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Abt 1833 - 1861 (~ 28 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1613	21 Feb 1613—15 Mar 1917: The Romanov Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia, begins when 16 year old Mikhail Romanov is elected as Czar.Russiapedia Hillwood
2	1825	4 Jul 1825—1835: Ground is broken on the Farmington Canal and completed ten years later.CTHist FVTC
3	1830	26 Jun 1830—20 Jun 1837: William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.HistoricUK
4	1833	27 Jun 1833: Prudence Crandall is arrested.NPS CTLib
5	1835	17 Aug 1835: Solymon Merrick patents an adjustable wrench.DATAMP PatentYogi 2 Oct 1835: The first shots are fired in Texas Revolutionary War.TSHA History.com 28 Dec 1835: 300 Seminole warriors attack U. S. troops beginning the Second Seminole War.SemTribe DBS
6	1836	23 Feb 1836—6 Mar 1836: A group Texians and Tejanos fight to defend the Alamo against superior Mexican forces under General Santa Anna.TheAlamo UIW 25 Feb 1836: Samuel Colt patents his revolver.CTHist TSHA 6 Mar 1836: The Alamo defenders are overwhelmed by Santa Anna's troops.TheAlamo LoC 23 Mar 1836: The first powered coin press begins production at the Philadelphia Mint.NN NGC 15 Jun 1836: Arkansas becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 13 Jul 1836: John Ruggles of Thomaston, Maine receives patent number 1 from the United States Patent Office.USPTO CL 7 Dec 1836: Martin van Buren is elected the 8th president of the United States of America, 1837 - 1841.USEA Whitehouse
7	1837	26 Jan 1837: Michigan becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 25 Feb 1837: Thomas Davenport receives a patent for the first practical DC electric motor.W I R E D MagLab 24 Mar 1837: Black men are granted the right to vote in Canada.BF 5 Jun 1837: Houston, Texas is incorporated as a city.TSHA HPOU 20 Jun 1837—22 Jan 1901: Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.HistoricUK
8	1838	28 Feb 1838: Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada.RL ParksCanada
9	1839	24 Feb 1839: William Otis receives a patent for his steam shovel, a device that will shape the world.Google Books MFSW
10	1840	20 Jun 1840: Samuel Morse patents a system of dots and dashes used for telegraph communication - Morse Code.W I R E D SIMag 2 Dec 1840: William Henry Harrison is elected the 9th president of the United States of America. He dies of pneumonia on 4 Apr 1841 - the first President to die in office.PG USEA
11	1841	20 Jan 1841: China cedes Hong Kong to Britain which remains in British hands until 1997.History.com HK 4 Apr 1841: John Tyler becomes the 10th president of the United States of America upon the death of President William Henry Harrison. He serves from 1841 - 1845.WH LSU
12	1842	30 Mar 1842: Ether is first used as an anesthetic in surgery.W I R E D LongMuseum 9 Aug 1842: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty establishes the border between Maine and Canada among others.Avalon USState
13	1843	1 Feb 1843: MONY, the oldest continuous writer of insurance policies in the U. S. begins operation.FU 1Lib 19 Jul 1843: The SS Great Britain, the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic, is launched in Bristol, England.Nature ASME 13 Oct 1843: The B'nai B'rith is founded in New York City.PM B'nai B'rith
14	1844	24 May 1844: Samuel F. B. Morse transmits the message "What hath God wrought?" from Washington to Baltimore using his invention, the telegraph.LoC APS 6 Jun 1844: The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.YMCA VCU 15 Jun 1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanized rubber.MassMoments SciAm 4 Dec 1844: James Knox Polk is elected the 11th president of the United States of America, 1845 - 1849.USEA Whitehouse
15	1845	3 Mar 1845: Florida becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 18 Mar 1845: The New England Historic Genealogical Society is incorporated in Boston.NEHGS GoogleBooks 3 May 1845: Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American lawyer admitted to the bar in the U. S..Jurist HSC 28 Aug 1845: The first issue of Scientific American is published.SA SI 13 Sep 1845: The Irish Potato Famine begins with reports of blight in Gardeners' Chronicle.IC IP 29 Dec 1845: Texas becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
16	1846	4 Feb 1846—13 Jun 1846: Brigham Young and 3000 Mormons leave Nauvoo, Illinois on the first leg of their journey, heading for Utah.PBS NPS 25 Apr 1846—2 Feb 1848: Mexican-American War 1846-1848.AHC PBS 13 May 1846: President James K. Polk signs a declaration of war against Mexico.UVA USState 14 Jun 1846: Anglo-Californians rebel against Mexican rule in the Bear Flag Revolt.BFM NPS 10 Aug 1846: The Smithsonian Institute is founded.SI USNA 10 Sep 1846: Elias Howe Jr. patents his sewing machine.ASME SI 23 Sep 1846: The planet Neptune is discovered.EarthSky" Astronomy 30 Sep 1846: Dentist William Morton uses ether to anesthetize a patient in Boston which begins its use for general anesthesia.W I R E D ASA 28 Dec 1846: Iowa becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com
17	1847	4 Jan 1847: Samuel Colt makes the first sale of his revolver to the U. S. government.History.com UTX 13 Jan 1847: The signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga puts an end to the fighting in the Mexican-American War in California.KCET NXTGOV 9 Mar 1847—29 Mar 1847: The American military attack the Mexican city of Veracruz.SotS UTA 5 Apr 1847—24 Jul 1847: Brigham Young leads the first Mormon wagon train bound for Utah on the final leg of their journey.Utah NPS 5 May 1847: The American Medical Association is founded.NEJM AMJMS 1 Oct 1847: Maria Mitchell is the first American to record a comet sighting.NEHS Nature
18	1848	24 Jan 1848: Gold is found at Sutter's Mill sparking the California Gold Rush in 1849.SI Coloma 2 Feb 1848: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the Mexican-American War.OurDocs USNA 29 May 1848: Wisconsin becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 7 Nov 1848: Zachary Taylor is elected the 12th president of the United States of America . He fell ill on 4 Jul 1850 and died 5 days later.UVA-MC LoC
19	1849	23 Jan 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the U. S. to receive a medical doctorate.NIH LoC
20	1850	18 Mar 1850: American Express is founded by Henry Wells, William G. Fargo, and John Butterfield.CPRRPHM SI 10 Jul 1850: Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th president of the United States of America the day after President Zachary Taylor dies suddenly. He serves from 1850 - 1853.LoC USSenate 9 Sep 1850: California becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 23 Oct 1850—24 Oct 1850: The first national convention for woman's rights takes place in Worcester, Massachusetts.MassMoments APL
21	1851	12 Aug 1851: Isaac Merritt Singer is granted a patent for a sewing machine.SI PG 22 Aug 1851: The yacht America wins the first America's Cup.LoC NYYC 14 Nov 1851: Moby Dick is first published in the U. S..Melville NBWM 24 Dec 1851: A fire at the Library of Congress destroys nearly two thirds of the books purchased from Thomas Jefferson.LoC AoC 29 Dec 1851: The first American YMCA is founded in the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts.YMCA UMN
22	1852	16 Feb 1852: Henry and Clement Studebaker found a blacksmith and wagon building business, the company that will eventually produce that famous car.MotorTrend SILib 20 Mar 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.NCC SIMag 28 Apr 1852: The first municipal electric fire alarm system using call boxes with automatic signaling to indicate the location of a fire was placed into operation in Boston, Massachusetts.ETHW CI 2 Nov 1852: Franklin Pierce is elected the 14th president of the United States of America, 1853 - 1857.NEHS KCET
23	1853	1 Apr 1853: The first professional U. S. fire department is established in Cincinnati, Ohio.CFD CO.gov 21 May 1853: The first public aquarium opens in Regent's Park in London.GoogleBooks TheTimes 30 Dec 1853: Land, currently in Arizona and New Mexico, is bought from Mexico, known as the Gadsen Purchase.Avalon USNA
24	1854	28 Mar 1854—1 Apr 1856: Britain and France declare war on Russia beginning their involvement in the Crimean War.SLSA HK 29 Apr 1854: The Ashmun Institute, the first black college, is chartered in Pennsylvania.Lincoln Columbia
25	1855	28 Jan 1855: A train runs from the Atlantic Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.PCM SBH&RM 8 Mar 1855: The first train crosses the Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, the first such bridge in the U. S..NFT NG 2 Jun 1855: The Portland Rum Riot begins.MHS NEHS
26	1856	22 May 1856: Preston Brooks, a Congressman from South Carolina, savagely beats Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery.USHouse USHistory 21 Aug 1856: Connecticut's Charter Oak dies after high winds knock it down.CTHist CTJud 4 Nov 1856: James Buchanan Jr. is elected the 15th president of the United States of America, 1857 - 1861.USEA LoC
27	1857	23 Mar 1857: Elisha Otis installs the first modern passenger elevator in a public building, at a department store in New York City.W I R E D TIME 19 May 1857: An electromagnetic fire alarm telegraph system is patented by William Channing of Boston and Moses Farmer of Salem, Massachusetts.SI GP
28	1858	30 Mar 1858: The first pencil with a built-in eraser is patented.Haaretz GAF 11 May 1858: Minnesota becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 16 Jun 1858: Abraham Lincoln kicks off his bid for the U. S. Senate with what will come to be known as the "House Divided" speech.PBS NPS 29 Oct 1858: A store opens at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, soon to be named "Denver".History.com KEKB 22 Nov 1858: Denver, Colorado is founded.UN-L Denver
29	1859	14 Feb 1859: Oregon becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 21 Mar 1859: The charter is approved and signed for the first zoo in the U. S..PhillyMag AZA 12 Jul 1859: The paper bag machine is patented by William Goodale.CLS-LII GooglePatents 27 Aug 1859: The first successful oil well is drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania.AOGHS DWM&P 16 Oct 1859: Abolitionist John Brown and several followers seize the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.LoC USNA 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes his groundbreaking volume, "On the Origin of Species".Literature.org NSF
30	1860	22 Feb 1860: More than 20,000 shoemakers go on strike in Lynn, Massachusetts.MassMoments PEM 3 Apr 1860—26 Oct 1861: The Pony Express mail delivery service is established.PX NPX 29 Jun 1860: The final stone is laid completing the Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, still in use today.US-L H2G2 18 Jul 1860: The first photographs of a solar eclipse are taken.HA EclipseMaps 6 Nov 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States of America, 1861 - 1865.SIMag LoC 20 Dec 1860: Confederate States begin to secede from the Union.Tulane SI
31	1861	29 Jan 1861: Kansas becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 4 Feb 1861: The Confederate States of America is formed.CWH LoVA 18 Feb 1861: Jefferson Davis becomes the President of the Confederate States of America.ACW LoC 19 Feb 1861: Serfdom is abolished in Russia by Alexander II.SHU LoC 28 Feb 1861—1 Aug 1876: Colorado Territory is organized.COEnc Politico 12 Apr 1861—14 Apr 1861: Fort Sumter is attacked. NPS LoC 21 Jul 1861: The first major land battle of the Civil War occurs, the first Battle of Bull Run.USSenate ABT 5 Aug 1861: President Abraham Lincoln imposes the first income tax in order to afford the Civil War.NCC NPS 19 Nov 1861: The U. S. exports its first oil shipments to London.AOGHS

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