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Industrial Revolution
Beginning of Industrial Revolution, which eventually turns to use of coal and other fossil fuels to drive steam engines and other devices. Anthropogenic carbon pollution presumably increases. -
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The Revolutionary War
General Gage orders 700 British soldiers to Concord to destroy the colonists' weapons depot. That night, Paul Revere and William Dawes are sent from Boston to warn colonists. Revere reaches Lexington about midnight and warns Sam Adams and John Hancock who are hiding out there. -
Laki
the volcano Laki erupts, emitting sufficient sulfur dioxide gas and sulphate particles to kill a majority of Iceland's livestock and cause an unusually cold winter in Europe and Western Asia. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress. The Revolutionary War officially ends. -
Land Ordinaces of 1785
Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 which divides the northwest territories into townships, each set at 6 square miles, subdivided into 36 lots of 640 acres each, with each lot selling for no less than $640. -
The new Constitution
The Federalists, who advocate a strong central government and approval of the new Constitution, begin publishing essays in favor of ratification. Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, the total number of articles will eventually reach 85 and be compiled and published as the Federalist Papers. Federalist Papers at Library of Congress -
El Niño
a recent study of El Niño patterns suggests that the French Revolution was caused in part by the poor crop yields of 1788-89 in Europe, resulting from an unusually strong El-Niño effect between 1789-93 -
Vaccines invented
Smallpox vaccine invented. This and other medical discoveries over the next two centuries help to increase life expectancy and decrease infant mortality, leading to a worldwide population boom. -
U.S. Capital
The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C -
Smoke problems in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh official Presley Neville wrote "the general dissatisfaction which prevails and the frequent complaints which are exhibited, in consequence of the Coal Smoke from many buildings in the Borough, particularly from smithies and blacksmith shops..." The smoke affected the "comfort, health and... peace and harmony" of the new city. As in most other cities, the remedy of the age was to build higher chimneys. -
Presidential election
James Madison is inaugurated, succeeding Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States. -
Mt. Tambora
of Mt. Tambora in what is now Indonesia, largest in the 2nd millennium AD. Leads to the -"Year Without a Summer." across North America and Europe -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine immediately gives right to vote and education to all male citizens. The compromise also prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N lat. (southern boundary of Missouri). The 36°30' proviso held until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise -
deaths amoung us
Jefferson dies shortly after 12 noon, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He is eighty-three years old. Several hours later John Adams, aged 90, dies in Massachusetts, and the nation is struck by this remarkable coincidence. The last letter Jefferson wrote to Adams was on March 23 requesting that Adams see his grandson, which Adams did. Just before he died, Jefferson wrote the following to be read at the July 4 celebration in Virginia: "May [our Declara -
Underground Railroad
“Underground Railroad” established -
Great Famines
European Potato Famines cause crop failures in both Ireland (the Great Famine) and Scotland (the Highland Potato Famine). -
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president. -
Assasination Of Lincoln
Lincoln shot, dies next day. -
End of the Civil War
Remaining Confederate armies surrender. The civil War ends. -
Ecology
the word ecology was coined by german zoologist -
Yellow stone
Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park, opens -
Eruptions
Eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. The sound of the explosion is heard as far as Australia and China, the altered air waves causes strange colours on the sky and the volcanic gases reduce global temperatures during the following years. The vivid sunsets were captured in Edward Munch's The Scream. -
Sierra Club
leads effort to defeat a proposed reduction in the boundaries of yosemte national park -
Galveston
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 hits Galveston, Texas and reverses the city's previously rapid growth. -
First in flight
Wright brothers first flight -
audubons society founded
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Quake
San Francisco earthquake causes collapse of insurance markets and the Panic of 1907 -
NAACP
NAACP is founded -
Explosion
Tunguska Explosion decimates a remote part of Siberia -
Ford Motors
Ford intoduces Model T -
WWI
World War I begins -
US involvment
The United States enters World War I -
Dusst Bowl
Exceptional precipitation absence in northern hemisphere exacerbated by human activities[citation needed] causes the Dust Bowl drought of the US plains and the Soviet famine of 1932-1933 (harsh economic damage in US and widespread death in USSR)
