1800 Volta - Italy - Invented electric battery. Napoleon recovered Louisiana Territory from Spain.

1801 Thomas Jefferson - President

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1803 Ohio became a state Louisiana Purchase

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1807 Fulton's Steamboat - new York to Albany

1808 Davy discovers baron and calcium

1809 James Madison President 1808-1814 - Peninsular War (Spain and Great Britain)

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1812 Louisiana - Statehood

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1816 Indiana - Statehood

1817 James Monroe - President Mississippi - Statehood

1818 Illinois - Statehood

1819 Florida purchased by U.S. from Spain Alabama - Statehood

1820 Maine - Statehood

1821 1821-1829 - Greek War of Independence Missouri - Statehood

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1825 John Quincy Adams - President Steam powered locomotive

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1828 1828-1829 - Russo-Turkish War

1829 Andrew Jackson - President

1830 1830 -1832 - Revolt in Poland 1830-1833 - Belgian revolt against Dutch

1831 Faraday conceived idea for dynamo

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1836 Arkansas - Statehood

1837 Martin Van Buren - President Michigan - Statehood

1838 First steamship crossed Atlantic

1839 1839-1842 - Opium War - Great Britain and China

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1841 William Henry Harrison - President John Tyler - President

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1844 Morse transmitted telegraph message

1845 James Polk - President Florida - Statehood Texas - Statehood

1846 Iowa - Statehood

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1848 1848-1849 - Austro-Sardinian War Wisconsin - Statehood

1849 Zachary Taylor - President

1850 Millard Fillmore - President California - Statehood

1851 YMCA brought to America

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1853 Franklin Pierce - President 1853-1856 - Crimean War

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1856 Bessemer made cheaper steel

1857 James Buchanen - President

1858 YWCA brought to America Minnesota - Statehood

1859 War of France & Sardinia against Austria First oil well - Titusville, PA Oregon - Statehood

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1861 Abraham Lincoln - President 1861-1865 - U.S. Civil War Kansas - Statehood

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1864 Nevada - Statehood

1865 Andrew Johnson - President Slavery abolished in the U.S.

1866 Seven Weeks War (Prussia, Austria)

1867 Nebraska - Statehood

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1869 Ulysses Grant - President

1870 Vatican Council declares Pope infallible 1870 - 1871 - Franco Prussian War

1871 Chicago Fire

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1873 World-wide depression and panic

1874 DDT - Zeidler - German

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1876 Sioux War Bell's telephone a success Rutherford B. Hayes - President Colorado - Statehood

1877 1877-1878 - Russo-Turkish War

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1879 Incandescent lamp

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1881 James Garfield - President Chester Arthur - President

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1885 Grover Cleveland - President Successful gasoline engine

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1888 Kodak - Camera - Inventor - Eastman, Walker Electric waves

1889 Benjamin Harrison - President North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana & Washington - Statehood

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1892 1892-1893 - Gasoline engine powered auto

1893 Grover Cleveland - President

1894 Chinese - Japanese War

1895 X-rays discovered by Roentgen

1896 Marconi's wireless worked Utah - Statehood

1897 William McKinley - President

1898 Spanish American War Radium discovered

1899 Philippine Revolt 1899-1902 - Boer War

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1901 Theodore Roosevelt - President

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1903 Panama gained independence Gasoline engine powered airplane First auto trip across U. S.

1904 1904-1905 - Russo-Japanese War

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1907 Financial panic in U.S. Oklahoma - Statehood

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1909 William Howard Taft - President Perry reached North Pole

1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated

1911 Mexican Revolution Italian-Turkish War

1912 New Mexico and Arizona - Statehood

1913 Woodrow Wilson - President 16th Amendment - Income Tax Balkan Wars

1914 1914-1918 - World War 1 Panama Canal opened Electrical power could be sent 150 miles

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1917 Balfour Declaration - favored homeland for Jews in Palestine U. S. buys West Indies from Denmark

1918 First air mail service begun in U.S.

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1921 Warren Harding - President

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1923 Calvin Coolidge - President

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1925 Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in schools Circuit breaker invented

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1929 Herbert Hoover President Stock market crash in U.S. initiated Great Depression

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1931 1931-1933 - Worldwide depression at its height

1932 1932-1935 - Chaco War: Bolivia & Paraguay

1933 Franklin Roosevelt - President Prohibition ended in U.S.

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1936 1936-1939 - Spanish Civil War

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1939 1939-1940 - Russo-Finish War 1939-1945 - World War II

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1942 Enrico Fermi achieved first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction

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1945 August 6 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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1947 Dead Sea Scrolls found between 1947 and 1952

1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights - Slave trade and slavery abolished Free State of Israel

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1950 1950-1953 - Korean War

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1952 U.S. announced "satisfactory' completion of hydrogen bomb tests

1953 Russia tested its own hydrogen bomb

1954 July 21 - Armistice dividing Vietnam signed in Geneva "Nautilus"-1st atom powered submarine

1955 Feb. 12 - U.S. takes charge of reorganizing training of South Vietnamese army

1956 1956-1961 - U.S. aid and military advisors increase in Vietnam Israel invaded Sinai Peninsula

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1961 Apr. 12-Gagarin - 1st manned orbital flight May - Shepard - 1st Am. in space Cuba-Bay of Pigs

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1969 First lunar landing made by Armstrong and Aldrin

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1973 Last U.S. troops out of Vietnam & POW's released

1974 President Ford offers clemency for draft evaders

1975 Evacuation of Americans ends. South Vietnam surrenders

1976 A united "Socialist Republic of Vietnam" is proclaimed with Hanoi as capital

1977 James Carter - President

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1986 Challenger disaster

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1989 George Bush - President Berlin Wall dismantled

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1991 Commonwealth of Independent States formed - end of Soviet Union Iraqi troops driven from Kuwait

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1993 Bill Clinton - President Floods in Midwest

1994 Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty

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