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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 | 1805 | - 1 Nov 1805—25 Jan 1837: Michigan Territory Organized
Effective date 30 Jun 1805
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| 6 | 1817 | |
| 7 | 1819 | - 3 Feb 1819—14 Jun 1836: Arkansas Territory Organized
Effective 4 July 1819
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| 8 | 1822 | - 3 1822—2 Mar 1845: Florida Territory Organized
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| 9 | 1829 | |
| 10 | 1830 | - 6 1830—20 Jun 1837: William IV
House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
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| 11 | 1832 | - 1832—1836: Texas Revolutionary War
Texas vs Mexico
- 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 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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| 19 | 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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| 20 | 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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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 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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| 23 | 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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1835 - 1846 (11 years)
Andrew Jackson U.S. Presidency