| 1800 |
Napoleon's army conquers Italy |
| 1803 |
United States buys land from France
(Louisiana Purchase); Robert Fulton propels a boat by steam power |
| 1804 |
Napoleon is proclaimed Emperor; Alexander
Hamilton is killed in a duel with Aaron Burr |
| 1806 |
End of the Holy Roman Empire |
| 1807 |
United States Embargo Act against Britain
and France |
| 1811 |
Americans defeat Indians under Tecumseh
at Tippecanoe, Indiana |
| 1812 |
United States declares war on
Britain |
| 1813 |
The waltz conquers European
ballrooms |
| 1814 |
Napoleon is banished to Elba; British
forces burn Washington, D.C.; Treaty of Ghent ends the British-American War
(Dec. 24) |
| 1815 |
Americans defeat British in Battle of New
Orleans before news of the treaty arrives in America; Napoleon is defeated at
Waterloo |
| 1817 |
United States begins construction of the
Erie Canal |
| 1818 |
Mary Shelley writes "Frankenstein" |
| 1822 |
Streets of Boston lit by gas |
| 1823 |
Mexico becomes a republic; The Monroe
Doctrine closes the American continent to colonial settlements by European
powers |
| 1826 |
Burmese War ends; James Fenimore Cooper
writes "The Last of the Mohicans" |
| 1832 |
Andrew Jackson is re-elected U.S.
President |
| 1836 |
Davy Crockett killed at the Alamo; Texas
wins independence from Mexico |
| 1837 |
Victoria becomes the Queen of Great
Britain; Samuel Morse exhibits his electric telegraph |
| 1839 |
Abner Doubleday conducts the first
baseball game |
| 1840 |
Child labor laws passed in several U.S.
states |
| 1843 |
Charles Dickens writes "A Christmas
Carol" |
| 1844 |
The telegraph is used for the first time
in the U.S. between Baltimore and Washington; China and the U.S. sign their
first peace and commerce treaty |
| 1846 |
Famine in Ireland caused by the failure
of the potato crop |
| 1847 |
Mormons found Salt Lake City |
| 1848 |
Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo ends
Mexican-US War; Revolutions in Paris, Vienna, and Rome; First U.S. women's
rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York |
| 1849 |
David Livingstone crosses the Kalahari
Desert |
| 1852 |
Louis Napoleon III proclaims himself
Emperor |
| 1853 |
Vaccination against smallpox required in
Britain |
| 1859 |
Work on the Suez Canal is begun |
| 1861 |
Civil War in U.S. begins; Confederates
victorious at Bull Run |
| 1862 |
President Lincoln writes the
"Emancipation Proclamation"; Victor Hugo publishes "Les Miserables" |
| 1864 |
Sherman's March; Massacre of Indians at
Sand Creek, Colorado |
| 1865 |
Condeferate States of America formally
surrender at Appomattox; Abraham Lincoln assassinated |
| 1867 |
Napoleon III withdraws French troops from
Mexico; Maximilian executed; Dominion of Canada established |
| 1868 |
Shogunate abolished in Japan |
| 1870 |
Franco-Prussian War |
| 1871 |
P.T. Barnum opens his circus in New York;
The Great Fire in Chicago; Charles Darwin's "The Descent of Man" published |
| 1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell invents the
telephone |
| 1879 |
British Zulu War |
| 1881 |
U.S. President James A. Garfield
assassinated |
| 1888 |
George Eastman perfects the "Kodak" box
camera; Jack the Ripper murders six women in London |
| 1889 |
Austrian Crown Prince commits suicide at
Mayerling |
| 1893 |
Trial over the Panama Canal corruption in
Paris; Karl Benz and Henry Ford build their cars |
| 1895 |
Marconi invents radio telegraphy |
| 1896 |
First modern Olympics held in Athens |
| 1898... |
Emile Zola publishes his open letter to
the French President, "J'accuse," regarding the Dreyfus forgery trial; U.S.
declares war on Spain over Cuba |
