Timeline: Mary A. Catherine Rayburn: Art's List

1832 - 1853 (20 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	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.
2	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.
3	1839	1839: The first baseball game is played in Cooperstown, NY. The era of photography begins in the United States, as Louis Daguerre's process for capturing photographic images is introduced.
4	1842	1842: The first gummed postage stamps bring changes in the postal system, as senders--rather than the receivers--begin paying for a letter to be delivered. The state of Massachusetts passes a law that limits children under 12, who worked in factories, to a ten-hour day.
5	1844	1844: Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.
6	1849	1849: The Gold Rush Began 80,000 people rush to California after gold is discovered.
7	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!
8	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.