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Date |
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| 1 | 1383 | - 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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| 2 | 1763 | - 1763—1884: POST-DEPORTATION PERIOD
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| 3 | 1764 | - 8 1764—1862: Indian treaties transferring land to Britain
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| 4 | 1773 | - 1773—1858: East India Company governs Hindustan
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| 5 | 1817 | |
| 6 | 1822 | - 3 1822—2 Mar 1845: Florida Territory Organized
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| 7 | 1832 | - 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
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| 8 | 1835 | - 1835—1842: Second Seminole War
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| 9 | 1836 | - 11 May 1836—2 Feb 1848: Mexican-American War
 Mexican-American War
- 4 1836—28 May 1848: Wisconsin Territory Organized
Effective date 3 Jul 1836
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| 10 | 1837 | - 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
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| 11 | 1838 | - 6 Dec 1838—27 Dec 1846: Iowa Territory Organized
Effective date 3 July 1838
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| 12 | 1841 | - 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
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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 1843 | - 1843—1843: First Christmas card in England
- 1843—1843: Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile
- 27 May 1843—27 May 1843: The Great Hall of Euston station opened in London
- 19 Jul 1843—19 Jul 1843: Brunel's 'Great Britain' launched
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| 15 | 1844 | - 1844—1844: Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton
- 6 Jun 1844—6 Jun 1844: YMCA founded in London by Sir George Williams
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| 16 | 1845 | - 1845—1845: Tarmac laid for first time (in Nottingham)
- 1845—1845: USA doubles cost of passage to American ports
USA passage fees encourage immigrants to choose Canada as their destination
- 1845—1845: American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine
- 1845—1845: Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire
- 3 Mar 1845—3 Mar 1845: Florida
27th State
- 4 Mar 1845—4 Mar 1849: James K. Polk
 James K. Polk U.S. Presidency
- 17 Mar 1845—17 Mar 1845: The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
- 3 Apr 1845—5 Mar 1849: James Polk
- 12 1845—29 Dec 1845: Texas
28th State
- 5 1845—28 Jan 1861: Kansas Territory Organized
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| 17 | 1846 | - 1846—1846: Canada-U.S. Boundary Completed
- 1846—1846: Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction
- 10 Sep 1846—10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
- 4 1846—2 Feb 1848: Mexican-American War
- 12 1846—28 Dec 1846: Iowa
29th State
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| 18 | 1847 | - 1847—1847: US Mormons make Salt Lake City their centre
- 1847—1847: Longfellow writes the poem Evangeline
The poem Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longefellow is published. A spirit of pride and hope is rekindled among the Acadians.
- 1847—1847: Typhus epidemic
The height of the typhus and cholera epidemic brought by immigrants - the black year of emigration
- 1847—1848: Influenza epidemic
worldwide influenza kills millions
- 1847—1847: Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics
- Jan 1847—Jan 1847: An anesthetic used for the first time in England (James Simpson used ether to numb the pain of labour)
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| 19 | 1848 | - 1848—1848: First commercial production of chewing gum
- 1848—1848: 1842's followup census completed
Canada West (Ontario) counts 725,897 individuals
- 1848—1848: Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair
- 24 Jan 1848—24 Jan 1848: Gold found at Sutter's Mill, California - starts the California gold rush
- 11 Jul 1848—11 Jul 1848: Waterloo railway station in London opens
- 8 1848—13 Feb 1859: Oregon Territory Organized
- 5 1848—29 May 1848: Wisconsin
30th State
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| 20 | 1849 | - 1849—1849: Florin (2 shilling coin) introduced as the first step to decimalisation - which finally
occurred in 1971!
- 1849—1849: Canada's 49th parallel border is extended to the Pacific Ocean
- 1849—1849: Official bilingualism
All Canadian parliament bills are now in both English and French
- 1849—1849: Walter Hunt invents the safety pin
- 3 Mar 1849—10 Nov 1858: Minnesota Territory Organized
- 4 Mar 1849—9 Jul 1850: Zachary Taylor
 Zachary Taylor U.S. Presidency
- 3 May 1849—9 Jul 1850: Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor died while in office
- 10 Nov 1849—11 Oct 1849: Annexation Manifesto
Montreal's businessmen call for Canada's annexation by the U.S.
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| 21 | 1850 | - 1850—1850: Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent
- 1 Jan 1850—1 Jan 1850: County government
Counties become official units of local government
- 9 Jul 1850—4 Mar 1853: Millard Fillmore
 Millard Fillmore U.S. Presidency
- 6 Sep 1850—3 Jan 1896: Utah Territory Organized
- 9 Sep 1850—5 Jan 1912: New Mexico Territory Organized
- 9 Sep 1850—9 Sep 1850: California
31st State
- 7 Oct 1850—4 Mar 1853: Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death
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| 22 | 1851 | - 1851—1851: Gold discovered in Australia
- 1851—1851: First Canadian postage stamp
Orange-red stamp is created by Sir Sandford Fleming, sells for three pence and features a beaver
- 1851—1851: Toronto-Buffalo rail line constructed
Great Western Railway creates Toronto-Buffalo line
- 1851—1851: Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine
- 1 May 1851—1 May 1851: Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations ('Crystal Palace' exhibition) opened in Hyde Park
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| 23 | 1852 | - 1852—1852: Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement
- 1852—1852: Wells Fargo established in USA
- 1852—1852: Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents a gyroscope
- 1852—1852: Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine - unsuccessful design
- 1 Dec 1852—12 Jan 1852: First "thorough" Canadian census
"1851" census includes Canada West, Canada East, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, but was not completed until 1853
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| 24 | 1853 | - 1853—1853: Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory in Britain
- 1853—1853: George Cayley invents a manned glider
- 3 Feb 1853—10 Nov 1889: Washington Territory Organized
- 4 Mar 1853—4 Mar 1857: Franklin Pierce
 Franklin Pierce U.S. Presidency
- 3 Apr 1853—4 Mar 1857: Franklin Pierce
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| 25 | 1854 | - 1854—1854: Cigarettes introduced into Britain
- 1854—1854: John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics
- 27 Mar 1854—27 Mar 1854: Britain declares war on Russia (Crimean War)
- 25 Oct 1854—25 Oct 1854: Battle of Balaklava in Crimea (charge of the Light Brigade)
- 5 1854—28 Feb 1867: Nebraska Territory Organized
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1842 - 1854 (11 years)