1800-1876

By wigingtonha

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson is elected President of the US by the House of Representatives

  • Napoleon

    Napoleon
    Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French

  • James Madison

    James Madison is elected as the 4th president of the United States

  • War of 1812

    War of 1812 between the US and Britain; ends in a draw except that Native Americans lose power

  • James Monroe

    James Monroe is elected 5th president of the United States

  • Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate.

  • Independence of Bolivia

  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams is elected 6th president of the United States

  • Invention of the electromagnet

    William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.

  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson is elected the 7th president of the United States

  • The Great Reform Act

    The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act

  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren is elected the 8th president of the United States

  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States in 1841. He died of typhoid, pneumonia or paratyphoid fever 31 days into his term (the shortest tenure), becoming the first president to die in office.

  • John Tyler

    John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845 after briefly serving as the tenth vice president in 1841; he was elected to the latter office on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison.

  • James K Polk

    James K Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and governor of Tennessee (1839–1841).

  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Tyler was the 12th president of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850.

  • Invention of the safety pin

    Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.

  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States (1850–1853), the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House.

  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce was the 14th president of the United States (1853–1857), a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation.

  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan was an American politician who served as the 15th president of the United States (1857–1861), serving prior to the American Civil War.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson assumed the presidency as he was vice president of the United States at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant was an American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before his presidency, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civil War.

  • Invention of barbed wire

    Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.