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1 | 1383 | - 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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2 | 1755 | - 1755—1827: Publication of Dictionary of the English Language by Dr, Johnson
Period of canal construction began in Britian
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3 | 1760 | - 1760—1820: King George III
King George III ( 1760 - 1820 ) {\n}{\n}1760 - George becomes king on the death of his grandfather, George II.{\n}1762 - The Earl of Bute is appointed Prime Minister. Bute proves so unpopular that he needs to have a bodyguard.{\n}1763 - Peace of Paris end
- 10 1760—29 Jan 1820: George III
House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg
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4 | 1763 | - 1763—1884: POST-DEPORTATION PERIOD
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5 | 1764 | - 8 1764—1862: Indian treaties transferring land to Britain
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6 | 1773 | - 1773—1858: East India Company governs Hindustan
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7 | 1798 | - 4 Jul 1798—9 Dec 1817: Mississippi Territory Organized
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8 | 1800 | - 5 Jul 1800—10 Dec 1816: Indiana Territory Organized
Effective date 4 Jul 1800
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9 | 1805 | - 1 Nov 1805—25 Jan 1837: Michigan Territory Organized
Effective date 30 Jun 1805
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10 | 1809 | - 2 Mar 1809—2 Dec 1818: Illinois Territory Organized
Effective date 1 Mar 1809
- 4 Mar 1809—4 Mar 1817: James Madison
James Madison U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1809—4 Mar 1817: James Madison
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11 | 1812 | - 1812—1815: War of 1812
United States vs Great Britain
- 6 Apr 1812—9 Aug 1821: Missouri Territory Organized
Effective date 7 Dec 1812
- 12 Jun 1812—16 Feb 1815: War of 1812
War of 1812
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12 | 1815 | - 1815—1815: Trial by Jury established in Scotland
- 1815—1815: Davy develops the safety lamp for miners
- 1815—1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp
- 2 1815—Feb 1815: British incentive to emigrate to Upper Canada
Britain encourages 5,000 settlers to leave Britain
- 3 Mar 1815—24 Sep 1816: Second Barbary War
Second Barbary War
- 18 Jun 1815—18 Jun 1815: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
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13 | 1816 | - 1816—1816: Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
- 1816—1816: Large scale emigration to North America
- 1816—1816: Climate: the 'year without a summer' ? followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain 'Tambora in Indonesia the previous year the biggest volcanic explosion in 10000 years
- 1816—1816: Income tax abolished
- 1816—1816: For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially
below their face value ? the first official 'token' coinage
- 12 Nov 1816—11 Dec 1816: Indiana
19th State
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14 | 1817 | - 1817—1817: Constable painted 'Flatford Mill'
- 1817—1817: March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended
- 1817—1898: Indian Wars
- 1817—1817: Census of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia census adds place-of-birth question
- 3 Mar 1817—13 Dec 1819: Alabama Territory Organized
- 4 Mar 1817—4 Mar 1825: James Monroe
James Monroe U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1817—3 Mar 1825: James Monroe
- 12 Oct 1817—10 Dec 1817: Mississippi
20th State
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15 | 1818 | - 1818—1818: Manchester cotton spinners' strike
- 1818—1819: First Seminole War
- 1818—1818: The 49th parallel becomes border
Canada-US border officially set from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains
- 12 Mar 1818—3 Dec 1818: Illinois
21st State
- 20 Oct 1818—20 Oct 1818: 'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom
which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its
length
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16 | 1819 | - 1819—1819: Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles
- 1819—1819: Britain returns to gold standard
- 1819—1819: Primitive bicycle, the Dandy Horse, becomes popular
- 1819—1819: René Laënnec invents the stethoscope
- 1819—1819: Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain"
- 3 Feb 1819—14 Jun 1836: Arkansas Territory Organized
Effective 4 July 1819
- May 1819—May 1819: SS 'Savannah' first steamship to cross Atlantic reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26
Days reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26
Days mostly under sail)
- 16 Aug 1819—16 Aug 1819: Peterloo Massacre at Manchester ? a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St.
Peter's Fields, Manchester ? demand Parliamentary Reform ? mounted troops charge on the
meeting, killing 11 people and and maiming many others
- 12 1819—14 Dec 1819: Alabama
22nd State
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17 | 1820 | - 1820—1820: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition
- 1820—1820: Cato Street Conspiracy ? plot to assissinate British cabinet
- 1820—1820: Cape Breton Island re-annexed to Nova Scotia
- 1820—1820: Militia land grants
1812-1814 militiamen entitled to land grants
- 29 Jan 1820—29 Jan 1820: Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
- 1 Aug 1820—1 Aug 1820: Regent's Canal in London opens
- 17 Aug 1820—17 Aug 1820: Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her ?
George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her ? Caroline is virtually acquitted
because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords
- 3 1820—15 Mar 1820: Maine
23rd State
- 1 1820—20 Jun 1830: George IV
House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811
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18 | 1821 | - 1821—1821: Constable paints 'The Hay Wain'
- 1821—1821: Faraday publishes 'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation'
- 5 May 1821—5 May 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
- 8 Oct 1821—10 Aug 1821: Missouri
24th State
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19 | 1822 | - 14 Jun 1822—14 Jun 1822: Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society
- 3 1822—2 Mar 1845: Florida Territory Organized
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20 | 1823 | - 1823—1823: Rubberised waterproof material produced by MacIntosh
- 1823—1823: Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School
- 1823—1823: Peel begins penal reforms ? death penalty abolished for over 100 crimes
- 1823—1823: New laws concerning marriage by license ? 'very troublesome' according to some the Act was repealed all in a hurry at the beginning of the next session
- 1823—1823: Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland
- 2 Dec 1823—2 Dec 1823: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in
future European conflicts (the 'Monroe Doctrine')
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21 | 1824 | - 1824—1824: Portland cement patented
- 1824—1824: RSPCA established
- 1824—1824: Canada (Land) Company formed
acquires outstanding Crown reserves
- 1824—1824: First annual numerical census of Upper Canada
Census counts 150,066 individuals
- 1824—1824: Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon
- 1824—1824: Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material
- 4 Mar 1824—4 Mar 1824: Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) founded (called the 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck' until 1854)
- 10 May 1824—10 May 1824: National Gallery in London opens to the public
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22 | 1825 | - 1825—1825: William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
- 4 Mar 1825—4 Mar 1829: John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1825—4 Mar 1829: John Quincy Adams
- 10 May 1825—5 Oct 1825: The Miramichi Fire
200-500 people killed in fire that destroys the New Brunswick towns of Newcastle and Douglastown
- 27 Sep 1825—27 Sep 1825: Stockton to Darlington Railway opens ? world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains
- 6 1825—20 Sep 1825: Lower Canada (Quebec} census
count of population by family
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23 | 1826 | - 1826—1826: Red River flooding
High waters force the complete evacuation of the 10-year-old Red River Colony -- the future Winnipeg, Manitoba
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24 | 1827 | - 1827—1827: Ohm's Law published
- 1827—1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone
- 1827—1827: John Walker invents the modern matches
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25 | 1828 | - 1828—1828: Naturalization commences
Naturalization required for non-British persons
- 11 Jul 1828—1829: Military rolls taken in Canada West (Ontario)
military records name every soldier from 19 to 39 years of age
- 25 Oct 1828—25 Oct 1828: St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)
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26 | 1829 | - 1829—1829: Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
- 1829—1829: London Metropolitan Police Force formed, nicknamed 'Bobbies' after Sir Robert Peel
- 1829—1829: Roman Catholics are permitted by law to buy and inherit property and keep records.
- 1829—1829: Welland Canal opens
Lake Ontario to Lake Erie canal opens
- 1829—1829: William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter
- 1829—1829: Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing
- 1829—1829: American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
- 5 1829—May 1829: Guelph, Ontario, tornado
tornado destroys many homes
- 4 Mar 1829—4 Mar 1837: Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1829—4 Mar 1837: Andrew Jackson
- 10 Jun 1829—10 Jun 1829: First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race
- 6 Oct 1829—6 Oct 1829: George Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials (it was the only one to
complete the trial!)
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27 | 1830 | - 1830—1830: Uprisings and agitation across Europe: the Netherlands are split into Holland and
Belgium
- 1830—1830: Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
- Jul 1830—Jul 1830: Revolution in France, fall of Charles X and the Bourbons ? Louis Philippe (the
Citizen King) on the throne
- 15 Sep 1830—15 Sep 1830: George Stephenson's Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened by the Duke of
Wellington ? first mail carried by rail, and first death on the railway as William Huskisson, a
leading politician, is run over!
- 6 1830—20 Jun 1837: William IV
House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
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28 | 1831 | - 1831—1831: A list of all parish registers dating prior to 1813 compiled
- 1831—1831: Marriage Act amended
allows Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Mennonite, Independent, Dunkers and Moravian clergy to legally perform marriages
- 1831—1831: American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper
- 1831—1831: Michael Faraday invents an electric dynamo
- 6 Jan 1831—1 Oct 1831: Lower Canada (Quebec) census
count of population by family
- 1 Jun 1831—1 Jun 1831: James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
- 1 Aug 1831—1 Aug 1831: 'New' London Bridge opens (replaced 1973) ? old bridge (which had existed for over 600 years) then demolished
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29 | 1832 | - 1832—1832: Electric telegraph invented by Morse
- 1832—1832: Electoral Registers introduced
- 1832—1836: Texas Revolutionary War
Texas vs Mexico
- 1832—1832: Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope
- 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
- 14 May 1832—2 Aug 1832: Black Hawk War
Black Hawk War
- 7 Jun 1832—7 Jun 1832: Reform Bill passed ? Representation of the People Act
- 6 1832—Sep 1832: Cholera epidemic - Canada West
First province-wide cholera epidemic
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30 | 1833 | - 1833—1833: Abolition of slavery
- Jan 1833—Jan 1833: Britain invades the Falkland Islands
- 29 Aug 1833—29 Aug 1833: Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
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31 | 1834 | - 1834—1834: Babbage invents forerunner of the computer
- 1834—1834: Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine)
- 1834—1834: Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent
- 7 1834—15 Sep 1834: Cholera epidemic - Canada West
Second province-wide cholera epidemic
- 18 Mar 1834—18 Mar 1834: 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities
- 1 May 1834—1 May 1834: Slavery abolished in British possessions
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32 | 1835 | - 1835—1835: First railway boom period starts in Britain construction of Great Western Railway
- 1835—1835: Christmas becomes a national holiday
- 1835—1842: Second Seminole War
- 1835—1835: Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller
- 1835—1835: Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography
- 1835—1835: Solymon Merrick patents the wrench
- 1835—1835: Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
- 2 Oct 1835—21 Apr 1836: Texas War of Independence
Texas War of Independence
- 3 Nov 1835—11 Mar 1835: First formal police force
Canadian police force established in Toronto
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33 | 1836 | - 1836—1836: First Potato famine in Ireland
- 1836—1836: Samuel Colt invented the first revolver
- 30 Jan 1836—30 Jan 1836: Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened ? considered the world's first modern suspension bridge
- 25 Feb 1836—25 Feb 1836: Samuel Colt patented the 'revolver'
- 6 Mar 1836—6 Mar 1836: The Alamo falls to Mexican troops - death of Davy Crockett
- 11 May 1836—2 Feb 1848: Mexican-American War
Mexican-American War
- Jul 1836—Jul 1836: Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
- 6 1836—15 Jun 1836: Arkansas
25th State
- 4 1836—28 May 1848: Wisconsin Territory Organized
Effective date 3 Jul 1836
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34 | 1837 | - 1837—1837: P&O Founded
- 1837—1837: Pitman introduces his shorthand system
- 1837—1837: Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
- 1837—1837: English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp
- 11 1837—Dec 1837: Lower Canada Rebellion
French and English rebel against British colonial government
- 12 1837—Dec 1837: Upper Canada Rebellion
An uprising against the ruling clique -- the Family Compact
- 4 Mar 1837—4 Mar 1841: Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1837—4 Mar 1841: Martin van Buren
- 12 Apr 1837—7 Dec 1837: Mackenzie Rebellion
U.S. patriotic rebels fight Loyalists in Toronto
- 20 Jun 1837—20 Jun 1837: William IV dies - accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)
- 1 Jul 1837—1 Jul 1837: Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales -
Registration Districts were formed covering several parishes; initially they had the same
boundaries as the Poor Law boundaries set up in 1834
- 13 Jul 1837—13 Jul 1837: Queen Victoria moves into the first Buckingham Palace
- 20 Jul 1837—20 Jul 1837: Euston Railway station opens - first in London
- 6 1837—22 Jan 1901: Victoria
House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort
- 1 1837—26 Jan 1837: Michigan
26th State
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35 | 1838 | - 1838—1838: Samual Morse invents Morse Code
- 28 Jun 1838—28 Jun 1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
- 11 Nov 1838—16 Nov 1838: Rebellion of Hastings County, Ontario
U.S. patriots raid Prescott
- 6 Dec 1838—27 Dec 1846: Iowa Territory Organized
Effective date 3 July 1838
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36 | 1839 | - 1839—1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
- 1839—1839: Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle adding a
mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel,thus creating the first true 'bicycle' in the modern
Sense
- 1839—1839: First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) - Britain captures Hong Kong
- 1839—1839: Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography
- 1839—1839: Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle
- 1839—1839: American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization
- 1839—1839: Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell
- 1839—1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales
- 1 1839—Jan 1839: Durham Report
Proposal to unite Upper and Lower Canada and assimilate the French
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37 | 1840 | - 1840—1840: Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849, but these probably landed
elsewhere)
- 1840—1840: Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain
- 1840—1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint
- 10 Jan 1840—10 Jan 1840: Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally
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38 | 1841 | - 1841—1841: Thomas Cook starts package tours
- 1841—1841: The first census of genealogical value is taken.
- 1841—1841: Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
- 10 Feb 1841—10 Feb 1841: Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp
- 4 Mar 1841—4 Apr 1841: William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harriso
- 3 Apr 1841—4 Apr 1841: William H. Harrison
William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia
- 4 Apr 1841—4 Mar 1845: John Tyler
John Tyler U.S. Presidency
- 4 Apr 1841—4 Mar 1845: John Tyler
John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president
- 6 Jun 1841—6 Jun 1841: June 6: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded (Population 18.5M)
- 2 Oct 1841—10 Feb 1841: Act of Union
Upper and Lower Canada united to become the Province of Canada and renamed to Canada East and Canada West
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39 | 1842 | - 1842—1842: Income Tax reintroduced in Britain
- 1842—1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator
- 2 Jan 1842—1 Feb 1842: First major census taken
Canada West (Ontario) census counts 487,053 individuals
- 30 Mar 1842—30 Mar 1842: Ether used as an anesthetic for the first time (by Dr Crawford Long in America)
- 29 Aug 1842—29 Aug 1842: Treaty of Nanking - End of First Opium War - Britain gains Hong Kong
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