A History of the United States

First United States Bank established, 1791.
Captain Robert Gray explores and names the
Columbia River, 1792.

Eli Whitney invents the Cotton-Gin, 1793.
Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania, 1794.
Jay's Treaty with Great Britain, November
19, 1794.

Washington's Farewell Address, 1796.
John Adams, President, March 4, 1797.
X. Y. Z. Correspondence, 1798.
French War with United States, 1798.
Alien and Sedition Laws, 1798.

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798, 1799.
Peace with France, 1799.

Death of Washington, December 14, 1799.
Washington city becomes the national capi-
tal, 1800.

Thomas Jefferson chosen President by the
House of Representatives, February 17,
1801.

Thomas Jefferson, President, March 4, 1801.
Tripolitan War, 1801.

Louisiana bought from France, April 30, 1803.
Lewis and Clark expedition, 1804-1806.
The Leopard and the Chesapeake, 1807.
Fulton's Steamboat, 1807.

The Embargo Act, December 22, 1807.
The Foreign Slave Trade made illegal, 1808.
Non-Intercourse Act passed, March 1, 1809.
James Madison, President, March 4, 1809.
Battle of Tippecanoe, November 7, 1811.
United States declares war against Great Brit-
ain, June 18, 1812.

Great Britain revokes her "Orders in Coun-
cil," June 23, 1812.

Hull surrenders Detroit, August 16, 1812. Perry's victory on Lake Erie, September 10, 1813.

John Quincy Adams chosen President by the

House of Representatives, February 9, 1825.
John Quincy Adams, President, March 4, 1825.
University of Virginia opened, March 25, 1825.
Erie Canal opened, October 26, 1825.
American Temperance Society organized at
Boston, 1826.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (the first passen-
ger road in America) begun at Baltimore,
1828.

The "Tariff of Abominations," 1828.

Andrew Jackson, President, March 4, 1829.
"Spoils System" in American politics begins,
1829.

Rise of the Mormons, 1830.

Hayne and Webster debate in United States
Senate, January, 1830.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened, 1830.
Nat Turner Insurrection, 1881.

John C. Calhoun proposes "Nullification,"
1831.

William Lloyd Garrison begins to publish The
Liberator, January 1, 1831.

Jackson vetoes the bill for the renewal of the.
charter of the United States Bank, July 10,
1832.

South Carolina passes Nullification ordinance,
November 19, 1832.

Jackson issues his Nullification Proclamation,
December 11, 1832.

New England Antislavery Society formed, 1832.
The Compromise tariff, March 2, 1833.
Jackson's order for cessation of deposits, Sep-
tember, 1833.

New York Sun founded, 1833.

Obed Hussey patents a reaper, 1833.

Cyrus McCormick patents his reaping machinery, 1834.

British capture and burn Washington, August Antislavery riots, 1834-1838. 24, 25, 1814.

British repulsed at Baltimore, September 13, 1814.

Hartford Convention meets December 15, 1814.
Treaty of peace signed at Ghent, December
24, 1814.

Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815.
Second Bank of United States, April, 1816.
Protective duties imposed on iron, etc., 1816.
James Monroe, President, March 4, 1817.
Erie Canal begun, July 4, 1817.

The Savannah, the first steamship to cross the
ocean, 1819.

Florida bought from Spain, 1819.

Missouri Compromise, 1820.

Monroe Doctrine stated, December 2, 1823.
Lafayette visits the United States, 1824, 1825.
Protective tariff passed, 1824.

Great fire in New York, 1835.

John Ericsson introduces screw propeller, 1836.
Texas declares herself independent, March 2,
1836.

The Specie Circular issued, July 11, 1836.
United States government free of debt, 1836.
Martin Van Buren, President, March 4, 1837.
Financial panic of 1837.

United States Sub-Treasury System estab-
lished, 1840.

Liberty party formed, 1840.

William Henry Harrison, President, March 4, 1841.

President Harrison dies, April 4, 1841.

John Tyler, the Vice-President, becomes President, April 4, 1841.

Ashburton treaty with Great Britain, August 7, 1842.

CHIEF DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Protective tariff of 1842.

Dr. Whitman's ride, Oregon to St. Louis, 1842. Dorr War in Rhode Island, 1842. Anti-rent agitation in New York, 1842. Morse's telegraph set up between Baltimore and Washington; first message, May 24, 1844. Congress passes joint resolution for annexation of Texas, March 3, 1845.

James K. Polk, President, March 4, 1845.

Texas annexed, July 4; admitted as a state, December 29, 1845.

Naval Academy at Annapolis founded, 1845.
Congress declares that war exists by the act of
Mexico, May 13, 1846.

Wilmot Proviso, August, 1846.
Revenue tariff of 1846.

Treaty with Great Britain relative to Oregon boundary, June 15, 1846.

Elias Howe invents his sewing-machine, 1846.
Sub-Treasury Act re-enacted, 1846.
Smithsonian Institution founded, 1846.
California and New Mexico seized, 1846.
City of Mexico taken, 1847.

Gold discovered in California, January, 1848. Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848.

John Quincy Adams dies, February 23, 1848. Mormons emigrate to Utah, 1848. President Taylor dies, and Millard Fillmore succeeds, July 9, 1850. "Compromise of 1850."

Fugitive Slave Law passed, 1850.

Postage on letters reduced to three cents, 1851. Franklin Pierce President, March 4, 1853. World's Fair in New York, 1853.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in book form, 1852.

Gadsden purchase, 1853.

Kansas-Nebraska Bill passed, May 30, 1854.
Perry's treaty with Japan, 1854.
Ostend Manifesto, 1854.

The Republican party formed, 1854.
James Buchanan, President, March 4, 1857.
Dred Scott decision published, March 6, 1857.
Business panic, 1857.

First Atlantic cable, August, 1858.

John Brown seizes Harper's Ferry, October 16, 1859.

South Carolina passes secession ordinance, December 20, 1860.

Confederate Congress meets at Montgomery, Alabama, February 4, 1861.

Confederate Constitution adopted, February 8, 1861.

Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens elected President and Vice-President of Confederate states, February 9, 1861.

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Abraham Lincoln, President, March 4, 1861.
Fort Sumter fired upon, April 12, 1861.
Fort Sumter surrendered, April 13, 1861.
President Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers,
April 15, 1861.

CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1867.

Massachusetts troops attacked in Baltimore, April 19, 1861.

Eleven states passed ordinances of secession by June, 1861.

First battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.
Mason and Slidell taken from the Trent,
November 8, 1861.

Monitor and Merrimac, March 9, 1862.
Farragut takes New Orleans, April 25, 1862.
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Sep-
tember 22, 1862.

Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863.
National Bank Act, March 25, 1863.
Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863.
Surrender of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863.
Draft riots in New York City, July 13-16,
1863.

Kearsarge sinks the Alabama off Cherbourg,
France, June 19, 1864.

Postal money order system adopted, 1864. Early's raid on Washington, July, 1864. Maryland abolishes slavery, October 10, 1864. Sherman takes Savannah, December 21, 1864. Richmond evacuated by Confederates, April 2, 1865.

Lee surrenders at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. President Lincoln assassinated, April 14, 1865. Andrew Johnson, President, April 15, 1865. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman, April 26, 1865.

Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, adopted, December 18, 1865.

Atlantic telegraph laid, July 28, 1866.

Alaska bought, March 30, 1867.
President Johnson impeached, 1868.

Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution adopted, July 28, 1868.

Ulysses S. Grant, President, March 4, 1869. Pacific Railroad completed, May 10, 1869. Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution adopted, March 30, 1870.

All states represented in Congress, 1871.

THE NEW NATION, 1867-1893. Treaty of Washington, May 8. 1871. Chicago fire, October 8, 1871.

Forest fires in Michigan and Wisconsin, Octo- | Letter postage reduced to two cents, 1883. ber, 1871.

Cotton exhibition at New Orleans, 1884.

Geneva Arbitration results proclaimed, Sep- Washington Monument dedicated, February tember 14, 1872.

Boston fire, November 9, 1872.

Financial panic, 1873.

Franking privilege abolished, July 1, 1873.

Congress provides, January 14, 1875, for resumption of specie payment to begin January 1, 1879.

21, 1885.

Grover Cleveland, President, March 4, 1885.
Presidential Succession and Electoral Count
Bills passed, 1886.

Anarchist riot in Chicago, May, 1886.
Charleston earthquake, 1886.
Interstate Commerce Act, 1887.

Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, May to Centennial Celebration of adoption of ConstiNovember, 1876.

Electoral Commission, 1877.

tution, September 15-17, 1887. Chinese Immigration Act, 1888.

Rutherford B. Hayes, President, March 4, Benjamin Harrison, President, March 4, 1889. 1877.

Great railroad strikes, 1877.

Bland Silver Bill passed, February, 1878. Fishery dispute settled with Great Britain, 1878.

Centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration, April 29 to May 1, 1889.

Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889.
Pan-American Congress, 1889, 1890.
International Copyright Act, 1891.

Resumption of specie payment, January 1, Homestead labor troubles, 1892.

1879.

Mississippi jetties, 1879.

James A. Garfield, President, March 4, 1881.
President Garfield assassinated, July 2, 1881.
President Garfield dies, September 19, 1881.
Chester A. Arthur, President, September 19,
1881.

Yorktown celebration, October 19, 1881.
Civil Service Act, 1883.

Brooklyn Bridge finished, May 24, 1883.

Grover Cleveland, President for the second time, March 4, 1893.

Columbian Fair at Chicago, May 1, to October 31, 1893.

Bering Sea Arbitrators publish their decision, August, 1893.

Pullman strike, 1894.

Coal miners' strike, 1894.

William McKinley elected President, 1896. Venezuela Agreement, 1896.

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