...Date... AGE Event
1812/--/-- -1 - An earthquake destroys Caracas in Venezuela, killing 12,000.
1812/--/-- -1 - English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson illustrates the Tour of Dr. Syntax.
1812/--/-- -1 - General William Hull surrenders Detroit to the British.
1812/--/-- -1 - Georges Cuvier develops his theory of catastrophism through the study of fossils.
1812/--/-- -1 - Grimm's Fairy Tales are published in Germany.
1812/--/-- -1 - John Nash begins the oriental conversion of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
1812/--/-- -1 - Louisiana is inaugurated as the 18th state of the Union.
1812/--/-- -1 - Napoleon defeated in Russia
1812/--/-- -1 - Napoleon invades Russia with 450,000 men.
1812/--/-- -1 - Napoleon's army retreats from Moscow; only 40,000 men reach France.
1812/--/-- -1 - Rebel leader Morelos y Pavon defeats the Mexican royalist forces at Oaxaca.
1812/--/-- -1 - Spanish forces defeat Bolivar and Miranda in Venezuela; Miranda is imprisoned.
1812/--/-- -1 - Stephen Decatur's frigate United States defeats the British frigate Macedonian.
1812/--/-- -1 - Swiss explorer Jakob Burckhardt rediscovers the ancient city of Petra.
1812/--/-- -1 - Territorial and shipping disputes lead to the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1812/--/-- -1 - The French defeat the Russians at Borodino; Napoleon occupies Moscow.
1812/--/-- -1 - The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution defeats 2 British frigates.
1812/--/-- -1 - The ancient city of Petra (now in present-day Jordan) is rediscovered by Johann Burckhardt.
1812/--/-- -1 - The first coal gas generating station is chartered in London to provide gas lighting.
1812/--/-- -1 - War of 1812 Begins
1812/--/-- -1 - Wellington defeats the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.
1812/12/21 0 *** Davis, Martha (Bristow) - Born
1813/--/-- 0 - 14 Luddites are hanged at York in England.
1813/--/-- 0 - English novelist Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1813/--/-- 0 - James Wilkinson captures a fort at Mobile, the last Spanish possession in West Florida.
1813/--/-- 0 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Leipzig by the Sixth Coalition.
1813/--/-- 0 - Oliver Hazard Perry's ships destroy the British fleet on Lake Erie.
1813/--/-- 0 - British Indian leader Tecumseh is killed in the Battle of the Thames.
1813/--/-- 0 - Rebel forces invade Venezuela and capture Caracas; Bolivar is declared the Liberator.
1813/--/-- 0 - Robert Southey is made poet laureate of England.
1813/--/-- 0 - Wellington defeats the French in Spain at Vitoria and invades southern France.
1813/--/-- 0 - William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames.
1814/--/-- 1 - Actor Edmund Kean makes his debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
1814/--/-- 1 - Andrew Jackson annihilates the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1814/--/-- 1 - Andrew Jackson crushes Creek Resistance in South
1814/--/-- 1 - British forces burn Washington, D.C., but are repulsed at Fort McHenry.
1814/--/-- 1 - Coalition armies invade France; Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to the island of Elba.
1814/--/-- 1 - French artist Ingres paints The Grand Odalisque.
1814/--/-- 1 - George Stephenson constructs his first steam locomotive.
1814/--/-- 1 - Louis XVIII assumes the French throne.
1814/--/-- 1 - New England states discuss their secession from the Union at the Hartford Convention.
1814/--/-- 1 - Pope Pius VII returns to Rome; the Jesuit order is reestablished.
1814/--/-- 1 - The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1814/--/-- 1 - Treaty of Ghent
1814/--/-- 1 - U.S. forces under Thomas Macdonough destroy the British fleet on Lake Champlain.
1815/--/-- 2 - French Monarchy re-established
1815/--/-- 2 - Napoleon escapes from Elba and marches on Paris during the Hundred Days.
1815/--/-- 2 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo; he is exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
1815/--/-- 2 - The Americans defeat the British at New Orleans before news of peace arrives.
1815/--/-- 2 - The Barbary States sue for peace with the U.S.
1815/--/-- 2 - The Spanish army reconquers Venezuela; Bolivar flees to Jamaica.
1815/--/-- 2 - The Spanish capture and execute the Mexican rebel leader Morelos y Pavon.
1815/--/-- 2 - The first Gurkha regiment is formed by the British army.
1815/--/-- 2 - War of 1812 Ends
1816/--/-- 3 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville is performed in Rome.
1816/--/-- 3 - Indiana is inaugurated as the 19th state of the Union.
1816/--/-- 3 - Maria I of Portugal dies; she is succeeded by John VI who remains in exile in Brazil.
1816/--/-- 3 - Nepal is made a protectorate of British India.
1816/--/-- 3 - Shaka begins establishing the Zulu empire in South Africa.
1816/--/-- 3 - The British Museum buys the Elgin Marbles (smuggled from Greece by Lord Elgin).
1816/--/-- 3 - The United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (Argentina) declare independence.
1817/--/-- 4 - Construction begins on Erie Canal in New York
1817/--/-- 4 - Construction of the Erie Canal begins in New York State.
1817/--/-- 4 - First Seminole War
1817/--/-- 4 - French physician Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
1817/--/-- 4 - James Monroe (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1817/--/-- 4 - Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins defeat the Spanish in Chile.
1817/--/-- 4 - Mississippi is inaugurated as the 20th state of the Union.
1817/--/-- 4 - Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th U.S. president; Tompkins becomes vice-president.
1817/--/-- 4 - Sir Walter Scott writes the Scottish adventure novel Rob Roy.
1818/--/-- 5 - Arthur Schopenhauer publishes The World as Will and Representation.
1818/--/-- 5 - Bernardo O'Higgins becomes the supreme director of independent Chile.
1818/--/-- 5 - Composer Franz Schubert becomes the music teacher to Count Esterhazy's family.
1818/--/-- 5 - English chemist Sir Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
1818/--/-- 5 - Illinois is inaugurated as the 21st state of the Union.
1818/--/-- 5 - John Keats "Endymion"
1818/--/-- 5 - Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley publishes the horror novel Frankenstein.
1818/--/-- 5 - Sir John Ross sails in search of the Northwest Passage.
1818/--/-- 5 - Thomas Love Peacock publishes his comic novel Nightmare Abbey.
1818/--/-- 5 - Treaty with Britain sets 49th parallel
1819/--/-- 6 - Alabama is inaugurated as the 22nd state of the Union.
1819/--/-- 6 - American artist Washington Allston paints Moonlit Landscape.
1819/--/-- 6 - Bolivar defeats the Spanish in Colombia at the Battle of Boyaca.
1819/--/-- 6 - Lord Byron begins his satirical poem Don Juan.
1819/--/-- 6 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles acquires Singapore for the East India Company.
1819/--/-- 6 - Spain surrenders East and West Florida to the U.S. in the Adams-Onis Treaty.
1819/--/-- 6 - The Prado Museum is inaugurated in Madrid.
1819/--/-- 6 - The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
1819/--/-- 6 - Treaty with Spain sets boundaries
1820/--/-- 7 - Carbonari Italian nationalists rebel against the rule of Ferdinand I in Naples.
1820/--/-- 7 - English poet John Keats writes Ode To a Nightingale.
1820/--/-- 7 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Prometheus Unbound.
1820/--/-- 7 - Fed offers land at $1.25 an acre
1820/--/-- 7 - French navigator Dumont d'Urville discovers the Venus de Milo on the island of Melos.
1820/--/-- 7 - French poet Alphonse de Lamartine publishes Meditations Poetiques.
1820/--/-- 7 - Henri Christophe commits suicide; Haiti is united under Jean Pierre Boyer.
1820/--/-- 7 - Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes the virtual dictator of Argentina.
1820/--/-- 7 - Maine is inaugurated as the 23rd state of the Union.
1820/--/-- 7 - Missouri Compromise
1820/--/-- 7 - Percy Bysshe Shelly "Prometheus Unbound"
1820/--/-- 7 - Russian Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen sights land in the Antarctic.
1820/--/-- 7 - Stephen H. Long explores the Rocky Mountain region.
1820/--/-- 7 - The Missouri Compromise admits Missouri to the Union as a slave state.
1820/--/-- 7 - The Prince Regent becomes King George IV on the death of George III.
1820/--/-- 7 - The first American missionaries are admitted to Hawaii.
1820/--/-- 7 - The first free American slaves to be resettled in Africa land in Liberia.
1820/--/-- 7 - U.S. navy hero Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel.
1820/--/-- 7 - Washington Irving publishes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
1821/--/-- 8 - American captain John Davis is the first to land on the continent of Antarctica.
1821/--/-- 8 - Bolivar forms Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama).
1821/--/-- 8 - Brazil annexes the Banda Oriental (Uruguay).
1821/--/-- 8 - English landscape artist John Constable paints The Hay Wain.
1821/--/-- 8 - King John VI is reinstated on the Portuguese throne.
1821/--/-- 8 - Mexican Independence
1821/--/-- 8 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation
1821/--/-- 8 - Missouri Compromise
1821/--/-- 8 - Missouri is inaugurated as the 24th state of the Union.
1821/--/-- 8 - Napoleon dies on Saint Helena.
1821/--/-- 8 - Revolutionary general San Martin enters Lima and declares Peru independent.
1821/--/-- 8 - Revolutionary leader Iturbide declares Mexican independence from Spain.
1821/--/-- 8 - Simon Bolivar defeats the Spanish forces in Venezuela and Ecuador.
1821/--/-- 8 - The Cherokee Indian Sequoya develops the Cherokee written language.
1821/--/-- 8 - The Greek War of Independence begins against Turkey.
1821/--/-- 8 - Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater is published.
1821/07/09 8 - George IV crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Char
1822/--/-- 9 - American surgeon William Beaumont begins his study of the gastric process.
1822/--/-- 9 - Antonio Jose de Sucre defeats the Spanish in Ecuador at the Battle of Pichincha.
1822/--/-- 9 - British statesman Lord Castlereagh commits suicide.
1822/--/-- 9 - Denmark Vesey leads a slave revolt in Charleston; 35 blacks are executed.
1822/--/-- 9 - Dom Pedro, son of Portuguese King John VI, declares Brazil independent.
1822/--/-- 9 - Egyptian leader Muhammad Ali completes the conquest of northern Sudan.
1822/--/-- 9 - French scholar Jean Francois Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics.
1823/--/-- 10 - Charles Babbage begins work on his difference engine, a precursor of the computer.
1823/--/-- 10 - Charles Lamb publishes his Essays of Elia in The London Magazine.
1823/--/-- 10 - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof fabric used in mackintosh raincoats.
1823/--/-- 10 - General Santa Anna leads a coup against Mexican Emperor Agustin I (Iturbide).
1823/--/-- 10 - James Fenimore Cooper publishes the first volume of The Leatherstocking Tales.
1823/--/-- 10 - Japanese artist Hokusai begins a series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
1823/--/-- 10 - Ludwig van Beethoven completes his 9th Symphony.
1823/--/-- 10 - Monroe Doctrine
1823/--/-- 10 - Rugby football originates at Rugby School in England.
1823/--/-- 10 - The Monroe Doctrine warns Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
1824/--/-- 11 - De Sucre defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Ayacucho, liberating Peru.
1824/--/-- 11 - Disputes over the border of India lead to war between Britain and Burma.
1824/--/-- 11 - English poet Lord Byron travels to Greece to aid the patriots but dies of a fever.
1824/--/-- 11 - Jons Jakob Berzelius discovers the element silicon about this time.
1824/--/-- 11 - Sadi Carnot lays the foundations for the second law of thermodynamics.
1824/--/-- 11 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 11 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 11 - The National Gallery is founded in London.
1825/--/-- 12 - Adams is inaugurated as the 6th U.S. president; Calhoun becomes vice-president.
1825/--/-- 12 - American painter Thomas Cole founds the Hudson River School about this time.
1825/--/-- 12 - English literary critic William Hazlitt publishes The Spirit of the Age.
1825/--/-- 12 - John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1825/--/-- 12 - Kappa Alpha, the first social fraternity, is formed at Union College, New York.
1825/--/-- 12 - Mountain man James Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake.
1825/--/-- 12 - Nicholas I is made emperor of Russia; the Decembrists revolt breaks out.
1825/--/-- 12 - The Central American Federation declares its independence from Mexico.
1825/--/-- 12 - Thomas Cole establishes Hudson River school of landscape painting
1825/--/-- 12 - Uruguayan leader Lavalleja precipitates a war between Brazil and Argentina.
1825/--/-- 12 - Welsh reformer Robert Owen founds a community at New Harmony, Indiana.
1826/--/-- 13 - American engineer John Stevens builds the first U.S. steam locomotive.
1826/--/-- 13 - Andre Ampere publishes his Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomenon.
1826/--/-- 13 - British engineer Thomas Telford builds the Menai suspension bridge in Wales.
1826/--/-- 13 - Felix Mendelssohn composes his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at age 17.
1826/--/-- 13 - German poet Heine begins the publication of Reisebilder (Travel Pictures).
1826/--/-- 13 - Ohm's law establishes the relationship of electrical voltage, current and resistance.
1826/--/-- 13 - Revolutionary leader Antonio Jose de Sucre is elected first president of Bolivia.
1827/--/-- 14 - American frontiersman Davy Crockett is elected to Congress.
1827/--/-- 14 - Audubon publishes " Birds of America"
1827/--/-- 14 - Britain, France and Russia demand that Turkey ends the war with Greece.
1827/--/-- 14 - English inventor John Walker introduces the first friction matches.
1827/--/-- 14 - French landscape artist Camille Corot paints the Bridge at Narni.
1827/--/-- 14 - Mountain man Jedediah Smith pioneers an overland route to California.
1827/--/-- 14 - Ornithologist John James Audubon begins the publication of his Birds of America.
1827/--/-- 14 - The Allied navies destroy the Turkish and Egyptian fleet at Navarino in Greece.
1828/--/-- 15 - Composer Frederic Chopin begins concert tours at age 18.
1828/--/-- 15 - Greeks win War of Independence from Ottoman Empire
1828/--/-- 15 - Lavalleja's Thirty-three Immortals achieve Uruguayan independence from Brazil.
1828/--/-- 15 - Noah Webster publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1828/--/-- 15 - Rammohun Roy founds the Brahmo Samaj religious society in India.
1828/--/-- 15 - The Duke of Wellington becomes prime minister of Britain.
1828/--/-- 15 - Virtuoso violin player Niccolo Paganini performs in Vienna.
1829/--/-- 16 - Andrew Jackson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1829/--/-- 16 - Delacroix paints "Death of Sardanapalus"
1829/--/-- 16 - Explorer Charles Sturt charts the Murray River in Australia.
1829/--/-- 16 - Jackson introduces spoils system
1829/--/-- 16 - Jackson is inaugurated as the 7th U.S. president; Calhoun continues as vice-president.
1829/--/-- 16 - Lord Bentinck bans the Indian custom of suttee (the burning of widows).
1829/--/-- 16 - Louis Braille publishes his braille system of writing for the blind.
1829/--/-- 16 - Serbia becomes an autonomous principality under Prince Milos.
1829/--/-- 16 - Sir Robert Peel reorganizes the London police; his policemen are nicknamed Bobbies.
1829/--/-- 16 - Sir Robert Peel sponsers the Catholic Emancipation Act in Britain.
1829/--/-- 16 - The convict-free British colony of Western Australia is founded.
1829/--/-- 16 - The first U.S. encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, is begun.
1829/02/08 16 *** Davis, Martha (Bristow) & Bristow, Thomas B. [Husband] - Married
1830/--/-- 17 - Belgium asserts its independence from the Netherlands.
1830/--/-- 17 - British geologist Charles Lyell begins publishing his Principles of Geology.
1830/--/-- 17 - Fructuoso Rivera is elected as first president of Uruguay.
1830/--/-- 17 - George Catlin begins his paintings of North American Indians about this time.
1830/--/-- 17 - Greece becomes independent from Turkey.
1830/--/-- 17 - Hector Berlioz composes his first major work the Symphonie Fantastique.
1830/--/-- 17 - Indian Removal Act moves eastern Indians west of Mississippi
1830/--/-- 17 - Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church at Fayette, New York.
1830/--/-- 17 - Louis Philippe is chosen as the citizen king of France.
1830/--/-- 17 - Philipon publishes the satirical weekly La Caricature, with contributions by Daumier.
1830/--/-- 17 - Polish rebellions are suppressed by Russia.
1830/--/-- 17 - Simon Bolivar resigns as dictator of Gran Colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- 17 - The Indian Removal Act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to Indian Territory.
1830/--/-- 17 - The July Revolution in France forces the abdication of Charles X.
1830/--/-- 17 - The Women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book is published in the U.S.
1830/--/-- 17 - The locomotive Best Friend of Charleston is in use on the first U.S. railroad.
1830/--/-- 17 - William IV succeeds George IV as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1830/03/22 17 *** Bristow, Vespasian T. [Son] - Born to Bristow, Thomas B. and Davis, Martha (Bristow)
1831/--/-- 18 - British naturalist Charles Darwin sails to South America aboard H.M.S. Beagle.
1831/--/-- 18 - Cyrus McCormick invents a mechanical reaper.
1831/--/-- 18 - Explorer James Clark Ross determines the position of the north magnetic pole.
1831/--/-- 18 - Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini founds the Young Italy movement.
1831/--/-- 18 - Jose Antonio Paez becomes the first president of Venezuela.
1831/--/-- 18 - King Louis Philippe founds the French foreign legion.
1831/--/-- 18 - Leopold I is selected as the first king of Belgium.
1831/--/-- 18 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his theory of electromagnetic induction.
1831/--/-- 18 - Nat Turner leads a black slave revolt in Virginia; he is captured and hanged.
1831/--/-- 18 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin completes his masterpiece Eugene Onegin.
1831/--/-- 18 - The crown colony of British Guiana (Guyana) is formed.
1831/--/-- 18 - Victor Hugo "Hunchback of Notre Dame"
1831/--/-- 18 - William Lloyd Garrison publishes the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.
1831/10/31 18 *** Bristow, Felicia Ann (Hurt) [Daughter] - Born to Bristow, Thomas B. and Davis, Martha (Bristow)
1832/--/-- 19 - George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) publishes her first novel Indiana.
1832/--/-- 19 - Japanese artist Hiroshige begins work on Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido.
1832/--/-- 19 - Samuel F.B. Morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph
1832/--/-- 19 - The Black Hawk War is the last major Indian conflict east of the Mississippi River.
1832/--/-- 19 - The Democratic party is formally established as a national organization.
1833/--/-- 20 - A Bavarian prince becomes King Otto of Greece.
1833/--/-- 20 - Britain occupies the Falkland Islands.
1833/--/-- 20 - Carl von Clausewitz's classic study of warfare On War is published.
1833/--/-- 20 - General Santa Anna becomes president of Mexico.
1833/--/-- 20 - Isabella II succeeds Ferdinand VII, King of Spain; the Carlist Wars begin.
1833/--/-- 20 - President Jackson withdraws federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1833/--/-- 20 - Santa Anna elected President of Mexico
1833/--/-- 20 - The American Anti-Slavery Society is inaugurated in Philadelphia.
1833/--/-- 20 - Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published in English.
1834/--/-- 21 - A Quadruple Alliance is formed to aid Isabella II of Spain and Maria II of Portugal.
1834/--/-- 21 - American inventor Jacob Perkins patents the first practical ice-making machine.
1834/--/-- 21 - British politician Sir Robert Peel founds the Conservative Party.
1834/--/-- 21 - Indian Territory founded
1834/--/-- 21 - Slavery abolished in British Empire
1834/--/-- 21 - The Carlist Wars resume in Spain.
1834/--/-- 21 - The Hansom cab is designed; it becomes the standard horse-drawn cab in London.
1834/--/-- 21 - The Whig party is formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party.
1835/--/-- 22 - American settlers begin the Texas Revolution against Mexican rule.
1835/--/-- 22 - Attempts to move the Seminole Indians begins the second Seminole War.
1835/--/-- 22 - Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen publishes Tales Told for Children.
1835/--/-- 22 - French politician Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America.
1835/--/-- 22 - James Gordon Bennett founds the New York Herald newspaper.
1835/--/-- 22 - Second Seminole War in Florida
1836/--/-- 23 - American educator William Holmes McGuffey begins editing his Readers.
1836/--/-- 23 - American inventor Samuel Colt begins manufacturing the first revolver.
1836/--/-- 23 - American literary figure Ralph Waldo Emerson founds the Transcendental Club.
1836/--/-- 23 - Arkansas is inaugurated as the 25th state of the Union.
1836/--/-- 23 - Boer (Afrikaner) settlers begin the Great Trek into the South African interior.
1836/--/-- 23 - Bolivian president Santa Cruz invades Peru and forms the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
1836/--/-- 23 - Charles Barry designs Westminster Palace in the Gothic Revival style.
1836/--/-- 23 - Charles Dickens publishes his first popular work The Pickwick Papers.
1836/--/-- 23 - John C. Calhoun supports the gag rules to prevent Congress debating slavery.
1836/--/-- 23 - Republic of Texas forms
1836/--/-- 23 - Russian author Nikolai Gogol writes his play The Inspector General.
1836/--/-- 23 - Santa Anna's army storms the Alamo in Texas, killing the defenders.
1836/--/-- 23 - Texans under Sam Houston defeat Santa Anna at the San Jacinto River.
1836/--/-- 23 - Texas Revolution
1836/--/-- 23 - The Arc de Triomphe, the world's largest triumphal arch, is completed in Paris.
1836/01/02 23 *** Bristow, Thomas P. [Son] - Born to Bristow, Thomas B. and Davis, Martha (Bristow)
1837/--/-- 24 - Britain's refusal to grant more home rule in Canada leads to the Rebellions of 1837.
1837/--/-- 24 - British scientist Charles Wheatstone designs an electric telegraph system.
1837/--/-- 24 - Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"
1837/--/-- 24 - Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype method for taking permanent photographs.
1837/--/-- 24 - Martin Van Buren (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1837/--/-- 24 - Michigan is inaugurated as the 26th state of the Union.
1837/--/-- 24 - Mikhail Lermontov writes the Death of a Poet, inspired by the death of Pushkin.
1837/--/-- 24 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is killed in a duel.
1837/--/-- 24 - Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle publishes The French Revolution.
1837/--/-- 24 - Seminole Indian leader Osceola is captured.
1837/--/-- 24 - Van Buren is inaugurated as the 8th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1837/--/-- 24 - William IV dies; Victoria succeeds him as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1837/06/-- 24 - Victoria succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1838/--/-- 25 - Boer (Afrikaner) leader Andries Pretorius defeats the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River.
1838/--/-- 25 - British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner paints the Fighting Temeraire.
1838/--/-- 25 - Charles Wilkes heads a U.S. Navy expedition to Antarctica.
1838/--/-- 25 - Cherokee "Trail of Tears"
1838/--/-- 25 - French philosopher Auguste Comte inaugurates the science of sociology.
1838/--/-- 25 - Iowa Territory organized
1838/--/-- 25 - John Deere develops a steel-tipped plow capable of turning heavy prairie soil.
1838/--/-- 25 - Samuel F.B. Morse develops the Morse code for electric telegraph systems.
1838/--/-- 25 - Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan makes the first pedal-driven bicycle.
1838/03/31 25 *** Davis, Martha (Bristow) - Died
1838/06/08 25 - Victoria crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Will
In 1812 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
Bicycle
Steamboat
By 1838 Transportation was by:
Train
in addition.
In 1812 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
In 1812 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1812 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1812 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1812 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1812 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:53:42