...Date... AGE Event
1796/--/-- 0 *** Bristow, Hannah (Harrison) (Davisson) - Born to Bristow, Benjamin W. and Miles, Sarah
1796/--/-- 0 - English novelist Fanny Burney publishes Camilla.
1796/--/-- 0 - English physician Edward Jenner develops vaccination against smallpox.
1796/--/-- 0 - George Washington declines to serve as president for a third term.
1796/--/-- 0 - Gilbert Stuart paints a portrait of Washington (used later on the dollar bill).
1796/--/-- 0 - John Adams is elected as the 2nd U.S. president; Jefferson becomes vice-president.
1796/--/-- 0 - Napoleon defeats the Austrian and Sardinian armies in Italy.
1796/--/-- 0 - Napoleon marries Josephine, the widow of the vicomte de Beauharnais.
1796/--/-- 0 - Napoleon restores Corsica to French rule.
1796/--/-- 0 - Samuel Hahnemann publishes his findings on homeopathic treatment.
1796/--/-- 0 - Spain sides with France in the war against Britain.
1796/--/-- 0 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the Union.
1796/--/-- 0 - The British seize Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the Dutch.
1796/03/30 0 *** Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow) & Bristow, William [Uncle] - Married Married in Franklin County, VA
1797/--/-- 1 *** Bristow, Edward [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1797/--/-- 1 - Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) to France.
1797/--/-- 1 - British wood engraver Thomas Bewick publishes A History of British Birds.
1797/--/-- 1 - David Thompson surveys the Mississippi headwaters for the North West Company.
1797/--/-- 1 - John Adams (Federalist) becomes president of the United States
1797/--/-- 1 - Nelson defeats the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent, and the Dutch at Camperdown.
1797/--/-- 1 - The British capture the Spanish colony of Trinidad.
1797/--/-- 1 - The Directory appoint Talleyrand as minister of foreign affairs for France.
1797/--/-- 1 - The Treaty of Campo Formio ends the war of the First Coalition against France.
1797/--/-- 1 - The Venetian Republic is dissolved; Venice is ruled by Austria.
1798/--/-- 2 *** Bristow, Samuel [Brother] - Born to Bristow, Benjamin W. and Miles, Sarah
1798/--/-- 2 - Alien and Sedition Act
1798/--/-- 2 - America's first professional author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland.
1798/--/-- 2 - Britain, Austria, Russia and Turkey form a Second Coalition against France.
1798/--/-- 2 - Economist Thomas Malthus publishes An Essay on the Principle of Population.
1798/--/-- 2 - Eli Whitney uses early mass production techniques to manufacture muskets.
1798/--/-- 2 - French armies occupy Rome and invade Switzerland, creating the Helvetic Republic.
1798/--/-- 2 - Haydn composes "The Creation"
1798/--/-- 2 - Lord Wellesley becomes governor-general of India.
1798/--/-- 2 - Napoleon's army invades Egypt and defeats the Mamelukes at the Battle of the Pyramids.
1798/--/-- 2 - The French fleet is destroyed by Nelson at Abukir Bay, cutting off Napoleon's forces in Egypt.
1798/--/-- 2 - The U.S. Congress passes the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts.
1798/--/-- 2 - The XYZ Affair leads to the Quasi War between France and the U.S.
1798/--/-- 2 - The territory of Mississippi becomes part of the United States.
1798/--/-- 2 - William Wordsworth publishes Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
1798/--/-- 2 - Wolfe Tone leads a revolt against the British by the Society of United Irishmen.
1798/04/-- 2 *** Bristow, William [Grandfather] - Died Patrick County Virginia USA
1799/--/-- 3 *** Bristow, Sarah (Acree) [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1799/--/-- 3 - A 33,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered at the Lena River in Russia.
1799/--/-- 3 - Britain becomes the first nation to introduce a national income tax.
1799/--/-- 3 - City Hotel, the first American structure designed as a hotel, opens in New York.
1799/--/-- 3 - Humboldt and Bonpland begin their scientific expedition in South American.
1799/--/-- 3 - Napoleon attacks Syria to prevent a Turkish invasion of Egypt, but is defeated at Acre.
1799/--/-- 3 - Napoleon becomes Consul
1799/--/-- 3 - Napoleon returns to France as first consul; the Consulate replaces the Directory.
1799/--/-- 3 - Ranjit Singh establishes a Sikh kingdom in northwest India.
1799/--/-- 3 - Russian forces under Suvorov defeat the French in Italy, but are held at Zurich.
1799/--/-- 3 - The Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering hieroglyphics, is discovered in Egypt.
1799/--/-- 3 - The Russian-American Company is founded to administer the Alaskan fur trade.
1799/--/-- 3 - Tippu Sultan is killed in battle with the British; the Mysore empire is destroyed.
1800/--/-- 4 - Black slave Gabriel leads an abortive uprising near Richmond, Virginia.
1800/--/-- 4 - France regains Louisiana from Spain under the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1800/--/-- 4 - Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invents the first electric battery.
1800/--/-- 4 - Jefferson defeats Adams in the U.S. presidential election, but ties with Burr.
1800/--/-- 4 - Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) arrives in the Ohio River valley around this time.
1800/--/-- 4 - Library of Congress founded
1800/--/-- 4 - Madame de Stael publishes The Influence of Literature Upon Society.
1800/--/-- 4 - Napoleon commissions Cambaceres to develop the Napoleonic Code of law.
1800/--/-- 4 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo.
1800/--/-- 4 - Seat of government moves from Philadelphia to Washington, DC
1800/--/-- 4 - The Library of Congress is founded in Washington D.C.
1800/--/-- 4 - The seat of U.S. government is transferred to Washington, D.C.
1800/--/-- 4 - Volta invents electric battery
1801/--/-- 5 *** Bristow, John [Great Grandfather] - Died Pleasant Hill, Tazewell, Virginia
1801/--/-- 5 - Alexander I becomes emperor of Russia after the murder of his father Paul I.
1801/--/-- 5 - Barbary pirates begin the Tripolitan War; a U.S. squadron sails to the Mediterranean.
1801/--/-- 5 - Castlereagh secures passage of the Act of Union, which unites Britain and Ireland.
1801/--/-- 5 - Chemists Proust and Berthollet debate the constancy of chemical composition.
1801/--/-- 5 - Jefferson is selected as the 3rd U.S. president; Burr becomes vice-president.
1801/--/-- 5 - Nelson defeats the Danish fleet at Copenhagen.
1801/--/-- 5 - Robert Fulton demonstrates his 3-man submarine the Nautilus.
1801/--/-- 5 - The British defeat Napoleon's army of Egypt at Alexandria.
1801/--/-- 5 - The Peace of Luneville ends the war between France and Austria.
1801/--/-- 5 - The Union Jack becomes the official flag of the United Kingdom.
1801/--/-- 5 - Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1801/03/03 5 *** Jackson, Rebecca (Bristow) & Bristow, James [Uncle] - Married Woodford County, Kentucky
1801/07/07 5 *** Bristow, Peyton [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow) Old Bristow Farm at Cartwright in Clinton County Kentucky
1802/--/-- 6 *** Bristow, Elizabeth (Prothero) [Sister] - Born to Bristow, Benjamin W. and Miles, Sarah
1802/--/-- 6 - Alexander von Humboldt climbs Mt. Chimborazo, setting a world height record.
1802/--/-- 6 - American artist Benjamin West paints Death on a Pale Horse.
1802/--/-- 6 - Britain returns the island of Minorca to Spain.
1802/--/-- 6 - Napoleon is created First Consul for life.
1802/--/-- 6 - The French capture Haitian leader Toussaint, but are defeated by Christophe.
1802/--/-- 6 - The Treaty of Amiens brings a temporary halt to the French Revolutionary Wars.
1802/09/16 6 *** Price, Mary (Bristow) & Bristow, Peyton [Uncle] - Married Adair County, Kentucky
1802/11/13 6 *** Price, Nancy (Bristow) & Bristow, Thomas [Uncle] - Married Adair County, Kentucky
1803/--/-- 7 - Britain declares war on France, beginning the Napoleonic Wars.
1803/--/-- 7 - Britain establishes a new penal colony on Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
1803/--/-- 7 - Dalton devises table of elements
1803/--/-- 7 - English scientist John Dalton describes his atomic theory.
1803/--/-- 7 - France sells Louisiana to the U.S.
1803/--/-- 7 - Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of Australia.
1803/--/-- 7 - Ohio is inaugurated as the l7th state of the Union.
1803/--/-- 7 - Robert Emmet leads an Irish rebellion in Dublin; he is captured and executed.
1804/--/-- 8 - American politician Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1804/--/-- 8 - Dessalines declares Haitian independence and names himself Emperor Jacques I.
1804/--/-- 8 - English engineer Richard Trevithick builds the first steam locomotive.
1804/--/-- 8 - Francis II assumes the title of emperor of Austria.
1804/--/-- 8 - Fulani leader Usman dan Fodio leads a holy war against the Hausa in Nigeria.
1804/--/-- 8 - Jefferson is reelected as U.S. president; Clinton becomes vice-president.
1804/--/-- 8 - Lewis and Clark expedition encounters Native Americans
1804/--/-- 8 - Lewis and Clarke Expedition
1804/--/-- 8 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark begin exploring the American north-west.
1804/--/-- 8 - Napoleon becomes Emperor
1804/--/-- 8 - Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France.
1804/--/-- 8 - Serbian nationalists revolt against the Turks.
1804/--/-- 8 - Stephen Decatur leads a U.S. navy skirmish into Tripoli harbor.
1804/03/22 8 *** Patterson, Peggy (Bristow) & Bristow, Henry [Uncle] - Married Adair County, Kentucky
1804/12/14 8 *** Bristow, Thomas B. [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1804/12/14 8 *** Bristow, William [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1805/--/-- 9 - American explorers Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean.
1805/--/-- 9 - Austria sues for peace with France at the Treaty of Pressburg.
1805/--/-- 9 - Britain, Austria, Russia and Sweden form a Third Coalition against France.
1805/--/-- 9 - Muhammad Ali is appointed Pasha (governor) of Egypt by the Ottoman sultan.
1805/--/-- 9 - Nelson defeats the Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar, but is killed during the action.
1805/--/-- 9 - The French defeat Austro-Russian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz.
1805/--/-- 9 - The Shawnee Prophet, brother of Tecumseh, begins planning an Indian uprising.
1806/--/-- 10 - Emperor Jacques I is assassinated; Haiti is divided between Christophe and Petion.
1806/--/-- 10 - Napoleon begins the Continental System, closing European ports to British vessels.
1806/--/-- 10 - Napoleon forces the abdication of Francis II; the Holy Roman Empire is dissolved.
1806/--/-- 10 - Noah Webster publishes "Compendious" Dictionary of the English Language"
1806/--/-- 10 - Prussia joins the Coalition against France, but is defeated at Jena-Auerstadt.
1806/--/-- 10 - Revolutionary leader Francisco de Miranda makes an abortive invasion of Venezuela.
1806/--/-- 10 - The British employ Congreve rockets against a French invasion fleet.
1806/--/-- 10 - U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike is sent west to descend the Red River.
1806/--/-- 10 - William Murdock installs gas lighting in a Manchester cotton mill.
1806/08/11 10 *** Bristow, Clement [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1806/10/-- 10 *** Bristow, Clement [1st cousin] - Died
1807/--/-- 11 - Aaron Burr is tried for treason and acquitted.
1807/--/-- 11 - Beethoven completes his Fifth Symphony and begins the Sixth (Pastoral).
1807/--/-- 11 - British chemist Humphry Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium.
1807/--/-- 11 - Congress passes the Embargo Act in response to interference with U.S. shipping.
1807/--/-- 11 - German philosopher Hegel publishes The Phenomenology of the Spirit.
1807/--/-- 11 - Napoleon defeats the Russian armies; Russia and Prussia sue for peace at Tilsit.
1807/--/-- 11 - Portugal refuses to observe the blockade against England; France invades Portugal.
1807/--/-- 11 - Robert Fulton's steamship the Clermont makes its maiden voyage.
1807/--/-- 11 - Sir Humphry Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium
1807/--/-- 11 - The Janissaries depose Sultan Selim III and place Mustafa IV on the Ottoman throne.
1807/--/-- 11 - The U.S. frigate Chesapeake is involved in an incident with a British man-of-war.
1807/--/-- 11 - The slave trade is outlawed throughout the British Empire.
1807/06/11 11 *** Elliott, Clarissa (Bristow) & Bristow, Joseph (Jasper) [Uncle] - Married Shelby County, Kentucky
1808/--/-- 12 *** Bristow, Susannah [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1808/--/-- 12 - Beethoven composes "Fifth Symphony"
1808/--/-- 12 - Congress prohibits importing of African slaves
1808/--/-- 12 - Francisco de Goya paints The Third of May, depicting the cruelty of war.
1808/--/-- 12 - French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac isolates the element boron.
1808/--/-- 12 - German artist Caspar David Friedrich exhibits The Cross in the Mountains.
1808/--/-- 12 - Japanese artist Buncho paints True View of Mount Hiko.
1808/--/-- 12 - John Jacob Astor founds the American Fur Company.
1808/--/-- 12 - Napoleon appoints his brother Joseph as king of Spain.
1808/--/-- 12 - Napoleon occupys Spain
1808/--/-- 12 - The British under Wellington aid Portugal against France in the Peninsular War.
1808/01/20 12 *** Mosby, Lucy (Bristow) & Bristow, Thomas [Uncle] - Married Adair County, Kentucky
1809/--/-- 13 *** Bristow, Henry [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Thomas and Mosby, Lucy (Bristow)
1809/--/-- 13 - Frenchman Nicolas Appert develops the first effective method for canning food.
1809/--/-- 13 - German artists Overbeck and Pforr found the Nazarenes.
1809/--/-- 13 - James Madison (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1809/--/-- 13 - John Stevens' steamboat the Phoenix makes the first ocean-going voyage.
1809/--/-- 13 - Lamarck publishes his theories of evolution in Zoological Philosophy.
1809/--/-- 13 - Metternich draws Austria into the War of the Fifth Coalition against France.
1809/--/-- 13 - Napoleon annexes the Papal States and takes Pope Pius VII prisoner.
1809/--/-- 13 - Russia seizes Finland from Sweden; King Gustav IV Adolf abdicates.
1809/--/-- 13 - The French defeat the Austrians at Wagram; Francis II accepts the Treaty of Schonbrunn.
1810/--/-- 14 - A rebellion against Spain breaks out in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1810/--/-- 14 - American settlers rebel against the Spanish in West Florida.
1810/--/-- 14 - Kamehameha I becomes ruler of Hawaii and establishes the Kamehameha dynasty.
1810/--/-- 14 - Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla leads a rebellion against Spanish rule.
1810/--/-- 14 - Revolutions in Latin America lead to independent nations
1810/--/-- 14 - Separatists movements in Latin America
1810/--/-- 14 - The Krupp arms factory is established at Essen in Germany.
1810/--/-- 14 - Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese army holds the French on the outskirts of Lisbon.
1810/02/05 14 *** Atwood, James & Bristow, Margaret (Atwood) [Aunt] - Married Married in Adair County, Kentucky
1811/--/-- 15 - Bolivar and Miranda lead the Venezuelan congress in a declaration of independence.
1811/--/-- 15 - First steamboat to sail down Mississippi reaches New Orleans
1811/--/-- 15 - George III becomes mentally unstable; the Prince of Wales assumes power as regent.
1811/--/-- 15 - Henri Christophe declares himself king of northern Haiti.
1811/--/-- 15 - Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro develops the concept known as Avogadro's law.
1811/--/-- 15 - Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility"
1811/--/-- 15 - Jose Artigas raises a force to expel the Spanish from the Banda Oriental (Uruguay).
1811/--/-- 15 - Mexican rebel leader Hidalgo y Costilla is captured and executed.
1811/--/-- 15 - Native Americans defeated in Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory
1811/--/-- 15 - The Luddites riot in England against the mechanization of the textile industry.
1811/--/-- 15 - The building of the National Road, the first U.S. federal highway, begins in Maryland.
1811/--/-- 15 - The first rowing race in the United States is held in New York.
1811/--/-- 15 - The ruling Mameluke aristocracy is massacred in Cairo by Muhammad Ali.
1811/--/-- 15 - William Henry Harrison defeats the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
1811/08/29 15 *** Bristow, Nancy (Holsapple) [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1812/--/-- 16 - An earthquake destroys Caracas in Venezuela, killing 12,000.
1812/--/-- 16 - English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson illustrates the Tour of Dr. Syntax.
1812/--/-- 16 - General William Hull surrenders Detroit to the British.
1812/--/-- 16 - Georges Cuvier develops his theory of catastrophism through the study of fossils.
1812/--/-- 16 - Grimm's Fairy Tales are published in Germany.
1812/--/-- 16 - John Nash begins the oriental conversion of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
1812/--/-- 16 - Louisiana is inaugurated as the 18th state of the Union.
1812/--/-- 16 - Napoleon defeated in Russia
1812/--/-- 16 - Napoleon invades Russia with 450,000 men.
1812/--/-- 16 - Napoleon's army retreats from Moscow; only 40,000 men reach France.
1812/--/-- 16 - Rebel leader Morelos y Pavon defeats the Mexican royalist forces at Oaxaca.
1812/--/-- 16 - Spanish forces defeat Bolivar and Miranda in Venezuela; Miranda is imprisoned.
1812/--/-- 16 - Stephen Decatur's frigate United States defeats the British frigate Macedonian.
1812/--/-- 16 - Swiss explorer Jakob Burckhardt rediscovers the ancient city of Petra.
1812/--/-- 16 - Territorial and shipping disputes lead to the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1812/--/-- 16 - The French defeat the Russians at Borodino; Napoleon occupies Moscow.
1812/--/-- 16 - The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution defeats 2 British frigates.
1812/--/-- 16 - The ancient city of Petra (now in present-day Jordan) is rediscovered by Johann Burckhardt.
1812/--/-- 16 - The first coal gas generating station is chartered in London to provide gas lighting.
1812/--/-- 16 - War of 1812 Begins
1812/--/-- 16 - Wellington defeats the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.
1813/--/-- 17 - 14 Luddites are hanged at York in England.
1813/--/-- 17 - English novelist Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1813/--/-- 17 - James Wilkinson captures a fort at Mobile, the last Spanish possession in West Florida.
1813/--/-- 17 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Leipzig by the Sixth Coalition.
1813/--/-- 17 - Oliver Hazard Perry's ships destroy the British fleet on Lake Erie.
1813/--/-- 17 - British Indian leader Tecumseh is killed in the Battle of the Thames.
1813/--/-- 17 - Rebel forces invade Venezuela and capture Caracas; Bolivar is declared the Liberator.
1813/--/-- 17 - Robert Southey is made poet laureate of England.
1813/--/-- 17 - Wellington defeats the French in Spain at Vitoria and invades southern France.
1813/--/-- 17 - William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames.
1813/03/08 17 *** Bristow, Margaret (Smith) [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1813/07/28 17 *** Bristow, Martha [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Leven
1814/--/-- 18 - Actor Edmund Kean makes his debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
1814/--/-- 18 - Andrew Jackson annihilates the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1814/--/-- 18 - Andrew Jackson crushes Creek Resistance in South
1814/--/-- 18 - British forces burn Washington, D.C., but are repulsed at Fort McHenry.
1814/--/-- 18 - Coalition armies invade France; Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to the island of Elba.
1814/--/-- 18 - French artist Ingres paints The Grand Odalisque.
1814/--/-- 18 - George Stephenson constructs his first steam locomotive.
1814/--/-- 18 - Louis XVIII assumes the French throne.
1814/--/-- 18 - New England states discuss their secession from the Union at the Hartford Convention.
1814/--/-- 18 - Pope Pius VII returns to Rome; the Jesuit order is reestablished.
1814/--/-- 18 - The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
1814/--/-- 18 - Treaty of Ghent
1814/--/-- 18 - U.S. forces under Thomas Macdonough destroy the British fleet on Lake Champlain.
1814/04/20 18 *** Culver, Nathan & Bristow, Nancy (Culver) [Aunt] - Married
1815/--/-- 19 *** Bristow, James [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1815/--/-- 19 - French Monarchy re-established
1815/--/-- 19 - Napoleon escapes from Elba and marches on Paris during the Hundred Days.
1815/--/-- 19 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo; he is exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
1815/--/-- 19 - The Americans defeat the British at New Orleans before news of peace arrives.
1815/--/-- 19 - The Barbary States sue for peace with the U.S.
1815/--/-- 19 - The Spanish army reconquers Venezuela; Bolivar flees to Jamaica.
1815/--/-- 19 - The Spanish capture and execute the Mexican rebel leader Morelos y Pavon.
1815/--/-- 19 - The first Gurkha regiment is formed by the British army.
1815/--/-- 19 - War of 1812 Ends
1815/04/27 19 *** Bristow, Elizabeth [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Leven
1816/--/-- 20 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville is performed in Rome.
1816/--/-- 20 - Indiana is inaugurated as the 19th state of the Union.
1816/--/-- 20 - Maria I of Portugal dies; she is succeeded by John VI who remains in exile in Brazil.
1816/--/-- 20 - Nepal is made a protectorate of British India.
1816/--/-- 20 - Shaka begins establishing the Zulu empire in South Africa.
1816/--/-- 20 - The British Museum buys the Elgin Marbles (smuggled from Greece by Lord Elgin).
1816/--/-- 20 - The United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (Argentina) declare independence.
1816/11/06 20 *** Sparks, Elizabeth (Bristow) & Bristow, Thomas [Uncle] - Married
1817/--/-- 21 *** Bristow, John [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1817/--/-- 21 - Construction begins on Erie Canal in New York
1817/--/-- 21 - Construction of the Erie Canal begins in New York State.
1817/--/-- 21 - First Seminole War
1817/--/-- 21 - French physician Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
1817/--/-- 21 - James Monroe (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1817/--/-- 21 - Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins defeat the Spanish in Chile.
1817/--/-- 21 - Mississippi is inaugurated as the 20th state of the Union.
1817/--/-- 21 - Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th U.S. president; Tompkins becomes vice-president.
1817/--/-- 21 - Sir Walter Scott writes the Scottish adventure novel Rob Roy.
1817/05/27 21 *** Bristow, Ballard [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Leven and Irwin, Nancy (Bristow)
1818/--/-- 22 - Arthur Schopenhauer publishes The World as Will and Representation.
1818/--/-- 22 - Bernardo O'Higgins becomes the supreme director of independent Chile.
1818/--/-- 22 - Composer Franz Schubert becomes the music teacher to Count Esterhazy's family.
1818/--/-- 22 - English chemist Sir Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
1818/--/-- 22 - Illinois is inaugurated as the 21st state of the Union.
1818/--/-- 22 - John Keats "Endymion"
1818/--/-- 22 - Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley publishes the horror novel Frankenstein.
1818/--/-- 22 - Sir John Ross sails in search of the Northwest Passage.
1818/--/-- 22 - Thomas Love Peacock publishes his comic novel Nightmare Abbey.
1818/--/-- 22 - Treaty with Britain sets 49th parallel
1819/--/-- 23 *** Bristow, Leven [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1819/--/-- 23 - Alabama is inaugurated as the 22nd state of the Union.
1819/--/-- 23 - American artist Washington Allston paints Moonlit Landscape.
1819/--/-- 23 - Bolivar defeats the Spanish in Colombia at the Battle of Boyaca.
1819/--/-- 23 - Lord Byron begins his satirical poem Don Juan.
1819/--/-- 23 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles acquires Singapore for the East India Company.
1819/--/-- 23 - Spain surrenders East and West Florida to the U.S. in the Adams-Onis Treaty.
1819/--/-- 23 - The Prado Museum is inaugurated in Madrid.
1819/--/-- 23 - The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
1819/--/-- 23 - Treaty with Spain sets boundaries
1820/--/-- 24 *** Bristow, Martha (Vinson) [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, William and Beck, Martha Sallie (Bristow)
1820/--/-- 24 - Carbonari Italian nationalists rebel against the rule of Ferdinand I in Naples.
1820/--/-- 24 - English poet John Keats writes Ode To a Nightingale.
1820/--/-- 24 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Prometheus Unbound.
1820/--/-- 24 - Fed offers land at $1.25 an acre
1820/--/-- 24 - French navigator Dumont d'Urville discovers the Venus de Milo on the island of Melos.
1820/--/-- 24 - French poet Alphonse de Lamartine publishes Meditations Poetiques.
1820/--/-- 24 - Henri Christophe commits suicide; Haiti is united under Jean Pierre Boyer.
1820/--/-- 24 - Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes the virtual dictator of Argentina.
1820/--/-- 24 - Maine is inaugurated as the 23rd state of the Union.
1820/--/-- 24 - Missouri Compromise
1820/--/-- 24 - Percy Bysshe Shelly "Prometheus Unbound"
1820/--/-- 24 - Russian Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen sights land in the Antarctic.
1820/--/-- 24 - Stephen H. Long explores the Rocky Mountain region.
1820/--/-- 24 - The Missouri Compromise admits Missouri to the Union as a slave state.
1820/--/-- 24 - The Prince Regent becomes King George IV on the death of George III.
1820/--/-- 24 - The first American missionaries are admitted to Hawaii.
1820/--/-- 24 - The first free American slaves to be resettled in Africa land in Liberia.
1820/--/-- 24 - U.S. navy hero Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel.
1820/--/-- 24 - Washington Irving publishes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
1820/10/11 24 *** Long, Ann (Bristow) & Bristow, Samuel [Brother] - Married Franklin County, Kentucky
1821/--/-- 25 - American captain John Davis is the first to land on the continent of Antarctica.
1821/--/-- 25 - Bolivar forms Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama).
1821/--/-- 25 - Brazil annexes the Banda Oriental (Uruguay).
1821/--/-- 25 - English landscape artist John Constable paints The Hay Wain.
1821/--/-- 25 - King John VI is reinstated on the Portuguese throne.
1821/--/-- 25 - Mexican Independence
1821/--/-- 25 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation
1821/--/-- 25 - Missouri Compromise
1821/--/-- 25 - Missouri is inaugurated as the 24th state of the Union.
1821/--/-- 25 - Napoleon dies on Saint Helena.
1821/--/-- 25 - Revolutionary general San Martin enters Lima and declares Peru independent.
1821/--/-- 25 - Revolutionary leader Iturbide declares Mexican independence from Spain.
1821/--/-- 25 - Simon Bolivar defeats the Spanish forces in Venezuela and Ecuador.
1821/--/-- 25 - The Cherokee Indian Sequoya develops the Cherokee written language.
1821/--/-- 25 - The Greek War of Independence begins against Turkey.
1821/--/-- 25 - Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater is published.
1821/05/14 25 *** Lewis, Sarah & Bristow, William [Brother] - Married married her cousin, William Bristow
1821/07/09 25 - George IV crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Char
1821/07/24 25 *** Prothero, John & Bristow, Ann (Prothero) [Sister] - Married Shelby County, Kentucky
1821/12/03 25 *** Bristow, Francis Marion [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Leven
1822/--/-- 26 *** Bristow, James [Uncle] - Died
1822/--/-- 26 *** Bristow, Peyton [1st cousin] - Moved to the White River in Indiana, married Annie Owens, had 2 sons and 3 daughters
1822/--/-- 26 *** Bristow, Tabitha (Slapp) [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Leven
1822/--/-- 26 *** Owens, Annie (Bristow) & Bristow, Peyton [1st cousin] - Married
1822/--/-- 26 - American surgeon William Beaumont begins his study of the gastric process.
1822/--/-- 26 - Antonio Jose de Sucre defeats the Spanish in Ecuador at the Battle of Pichincha.
1822/--/-- 26 - British statesman Lord Castlereagh commits suicide.
1822/--/-- 26 - Denmark Vesey leads a slave revolt in Charleston; 35 blacks are executed.
1822/--/-- 26 - Dom Pedro, son of Portuguese King John VI, declares Brazil independent.
1822/--/-- 26 - Egyptian leader Muhammad Ali completes the conquest of northern Sudan.
1822/--/-- 26 - French scholar Jean Francois Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics.
1823/--/-- 27 *** Bristow, Martha Patsey (Burchett) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Peyton and Owens, Annie (Bristow) Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana
1823/--/-- 27 - Charles Babbage begins work on his difference engine, a precursor of the computer.
1823/--/-- 27 - Charles Lamb publishes his Essays of Elia in The London Magazine.
1823/--/-- 27 - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof fabric used in mackintosh raincoats.
1823/--/-- 27 - General Santa Anna leads a coup against Mexican Emperor Agustin I (Iturbide).
1823/--/-- 27 - James Fenimore Cooper publishes the first volume of The Leatherstocking Tales.
1823/--/-- 27 - Japanese artist Hokusai begins a series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
1823/--/-- 27 - Ludwig van Beethoven completes his 9th Symphony.
1823/--/-- 27 - Monroe Doctrine
1823/--/-- 27 - Rugby football originates at Rugby School in England.
1823/--/-- 27 - The Monroe Doctrine warns Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
1823/03/13 27 *** Owens, Sally (Bristow) & Bristow, William [1st cousin] - Married Wayne County, KY
1823/12/22 27 *** Lawe, Lydia (Bristow) & Bristow, William N. P. [1st cousin] - Married Marion County, Indiana
1824/--/-- 28 - De Sucre defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Ayacucho, liberating Peru.
1824/--/-- 28 - Disputes over the border of India lead to war between Britain and Burma.
1824/--/-- 28 - English poet Lord Byron travels to Greece to aid the patriots but dies of a fever.
1824/--/-- 28 - Jons Jakob Berzelius discovers the element silicon about this time.
1824/--/-- 28 - Sadi Carnot lays the foundations for the second law of thermodynamics.
1824/--/-- 28 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 28 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 28 - The National Gallery is founded in London.
1824/09/30 28 *** Prothero, Thomas & Bristow, Elizabeth (Prothero) [Sister] - Married Floyd County, Indiana
1825/--/-- 29 - Adams is inaugurated as the 6th U.S. president; Calhoun becomes vice-president.
1825/--/-- 29 - American painter Thomas Cole founds the Hudson River School about this time.
1825/--/-- 29 - English literary critic William Hazlitt publishes The Spirit of the Age.
1825/--/-- 29 - John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1825/--/-- 29 - Kappa Alpha, the first social fraternity, is formed at Union College, New York.
1825/--/-- 29 - Mountain man James Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake.
1825/--/-- 29 - Nicholas I is made emperor of Russia; the Decembrists revolt breaks out.
1825/--/-- 29 - The Central American Federation declares its independence from Mexico.
1825/--/-- 29 - Thomas Cole establishes Hudson River school of landscape painting
1825/--/-- 29 - Uruguayan leader Lavalleja precipitates a war between Brazil and Argentina.
1825/--/-- 29 - Welsh reformer Robert Owen founds a community at New Harmony, Indiana.
1826/--/-- 30 - American engineer John Stevens builds the first U.S. steam locomotive.
1826/--/-- 30 - Andre Ampere publishes his Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomenon.
1826/--/-- 30 - British engineer Thomas Telford builds the Menai suspension bridge in Wales.
1826/--/-- 30 - Felix Mendelssohn composes his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at age 17.
1826/--/-- 30 - German poet Heine begins the publication of Reisebilder (Travel Pictures).
1826/--/-- 30 - Ohm's law establishes the relationship of electrical voltage, current and resistance.
1826/--/-- 30 - Revolutionary leader Antonio Jose de Sucre is elected first president of Bolivia.
1826/12/02 30 *** Bristow, Juliana (Hammose) [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Leven
1827/--/-- 31 *** Bristow, Engelina (Bristow) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Peyton and Owens, Annie (Bristow)
1827/--/-- 31 - American frontiersman Davy Crockett is elected to Congress.
1827/--/-- 31 - Audubon publishes " Birds of America"
1827/--/-- 31 - Britain, France and Russia demand that Turkey ends the war with Greece.
1827/--/-- 31 - English inventor John Walker introduces the first friction matches.
1827/--/-- 31 - French landscape artist Camille Corot paints the Bridge at Narni.
1827/--/-- 31 - Mountain man Jedediah Smith pioneers an overland route to California.
1827/--/-- 31 - Ornithologist John James Audubon begins the publication of his Birds of America.
1827/--/-- 31 - The Allied navies destroy the Turkish and Egyptian fleet at Navarino in Greece.
1827/07/11 31 *** Smith, William & Bristow, Martha [1st cousin] - Married Shelby County, Kentucky
1828/--/-- 32 *** Miles, Sarah [Mother] - Died
1828/--/-- 32 - Composer Frederic Chopin begins concert tours at age 18.
1828/--/-- 32 - Greeks win War of Independence from Ottoman Empire
1828/--/-- 32 - Lavalleja's Thirty-three Immortals achieve Uruguayan independence from Brazil.
1828/--/-- 32 - Noah Webster publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1828/--/-- 32 - Rammohun Roy founds the Brahmo Samaj religious society in India.
1828/--/-- 32 - The Duke of Wellington becomes prime minister of Britain.
1828/--/-- 32 - Virtuoso violin player Niccolo Paganini performs in Vienna.
1829/--/-- 33 *** Bristow, William [1st cousin] - Died
1829/--/-- 33 - Andrew Jackson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1829/--/-- 33 - Delacroix paints "Death of Sardanapalus"
1829/--/-- 33 - Explorer Charles Sturt charts the Murray River in Australia.
1829/--/-- 33 - Jackson introduces spoils system
1829/--/-- 33 - Jackson is inaugurated as the 7th U.S. president; Calhoun continues as vice-president.
1829/--/-- 33 - Lord Bentinck bans the Indian custom of suttee (the burning of widows).
1829/--/-- 33 - Louis Braille publishes his braille system of writing for the blind.
1829/--/-- 33 - Serbia becomes an autonomous principality under Prince Milos.
1829/--/-- 33 - Sir Robert Peel reorganizes the London police; his policemen are nicknamed Bobbies.
1829/--/-- 33 - Sir Robert Peel sponsers the Catholic Emancipation Act in Britain.
1829/--/-- 33 - The convict-free British colony of Western Australia is founded.
1829/--/-- 33 - The first U.S. encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, is begun.
1829/01/22 33 *** Dunn, Martha (Bristow) & Bristow, James [1st cousin] - Married Marion County, Indiana
1829/02/08 33 *** Davis, Martha (Bristow) & Bristow, Thomas B. [1st cousin] - Married
1829/03/29 33 *** Holsapple, William M. & Bristow, Nancy (Holsapple) [1st cousin] - Married Cumberland (now Clinton) county, KY
1830/--/-- 34 *** Bristow, John Owens [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Peyton and Owens, Annie (Bristow) Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana
1830/--/-- 34 *** Bristow, Sarah (Acree) [1st cousin] - Died
1830/--/-- 34 - Belgium asserts its independence from the Netherlands.
1830/--/-- 34 - British geologist Charles Lyell begins publishing his Principles of Geology.
1830/--/-- 34 - Fructuoso Rivera is elected as first president of Uruguay.
1830/--/-- 34 - George Catlin begins his paintings of North American Indians about this time.
1830/--/-- 34 - Greece becomes independent from Turkey.
1830/--/-- 34 - Hector Berlioz composes his first major work the Symphonie Fantastique.
1830/--/-- 34 - Indian Removal Act moves eastern Indians west of Mississippi
1830/--/-- 34 - Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church at Fayette, New York.
1830/--/-- 34 - Louis Philippe is chosen as the citizen king of France.
1830/--/-- 34 - Philipon publishes the satirical weekly La Caricature, with contributions by Daumier.
1830/--/-- 34 - Polish rebellions are suppressed by Russia.
1830/--/-- 34 - Simon Bolivar resigns as dictator of Gran Colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- 34 - The Indian Removal Act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to Indian Territory.
1830/--/-- 34 - The July Revolution in France forces the abdication of Charles X.
1830/--/-- 34 - The Women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book is published in the U.S.
1830/--/-- 34 - The locomotive Best Friend of Charleston is in use on the first U.S. railroad.
1830/--/-- 34 - William IV succeeds George IV as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1830/03/22 34 *** Bristow, Vespasian T. [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Thomas B. and Davis, Martha (Bristow)
1830/09/-- 34 *** Bristow, Richard Perry [1st cousin] - Born to Bristow, Leven
1831/--/-- 35 - British naturalist Charles Darwin sails to South America aboard H.M.S. Beagle.
1831/--/-- 35 - Cyrus McCormick invents a mechanical reaper.
1831/--/-- 35 - Explorer James Clark Ross determines the position of the north magnetic pole.
1831/--/-- 35 - Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini founds the Young Italy movement.
1831/--/-- 35 - Jose Antonio Paez becomes the first president of Venezuela.
1831/--/-- 35 - King Louis Philippe founds the French foreign legion.
1831/--/-- 35 - Leopold I is selected as the first king of Belgium.
1831/--/-- 35 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his theory of electromagnetic induction.
1831/--/-- 35 - Nat Turner leads a black slave revolt in Virginia; he is captured and hanged.
1831/--/-- 35 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin completes his masterpiece Eugene Onegin.
1831/--/-- 35 - The crown colony of British Guiana (Guyana) is formed.
1831/--/-- 35 - Victor Hugo "Hunchback of Notre Dame"
1831/--/-- 35 - William Lloyd Garrison publishes the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.
1831/10/31 35 *** Bristow, Felicia Ann (Hurt) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Thomas B. and Davis, Martha (Bristow)
1831/11/17 35 *** Butler, K. & Bristow, Sarah (Butler) [1st cousin] - Married Marion County, Indiana
1832/--/-- 36 *** Bristow, James [1st cousin] - Died
1832/--/-- 36 - George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) publishes her first novel Indiana.
1832/--/-- 36 - Japanese artist Hiroshige begins work on Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido.
1832/--/-- 36 - Samuel F.B. Morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph
1832/--/-- 36 - The Black Hawk War is the last major Indian conflict east of the Mississippi River.
1832/--/-- 36 - The Democratic party is formally established as a national organization.
1832/09/05 36 *** Smith, Joseph & Bristow, Margaret (Smith) [1st cousin] - Married Marion County, Indiana
1832/09/30 36 *** Bristow, Leven [Uncle] - was living in Adair county KY.
1833/--/-- 37 *** Bristow, Susannah (Witt) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Peyton and Owens, Annie (Bristow)
1833/--/-- 37 - A Bavarian prince becomes King Otto of Greece.
1833/--/-- 37 - Britain occupies the Falkland Islands.
1833/--/-- 37 - Carl von Clausewitz's classic study of warfare On War is published.
1833/--/-- 37 - General Santa Anna becomes president of Mexico.
1833/--/-- 37 - Isabella II succeeds Ferdinand VII, King of Spain; the Carlist Wars begin.
1833/--/-- 37 - President Jackson withdraws federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1833/--/-- 37 - Santa Anna elected President of Mexico
1833/--/-- 37 - The American Anti-Slavery Society is inaugurated in Philadelphia.
1833/--/-- 37 - Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published in English.
1833/08/27 37 *** Powell, Margaret (Bristow) [Grandmother] - Died Johnson County, Indiana Mount Pleasant Cemetery
1833/10/29 37 *** Bristow, James Monroe [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Thomas B.
1834/--/-- 38 *** Bristow, Joseph (Jasper) [Uncle] - Died
1834/--/-- 38 - A Quadruple Alliance is formed to aid Isabella II of Spain and Maria II of Portugal.
1834/--/-- 38 - American inventor Jacob Perkins patents the first practical ice-making machine.
1834/--/-- 38 - British politician Sir Robert Peel founds the Conservative Party.
1834/--/-- 38 - Indian Territory founded
1834/--/-- 38 - Slavery abolished in British Empire
1834/--/-- 38 - The Carlist Wars resume in Spain.
1834/--/-- 38 - The Hansom cab is designed; it becomes the standard horse-drawn cab in London.
1834/--/-- 38 - The Whig party is formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party.
1834/12/18 38 *** Bristow, Benjamin W. [Father] - Died Adair County Kentucky
1834/12/18 38 *** Bristow, William [Uncle] - Died killed by a falling tree in the woods along with his brother, Ben Cartwright, Clinton County, Kentucky Bristow Cemetary, Cartwright
1835/--/-- 39 *** Bristow, James Clawson [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Peyton and Owens, Annie (Bristow) Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana
1835/--/-- 39 - American settlers begin the Texas Revolution against Mexican rule.
1835/--/-- 39 - Attempts to move the Seminole Indians begins the second Seminole War.
1835/--/-- 39 - Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen publishes Tales Told for Children.
1835/--/-- 39 - French politician Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America.
1835/--/-- 39 - James Gordon Bennett founds the New York Herald newspaper.
1835/--/-- 39 - Second Seminole War in Florida
1836/--/-- 40 - American educator William Holmes McGuffey begins editing his Readers.
1836/--/-- 40 - American inventor Samuel Colt begins manufacturing the first revolver.
1836/--/-- 40 - American literary figure Ralph Waldo Emerson founds the Transcendental Club.
1836/--/-- 40 - Arkansas is inaugurated as the 25th state of the Union.
1836/--/-- 40 - Boer (Afrikaner) settlers begin the Great Trek into the South African interior.
1836/--/-- 40 - Bolivian president Santa Cruz invades Peru and forms the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
1836/--/-- 40 - Charles Barry designs Westminster Palace in the Gothic Revival style.
1836/--/-- 40 - Charles Dickens publishes his first popular work The Pickwick Papers.
1836/--/-- 40 - John C. Calhoun supports the gag rules to prevent Congress debating slavery.
1836/--/-- 40 - Republic of Texas forms
1836/--/-- 40 - Russian author Nikolai Gogol writes his play The Inspector General.
1836/--/-- 40 - Santa Anna's army storms the Alamo in Texas, killing the defenders.
1836/--/-- 40 - Texans under Sam Houston defeat Santa Anna at the San Jacinto River.
1836/--/-- 40 - Texas Revolution
1836/--/-- 40 - The Arc de Triomphe, the world's largest triumphal arch, is completed in Paris.
1836/01/02 40 *** Bristow, Thomas P. [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Thomas B. and Davis, Martha (Bristow)
1836/06/06 40 *** Bryant, Phebe (Bristow) & Bristow, Cornelius [1st cousin] - Married Marion County, Indiana
1836/10/13 40 *** Holsapple, Virginia "Jeannie" (Lawhorn) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Holsapple, William M. and Bristow, Nancy (Holsapple) Forest Cottage, Clinton County Kentucky
1836/12/29 40 *** Clary, David R. & Bristow, Mary P. (Clary) [1st cousin] - Married Marion County, Indiana
1837/--/-- 41 *** Bristow, Peyton [1st cousin] - returned to Clinton County KY after the death of his wife in Indiana and his father and Uncle in Ky. Took care of his widowed mother.
1837/--/-- 41 - Britain's refusal to grant more home rule in Canada leads to the Rebellions of 1837.
1837/--/-- 41 - British scientist Charles Wheatstone designs an electric telegraph system.
1837/--/-- 41 - Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"
1837/--/-- 41 - Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype method for taking permanent photographs.
1837/--/-- 41 - Martin Van Buren (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1837/--/-- 41 - Michigan is inaugurated as the 26th state of the Union.
1837/--/-- 41 - Mikhail Lermontov writes the Death of a Poet, inspired by the death of Pushkin.
1837/--/-- 41 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is killed in a duel.
1837/--/-- 41 - Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle publishes The French Revolution.
1837/--/-- 41 - Seminole Indian leader Osceola is captured.
1837/--/-- 41 - Van Buren is inaugurated as the 8th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1837/--/-- 41 - William IV dies; Victoria succeeds him as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1837/06/-- 41 - Victoria succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1837/06/20 41 *** Logan, John Allen & Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan) [1st cousin] - Married Shelby County, Kentucky
1838/--/-- 42 - Boer (Afrikaner) leader Andries Pretorius defeats the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River.
1838/--/-- 42 - British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner paints the Fighting Temeraire.
1838/--/-- 42 - Charles Wilkes heads a U.S. Navy expedition to Antarctica.
1838/--/-- 42 - Cherokee "Trail of Tears"
1838/--/-- 42 - French philosopher Auguste Comte inaugurates the science of sociology.
1838/--/-- 42 - Iowa Territory organized
1838/--/-- 42 - John Deere develops a steel-tipped plow capable of turning heavy prairie soil.
1838/--/-- 42 - Samuel F.B. Morse develops the Morse code for electric telegraph systems.
1838/--/-- 42 - Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan makes the first pedal-driven bicycle.
1838/06/08 42 - Victoria crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Will
1839/--/-- 43 *** Bristow, Martha (Vinson) [1st cousin] - Died
1839/--/-- 43 *** Logan, Richard Francis [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1839/--/-- 43 - American inventor Charles Goodyear develops the vulcanization of rubber.
1839/--/-- 43 - Chile defeats Santa Cruz's Peru-Bolivian Confederation at the Battle of Yungay.
1839/--/-- 43 - Daguerre invents first form of photography
1839/--/-- 43 - French novelist Stendhal writes The Charterhouse of Parma.
1839/--/-- 43 - Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt embarks on a concert tour of Europe.
1839/--/-- 43 - Jose Rafael Carrera captures Guatemala; the Central American Federation is dissolved.
1839/--/-- 43 - Stephens and Catherwood explore Maya ruins in the Yucatan.
1839/--/-- 43 - The Anglo-Afghan Wars begin in Afghanistan.
1839/--/-- 43 - The Opium Wars begin between Britain and China.
1839/--/-- 43 - Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden formulate the cell theory.
1840/--/-- 44 *** Burchett, Joseph & Bristow, Martha Patsey (Burchett) [1st cousin once removed] - Married Clinton County, KY
1840/--/-- 44 - Civil War breaks out in Uruguay between the Colorados (reds) and Blancos (whites).
1840/--/-- 44 - Edgar Allen Poe: "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
1840/--/-- 44 - French philosopher and anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon writes What is Property.
1840/--/-- 44 - Horatio Greenough's classical statue of George Washington is strongly criticized.
1840/--/-- 44 - Maori chiefs sign over their tribal lands to Queen Victoria in the Treaty of Waitangi.
1840/--/-- 44 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
1840/--/-- 44 - Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of ice ages.
1840/--/-- 44 - The Liberty party is founded in Albany, N.Y. based exclusively on an antislavery platform.
1840/--/-- 44 - The Underground Railroad is active in helping escaping slaves in the U.S.
1840/--/-- 44 - The first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued in London.
1840/--/-- 44 - The metric system of measurement is reinstated in France.
1840/--/-- 44 - Upper and Lower Canada are united in the single Province of Canada.
1840/--/-- 44 - Upper and lower Canada united
1840/04/30 44 *** Smith, Margaret (Bristow) & Bristow, Thomas B. [1st cousin] - Married
1841/--/-- 45 - Edgar Allan Poe writes an early detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
1841/--/-- 45 - George Grey is appointed governor of South Australia to help save the colony.
1841/--/-- 45 - Harrison is inaugurated as the 9th U.S. president; Tyler becomes vice-president.
1841/--/-- 45 - Horace Greeley founds the New York Tribune newspaper.
1841/--/-- 45 - Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi creates the role of Giselle.
1841/--/-- 45 - John Tyler (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1841/--/-- 45 - Muhammad Ali defeats the Ottomans and becomes the hereditary ruler of Egypt.
1841/--/-- 45 - New Zealand is established as a separate British colony.
1841/--/-- 45 - President Harrison dies; John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th U.S. president
1841/--/-- 45 - Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne resigns; he is succeeded by Sir Robert Peel.
1841/--/-- 45 - William Henry Harrison (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1841/--/-- 45 - William Henry Talbot patents the calotype photographic process.
1841/12/05 45 *** Bristow, Martha [1st cousin] - Died
1842/--/-- 46 *** Bristow, Sarah Ann (Johnson) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow) UNKNOWN
1842/--/-- 46 *** Logan, John Allen [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1842/--/-- 46 - 10-hour day for children under 12 in Massachusetts
1842/--/-- 46 - American explorer John C. Fremont begins surveying the Oregon Trail.
1842/--/-- 46 - American showman P.T. Barnum discovers the 40-inch midget Tom Thumb.
1842/--/-- 46 - Austrian physicist Christian Johann Doppler predicts the Doppler effect.
1842/--/-- 46 - China cedes Hong Kong to Britain.
1842/--/-- 46 - China is defeated in the first Opium War; Chinese ports are opened to British trade.
1842/--/-- 46 - Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti writes his opera Don Pasquale.
1842/01/06 46 *** Davis, Catharine (Bristow) & Bristow, Henry [1st cousin] - Married Johnson County, Indiana
1842/08/30 46 *** Jones, Mary (Bristow) & Bristow, Francis Peyton [1st cousin] - Married Shelby County, Kentucky
1842/09/02 46 *** Bristow, Nancy (Culver) [Aunt] - Died
1843/--/-- 47 - A coup in Greece forces King Otto to accept a constitutional monarchy.
1843/--/-- 47 - Black American Sojourner Truth begins her reform mission.
1843/--/-- 47 - Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard publishes Either/Or.
1843/--/-- 47 - English art critic John Ruskin begins publishing Modern Painters.
1843/--/-- 47 - German astronomer Samuel Schwabe discovers the sunspot cycle.
1844/--/-- 48 - Alexander Dumas "The Three Muskateers"
1844/--/-- 48 - Eastern Hispaniola declares independence from Haiti as the Dominican Republic.
1844/--/-- 48 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas pere) publishes The Three Musketeers.
1844/--/-- 48 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, is killed by a lynch mob.
1844/--/-- 48 - Samuel F.B. Morse establishes the first U.S. telegraph link.
1844/--/-- 48 - Settlers in New South Wales force Britain to stop sending convicts to the colony.
1844/--/-- 48 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in England.
1844/--/-- 48 - William Henry Talbot begins his Pencil of Nature, the first book of photographs.
1845/--/-- 49 *** Bristow, Peyton [1st cousin] - moved to St. Clair County Missouri
1845/--/-- 49 - American author Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century.
1845/--/-- 49 - British archaeologist Austen Layard excavates the sites of Nimrud and Nineveh.
1845/--/-- 49 - Civil War ends in Peru; Castilla Ramon is elected as president.
1845/--/-- 49 - Failure of the potato crop leads to a famine in Ireland.
1845/--/-- 49 - Florida is inaugurated as the 27th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 49 - French artists Gavarni and Grandville begin designing the first elaborate posters.
1845/--/-- 49 - German composer Robert Schumann writes his Piano Concerto in A minor.
1845/--/-- 49 - German scientist Alexander von Humboldt publishes the first volume of his Kosmos.
1845/--/-- 49 - James K. Polk (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1845/--/-- 49 - Polk is inaugurated as the 11th U.S. president; Dallas becomes vice-president
1845/--/-- 49 - Sir John Franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.
1845/--/-- 49 - The Republic of Texas becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 49 - The Republic of Texas is annexed by the U.S.; it becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 49 - The Sikh Wars begin in British India.
1845/--/-- 49 - The first clipper ship the Rainbow is built in New York.
1845/--/-- 49 - The term Manifest Destiny is first used in defense of U.S. territorial ambitions.
1846/--/-- 50 *** Bristow, Susannah [1st cousin] - Died
1846/--/-- 50 *** Logan, James Richard [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1846/--/-- 50 - Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone in Paris.
1846/--/-- 50 - American dentist William Morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 50 - German astronomer Johann Galle makes the first observation of the planet Neptune.
1846/--/-- 50 - German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach publishes The Essence of Religion.
1846/--/-- 50 - Henry Creswicke Rawlinson deciphers the Mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 50 - Iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the Union.
1846/--/-- 50 - Mexican War
1846/--/-- 50 - Mormon trek from Navoo to Salt Lake City
1846/--/-- 50 - Oregon boundary with Canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 50 - The Christy Minstrels begin performing in New York.
1846/--/-- 50 - The Mexican War begins over the U.S. annexation of Texas.
1846/--/-- 50 - The Mexican government collapses; Santa Anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 50 - The Smithsonian Institution is created by Congress.
1846/--/-- 50 - The border between the U.S. and Canada is established, settling the Oregon Question.
1846/--/-- 50 - U.S. forces under Stephen Watts Kearny occupy New Mexico.
1846/--/-- 50 - U.S. forces under Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at Palo Alto and Monterrey.
1846/--/-- 50 - Writer and artist Edward Lear publishes A Book of Nonsense.
1846/09/06 50 *** Bristow, Jesse Leven [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow)
1847/--/-- 51 - American missionary Marcus Whitman is killed by Cayuse Indians in Oregon.
1847/--/-- 51 - American oceanographer Matthew Maury publishes his first Wind and Current Charts.
1847/--/-- 51 - Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte publishes Wuthering Heights.
1847/--/-- 51 - English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray begins Vanity Fair.
1847/--/-- 51 - Honore de Balzac completes La Comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 51 - Italian statesman Cavour founds the liberal newspaper Il Risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 51 - Maria Mitchell, the first woman astronomer in America, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 51 - Mormons and the Indians
1847/--/-- 51 - Scott enters Mexico City after a series of battles; Mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 51 - Sir James Simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 51 - Taylor defeats Santa Anna's Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista.
1847/--/-- 51 - The African slave colony of Liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 51 - The American Medical Association is founded.
1847/--/-- 51 - The Mormons under Brigham Young found Salt Lake City.
1847/--/-- 51 - The U.S. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 51 - U.S. forces under Stockton, Fremont and Kearny occupy California.
1847/--/-- 51 - U.S. forces under Winfield Scott land at Veracruz and advance on Mexico City.
1848/--/-- 52 *** Logan, William A. [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1848/--/-- 52 - A Czech uprising under Frantisek Palacky is suppressed by Austria.
1848/--/-- 52 - American engineer James Bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 52 - February Revolution by French workers makes Louis Napoleon III President of 2nd Reublic
1848/--/-- 52 - Ferdinand I abdicates; Francis Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria.
1848/--/-- 52 - French Barbizon artist Theodore Rousseau paints the Forest at Fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 52 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils) publishes his novel Camille.
1848/--/-- 52 - Gold discovered in California
1848/--/-- 52 - Holman Hunt, Millais and Rossetti form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain.
1848/--/-- 52 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
1848/--/-- 52 - Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1848/--/-- 52 - Louis Philippe abdicates; a Second Republic is declared in France.
1848/--/-- 52 - Mexican Cession
1848/--/-- 52 - Risorgimento leader Garibaldi returns to Italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 52 - Scottish physicist William Thomson Kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 52 - The Austrian revolution begins in Vienna; chancellor Metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 52 - The Revolutions of 1848 break out in Europe.
1848/--/-- 52 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ratifies the cession of California and New Mexico.
1848/--/-- 52 - The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill begins the California gold rush.
1848/--/-- 52 - The first U.S. women's rights assembly meets at the Seneca Falls Convention.
1848/--/-- 52 - Uprisings in Berlin force Frederick William IV to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 52 - Wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the Union.
1849/--/-- 53 *** Bristow, Adrian Jackson [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Francis Marion
1849/--/-- 53 *** Bristow, Miles [Brother] - Died
1849/--/-- 53 - Amelia Bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the Lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 53 - Austrian forces crush the Italian revolution; Mazzini and Garibaldi flee from Italy.
1849/--/-- 53 - Austrian premier Felix Schwarzenberg uses the Russian army to defeat the Hungarians.
1849/--/-- 53 - Black slave Harriet Tubman escapes and begins her Underground Railway work.
1849/--/-- 53 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 53 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand publishes Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb.
1849/--/-- 53 - French physicist Armand Fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 53 - Lajos Kossuth declares Hungarian independence from Austria.
1849/--/-- 53 - Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin is deported to Siberia.
1849/--/-- 53 - Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th U.S. president; Fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 53 - Zachary Taylor (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 54 *** Bristow, John [1st cousin] - Died
1850/--/-- 54 *** Logan, Benjamin [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1850/--/-- 54 - Allan Pinkerton founds the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
1850/--/-- 54 - American author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter.
1850/--/-- 54 - American popular songwriter Stephen Foster publishes Camptown Races.
1850/--/-- 54 - California is inaugurated as the 31st state of the Union.
1850/--/-- 54 - Congress reinforces the Fugitive Slave Law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 54 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her Sonnets From the Portuguese.
1850/--/-- 54 - English author Charles Dickens writes David Copperfield.
1850/--/-- 54 - French realist artist Gustave Courbet paints The Stone Breakers.
1850/--/-- 54 - Jenny Lind the Swedish nightingale begins her U.S. tour.
1850/--/-- 54 - Millard Fillmore (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 54 - Nathanial Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"
1850/--/-- 54 - Photographer Mathew Brady publishes The Gallery of Illustrious Americans.
1850/--/-- 54 - Plains Indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 54 - President Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th U.S. president.
1850/--/-- 54 - The Compromise of 1850 establishes California as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 54 - The Taiping Rebellion breaks out in China against the Ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 54 - The first issue of Harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 54 - Utah and New Mexico Territories
1851/--/-- 55 - A gold rush begins in Victoria, Australia; Victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 55 - American author Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1851/--/-- 55 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is produced in Venice.
1851/--/-- 55 - Harriet Beecher Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1851/--/-- 55 - Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones found the New York Times.
1851/--/-- 55 - Isaac Merrit Singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 55 - Jacob Fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in Baltimore.
1851/--/-- 55 - Melville "Moby Dick"
1851/--/-- 55 - Mongkut (Rama IV) becomes king of Siam (Thailand).
1851/--/-- 55 - Singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 55 - The Crystal Palace is built in London to house the Great Exhibition.
1851/--/-- 55 - The U.S. yacht America defeats 17 British yachts in the first America's Cup contest.
1851/--/-- 55 - The first college sorority is established at Wesleyan College, Georgia.
1852/--/-- 56 *** Bristow, Hannah (Harrison) (Davisson) - Died
1852/--/-- 56 *** Logan, Benjamin [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1852/--/-- 56 *** Logan, James Richard [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1852/--/-- 56 *** Logan, John Allen [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1852/--/-- 56 - Argentinean dictator Rosas is defeated by forces under Urquiza at Monte Caseros.
1852/--/-- 56 - Britain gains control of the Irrawaddy delta after the second Anglo-Burma War.
1852/--/-- 56 - The Grimms begin publication of their Deutsches Worterbuch (German Dictionary).
1852/--/-- 56 - The Second Empire begins in France under Napoleon III.
1852/08/13 56 *** Bristow, Margaret (Smith) [1st cousin] - Died
1852/09/24 56 *** Bristow, Nancy Rebecca (Guthrie) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow)
In 1796 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
Bicycle
By 1852 Transportation was by:
Train
Steamboat
in addition.
By 1852 Transportation by:
Sailing ship
had been discontinued.
In 1796 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
By 1852 Communications was by:
Telegraph
in addition.
In 1796 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1796 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1796 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1796 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1796 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:54:06