...Date... AGE Event
1808/--/-- -1 - Beethoven composes "Fifth Symphony"
1808/--/-- -1 - Congress prohibits importing of African slaves
1808/--/-- -1 - Francisco de Goya paints The Third of May, depicting the cruelty of war.
1808/--/-- -1 - French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac isolates the element boron.
1808/--/-- -1 - German artist Caspar David Friedrich exhibits The Cross in the Mountains.
1808/--/-- -1 - Japanese artist Buncho paints True View of Mount Hiko.
1808/--/-- -1 - John Jacob Astor founds the American Fur Company.
1808/--/-- -1 - Napoleon appoints his brother Joseph as king of Spain.
1808/--/-- -1 - Napoleon occupys Spain
1808/--/-- -1 - The British under Wellington aid Portugal against France in the Peninsular War.
1808/11/29 0 *** Wood, William L. - Born to Wood, Thomas and Bayless, Mary (Wood) Cumberland County, Kentucky
1809/--/-- 0 - Frenchman Nicolas Appert develops the first effective method for canning food.
1809/--/-- 0 - German artists Overbeck and Pforr found the Nazarenes.
1809/--/-- 0 - James Madison (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1809/--/-- 0 - John Stevens' steamboat the Phoenix makes the first ocean-going voyage.
1809/--/-- 0 - Lamarck publishes his theories of evolution in Zoological Philosophy.
1809/--/-- 0 - Metternich draws Austria into the War of the Fifth Coalition against France.
1809/--/-- 0 - Napoleon annexes the Papal States and takes Pope Pius VII prisoner.
1809/--/-- 0 - Russia seizes Finland from Sweden; King Gustav IV Adolf abdicates.
1809/--/-- 0 - The French defeat the Austrians at Wagram; Francis II accepts the Treaty of Schonbrunn.
1810/--/-- 1 - A rebellion against Spain breaks out in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1810/--/-- 1 - American settlers rebel against the Spanish in West Florida.
1810/--/-- 1 - Kamehameha I becomes ruler of Hawaii and establishes the Kamehameha dynasty.
1810/--/-- 1 - Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla leads a rebellion against Spanish rule.
1810/--/-- 1 - Revolutions in Latin America lead to independent nations
1810/--/-- 1 - Separatists movements in Latin America
1810/--/-- 1 - The Krupp arms factory is established at Essen in Germany.
1810/--/-- 1 - Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese army holds the French on the outskirts of Lisbon.
1810/12/12 2 *** Wood, Margaret B. [Sister] - Born to Wood, Thomas and Bayless, Mary (Wood) Cumberland County, Kentucky
1811/--/-- 2 - Bolivar and Miranda lead the Venezuelan congress in a declaration of independence.
1811/--/-- 2 - First steamboat to sail down Mississippi reaches New Orleans
1811/--/-- 2 - George III becomes mentally unstable; the Prince of Wales assumes power as regent.
1811/--/-- 2 - Henri Christophe declares himself king of northern Haiti.
1811/--/-- 2 - Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro develops the concept known as Avogadro's law.
1811/--/-- 2 - Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility"
1811/--/-- 2 - Jose Artigas raises a force to expel the Spanish from the Banda Oriental (Uruguay).
1811/--/-- 2 - Mexican rebel leader Hidalgo y Costilla is captured and executed.
1811/--/-- 2 - Native Americans defeated in Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory
1811/--/-- 2 - The Luddites riot in England against the mechanization of the textile industry.
1811/--/-- 2 - The building of the National Road, the first U.S. federal highway, begins in Maryland.
1811/--/-- 2 - The first rowing race in the United States is held in New York.
1811/--/-- 2 - The ruling Mameluke aristocracy is massacred in Cairo by Muhammad Ali.
1811/--/-- 2 - William Henry Harrison defeats the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
1812/--/-- 3 - An earthquake destroys Caracas in Venezuela, killing 12,000.
1812/--/-- 3 - English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson illustrates the Tour of Dr. Syntax.
1812/--/-- 3 - General William Hull surrenders Detroit to the British.
1812/--/-- 3 - Georges Cuvier develops his theory of catastrophism through the study of fossils.
1812/--/-- 3 - Grimm's Fairy Tales are published in Germany.
1812/--/-- 3 - John Nash begins the oriental conversion of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
1812/--/-- 3 - Louisiana is inaugurated as the 18th state of the Union.
1812/--/-- 3 - Napoleon defeated in Russia
1812/--/-- 3 - Napoleon invades Russia with 450,000 men.
1812/--/-- 3 - Napoleon's army retreats from Moscow; only 40,000 men reach France.
1812/--/-- 3 - Rebel leader Morelos y Pavon defeats the Mexican royalist forces at Oaxaca.
1812/--/-- 3 - Spanish forces defeat Bolivar and Miranda in Venezuela; Miranda is imprisoned.
1812/--/-- 3 - Stephen Decatur's frigate United States defeats the British frigate Macedonian.
1812/--/-- 3 - Swiss explorer Jakob Burckhardt rediscovers the ancient city of Petra.
1812/--/-- 3 - Territorial and shipping disputes lead to the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1812/--/-- 3 - The French defeat the Russians at Borodino; Napoleon occupies Moscow.
1812/--/-- 3 - The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution defeats 2 British frigates.
1812/--/-- 3 - The ancient city of Petra (now in present-day Jordan) is rediscovered by Johann Burckhardt.
1812/--/-- 3 - The first coal gas generating station is chartered in London to provide gas lighting.
1812/--/-- 3 - War of 1812 Begins
1812/--/-- 3 - Wellington defeats the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.
1813/--/-- 4 - 14 Luddites are hanged at York in England.
1813/--/-- 4 - English novelist Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1813/--/-- 4 - James Wilkinson captures a fort at Mobile, the last Spanish possession in West Florida.
1813/--/-- 4 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Leipzig by the Sixth Coalition.
1813/--/-- 4 - Oliver Hazard Perry's ships destroy the British fleet on Lake Erie.
1813/--/-- 4 - British Indian leader Tecumseh is killed in the Battle of the Thames.
1813/--/-- 4 - Rebel forces invade Venezuela and capture Caracas; Bolivar is declared the Liberator.
1813/--/-- 4 - Robert Southey is made poet laureate of England.
1813/--/-- 4 - Wellington defeats the French in Spain at Vitoria and invades southern France.
1813/--/-- 4 - William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames.
1814/--/-- 5 - Actor Edmund Kean makes his debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
1814/--/-- 5 - Andrew Jackson annihilates the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1814/--/-- 5 - Andrew Jackson crushes Creek Resistance in South
1814/--/-- 5 - British forces burn Washington, D.C., but are repulsed at Fort McHenry.
1814/--/-- 5 - Coalition armies invade France; Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to the island of Elba.
1814/--/-- 5 - French artist Ingres paints The Grand Odalisque.
1814/--/-- 5 - George Stephenson constructs his first steam locomotive.
1814/--/-- 5 - Louis XVIII assumes the French throne.
1814/--/-- 5 - New England states discuss their secession from the Union at the Hartford Convention.
1814/--/-- 5 - Pope Pius VII returns to Rome; the Jesuit order is reestablished.
1814/--/-- 5 - The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1814/--/-- 5 - Treaty of Ghent
1814/--/-- 5 - U.S. forces under Thomas Macdonough destroy the British fleet on Lake Champlain.
1815/--/-- 6 - French Monarchy re-established
1815/--/-- 6 - Napoleon escapes from Elba and marches on Paris during the Hundred Days.
1815/--/-- 6 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo; he is exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
1815/--/-- 6 - The Americans defeat the British at New Orleans before news of peace arrives.
1815/--/-- 6 - The Barbary States sue for peace with the U.S.
1815/--/-- 6 - The Spanish army reconquers Venezuela; Bolivar flees to Jamaica.
1815/--/-- 6 - The Spanish capture and execute the Mexican rebel leader Morelos y Pavon.
1815/--/-- 6 - The first Gurkha regiment is formed by the British army.
1815/--/-- 6 - War of 1812 Ends
1816/--/-- 7 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville is performed in Rome.
1816/--/-- 7 - Indiana is inaugurated as the 19th state of the Union.
1816/--/-- 7 - Maria I of Portugal dies; she is succeeded by John VI who remains in exile in Brazil.
1816/--/-- 7 - Nepal is made a protectorate of British India.
1816/--/-- 7 - Shaka begins establishing the Zulu empire in South Africa.
1816/--/-- 7 - The British Museum buys the Elgin Marbles (smuggled from Greece by Lord Elgin).
1816/--/-- 7 - The United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (Argentina) declare independence.
1816/06/14 7 *** Wood, Mary Gibson (Reneau) [Sister] - Born to Wood, Thomas and Bayless, Mary (Wood) Cumberland County, Kentucky
1817/--/-- 8 - Construction begins on Erie Canal in New York
1817/--/-- 8 - Construction of the Erie Canal begins in New York State.
1817/--/-- 8 - First Seminole War
1817/--/-- 8 - French physician Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
1817/--/-- 8 - James Monroe (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1817/--/-- 8 - Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins defeat the Spanish in Chile.
1817/--/-- 8 - Mississippi is inaugurated as the 20th state of the Union.
1817/--/-- 8 - Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th U.S. president; Tompkins becomes vice-president.
1817/--/-- 8 - Sir Walter Scott writes the Scottish adventure novel Rob Roy.
1818/--/-- 9 - Arthur Schopenhauer publishes The World as Will and Representation.
1818/--/-- 9 - Bernardo O'Higgins becomes the supreme director of independent Chile.
1818/--/-- 9 - Composer Franz Schubert becomes the music teacher to Count Esterhazy's family.
1818/--/-- 9 - English chemist Sir Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
1818/--/-- 9 - Illinois is inaugurated as the 21st state of the Union.
1818/--/-- 9 - John Keats "Endymion"
1818/--/-- 9 - Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley publishes the horror novel Frankenstein.
1818/--/-- 9 - Sir John Ross sails in search of the Northwest Passage.
1818/--/-- 9 - Thomas Love Peacock publishes his comic novel Nightmare Abbey.
1818/--/-- 9 - Treaty with Britain sets 49th parallel
1819/--/-- 10 - Alabama is inaugurated as the 22nd state of the Union.
1819/--/-- 10 - American artist Washington Allston paints Moonlit Landscape.
1819/--/-- 10 - Bolivar defeats the Spanish in Colombia at the Battle of Boyaca.
1819/--/-- 10 - Lord Byron begins his satirical poem Don Juan.
1819/--/-- 10 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles acquires Singapore for the East India Company.
1819/--/-- 10 - Spain surrenders East and West Florida to the U.S. in the Adams-Onis Treaty.
1819/--/-- 10 - The Prado Museum is inaugurated in Madrid.
1819/--/-- 10 - The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
1819/--/-- 10 - Treaty with Spain sets boundaries
1820/--/-- 11 - Carbonari Italian nationalists rebel against the rule of Ferdinand I in Naples.
1820/--/-- 11 - English poet John Keats writes Ode To a Nightingale.
1820/--/-- 11 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Prometheus Unbound.
1820/--/-- 11 - Fed offers land at $1.25 an acre
1820/--/-- 11 - French navigator Dumont d'Urville discovers the Venus de Milo on the island of Melos.
1820/--/-- 11 - French poet Alphonse de Lamartine publishes Meditations Poetiques.
1820/--/-- 11 - Henri Christophe commits suicide; Haiti is united under Jean Pierre Boyer.
1820/--/-- 11 - Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes the virtual dictator of Argentina.
1820/--/-- 11 - Maine is inaugurated as the 23rd state of the Union.
1820/--/-- 11 - Missouri Compromise
1820/--/-- 11 - Percy Bysshe Shelly "Prometheus Unbound"
1820/--/-- 11 - Russian Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen sights land in the Antarctic.
1820/--/-- 11 - Stephen H. Long explores the Rocky Mountain region.
1820/--/-- 11 - The Missouri Compromise admits Missouri to the Union as a slave state.
1820/--/-- 11 - The Prince Regent becomes King George IV on the death of George III.
1820/--/-- 11 - The first American missionaries are admitted to Hawaii.
1820/--/-- 11 - The first free American slaves to be resettled in Africa land in Liberia.
1820/--/-- 11 - U.S. navy hero Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel.
1820/--/-- 11 - Washington Irving publishes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
1820/08/22 11 *** Wood, Mariba (Ewing) [Sister] - Born to Wood, Thomas and Bayless, Mary (Wood)
1820/11/24 11 *** Pierson, Sarah Bean (Reives) [Great Grandmother] - Died Stockton Valley, Cumberland, Kentucky Stockton Valley, Cumberland, Kentucky
1821/--/-- 12 - American captain John Davis is the first to land on the continent of Antarctica.
1821/--/-- 12 - Bolivar forms Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama).
1821/--/-- 12 - Brazil annexes the Banda Oriental (Uruguay).
1821/--/-- 12 - English landscape artist John Constable paints The Hay Wain.
1821/--/-- 12 - King John VI is reinstated on the Portuguese throne.
1821/--/-- 12 - Mexican Independence
1821/--/-- 12 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation
1821/--/-- 12 - Missouri Compromise
1821/--/-- 12 - Missouri is inaugurated as the 24th state of the Union.
1821/--/-- 12 - Napoleon dies on Saint Helena.
1821/--/-- 12 - Revolutionary general San Martin enters Lima and declares Peru independent.
1821/--/-- 12 - Revolutionary leader Iturbide declares Mexican independence from Spain.
1821/--/-- 12 - Simon Bolivar defeats the Spanish forces in Venezuela and Ecuador.
1821/--/-- 12 - The Cherokee Indian Sequoya develops the Cherokee written language.
1821/--/-- 12 - The Greek War of Independence begins against Turkey.
1821/--/-- 12 - Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater is published.
1821/07/09 12 - George IV crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Char
1822/--/-- 13 - American surgeon William Beaumont begins his study of the gastric process.
1822/--/-- 13 - Antonio Jose de Sucre defeats the Spanish in Ecuador at the Battle of Pichincha.
1822/--/-- 13 - British statesman Lord Castlereagh commits suicide.
1822/--/-- 13 - Denmark Vesey leads a slave revolt in Charleston; 35 blacks are executed.
1822/--/-- 13 - Dom Pedro, son of Portuguese King John VI, declares Brazil independent.
1822/--/-- 13 - Egyptian leader Muhammad Ali completes the conquest of northern Sudan.
1822/--/-- 13 - French scholar Jean Francois Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics.
1823/--/-- 14 - Charles Babbage begins work on his difference engine, a precursor of the computer.
1823/--/-- 14 - Charles Lamb publishes his Essays of Elia in The London Magazine.
1823/--/-- 14 - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof fabric used in mackintosh raincoats.
1823/--/-- 14 - General Santa Anna leads a coup against Mexican Emperor Agustin I (Iturbide).
1823/--/-- 14 - James Fenimore Cooper publishes the first volume of The Leatherstocking Tales.
1823/--/-- 14 - Japanese artist Hokusai begins a series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
1823/--/-- 14 - Ludwig van Beethoven completes his 9th Symphony.
1823/--/-- 14 - Monroe Doctrine
1823/--/-- 14 - Rugby football originates at Rugby School in England.
1823/--/-- 14 - The Monroe Doctrine warns Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
1824/--/-- 15 - De Sucre defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Ayacucho, liberating Peru.
1824/--/-- 15 - Disputes over the border of India lead to war between Britain and Burma.
1824/--/-- 15 - English poet Lord Byron travels to Greece to aid the patriots but dies of a fever.
1824/--/-- 15 - Jons Jakob Berzelius discovers the element silicon about this time.
1824/--/-- 15 - Sadi Carnot lays the foundations for the second law of thermodynamics.
1824/--/-- 15 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 15 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 15 - The National Gallery is founded in London.
1825/--/-- 16 - Adams is inaugurated as the 6th U.S. president; Calhoun becomes vice-president.
1825/--/-- 16 - American painter Thomas Cole founds the Hudson River School about this time.
1825/--/-- 16 - English literary critic William Hazlitt publishes The Spirit of the Age.
1825/--/-- 16 - John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1825/--/-- 16 - Kappa Alpha, the first social fraternity, is formed at Union College, New York.
1825/--/-- 16 - Mountain man James Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake.
1825/--/-- 16 - Nicholas I is made emperor of Russia; the Decembrists revolt breaks out.
1825/--/-- 16 - The Central American Federation declares its independence from Mexico.
1825/--/-- 16 - Thomas Cole establishes Hudson River school of landscape painting
1825/--/-- 16 - Uruguayan leader Lavalleja precipitates a war between Brazil and Argentina.
1825/--/-- 16 - Welsh reformer Robert Owen founds a community at New Harmony, Indiana.
1826/--/-- 17 - American engineer John Stevens builds the first U.S. steam locomotive.
1826/--/-- 17 - Andre Ampere publishes his Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomenon.
1826/--/-- 17 - British engineer Thomas Telford builds the Menai suspension bridge in Wales.
1826/--/-- 17 - Felix Mendelssohn composes his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at age 17.
1826/--/-- 17 - German poet Heine begins the publication of Reisebilder (Travel Pictures).
1826/--/-- 17 - Ohm's law establishes the relationship of electrical voltage, current and resistance.
1826/--/-- 17 - Revolutionary leader Antonio Jose de Sucre is elected first president of Bolivia.
1826/03/26 17 *** Cargile, Mary (Wood) & Wood, William [Uncle] - Married Overton County Tennessee
1827/--/-- 18 *** Wood, William Cargile [1st cousin] - Born to Wood, William and Cargile, Mary (Wood)
1827/--/-- 18 - American frontiersman Davy Crockett is elected to Congress.
1827/--/-- 18 - Audubon publishes " Birds of America"
1827/--/-- 18 - Britain, France and Russia demand that Turkey ends the war with Greece.
1827/--/-- 18 - English inventor John Walker introduces the first friction matches.
1827/--/-- 18 - French landscape artist Camille Corot paints the Bridge at Narni.
1827/--/-- 18 - Mountain man Jedediah Smith pioneers an overland route to California.
1827/--/-- 18 - Ornithologist John James Audubon begins the publication of his Birds of America.
1827/--/-- 18 - The Allied navies destroy the Turkish and Egyptian fleet at Navarino in Greece.
1828/--/-- 19 - Composer Frederic Chopin begins concert tours at age 18.
1828/--/-- 19 - Greeks win War of Independence from Ottoman Empire
1828/--/-- 19 - Lavalleja's Thirty-three Immortals achieve Uruguayan independence from Brazil.
1828/--/-- 19 - Noah Webster publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1828/--/-- 19 - Rammohun Roy founds the Brahmo Samaj religious society in India.
1828/--/-- 19 - The Duke of Wellington becomes prime minister of Britain.
1828/--/-- 19 - Virtuoso violin player Niccolo Paganini performs in Vienna.
1828/02/03 19 *** Wood, Reuben Bayless [Brother] & Gibbons, Elizabeth (Wood) - Married
1829/--/-- 20 - Andrew Jackson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1829/--/-- 20 - Delacroix paints "Death of Sardanapalus"
1829/--/-- 20 - Explorer Charles Sturt charts the Murray River in Australia.
1829/--/-- 20 - Jackson introduces spoils system
1829/--/-- 20 - Jackson is inaugurated as the 7th U.S. president; Calhoun continues as vice-president.
1829/--/-- 20 - Lord Bentinck bans the Indian custom of suttee (the burning of widows).
1829/--/-- 20 - Louis Braille publishes his braille system of writing for the blind.
1829/--/-- 20 - Serbia becomes an autonomous principality under Prince Milos.
1829/--/-- 20 - Sir Robert Peel reorganizes the London police; his policemen are nicknamed Bobbies.
1829/--/-- 20 - Sir Robert Peel sponsers the Catholic Emancipation Act in Britain.
1829/--/-- 20 - The convict-free British colony of Western Australia is founded.
1829/--/-- 20 - The first U.S. encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, is begun.
1830/--/-- 21 - Belgium asserts its independence from the Netherlands.
1830/--/-- 21 - British geologist Charles Lyell begins publishing his Principles of Geology.
1830/--/-- 21 - Fructuoso Rivera is elected as first president of Uruguay.
1830/--/-- 21 - George Catlin begins his paintings of North American Indians about this time.
1830/--/-- 21 - Greece becomes independent from Turkey.
1830/--/-- 21 - Hector Berlioz composes his first major work the Symphonie Fantastique.
1830/--/-- 21 - Indian Removal Act moves eastern Indians west of Mississippi
1830/--/-- 21 - Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church at Fayette, New York.
1830/--/-- 21 - Louis Philippe is chosen as the citizen king of France.
1830/--/-- 21 - Philipon publishes the satirical weekly La Caricature, with contributions by Daumier.
1830/--/-- 21 - Polish rebellions are suppressed by Russia.
1830/--/-- 21 - Simon Bolivar resigns as dictator of Gran Colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- 21 - The Indian Removal Act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to Indian Territory.
1830/--/-- 21 - The July Revolution in France forces the abdication of Charles X.
1830/--/-- 21 - The Women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book is published in the U.S.
1830/--/-- 21 - The locomotive Best Friend of Charleston is in use on the first U.S. railroad.
1830/--/-- 21 - William IV succeeds George IV as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1830/07/25 21 *** Wood, William L. - Died Hardin County, Kentucky
In 1808 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
Bicycle
Steamboat
By 1830 Transportation was by:
Train
in addition.
In 1808 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
In 1808 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1808 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1808 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1808 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1808 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:56:47