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1 | 1807 | - 1807: Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, makes its first run from New York City to Albany in 32 hours, traveling at the top speed of 5 mph.
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2 | 1812 | - 12 Jun 1812: The United States goes to war with Great Britain after the British interfere with American trade and force American sailors to serve in the British navy.
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4 | 1815 | - 8 Jan 1815: On January 8, 1815, American forces, under General Jackson, decisively defeat the British forces trying to capture New Orleans. The battle, which takes place after the Treaty of Ghent has been signed, is the most decisive American victory of the war.
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5 | 1817 | - 1817: The construction of the Erie Canal through New York State begins. T One of the longest of the great American canals built in the 19th Century. The Erie Canal extends from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, at Buffalo. The idea was to get goods back and forth from the Great Lakes to New York City (via the Hudson River, which connected with the Erie Canal). The Canal was built between 1817 and 1825 and had paid for itself within 10 years. The building of the Canal also helped settle Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and other states on the Great Lakes.
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6 | 1825 | - 18 1825: The 350 mile long Erie Canal, the most important passenger and freight route from the East to the Midwest, is completed.
Opened in 1825, the Erie Canal was the engineering marvel of the 19th Century. When the planning for what many derided as “Clinton's Folly” began, there was not a single school of engineering in the United States. With the exception of a few places where black powder was used to blast through rock formations, all 363 miles were built by the muscle power of men and horses.
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7 | 1828 | - 1828: Noah Webster completes his monumental American Dictionary of the English Language, after working on it for 20 years.
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8 | 1829 | - 1829: The railroad age begins as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad carries its first passengers in a horse-drawn excursion train.
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9 | 1831 | - 1831: Steam locomotive DeWitt Clinton pulls ornate railroad coaches filled with passengers on a 12 mile journey between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
- 1831: Jackson County was formed in 1831. The county was created from parts of Kanawha, Mason and Wood Counties.
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10 | 1836 | - 1836: Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and 200 Texans are killed when the Alamo, a fort in San Antonio, Texas, is captured by Mexican leader Santa Anna.
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11 | 1837 | - 1837: John Deere creates a steel-bladed plow that turns moist soil with ease, contributing to the expansion of farming in the midwest and western United States.
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12 | 1839 | |
13 | 1842 | |
14 | 1844 | - 1844: Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.
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15 | 1849 | |
16 | 1850 | - 23 1850: At a time when women always wore skirts, women's rights advocate Amelia Bloomer wears a garment of full trousers, which became known as the bloomer costume.
We are forever grateful!
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17 | 1852 | - 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel about the cruelty of enslavement, increasing the desire of many northerners to abolish enslavement in the United States.
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18 | 1857 | - 1857: The first passenger elevator is installed in a New York City store.
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19 | 1858 | - 1858: Overland mail service by stagecoach begins, connecting the east and west coasts of the United States.
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20 | 1859 | - 1859: The drilling of an oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, changes the way most Americans light their homes, as kerosene made from the oil replaces whale oil and candles.
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21 | 1861 | |
22 | 1863 | |
23 | 1865 | |
24 | 1870 | |
25 | 1873 | |
26 | 1875 | - 2 Jun 1875: In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.
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27 | 1876 | - 1876: United States celebrates 100 years as a nation.
Almost 10 million people attend the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which featured recent American inventions and products.
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
Gen. George Custer and his soldiers are killed in a battle with the Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn in Montana.
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28 | 1879 | - 1879: Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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29 | 1883 | - 1883: United States Supreme Court rules the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination in public places, to be unconstitutional.
The United States and Canada substitute standardized time zones for local time to make it easier to coordinate railroad schedules.
Brooklyn Bridge, hailed as the eighth wonder of the world, opens.
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30 | 1886 | - 1886: Statue of Liberty, a gift to the United States from France, is unveiled in New York City harbor.
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31 | 1888 | - 1888: A box camera, the first Kodak, is introduced for use by amateur photographers.
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32 | 1890 | - 1890: A New York newspaper reporter completes a journey around the world in 72 days.
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