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  • Lewis and Clark begin expedition exploring and mapping vast regions of the West

  • Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself emperor

  • Louisiana Purchase extends the nation's territory to the Rocky Mountains

  • Robert Fulton's steamboat makes first trip from New York City to Albany

  • U.S declares war on Great Britain; early nattles in War of 1812 are at sea

  • Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice

  • Bombardment of Fort McHenry inspires Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"

  • William Cullen Bryant publishes early draft of "Thanatopsis" in a Boston magazine

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley creates a legend with Frankenstein

  • Missouri Compromise bans slavery in parts of new territory

  • Completion and success of the Erie Canal spurs canal building throughout the nation

  • Edgar Allan Poe publishes Tamerlane, his first collection of poems

  • George Stephenson perfects a steam locomotive for Liverpool-Manchester Railway

  • Cyrus McCormick invents mechanical reaper

  • Victor Hugo publishes Notre Dame de Paris

  • Samuel F.B. Morse patents electromagnetic telegraph

  • U.S. Army marches Cherokees of Georgia on long "Trail of Tears" to Oklahoma

  • Antarctica is explored by Englishman James Ross

  • Hong Kong becomes a British Colony

  • Florida becomes the twenty-seventh state in the United States

  • Famine results from failure of potato crop

  • Mexican War ends; United States expands borders

  • Gold Rush begins in California

  • Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter

  • Elizabeth Barret Browning publishes Sonnets from the Portuguese

  • Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of Seven Gables

  • Gold is discovered in New South Wales

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • Robert Browning publishes Men and Women

  • Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass

  • Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas run for Illinois Senate seat and conduct a series of famous debates