevsky (Russian mathematician, pioneers of non-Euclidean geometry) born
Felicia Hemans born (you know - "The boy stood on the burning deck...")
Lord Macartney reached court of China - to be told that China had no need of anything that the West could offer.
1792 - August 4
British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born
1791
January 25 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
March 2 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
March 4 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
May 3 - The Polish Sejm (Parliament) proclaims the Constitution of third May, the first modern codified constitution in Europe.
July 14 - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham, England.
June 20 - The French Royal Family is captured when they try to flee in disguise.
August 6 - Brandenburg Gate in Berlin finished.
August 26 - John Fitch is granted a patent for the steamboat in the United States.
September 25 - The Mission Santa Cruz, is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the twelfth mission in the California mission chain.
September 30 - Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel Die Zauberflöte in the Freihaustheater auf der Wieden in Vienna.
October 9 - The Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, was founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the thirteenth mission in the California mission chain.
December 4 - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
December 5 - Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
December 15 - Ratification by the states of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution is completed, creating the United States Bill of Rights. Two additional amendments remain pending, and one of these is finally ratified in 1992, becoming the Twenty-seventh Amendment
1790
January 8 - George Washington gives the first State of the Union Address.
July 9 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
July 14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
1789
January 7 - First nationwide United States election
January 21 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts
February 4 - George Washington is unanimously elected the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
March 4 - At Federal Hall in New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States to be in effect.
April 1 - At Federal Hall in New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
April 28 - Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against Captain William Bligh
April 30 - George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York City, beginning his term as the 1st President of the United States
June 14 - HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat
June 17 - In France, representatives of the Third Estate at the Estates-General declare themselves the National Assembly.
June 20 - Tennis Court Oath in Paris
July 9 - In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
July 11 - King of France fires popular chief minister Necker
July 12 - Angry Parisian crowd demonstrates against King’s decision to dismiss minister Necker
July 14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. In rural areas, peasants attack noble manors.
July 27 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State), is established.
August 4 - In France members of the Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges
August 7 - The United States War Department is established
August 26 - Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
August 28 - William Herschel discovers Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
September 2 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
September 11 - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792: Alexander Suvorov roundly defeats the 100,000 Turks in the Battle of Rymnik.
September 24 - The Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes the federal judiciary.
September 25 - The United States Congress proposes a set of twelve amendments for ratification by the states. Ratification for ten of these proposals is completed on December 5, 1791, creating the United States Bill of Rights. An additional proposal is ratified more than two centuries later in 1992.
September 29 - The United States War Department first establishes the nation's first regular army, with a strength of several hundred men.
November 6 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll (priest) the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
November 20 - New Jersey ratifies the United States Bill of Rights, the first state to do so.
November 21 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 12th U.S. state.
November 26 - A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1788 - February 1
Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat
1787--- The society for the abolition of the Slave trade is founded.
1786
August 8 - Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
August 11 - Captain Francis Light, known as the founder of Penang, landed in Penang and renamed it Prince of Wales Island in honour of the heir to the British throne.
1785 ----- 1+7=8 and there are 3 numbers before the last number so 8-3=5
1785
1784 - Bifocal specs are invented! :D
Night, where is the historic significance of 1785?
1783 well excuse me I didnt realsise that was a must!
fine 1783 Great briatian formally ceases hostilies with the new USA
1782
Royal George sinks off Portsmouth, Aug 29, commemorated by Cowper's poem "Toll for the Brave."
See Nightshade, historical and literary:lol:
1781
January 5 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
January 17 - American Revolutionary War: Americans under Daniel Morgan defeat British forces at the Battle of Cowpens.
January 30 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
January - William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister, enters Parliament.
March 1 - American Continental Congress implements the Articles of Confederation.
March 13 - Sir William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus. Originally he calls it Georgium Sidus (George's Star) in honour of King George III of England. (Hummm. Was it a slur to call it Uranus?)
March 15 - American Revolutionary War: American General Nathanael Greene loses Battle of Guilford Court House to British.
July 27 - French spy Francis Henry de la Motte executed in Tyburn prison in England for high treason
August 30 - American Revolutionary War: French fleet under Comte de Grasse enters Chesapeake Bay, cutting British General Charles Cornwallis off from escape by sea.
September 4 - Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciuncula (City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
September 5 - British fleet under Thomas Graves arrives and fights de Grasse, but to no effect.
September 6 - The British army attacks a fort in Groton, Connecticut which became known as the Battle of Groton Heights.
September 10 - Graves gives up trying to break through the now-reinforced French fleet and returns to New York, leaving Cornwallis to his fate.
October 19 - Following the Siege of Yorktown, General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the armed struggle of the American Revolutionary War.
October 20 - Patent of Tolerance, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
November 5 - John Hanson is elected President of the Continental Congress. (And you thought George Washington was the first elected President in the USA...)
November 29 - The slave ship Zong dumps its living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.
November 29 - Henry Hurle officially founds the Ancient Order of Druids(AOD) in London, England.
December 12 - French and British fleets fight in the Second Battle of Ushant.
1780 - September 25
Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York
1779
January 22 - American Revolutionary War: Claudius Smith is hanged at Goshen, Orange County, New York for supposed acts of terrorism upon the people of the surrounding communities.
February 14: Captain James Cook dies on the Sandwich Islands on his third and last voyage.
December 6 - Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
Unknown date - The Iron Bridge is completed across the River Severn in Shropshire; the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed.