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U.S. Capital
The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. -
Jefferson
The electors' votes for president are officially opened and counted in Congress, which already knows that the vote is tied between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives meets separately and continues balloting for six days. On February 17, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson is elected president and Aaron Burr becomes vice president. -
Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey -
Jefferson/Proclamation
Jefferson issues a proclamation declaring that "sundry persons, citizens of the U.S. or resident within the same, are conspiring & confederating...against the dominions of Spain" and requiring that all military and civil officials of all states and territories of the United States prevent "the carrying on such expedition or enterprise by all lawful means within their power." -
Arron Burr
Aaron Burr is captured near New Orleans -
1812
WAR OF 1812 -
British
British burn the capitol in Philidelphia -
Alabama Bro
Alabama admitted as slave state, bringing the number of slave states and free states to equal numbers. -
Mexico
Mexico becomes a rebublic -
Jefferson
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 -
New York
Slavery illiegal in New York -
Election
Election of Andrew Jackson -
Ohio
thousands of businesses fail after the collapse of Ohio Life Insurance and Trust; 600 people drown when the S.S. Central America sinks off Charleston; Garibaldi establishes association to unify Italy -
Abraham Lincoln
Abe Lincoln was elected president.