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1846 - 1864 (18 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	1837	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
3	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
4	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
5	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
6	1849	23 Jan 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the U. S. to receive a medical doctorate.NIH LoC
7	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
8	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
9	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
10	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
11	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
12	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
13	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
14	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
15	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
16	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
17	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
18	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
19	1862	9 Mar 1862: The first naval engagement between ironclad ships, the USS Monitor fights the CSS Virginia to a draw.ACW NPS 8 Apr 1862: John D. Lynde receives the first patent for an aerosol dispenser.DC GooglePatents 20 Apr 1862: The first pasteurization test, aimed at disproving the theory of spontaneous generation and proving food could be preserved by applied heat, is completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.HP AZDHS 29 Apr 1862: Union Admiral David Farragut forces the surrender of New Orleans, Louisiana.History.com HoW 15 May 1862: The United States Department of Agriculture is established.USDA USNA 1 Jul 1862: The Revenue Act of 1862 establishes the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, what will become the IRS in 1918.USNA Treasury 4 Nov 1862: Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun ushering in the age of high powered weaponry.IN GooglePatents 5 Nov 1862: More than 300 Santee Sioux are sentenced to hang in Minnesota.History.com NDStudies 13 Dec 1862: Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee defeat the Union forces under Ambrose Burnside, who abandoned his campaign 2 days later.LoC ABT 26 Dec 1862: 38 members of the Sioux nation are executed in Mankato, Minnesota in the largest mass hanging in U. S. history.UNA UDM
20	1863	1 Jan 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation is issued.USNA OurDocs 10 Jan 1863: The first stretch of the London Underground opens.Telegraph DM 3 Mar 1863: The National Academy of Sciences is established.NAS Harvard 20 Jun 1863: West Virginia becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 1 Jul 1863—3 Jul 1863: Confederate forces meet Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg.NPS ABT 13 Jul 1863: The New York City Draft Riots begin.UChicago CUNY 17 Sep 1863—18 Sep 1863: The Battle of Antietam gives the Union a "victory", even though it is militarily a draw.ABT NPS 3 Oct 1863: Lincoln issues his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation establishing Thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November.NPS WAPO 19 Nov 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.LoC
21	1864	17 Feb 1864: The Confederacy H. L. Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic and becomes the first submarine in the world to sink an enemy ship.ACW Hunley 5 Apr 1864: William Nicholson of Providence, Rhode Island receives a patent for a file cutting machine.GoogleBooks ID 19 Oct 1864: Confederate soldiers raid Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.VV VH 31 Oct 1864: Nevada becomes a state.ThoughtCo 50States.com 15 Nov 1864: Sherman begins his March to the Sea after burning Atlanta.LoC OHC

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