Early Nationhood
1813 - 1830
1813 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen published
1814 British burn down Washington DC
1815 Battle of New Orleans
1816 Indiana becomes a state
1817 First Seminole War
1818 George Manby invents modern fire extinguisher
1819 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving published
1820 Fourth U.S. Census conducted
1821 Napolean dies in exile
1822 Young and Champollion translate Rosetta Stone
1823 Monroe Doctine set forth
1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs created
1825 Aluminum discovered
1826 Nicephore Niepcie invents photography
1827 First African-American newspaper
1828 Duke of Wellington becomes British Prime Minister
1829 First book in Braille
1830 Joseph Smith and others create Mormon church
1831 - 1837
1838 - 1865
1838 SS Great Western first paddle boat to cross Atlantic
1839 Goodyear vulcanizes rubber
1840 First postage stamp issued
1841 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' published by E.A. Poe
1842 Treaty of Nanjing signed
1843 Oregon Trail migration begins
1844 First Morse telegram sent
1845 Original rules for baseball defined
1846 Smithsonian Institute begun
1847 Colt sells first revolvers to US government
1848 California gold rush begins
1849 Austria and Hungary split
1850 California becomes 31st state
1851 The Great Exhibition of the Crystal Palace
1852 Otis invents first safety elevator
1853 Steinway and Sons founded
1854 Republican party founded to oppose slavery
1855 Panama railroad completed
1856 Great Train Wreck of 1856
1857 Great Rebellion in India
1858 Italian attempts to assissinate Napolean III
1859 John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
1860 Abraham Lincoln nominated President
1861 First income tax imposed in America
1862 Battle of Puebla and Cinco de Mayo
1863 Civil War draft riots in New York
1864 First use of submarine warfare
1865 President assassinated
1866 - 1883
1866 The Austro-Prussian War
1867 Alaska purchased from Russia
1868 14th Amendment to the Constitution
1869 Wyoming gives women the vote
1870 Franco-Prussian War
1871 Great Chicago Fire
1872 Montgomery Ward's first catelog
1873 Levi Strauss makes jeans
1874 First selling of barbed wire
1875 First Kentucky Derby
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn
1877 Queen Victoria named Empress of India
1878 Morgan Silver Dollar minted
1879 Zulu War
1880 France takes over Tahiti
1881 American Red Cross
1882 Gunfight at the OK Corral
1883 Brooklyn Bridge opens
1884 - 1890
1884 Oxford English Dictionary
1885 Statue of Liberty
1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago
1887 Winchester Model 1887
1888 National Geographic Society founded
1889 The Eiffel Tower
1890 Sherman AntiTrust Act
Supplemental Information For This Era
War With Mexico
Events in the mid-1800's shaped what our national boundaries were to become. Much in the way of land spoils came as a result of the Mexican American conflict.
-Mexico 1845 - 1846
-The John Slidell Mission 1845-46 -The Mexican American War -Mexican American War - Encyclopedia Britannica
-The History Guy - the U.S-Mexican War
-Map of Mexico & Texas 1845-48
-Aftermath of the War
-Images of the Battle of New Orleans
-1842 Musket
-Pictures of the Alamo
-Images of Mexican American War
Brother Against Brother
Our Civil War sometimes pitted brother against brother. While Slavery is seen as a primary force for the Union, many other economic factors predicated this American upheaval.
-The American Civil War
-King Cotton
-Photographs of the Civil War
-Selected Photographs
-Civil War: Industry & Manufacturing
-Abraham Lincoln
-Jefferson Davis
-Gettysburg Address
-Emancipation Proclamation
-Reconstruction
-Civil War Weapons
-Selected Weapons of the American Civil War
-Images of Civil War Weapons
-Civil War Artillery
-The Brooksville Raid
-Images of Civil War Artillery
-Naval War of the Civil War
-Civil War Naval Pictures
-Railroads of the Civil War
-Images of Civil War Railroads
-Images of Civil War Reconstruction
The Mighty Wheels Turn
The Rise of Industry in America lead to a rapid expansion westward by railroad. Steam and electrical power was harnessed for a myriad of inventions.
-Gilded Age
-Late 1800's Immigration
-Late Nineteenth Century Economy
-Early American Railroads
-Inventors & Inventions 1851-1900
-The Rise of American Industry -Industrial Revolution in America
-Effect of Railroads
-Growth of Coal Industry