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NINETEENTH CENTURY, IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE. 



June 14, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born. 



July 18, William Makepeace Thackeray was born. 



Sept. 8, the Religious Tract Society of America 



was formed. 



Oct. 8, Venezuela was declared independent. 

 Oct. 22, Franz Liszt was born. 

 Nov. 7, the battle of Tippecanoe was fought, in 



which William Henry Harrison defeated the 



Indians under Tecumseh. 

 Nov. 16, John Bright was born. 



1812. 



Jan. 7, Sigismund Thalberg was born. 

 Feb. 17, Charles Dickens was born. 

 April 30, Louisiana was admitted as a State. 

 May 7, Robert Browning was born. 

 June 18, the United States declared war against 



Great Britain. 

 Oct. 18, the city of Moscow was burned. 



1813. 



March 19, David Livingstone was born. 

 May 22, Richard Wagner was born. 

 June 24, Henry Ward Beecher was born. 

 Sept. 10, the battle of Lake Erie took place, in 



which the American fleet under Perry conquered 



the British fleet. 

 Oct. 5, the battle of the Thames, in Canada, was 



fought. 

 Oct. '16, the three days' battle of Leipsic, called 



" the battle of nations," began. 



1814. 



July 25, the battle of Lundy's Lane, Canada, was 

 fought. 



Aug. 25, the British burned the Capitol at Wash- 

 ington. 



Sept. 15, the Americans defeated the British on 

 Lake Champlain. 



Oct. 9, Giuseppe Verdi was born. 



Oct. 20, the union of Sweden and Norway was 

 ratified. 



Dec. 24, the Treaty of Ghent was signed. 



1815. 



Jan. 8, the battle of New Orleans was fought. 

 Feb. 18, corn law riots occurred in London. 

 Feb. 28, Ceylon was annexed to the British Empire. 

 April 1, Prince Bismarck was born. 

 June 18, the battle of Waterloo was fought. 

 June 30, the United States concluded a treaty 

 with Algiers. 



1816. 



March 4, riots occurred in England; march of the 

 Blanketeers from Manchester. 



April 10, the charter of the Bank of the United 

 States was extended. 



April 21, Charlotte Bronte was born. 



May 16, the Burschenschaft was formed in Ger- 

 many. 



July 2, Bishop Richard Watson died. 



July 4, the Erie Canal was begun by the breaking 

 of ground at Rome, N. Y. 



July 7, Richard Brinsley Sheridan died. ' 



July 14, Madame de Stael died. 



Aug. 2, the first steamboat arrived at St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Aug. 27, Algiers was bombarded by Lord Ex- 

 mouth. 



Sept. 8, Sir Humphry Davy invented the safety 

 lamp. 



Nov. 16, Baltimore, Md., was the first American 

 city lighted with gas. 



Dec. 2, the first savings bank was opened in Phila- 

 delphia. 



Dec. 11, Indiana was admitted as a State. 



1817. 



Feb. 16, the independence of Chili was established. 

 April 15, Gen. Jackson invaded Florida. 

 Oct. 15, Thaddeus Kosciusko died. 

 Nov. 5, Princess Charlotte of England died. 

 Nov. 30, Theodor Mommsen was born. 

 Dec. 10, Mississippi was admitted as a State. 

 Dec. 20, William Hone was tried and acquitted, 

 a triumph for the right of free speech. 



1818. 



June 17, Charles Frangois Gounod was born. 



July 16, representative government was estab- 

 lished in several German states. 



Aug. 13, Adams and Dodge invented a sewing 

 machine. 



Sept. 20, patent leather was first manufactured 

 in America by Seth Boyden. 



Nov. 9, Ivan Turgenieff was born. 



Nov. 28, the Academy of Natural Sciences was 

 founded at Philadelphia. 



Dec. 3, Illinois was admitted as a State. 



1819. 



Feb. 8, John Ruskin was born. 



Feb. 22, James Russell Lowell was born. 



April 2, The American Farmer, the first agricul- 

 tural newspaper in the United States, was pub- 

 lished in Baltimore. 



May 24, Victoria was born. 



June 16, the first transatlantic voyage by stean 

 was completed by the steamship Savannah 

 commanded by Moses Rogers. 



Aug. 26, Prince Albert was born. 



Nov. 22, George Eliot (Marian Evans) was born. 



Dec. 14, Alabama was admitted as a State. 



1820. 



Feb. 8, William Tecumseh Sherman was born. 

 March 2, the Missouri compromise bill was 



passed. 



March 15, Maine was admitted as a State. 

 May 24, Henry I (Christophe) of Hayti committed 



suicide, and the whole island became a republic 



under Boyer. 

 June 10, the first steamship line between New 



York and New Orleans was established. 

 July 12, the first steamboat on Lake Michigan 



arrived at Green Bay. 

 Aug. 21, John Tyndall was born. 

 Oct. 6, Jenny Lind was born. 

 Oct. 24, Spain ceded Florida to the'United States. 



1821. 



Feb. 23, John Keats died. 

 May 5, Napoleon Bonaparte died. 

 Aug. 10, Missouri was admitted as a State. 

 Aug. 24, the treaty acknowledging the independ- 

 ence of Mexico was signed. 

 Aug. 31, Hermann von Helmholtz was born. 



1822. 



Jan. 1, the independence of Brazil was declared. 



March 22, Rosa Bonheur was born. 



April 27, Ulysses S. Grant was born. 



May 16, Sir David Brewster explained the fii'st 

 elements of spectrum analysis. 



June 14, Bishop invented the wind regulator for 

 the organ. 



July 8, Percy Bysshe Shelley died. 



Aug. 25, Dixon Denham, an Englishman, cros.-ed 

 the Sahara Desert to Lake Tchad. 



Ans,'. 25, Sir William Herschel died. 



Sept. 18, Faraday described his discovery of elec- 

 tro-magnetic rotation. 



Oct. 4, Rutherford B. Hayes was born. 



Dec. 27, Louis Pasteur was born. 



