Table IV: 1800-1899
| 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 |
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