NINETEENTH CENTURY, IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE. 



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1823. 



Feb. 10, the Royal Asiatic Society was founded. 



March 31, the first railway act in the United 

 States was passed. It incorporated a company 

 for the construction of a railroad from Phila- 

 delphia to Columbia, Pa. 



Aug. 18, the first steam printing press was set 

 up in New York; its first work was an abridg- 

 ment of Murray's Grammar. 



Sept. 16, Francis Parkman was born. 



Dec. 2, the Monroe doctrine was declared. 



1824. 



Jan. 27, the State of Virginia granted a charter 

 tor the Ohio and Chesapeake Canal. 



March 13, a convention for the suppression of the 

 slave trade was signed between the United 

 States and Great Britain. 



March 20, the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 

 for the promotion of manufactures and the me- 

 chanic and useful arts, was incorporated. 



April 5, the boundary line between the United 

 States and the possessions of Russia on the 

 Pacific coast was established by treaty. 



April 19, Lord Byron died. 



July 28, Alexandre Dumas was born. 



Aug. 15, Gen. Lafayette landed on Staten Island 

 for a visit to the United States. 



1825. 



May 4, Thomas Henry Huxley was born. 



June 17, Gen. Lafayette laid the corner stone 

 of Bunker Hill Monument, and Daniel Web- 

 ster delivered an oration. Its completion was 

 celebrated on the same day eighteen years later, 

 when Webster again spoke 



Sept. 27, the first railway line was opened for 

 public traffic in England. 



Oct. 26, the Erie Canal was formally opened. 



Nov. 29, Italian opera was first given in the 

 United States, at New York. 



1826. 



March 3, the people of Boston organized the New 

 England Society for the Promotion of Manu- 

 factures and the Mechanic Arts. 



May 10, the American Home Missionary Society 

 was organized in New York city. 



June 5, Baron von Weber died. 



July 4, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, 

 at nearly the same hour. 



Oct. 17, the first United States railroad having 

 metallic tracks was opened at Quincy, Mass. 



Dec. 9, John Flaxman died. 



1827. 



March 26, Ludwig van Beethoven died. 



April 21, the Hicksite sect of Quakers was founded. 



May 5, the Society for the Diffusion of Christian 

 Knowledge was founded. 



May 11, the first gravity railroad was completed 

 at Mauch Chunk, Pa. 



June 16, the independence of Greece was estab- 

 lished. 



Sept. 16, the manufacture of fire brick was begun 

 at Baltimore, Md. 



Nov. 15, the first lithographic establishment was 

 impleted in Boston. 



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1828. 

 Jan. 1, political disabilities were removed from 



nonconformists in England. 

 Feb. 28, Varna was captured by the Russians. 

 April 21, Webster's Dictionary was published. 

 May 16, the construction of the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railroad was begun. 

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Aug. 19, the first American power loom for weav- 

 ing check and plaid goods was patented by Rev. 

 E. Burt, of Connecticut. 



Oct. 28, paper was first made from straw and hay. 



Nov. 19, Franz Schubert died. 



Nov. 23, University College, London, was opened. 



1829. 



Feb. 10, Pope Leo XII died. 

 Feb. 27, the Peruvian army was defeated by the 



Colombian in a decisive battle at Tarqui. 

 March 19, a treaty between the United States and 



Brazil was ratified. 

 March 21, by an earthquake in Spain, 4,000 houses 



and 20 churches were destroyed. 

 May 2, the American Institute of New York State 



was incorporated. 



May 8, Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born. 

 May 29, Sir Humphry Davy died. 

 June 11, the Russians defeated the Turks in a 



great battle at Kulawtocha. 

 June 30, the Russians captured Silistria after a 



siege. 



Aug. 20, the Russians captured Adrianople. 

 Sept. 12, an invading Spanish army surrendered 



to the Mexicans at Tampico. 



1830. 



Jan. 31, James G. Blaine was born. 



April 6, the Church of Latter-day Saints (Mor- 

 mons) was organized at Manchester, N. Y. 



Aug. 2, Charles X of France abdicated the throne 

 because of the revolution. 



Oct. 4, the independence of Belgium was declared. 



Oct. 5, Chester Alan Arthur was born. 



Dec. 17, Simon Bolivar died. 



1831. 



March 6, Philip Henry Sheridan was born. 

 March 31, the Poles defeated the Russians at Praga. 

 May 26, the Russians defeated the Poles at Ostro- 



lenka. 

 June 1, Sir James Clark Ross discovered the north 



magnetic pole. 



June 8, Mrs. Sarah Siddons died. 

 June 12, North Carolina's Statehouse, containing 



Canova's statue of Washington was burned. 

 July 4, James Monroe died. 



July 17, Graham island appeared in the Mediter- 

 ranean. It disappeared in October. 

 Aug. 21, Nat Turner's insurrection occurred in 



Virginia. He was executed, Nov. 11. 

 Sept. 7, the Russians captured Warsaw. 

 Oct. 9, the President of Greece, Capo d'Istrias, 



was assassinated. 



Oct. 26, cholera first appeared in England. 

 Oct. 29-31, great riots occurred in Bristol, England. 

 Nov. 19, James A. Garfield was born. 

 Dec. 28, a great slave insurrection occurred in 



Jamaica. 



1832. 



March 4, Jean Frangois Champollion died. 

 March 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died. 

 March 29, the Emperor of Russia proclaimed the 



annexation of Poland. 

 May 15, Baron Cuvier died. 

 June 8, cholera appeared at Quebec, the first in 



America. 

 July 10, President Jackson vetoed the bill to 



extend the charter of the United States Bank. 

 Aug. 1, the defeat of the Indians under Black 



Hawk by a force under Gen. Henry Atkinson, 



at Bad Axe, on the Wisconsin, took place. 

 Sept. 21, Sir Walter Scott died. 

 Oct. 8, Otho was proclaimed King of Greece. 

 Nov. 21, South Carolina passed the nullification 



ordinance. 



