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NINETEENTH CENTURY, IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE. 



Nov. 28, the Turks were defeated by the Egyptians 

 at Konieh. 



Dec. 10, President Jackson issued a proclamation 

 concerning the South Carolina nullification ordi- 

 nance. 



Dee. 24, Antwerp was surrendered to the French. 



1833. 

 March 31, the Treasury Department, Washington, 



was burned. 



July 24, Dom Pedro's troops captured Lisbon. 

 Aug. 20, Benjamin Harrison was born. 

 Aug. 29, 30, in Constantinople, 12,000 buildings 



were burned. 

 Aug. 31, a daily mail (Sundays excepted) was 



established between England and France. 

 Oct. 1, Secretary Taney, by order of President 



Jackson, removed the Government deposits 



from the United States Bank. 



1834. 



Jan. 20-22, a great earthquake occurred in Colom- 

 bia, South America, and two cities were de- 

 stroyed. 



May 20, Gen. Lafayette died. 



July 15, the Inquisition was finally abolished in 

 Spain. 



July 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge died. 



Aug. 1, all the slaves in the British dominions 

 were emancipated. 



Aug. 30, the Spanish Chamber of Peers voted to 

 exclude Don Carlos and his heirs perpetually 

 from the throne. 



Oct. 16, the British Parliament houses were de- 

 stroyed by fire. 



Nov. 15, the Boston and Worcester Railroad was 

 opened. 



Dec. 1, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was 

 opened from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry. 



Dec. 27, Charles Lamb died. 



1835. 



Jan. 20, the city of Mocha, Arabia, was captured 

 by the Egyptians. 



Jan. 30, an attempt was made to assassinate 

 President Jackson. 



Feb. 20, an earthquake in Chili destroyed the 

 city of Concepcion and other towns. In this 

 month, also, there were destructive earthquakes 

 and volcanic eruptions in Central America, and 

 Vesuvius was in eruption. 



June 2, the Boston and Providence Railroad was 

 opened. 



June 21, Gen. Santa Anna entered the city of 

 Mexico in triumph, after his victory at Zacatecas. 



Aug. 25, the Baltimore and Washington Railroad 

 was opened. 



Dec. 7, the first railway in Germany, Nuremberg 

 to FUrth, was opened. 



Dec. 16, a great fire in New York city destroyed 

 $18,000,000 worth of property. 



In this year great abolition meetings, and equally 

 great anti-abolition meetings, were held in vari- 

 ous cities of the United States, North and South. 



1836. 

 Feb. 7, the civil war in Peru was ended by a 



seven-day battle near Arequipa, in which Sala- 



verry was defeated by Santa Crn/. 

 March 6, the Mexicans under Santa Anna, after 



heavy loss, captured the Alamo, in Texas, and 



massacred the few survivors of the garrison. 

 April 21. the Texans. under Gen. Houston, gained 



a great victory at San Jacinto over the Mexican 



army of Santa Anna. 



.lime 15, Arkans;i-~ was admitted as a State. 

 June 28, James Madison died. 



July 30, James G. Birney's printing office in Cin- 

 cinnati was destroyed by a proslavery mob. 



Aug. 1, the Utica and Schenectady Railroad was 

 opened. 



Sept. 23, Maria Felicia Malibran died. 



Dec. 15, the United States Patent Office was 

 burned. 



Dec. 15, the first recurrence of influenza, or yrippe, 

 in this century is recorded. 



In this month the plague was raging in Constan- 

 tinople. 



1837. 



Jan. 26, Michigan was admitted as a State. 



Feb. 1, Congress received a memorial, signed by 

 56 British authors, asking for copyright protec- 

 tion in the United States. 



March 18, Grover Cleveland was born. 



In March and April there were extensive bank- 

 ruptcies in the United States. 



May 10, all the New York banks suspended specie 

 payments. Those in other cities suspended a 

 few days later. 



June 16, a new Spanish Constitution was signet! 

 and proclaimed at Madrid. 



June 20, William IV of England died, and Vic- 

 toria was proclaimed Queen. 



July 12, Obed Hussey's reaping machine was pub- 

 licly exhibited and pronounced satisfactory. 



Aug. 11, Marie Francois Sadi-Carnot was born. 



Oct. 26, the tunnel of the Harlem Railroad, in 

 New York, was opened with a celebration. 



Nov. 7, a proslavery mob killed Elijah P. Love 

 joy and destroyed his printing office, at Al- 

 ton, 111. 



Nov. 8, Mary Lyon founded Mt.Holyoke Seminary. 



Dec. 6, Mackenzie's force of Canadian insurgent- 

 was defeated near Toronto. 



Dec. 29, the palace in St. Petersburg was burned. 



Dec. 29, the steamer Caroline, in the Niagara, was 

 seized by Canadians. 



1838. 



March 1, a detachment of the Canadian insurgent < 

 surrendered to Gen. Wool, of the United States 

 army, at Alburg Springs, Vt. 



April 17, a bill prohibiting the sale of spirituous 

 liquors at retail, except for medicinal purposes, 

 became a law in Massachusetts. This preceded 

 by a dozen years Neal Dow's famous Maine law. 



April 23, the first regular steam packet between 

 England and the United States the Great 

 Western, 1,340 tons arrived at New York, four- 

 teen and a half days from Bristol. 



May 17, a mob in Philadelphia burned Penn^v 1 - 

 vania Hall because an antislavery meeting hal 

 been held there the preceding evening. 



Aug. 8, a Chilian force, after a battle, captured 

 Callao and Lima, Peru. 



Aug. 18, the Wilkes exploring expedition sailed 

 from Norfolk, Va. 



Sept. 1, $500,000' was paid into the United States 

 Treasury, under the will of James Smithson. to 

 found the Smithsonian Institution. 



Nov. 13, the Canadian insurgents were defeated 

 in an action near Prescott. 



1839. 



Jan. 20, the Peruvian and Bolivian army w:i* 

 disastrously defeated by the Chilians at 

 Yungliav. 



Jan. 31 .W. H. Fox Talbot announced his discovery 

 of "photogenic drawing." which was the begin- 

 ning of photography. This was six months be- 

 fore Dagiicrre's invention. 



February, bands of armed men were disputing ;9 

 to the boundary line between Maine and New 

 Brunswick. 



