Timeline 1811-1820
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1811 Jan 2, US
Sen Thomas Pickering became the 1st senator to be censured. He revealed
confidential documents communicated by the president of the US. [see
Mar 3,12]
(MC, 1/2/02)
1811 Jan 6, Charles Sumner
(d.1874), leading anti-slavery senator and author, was born in Boston.
He was active in the movement to outlaw war, opposed the Mexican War
and was a founder in 1848 of the Free-Soil party. A senator from
Massachusetts, Sumner was an ardent abolitionist and helped organize
the Republican party. In c1867 Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner
popularized the name Alaska for the territory that had been known as
Russian America in a famous Senate speech supporting the treaty to
purchase Russian America: "There is the National flag. He must be cold,
indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without
pride of country. If in a foreign land, the flag is companionship, and
country itself, with all its endearments."
(HNQ, 9/28/98)(AP, 6/14/97)(HNQ, 11/17/98)
1811 Jan 8, Charles Deslondes led
several hundred poorly armed slaves towards New Orleans in the largest
slave rebellion in US history.
(AH, 2/06, p.14)
1811 Jan 10, An uprising of over
400 slaves was put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks were killed
and their heads were strung up along the roads of the city.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1811 Jan 15, In a secret session,
Congress planned to annex Spanish East Florida.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1811 Feb 1, Scotland’s Bell Rock
lighthouse, at the mouth of Scotland’s Firth of Forth, began
operations. Robert Stevenson (1772-1850) had begun work on the
lighthouse in 1807.
(ON, 5/06, p.8)
1811 Feb 2, Russian settlers
established Ft. Ross trading post in northern California. Fort Ross was
settled by peg-legged Ivan Kuzkov (Kuskov) in Sonoma County (1912). It
was designed as a base for fur hunters and a warm weather supplier for
the Russian colonies in Alaska. The colonists included 25 Russians and
over 80 Aleut Indians from the islands of western Alaska. Kuskov
managed the settlement until 1821.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, p.T5)(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1
p.4)(SFC, 6/15/01, WBb p.7)(MC, 2/2/02)
1811 Feb 3, Horace Greeley
(d.1872), abolitionist newspaper editor, was born in Amherst, New
Hampshire. He popularized the phrase "Go west, young man." Greeley, who
began his journalism career at The New Yorker, founded The New York
Tribune in 1841 with support from powerful political friends. Under
Greeley's direction, The Tribune took a strong stand against slavery,
the South and slave owners in the years leading up to the Civil War.
The Tribune and Greeley also crusaded against liquor, gambling,
prostitution and capital punishment. One of the founders of the
Republican Party, Greeley was also an eccentric who dabbled in many of
the fads of his day. The phrase was spoken to Josiah Grinell, who went
west to Iowa, became a Congregational minister and founded Grinell
College from which Robert Noyce, developer of the microchip and founder
of Intel, graduated. "There is no bigotry like that of ‘free thought’
run to seed."
(HNPD, 2/3/99)(WSJ, 10/26/00, p.W12)(AP, 7/21/98)
1811 Feb 5, George, Prince of
Wales, was named the Prince Regent due to the insanity of his father,
Britain's King George III. George Augustus Frederick became prince
regent after his father, George III, slipped permanently into dementia.
In 1999 Saul David published "The Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of
Wales and the Making of the Regency."
(WSJ, 3/26/99, p.W10)(AP, 2/5/08)
1811 Feb 11, Pres. Madison
prohibited trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1811 Mar 1, In Egypt the Ottoman
viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha massacred the Mameluke leaders of Egypt for
plotting against him. He had invited them to a banquet at the citadel
of Cairo.
(PCh, 1992, p.373)(SC, 3/1/02)
1811 Mar 11, Urbain Jean Joseph le
Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1811 Mar 11, Ned Ludd led a group
of workers in a wild protest against mechanization. Members of the
organized bands of craftsmen who rioted against automation in 19th
century England were known as Luddites and also "Ludds." The movement,
reputedly named after Ned Ludd, began near Nottingham as craftsman
destroyed textile machinery that was eliminating their jobs. By the
following year, Luddites were active in Yorkshire, Derbyshire,
Lancashire and Leicestershire. Although the Luddites opposed violence
towards people (a position which allowed for a modicum of public
support), government crackdowns included mass shootings, hangings and
deportation to the colonies. It took 14,000 British soldiers to quell
the rebellion. The movement effectively died in 1813 apart from a brief
resurgence of Luddite sentiment in 1816 following the end of the
Napoleonic Wars.
(HN, 3/11/01)(HNQ, 5/14/01)(WSJ, 3/29/04, p.A1)
1811 Mar 20, George Caleb Bingham
(d.1879), Missouri painter, was born in Virginia. He paintings included
"Fur Traders on the Missouri."
(WUD, 1994,
p.149)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Caleb_Bingham)
1811 Mar 20, Napoleon II, the Duke
of Reichstadt, was born. He was the son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
(HN, 3/20/99)
1811 Mar 31, Robert Wilhelm
Eberhard von Bunsen, German inventor of the Bunsen burner, was born.
(HN, 3/31/99)
1811 Apr 5, Robert Raikes, founder
of Sunday Schools, died.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1811 Apr 12, First U.S. colonists
on Pacific coast arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington.
(HN, 4/12/98)(MC, 4/12/02)
1811 May 11, Chang and Eng Bunker,
Chinese Siamese twins, were born.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1811 Jun 14, Harriet Beecher Stowe
(d.1896), American writer and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was born
in Litchfield, Conn. The book showed the horrors of slavery and
President Abraham Lincoln joked she had started the American Civil War.
(AHD, p.1272)(HN, 6/14/99)
1811 Jun
19, Samuel P. Chase (b.Apr 17, 1741), Supreme Court Justice
(1798-1811), revolutionary, attorney, Declaration of Independence
signer; died. Chase was served with 6 articles of impeachment by the
House of Representatives in late 1804. Two more articles would later be
added. The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate
began an impeachment trial against Justice Chase in early 1805. He was
charged with political bias, but was acquitted by the Senate of all
charges on March 1, 1805. To this day, he remains the only Supreme
Court justice to be impeached.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase)
1811 Jul 5, Venezuela became the
first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
(HFA, ‘96, p.34)(AP, 7/5/97)
1811 Jul 18, William Makepeace
Thackeray (d.1863), English novelist and satirist, was born. His books
were published as monthly serials. "Next to excellence is the
appreciation of it."
(HN, 7/18/98)(AP, 10/28/00)
1811 Jul 31, Miguel Hidalgo y
Costilla, Mexican hero priest, was executed by Spanish.
(MC, 7/31/02)
1811 Aug 3, Elisha Graves Otis
(d.1861), inventor (safe elevator), was born. The Vermont native, was a
master mechanic working at a bedstead factory in Yonkers, N.Y., when he
built a hoisting machine with two sets of metal teeth at the car’s
sides. If the lifting rope broke, the teeth would lock into place,
preventing the car from falling. Otis ever realized the potential of
his invention. His sons built the Otis Elevator Company, enabling the
skylines of cities throughout the world to be transformed with
skyscrapers.
(www.famousamericans.net/elishagravesotis/)(ON,
5/05, p.12)
1811 Aug 5, C.L. Ambroise Thomas,
French composer (Mignon, Francoise de Rimini), was born.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1811 Aug 6, Judah Philip Benjamin
(d.1884), Sec. War and Sec. State for the Confederacy, was born a
British subject in the Virgin Islands. He went on to become the first
professed Jew elected to U.S. Senate, from the state of Louisiana in
1852. He was brought to South Carolina as a child. After attending Yale
(1825--7) he settled in New Orleans. He served Louisiana in the US
Senate (Whig, 1853--9; Democrat, 1859--61). He was noted for his
pro-slavery speeches in the Senate. Favoring secession, he served the
Confederacy as attorney general (1861) and then as secretary of war
(1861--2). He was blamed for the Confederate army's lack of equipment,
but Jefferson Davis promoted him to secretary of state (1862--5). Late
in the war he urged the recruitment of slaves into the Confederate
Army. With the collapse of the Confederacy he fled to the West Indies
and then to England (1866), where he made a brilliant new career as a
British barrister, especially in appeal cases. He wrote the Treatise on
the Law of Sale of Personal Property (1868), which at once became the
standard in the field. In 1872, he became a counsel to the queen.
Benjamin died in Paris.
(HNQ, 12/8/98)(MC, 8/6/02)
1811 Aug 12, John FE Acton (77),
cruel premier of Naples, died.
(MC, 8/12/02)
1811 Aug 14, Paraguay declared
independence from Spain.
(PC, 1992, p.373)
1811 Aug 31, Théophile
Gautier, French poet, novelist and author of "Art for Art’s Sake," was
born.
(HN, 8/31/98)
1811 Sep 3, John Humphrey Noyes
was born in Vermont. He founded the Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
in 1848.
(MC, 9/3/01)(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.A6)
1811 Oct 11, The first
steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between
New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
(AP, 10/11/97)
1811 Oct 22, Franz Liszt, piano
virtuoso, was born near Sopron, Hungary. He was the son of a steward of
the Esterhazy family.
(Hem., 6/98, p.128)(HN, 10/22/00)
1811 Oct 27, Isaac Merrit Singer,
inventor of a practical home sewing machine, was born.
(HN, 10/27/98)(MC, 10/27/01)
1811 Oct 29, The 1st Ohio River
steamboat left Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1811 Nov 5, El Salvador fought its
1st battle against Spain for independence.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1811 Nov 7, Gen. William Henry
Harrison won a battle against the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of
Tippecanoe in the Indiana territory. Tenskwatawa, the brother of
Shawnee leader Tecumseh, was engaged in the Battle of the Wabash, aka
Battle of Tippecanoe, in spite of his brother’s strict admonition to
avoid it. The battle near the Tippecanoe River with the regular and
militia forces of Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison,
took place while Tecumseh was out of the area seeking support for a
united Indian movement. The battle, which was a nominal victory for
Harrison’s forces, effectively put an end to Tecumseh’s dream of a
pan-Indian confederation. Harrison’s leadership in the battle also
provided a useful campaign slogan for his presidential bid in 1840.
(HFA, ‘96, p.46)(HNQ, 5/28/98)(HN, 11/7/98)
1811 Nov 16, John Bright, British
Victorian radical, was born. He founded the Anti-Corn Law League.
(HN, 11/16/99)
1811 Nov 16, An earthquake in
Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards. [see Dec 15-16]
(MC, 11/16/01)
1811 Nov 21, Heinrich W. von
Kleist (34), German playwright, died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1811 Nov 29, Wendell Phillips,
women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer, was born.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1811 Dec 15-16, A 7.3 earthquake
struck the central US on the Mississippi River. It was centered at New
Madrid, Missouri. Aftershocks continued into 1812. In 1976 James Penick
Jr. authored "The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812." [see Jan 23,
Feb 7, 1812]
(HC, 6/7/98)(ON, 10/99, p.5,6)(SFC, 2/24/01,
p.A10)(NH, 3/1/04, p.66)
1811 The book "Sense and
Sensibility," by Jane Austen (1774-1817), was published. It appeared
anonymously as “written by a lady.”
(SFEC,11/9/97, BR p.4)(ON, 12/09, p.8)
1811 The Bowdoin College Museum of
Art in Brunswick was begun as a bequest from James Bowdoin III, son of
a college benefactor.
(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.W2)
1811 A group of amateur
naturalists formed the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
(AH, 10/04, p.20)
1811 The 1st rubber factory was
established.
(SFC, 3/21/07, p.G2)
1811 In the US politics killed the
Bank of the United States established by Hamilton as a central bank and
a mechanism for government borrowing.
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A18)
1811 Francis Cabot Lowell, an
American industrialist, moved to England and gathered information on
mill details. He returned to the US and started the textile industry in
New England and the Massachusetts mill town of his name.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R50)
1811 Fanny Burney (1752-1840),
English writer, underwent a mastectomy without anesthesia. In 2001
Claire Harman authored the biography: "Fanny Burney."
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.M5)
1811 Avogadro proposed that the
ultimate particles of even elemental gases may not be atoms but instead
molecules made up of combinations of atoms. He also proposed that equal
volumes of gases contain equal numbers of molecules.
(V.D.-H.K.p.324)
1811 Gas hydrates were first
discovered but their molecular structure was not understood until the
late 20th century. They are crystals of water that look like ice but
contain a molecule of free-floating gas in a pentagonally-linked cage.
(NH, 5/97, p.28)
1811 A great comet was observed.
(NH, 12/96, p.69)
1811 William Burchell, botanist
for the East India Company, set off into the bush for Hottentot country
after his girlfriend abandoned him just before marriage. He stayed 4
years and is listed as the man who invented the working safari.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.B4)
1811 In Britain the Dulwich
Picture Gallery opened at Dulwich College. It contained an art
collection gathered by Noel Desenfans and Francis Bourgeois, who had
put it together for the Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, king of
Poland, before he was forced to abdicate.
(WSJ, 2/15/00, p.A24)
1811 British Foreign Secretary
Lord Wellesley, older brother of the Duke of Wellington, wrote that the
Peninsula War diverted French resources and that the time was ripe to
strike against Napoleon.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p.A16)
1811 In England John Williams, the
Highway Hacker, murdered 2 whole families in the Docklands section of
London. He committed suicide while awaiting trial. A crowd stole his
body and drove a stake through his heart and buried him in a lime pit
off Cannon St. The murder later inspired Thomas De Quincey’s essay “On
Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.”
(SFEC, 10/17/98, p.T9)(WSJ, 6/9/07, p.P8)
1811 The British began a period of
sovereignty in Java (Indonesia).
(WSJ, 9/13/08, p.W18)
1811 The Mamelukes remained a
powerful influence in Egypt until they were massacred or dispersed by
Mehemet Ali.
(WUD, 1994, p.869)
1811 The Turks dispatched Egyptian
ruler Muhammad Ali to overthrow the Wahabis and reinstate Ottoman
sovereignty in Arabia.
(NW, 9/30/02, p.33)
1811 Napoleon Bonaparte gave to
his wife, Empress Marie Louise, a tiara with 950 diamonds (700 carats).
The original emeralds were later replaced with Persian turquoise. Now
part of the Smithsonian Inst. and bequeathed by Marjorie Merriweather
Post.
(Postcard , Nat’l Mus. Nat. Hist.,1995)
1811 Matsumura Gekkei (b.1752)
also known as Goshun, Japanese painter based in Kyoto, died.
(SFC, 12/8/05, p.E1)
1811 Scotsman Gregor MacGregor
(1786-1845), later known as His Serene Highness Gregor I, Prince of
Poyais, received a commission from Simon Bolivar in Venezuela to serve
in the Army of Liberation. After he returned to London in 1820, he
began selling land in the fictional kingdom of Poyais. He served 8
months in jail after English and French expeditions revealed the hoax.
In 1839 he returned to Venezuela. In 2004 David Sinclair authored "The
Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Land
Fraud in History."
(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.M2)(WSJ, 1/30/04, p.W9)
1811-1812 Marie Dorion, a 21-year-old Iowa Indian,
was the only woman to accompany the 1811-12 overland expedition to the
Pacific Northwest led by Wilson Price Hunt. Her husband, Pierre Dorion
was hired as an interpreter. Marie would endure many hardships on the
expedition to establish a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia
River.
(HNQ, 12/9/00)
1811-1812 The Scott expedition to the South Pole
culminated in tragedy.
(WSJ, 2/10/95), p.A-7)
1811-1812 In Mexico during the war for independence
the crime rate rose to double digits for two years in a row.
(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.A14)
1811-1816 The Luddite bands of workman destroyed
manufacturing machinery in England under the belief that their use
diminished employment. They were named after Ned Ludd, the 18th cent.
Leicestershire worker who originated the idea. Opponents of technology
harken back to the English weavers who broke textile machinery,
apparently at the urging of their leader, Ned Ludd. [see May 3, 1811]
(WUD, 1994, p.852)(WSJ, 4/12/96, p.B-1)
1811-1857 Jacob Whitman Bailey, teacher of chemistry,
mineralogy and geology at West Point. He was a pioneer of American
science and is noted for his microscopical studies.
(OAPOC-TH, p.71)
1811-1882 Louis Blanc, French utopian socialist,
proposed the social ideal of "from each according to his ability, to
each according to his needs." The nineteenth-century writer and thinker
had a profound influence on radical thought.
(HNQ, 4/12/99)
1811-1881 Prof. Ferdinand Neselman of Koenigsburg
Univ. first referred to the Aistians as the Balts in his book "The
Language of the Prussians According to its Surviving Fragments."
(DrEE, 10/12/96, p.2)
1811-1882 Henry James, US philosopher and author. He
was the father of William and Henry.
(WUD, 1994, p.762)
1811-1884 Wendell Phillips, American
abolitionist: "Responsibility educates."
(AP, 5/29/00)
1812 Jan 23, A 2nd major
earthquake shook New Madrid, Missouri.
(NH, 3/1/04, p.67)
1812 Feb 5, Franz Schneider (74),
composer, died.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1812 Feb 7, A 3rd major earthquake
shook New Madrid, Missouri, and for a few hours reversed the course of
the Mississippi River. [see Dec 15-16, 1811, Jan 23, 1912]
(NH, 3/1/04, p.67)
1812 Feb 7, Charles Dickens,
English novelist, was born in Portsmouth, England. His stories
reflected life in Victorian England. In his novel "Dombey & Son,"
Dickens confronted the subject of money, and its use as a measure of
success. His work also included "Master Humphrey’s Clock," published in
installments like most of his novels. The closing line of A Christmas
Carol: "And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!" Some of
his more famous novels include "Oliver Twist" and "A Tale of Two
Cities."
(SFC, 6/17/97, p.E3)(AP, 2/7/97)(HN, 2/7/99)
1812 Feb 7, Lord Byron made his
maiden speech in House of Lords.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1812 Feb 9, Franz Anton
Hoffmeister (57), composer, died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1812 Feb 11, Alexander Hamilton
Stephens (d.1883), Vice Pres (Confederacy), was born near
Crawfordville, Georgia. Stephens, who served in the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1843 to 1859, was a delegate at the Montgomery
meeting that formed a new union of the seceded states. He was elected
vice president to Jefferson Davis on February 9, 1861. Stephens was
later elected governor of Georgia in 1882 but died after serving just a
few months.
(HNQ, 5/24/98)(MC, 2/11/02)
1812 Feb 11, Massachusetts Gov.
Elbridge Gerry signed a re-districting law that favored his
party—giving rise to the term "gerrymandering."
(AP, 2/11/97)
1812 Feb 16, Henry Wilson, 18th
U.S. Vice President (Grant 1873-1875), was born.
(HN, 2/16/98)
1812 Mar 6, Aaron Lufkin Dennison,
father of American watch making, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1812 Mar 9, Swedish Pomerania was
seized by Napoleon.
(HN, 3/9/98)
1812 Mar 11, Citizenship was
granted to Prussian Jews.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1812 Mar 14, The US Congress
authorized war bonds to finance War of 1812.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1812 Mar 19, Spanish Cortes passed
a liberal constitution under a hereditary monarch.
(AP, 3/19/03)
1812 Mar 25, (OS) Alexander Herzen
(d.1870), Russian author, was born. "Life has taught me to think, but
thinking has not taught me how to live."
(AP,
8/15/99)(www.bookrags.com/biography/aleksandr-ivanovich-herzen/)
1812 Mar 26, Earthquake destroyed
90% of Caracas; about 20,000 died.
(SS, 3/26/02)(PCh, 1992, p.376)
1812 Apr 4, The territory of
Orleans became the 18th state and later became known as Louisiana.
(HN, 4/4/99)
1812 Apr 15,
Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter, was born.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1812 Apr 20, George Clinton (73),
the 4th vice president of the United States, died in Washington,
becoming the first vice president to die while in office.
(AP, 4/20/97)
1812 Apr 26, Alfred Krupp, German
arms merchant, was born.
(HN, 4/26/98)
1812 Apr 27, Friedrich von Flotow,
composer (Martha), was born.
(MC, 4/27/02)
1812 Apr 30, Louisiana became the
18th state.
(AP, 4/30/97)(HN, 4/30/98)
1812 May 7, Poet Robert Browning
was born in London. His works include "The Piper of Hamelin" and "The
Ring and the Book."
(AP, 5/7/97)(HN, 5/7/99)
1812 May 11, The Waltz was
introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers considered it
disgusting and immoral.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1812 May 11, British PM Spencer
Perceval was shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of
Commons. Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) was asked to serve as PM of Britain
and he served until 1827.
(HN, 5/11/99)(WSJ, 2/9/05,
p.D10)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRliverpool.htm)
1812 May 13, Johann Matthias
Sperger (62), composer, died.
(MC, 5/13/02)
1812 May 25, A series of coal mine
explosions took place around the Felling Colliery in Durhamshire,
England. 92 miners were killed. This prompted local clergymen to
organize the Society for Preventing Accidents in Coal Mines.
(ON, 12/01, p.6)
1812 May, William Moorcroft, East
India Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, departed for
Tibet in search of horses to improve his stock.
(ON, 1/02, p.3)
1812 Jun 4, The Louisiana
Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
(AP, 6/4/97)
1812 Jun 18, The War of 1812 began
as the United States declared war against Great Britain and Ireland.
The term "war hawk" was first used by John Randolph in reference to
those Republicans who were pro-war in the years leading up to the War
of 1812. These new types of Republicans, who espoused nationalism and
expansionism, included Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Most of them
came from the agrarian areas of the South and West. In 2004 Walter R.
Borneman authored “1812: The War That Forged a Nation.”
(AP, 6/18/97)(HN, 6/18/98)(HNQ, 5/13/99)(WSJ,
12/16/04, p.D8)
1812 Jun 18, Ivan Goncharov,
Russian novelist of the Russian realism school of thought, was born. He
is best known for his book "Oblomov."
(HN, 6/18/99)
1812 Jun 22, A pro-war mob
destroyed Hanson's newspaper office, four days after America’s
declaration of war against Great Britain. Revered American
Revolutionary cavalry hero Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee was nearly
beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore. Lee came to the aide of an
anti-war newspaper publisher in Baltimore, Alexander Contee Hanson,
defending his right to freedom of speech. When Hanson returned to
Baltimore five weeks later to resume publication, his office was again
besieged by vigilantes. After a tense standoff through the night of
July 27, Hanson and his supporters, including Lee, were taken to a
local jail. Later the mob stormed the jail, severely beating those
being held. Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, never fully recovered from
injuries sustained in the beating and died in 1818.
(HNQ, 9/17/99)
1812 Jun 23, The church at Mission
San Juan Bautista in California was dedicated.
(SJSVB, 6/24/96, p.41)
1812 Jun 24, Napoleon crossed the
Nieman River [in Lithuania] and invaded Russia. The French army under
Napoleon crossed the Nemunas River near Kaunas. Prior to his march into
Russia, Napoleon had taken land from Russia and returned it to Polish
control in Warsaw. This assured him safe passage through Poland and
Lithuania on his way to Russia. In 1824 the book “History of the
Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year
1812” by Count de Segur, a general in Napoleon’s army, was first
published. An English translation edited by Gerard Shelley was
published in 1928.
(HN, 6/24/98)(WSJ, 8/25/07, p.P9)(H of L, 1931,
p.83-84)
1812 Jun 30, William Moorcroft,
East India Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, arrived in
Tibet. He found no horses to improve his stock but learned of Russian
presence.
(ON, 1/02, p.3)
1812 Jul 12, United States forces
led by General William Hull entered Canada during the War of 1812
against Britain. However, Hull retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit.
Madison had called for 50,000 volunteers to invade Canada but only
5,000 signed up.
(AP, 7/12/99)(ON, 9/02, p.2)
1812 Jul 18, Great Britain signed
the Treaty of Orebro, making peace with Russia and Sweden.
(HN, 7/18/98)
1812 Jul 22, English troops under
the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca
in Spain.
(AP, 7/22/97)(HN, 7/22/98)
1812 Jul, British troops under the
Duke of Wellington pillaged the Spanish town of Badajos. This prompted
Wellington to call his troops "the scum of the earth."
(WSJ, 1/6/95, A-10)
1812 Aug 12, British commander the
Duke of Wellington occupied Madrid, Spain, forcing out Joseph Bonaparte.
(HN, 8/12/98)
1812 Aug 16, American General
William Hull surrendered Detroit without resistance to a smaller
British and Indian forces under General Isaac Brock.
(AP, 8/16/97)(HN, 8/16/98)
1812 Aug 17, Napoleon Bonaparte’s
army defeated the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian
retreat to Moscow.
(HN, 8/17/98)
1812 Aug 18, Returning from a
cruise into Canadian waters Captain Isaac Hull's USS Constitution of
the fledgling U.S. Navy encountered British Captain Richard Dacre's HMS
Guerriere about 750 miles out of Boston. After a frenzied 55-minute
battle that left 101 dead, Guerriere rolled helplessly in the water,
smashed beyond salvage. Dacre struck his colors and surrendered to
Hull's boarding party. In contrast, Constitution suffered little damage
and only 14 casualties. The fight's outcome shocked the British
Admiralty while it heartened America through the dark days of the War
of 1812. [see Aug 19]
(HNPD, 8/18/98)
1812 Aug 19, The USS Constitution,
also known as Old Ironsides, got its name when it defeated the British
warship Guerriere off Nova Scotia in a slugfest of broadsides, when
cannonballs were said to have bounced off her sides. The USS
Constitution won more than 30 battles against the Barbary pirates off
Africa’s coast in the War of 1812. [see Aug 18]
(SFEC, 7/13/97, Par p.14)(AP, 8/19/97)
1812 Sep 7, On the road to Moscow,
Napoleon won a costly victory over the Russians under Kutuzov at
Borodino. This was the greatest mass slaughter in the history of
warfare until the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In 2004 Adam Zamoyski
authored “Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow.”
(HN, 9/7/98)(Econ, 4/17/04, p.81)
1812 Sep 12, Richard March Hoe was
born in NYC. He built the first successful rotary printing press.
(HN, 9/12/00)
1812 Sep 14, Napoleon's invasion
of Russia reached its climax as his Grande Armee entered Moscow--only
to find the enemy capital deserted and burning, set afire by the few
Russians who remained. The fires were extinguished by Sep 19.
(HN,
9/14/98)(http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/B/Borodino.html)
1812 Sep 18, A fire in Moscow (set
by Napoleon's troops) destroyed 90% of houses and 1,000 churches. [see
Sep 14]
(MC, 9/18/01)
1812 Sep, In France as Napoleon’s
army proceeded to invade Russia it numbered 442,000 troops. In Sept. it
reached Moscow with 100,000 men. The remains of the Grandee Armee
struggled out of Russia in 1813 with 10,000 men. A map drawn by Charles
Joseph Minard plots six variables to depict the march over time: the
size of the army, its location on a 2-dimensional surface, the
direction of the army’s movement, and temperatures on various days
during the retreat from Moscow. In 1970 Curtis Cate published the book:
"The War of the Two Emperors."
(Adv. E. Tufte, 5/18/96, p.4)(SFEC, 6/15/97, Z1 p.3)
1812 Sep, William Moorcroft, East
India Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, was arrested in
Nepal while returning from Tibet to India. They were released after 17
days in captivity.
(ON, 1/02, p.3)
1812 Sep-Oct, Moscow was burned
under the brief occupation by Napoleon. After the burning the
Neglinnaya River was confined to an underground pipe.
(AM, Jul/Aug ‘97 p.28)
1812 Oct 9, American Lieutenant
Jesse Duncan Elliot captured two British brigs, the Detroit and
Caledonia on Lake Erie in the War of 1812. Elliot set the brig Detroit
ablaze the next day in retaliation for the British capture seven weeks
earlier of the city of Detroit.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1812 Oct 13, At the Battle of
Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeated the Americans
who had tried to invade Canada. This was the 1st major land battle in
the War of 1812.
(HN, 10/13/98)(HNQ, 1/31/02)
1812 Oct 13, Isaac Brock, English
general (conquered Detroit), died in battle.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1812 Oct 19, French forces under
Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
(AP, 10/19/97)(HN, 10/19/98)
1812 Oct 22, The Duke of
Wellington abandoned his 1st siege of Burgos, Spain.
(http://www.napoleonguide.com/battle_burgos.htm)
1812 Oct 23, There was a failed
coup against emperor Napoleon.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1812 Oct 25, The U.S. frigate
United States captured the British vessel Macedonian during the War of
1812.
(AP, 10/25/98)
1812 Nov 9, Paul Abadie, French
master builder (renovated Notre Dame), was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1812 Nov 14, As Napoleon
Bonaparte's army retreated form Moscow, temperatures dropped to 20
degrees below zero. Michel Ney defended the Napoleon‘s rear during the
retreat from Moscow and was called by Napoleon "The bravest of the
brave." He rejoined Napoleon during the Hundred Days and the Waterloo
campaign. After Napoleon‘s defeat, he was found guilty of treason and
shot. It was later suggested that many soldiers died because their tin
coat buttons deteriorated in the extreme cold.
(HN, 11/14/99)(HNQ, 9/21/00)(SSFC, 6/8/03, p.M2)
1812 Nov 26, Napoleon Bonaparte's
army began crossing the Beresina River over two hastily constructed
bridges.
(HN, 11/26/99)
1812 Nov 27, One of the two
bridges being used by Napoleon Bonaparte's army across the Beresina
River in Russia collapsed during a Russian artillery barrage.
(HN, 11/27/99)
1812 Nov 29, The last elements of
Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armee retreated across the Beresina River in
Russia. Tens of thousands of French troops and civilians perished when
the Russians attacked Napoleon's army as it crossed the Berezina River
in Belarus on the punishing retreat from Moscow. The following Spring
it was recorded that 32,000 bodies were rounded up and burned on the
river banks near Studianka.
(HN, 11/29/99)(AP,
11/26/07)(www.wtj.com/articles/berezina/)
1812 Dec 2, James Madison was
re-elected president of US; Elbridge Gerry was vice-pres.
(MC,
12/2/01)(www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/gerry.htm)
1812 Dec 4, Peter Gaillard of
Lancaster, Pa., patented a horse-drawn mower.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1812 Dec 6, The majority of
Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armeé staggered into Vilnius,
Lithuania, ending the failed Russian campaign. An estimated 50,000
soldiers reached Lithuania and as many as 20,000 died there. As many as
450,000 soldiers from France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Germany and at
least 15 other countries died in the Russian campaign.
(HN, 12/6/99)(Arch, 9/02, p.41)
1812 Dec 8, In California the
Great Stone Church at Mission San Juan Capistrano crashed down after an
earthquake just 6 years after being completed. Forty worshippers were
killed. Half of the church under the work of architect Isidro Aguilar
(d.1803) remained standing.
(HT, 3/97, p.60)
1812 Dec 13, The last remnants of
Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armeé reached the safety of Kovno,
Poland, after the failed Russian campaign.
(HN, 12/13/99)
1812 Dec 18, Napoleon Bonaparte
arrived in Paris after his disastrous campaign in Russia.
(HN, 12/18/99)
1812 Dec 20, Achille Peri,
composer, was born.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1812 Dec 20, Sacagawea, Shoshone
interpreter for Lewis & Clark, died.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1812 Dec 23, Samuel Smiles
(d.1904), doctor and writer, was born in Scotland. He later
authored “Self-Help” 1859), a classic work on self-improvement.
(Econ, 4/24/04, p.86)
1812 Dec 24, Joel Barlow, aged 58,
American poet and lawyer, died from exposure near Vilna, Poland
[Lithuania], during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Barlow was on a
diplomatic mission to the emperor for President Madison.
(HN, 12/24/98)
1812 Dec, Michael Faraday began
working for Sir Humphrey Davy at the British Royal Society.
(ON, 10/03, p.11)
1812 Jacques-Louis David, French
artist, painted a portrait of Napoleon as a working ruler.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.126)
1812 Louis-Vincent-Leon Palliere,
French painter, created his work “Ulysses and Telemachus Massacre
Penelope’s Suitors.”
(WSJ, 12/28/05, p.D8)
1812 Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
(1758-1823), French artist, painted "Venus and Adonis."
(WSJ, 4/8/98, p.A20)
1812 Georges Cuvier, French
anatomist, published his 4 volume work "Recherches sur les ossemens
fossiles" (Research on Fossil Bones).
(NH, 8/96, p.18)
1812 Nicodemus Havens authored his
“Wonderful Vision of the City of New York,” wherein he was presented
with a view of the Situation of the World, after the dreadful Fourth of
June, 1812, and showing what part of New York is to be destroyed.
(http://tinyurl.com/4n6ycb)(WSJ, 10/3/08, p.A19)
1912 Louisa d’Andelot du Pont
Copeland spearheaded the founding of the Delaware Art Museum.
(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A32)
1812 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
published their first collection of "Folk Tales for Children and the
Home." It included "The Frog King, or Iron Henry."
(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.10)
1812 The 1st American recipe for
tomato ketchup was published.
(SFC, 8/27/03, p.E4)
1812 Madison proposed to France
and England that if one would stop attacking American commerce at sea,
then the US would break off commercial relations with the other.
Napoleon quickly accepted Madison’s terms and under congressional
pressure Madison declared war on England. He did not know that 24 hours
prior to the declaration, England had voted to stop its abuses on
American shipping.
(A&IP, ESM, p.33)
1812 Mackinaw Island, Michigan,
was recaptured by the British.
(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.C5)
1812 The Cherokee Indians sided
with the United States in the War of 1812.
(NG, 5/95, p.78)
1812 Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne
established Fort Wayne, Indiana. He got his nickname because he was
crazy enough to join his troops on the front lines.
(WSJ, 2/6/04, p.A10)
1812 Maine separated from the
state of Massachusetts.
(WSJ, 8/6/99, p.W12)
1812 The 1st New England cotton
mill was erected in Fall River, Mass.
(Panic, p.8)
1912 Du Pont was forced to give up
a big piece of its explosives business due to government trust busting
but kept its military line and became the chief supplier to the Allies
in WW I. The Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington tracked the
business history of the du Ponts.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R46)(WSJ, 2/25/99, p.A1)
1812 The small Bank of America was
founded in NYC.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B1)
1812 Aaron Benedict started a
button-making business in Waterbury, Conn. The name was changed to
Benedict & Burnham in 1834, and to Benedict & Burnham
Manufacturing in 1843.
(SFC, 3/19/97, z1 p.3)
1812 The steamboat New Orleans was
built in Pittsburgh and steamed to New Orleans but lacked sufficient
power to return upstream.
(ON, 7/02, p.9)
1812 Mason Weems made his sermon
concerning gambling: "O gamblers!... You are engaged in the most
horrible warfare that rational beings can ever undertake. A warfare
most unnatural; even against the best and noblest part of your
nature—your social affections and sympathies with your kind.
(WSJ, 8/14/98, p.W11)
1812 Mary Anning of Lyme Regis in
Dorcetshire, England, excavated a 17-foot-long skeleton and sold it to
Henry Hoste Henley, Lord of the Manor of Colway for £23. The
fossil was later named Icthyosaurus.
(ON, 3/01, p.5)
1812 Russia acquired Bessarabia,
the north eastern part of the original principality of Moldavia, in the
aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812).
(Econ, 1/6/07,
p.43)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessarabia)
1812 Dec, Vilnius, Lithuania, was
recaptured by Russian forces.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_of_Lithuania)
1812 Swiss explorer Jean Louis
Burckhardt rediscovered the ancient city of Petra in present-day Jordan.
(HNQ, 5/26/01)
1812-1840 Carl Ludvig Engel, a Prussian architect,
redesigned and rebuilt Helsinki as the capital of the Grand Duchy of
Finland-Russia.
(SFEM, 8/8/99, p.44)
1812-1841 Russian fur traders established the
settlement of Fort Ross in northern California.
(WCG, p.74)
1812-1888 May 12, Edward Lear, English author of
nonsense verse is born.
(HFA, ‘96, p.30)(AHD, p.744)
1813 Jan 2, In Vilnius, Lithuania,
Russian Army head M. Kutuzov announced the end of war in Russia.
(LHC, 1/3/03)
1813 Jan 4, Isaac Pitman (d.1897),
inventor (stenographic shorthand), was born in Britain.
(MC, 1/4/02)(WSJ, 8/20/04, p.A1)
1813 Jan 11, The 1st pineapples
were planted in Hawaii (or 1/21).
(MC, 1/11/02)
1813 Jan 18, Joseph Farwell
Glidden, inventor of barbed wire, was born.
(HN, 1/18/99)(MC, 1/18/02)
1813 Jan 22, During the War of
1812, British forces under Henry Proctor along with Indian allies under
Tecumseh defeated a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
(HN, 1/22/99)(AM, 7/00, p.19)
1813 Jan 22, A combined British
and Indian force attacked an American militia retreating from Detroit
near Frenchtown, later known as Monroe, Mich. Only 33 men of some 700
men escaped the battle of the River Raisin. Over 400 Kentucky
frontiersmen were killed.
(Arch, 9/00,
p.22)(www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KY_BRR.htm)
1813 Jan 24, Theodore Sedgwick
(b.1746), arch-Federalist and former Massachusetts Senator (1796-1799),
died. In 2007 John Sedgwick authored “In My Blood: Six Generations of
Madness and Desire in an American Family.”
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000222)(WSJ,
1/6/07, p.P13)
1813 Jan 29, Jane Austin published
"Pride and Prejudice," a blend of instruction and moral entertainment.
(HN, 1/29/99)
1813 Feb 18, Czar Alexander
entered Warsaw at the head of his Army.
(HN, 2/18/99)
1813 Feb 24, Off Guiana, the
American sloop Hornet under Master Commandant James Lawrence sank the
British sloop Peacock.
(HN, 2/24/98)(ON, 10/99, p.12)
1813 Feb 26, Robert R. Livingston
(66), US diplomat (Declaration of Independence), died.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1813 Feb 27, The 1st federal
vaccination legislation was enacted.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1813 Feb 28, Russia and
Prussia formed the Kalisz union against Napoleon.
(LHC,2/28/03)
1813 Mar 3, Office of Surgeon
General of the US army was established.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1813 Mar 4, The Russians fighting
against Napoleon reached Berlin. The French garrison evacuated the city
without a fight.
(HN, 3/4/99)
1813 Mar 8, The 1st concert of
Royal Philharmonic.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1813 Mar 15, John Snow (d.1858),
obstetrician, was born in York, England. He worked on the epidemiology
of cholera.
(ON, 5/05,
p.8)(www.johnsnowsociety.org/johnsnow/facts.html)
1813 Mar 19, David Livingston,
explorer found by Stanley in Africa, was born in Scotland.
(HN, 3/19/98)
1813 Mar 21, James Jesse Strang,
King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI. (1850-56), was born.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1813 Mar 25, The first U.S. flag
flown in battle was on the frigate Essex in the Pacific.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1813 Mar 27, Nathaniel Currier,
lithographer for Currier and Ives, was born.
(HN, 3/27/98)
1813 Apr 10, Joseph-Louis Lagrange
(b.1736), Italian-born mathematician, died in Paris. He is considered
to be the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century.
(www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Lagrange/RouseBall/RB_Lagrange.html)
1813 Apr 14, Junius S. Morgan, US
merchant, philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art), was born.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1813 Apr 14, Joachim Nicolas
Eggert (34), composer, died.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1813 Apr 15, U.S. troops under
James Wilkinson sieged the Spanish-held city of Mobile in future state
of Alabama.
(HN, 4/15/99)
1813 Apr 19, Benjamin Rush (67),
physician, revolutionary (signed Declaration of Independence), died.
(MC, 4/19/02)
1813 Apr 23, Stephen Douglas
(d.1861), the "Little Giant," was born. He debated Abraham Lincoln for
a seat on the U.S. Senate and later lost to Lincoln for the presidency
of the United States. He argued that the Declaration of Independence
did not mean to include blacks.
(WSJ,2/12/97, p.A16)(HN, 4/23/99)
1813 Apr 27, Americans forces
under Gen. Zebulon M. Pike (34) captured York (present day Toronto),
the seat of government in Ontario; Pike was killed.
(HN, 4/27/99)(MC, 4/27/02)
1813 Apr 29, Rubber was patented.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1813 Apr, Captain David Porter of
the U.S. Navy sailed the USS Essex into the Galapagos Archipelago after
a six month journey around Cape Horn, eager to find a way to help his
country in their powder-keg relations with Great Britain. Capt. Porter
made his first landfall at a place called Post Office Bay, on Charles
Island, and raided the barrel there that served as the informal but
effective communications link between whaling ships and the outside
world. The primitive post box, a barrel system of drop-off and pick-up,
had been established some 20 years earlier, but its efficiency had
become well-known. Inside of half a year, Capt. Porter and the Essex
had captured 12 British whalers and devastated the whale British
industry in the Pacific, forcing a reallocation of Royal Navy ships to
a distant region far from the "home front" in North America.
(www.terraquest.com/assignment/assignment.html)
1813 May 2, Napoleon defeated a
Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen. During the Napoleonic Wars
a British naval officer proposed the use of saturation bombing and
chemical warfare.
(HN, 5/2/98)
1813 May 5, Soren Kierkegaard
(d.1855), Danish philosopher and theologian, was born. He founded
Existentialism and believed that man's relation to God must be an
agonizing experience. "Truth is not introduced into the individual from
without, but was within him all the time." His books included the
philosophical novel "Diary of a Seducer."
(WUD, 1994, p.786)(AP, 10/23/97)(SFC, 9/4/98,
p.C5)(HN, 5/5/99)
1813 May 9, U.S. troops under
William Henry Harrison rescued Fort Meigs from British and Canadian
troops.
(HN, 5/9/99)
1813 May 10, Montgomery Blair,
lawyer in the Dred Scot case, was born in Franklin County, Ky. The case
decided the limits of slavery.
(HN, 5/10/99)(MC, 5/10/02)
1813 May 22, Richard Wagner,
German composer, conductor and writer, was born in Leipzig, Germany. He
composed "The Flying Dutchman."
(AP, 5/22/97)(HN, 5/22/99)
1813 May 27, Americans captured
Fort George, Canada.
(HN, 5/27/98)
1813 Jun 1, The U.S. Navy gained
its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate
"Chesapeake", Captain James Lawrence (b.1871) was heard to say, "Don’t
give up the ship!", during a losing battle with a British frigate
"Shannon"; his ship was captured by the British frigate.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(AP, 6/1/98)(ON, 10/99, p.12)
1813 Jun 5, Captain James Lawrence
died from his wounds as the Shannon towed the Chesapeake to Halifax.
Lawrence was buried with honors on Jun 8 and his remains were later
sent to NYC for burial in Trinity churchyard.
(ON, 10/99, p.12)
1813 Jun 6, The U.S. invasion of
Canada was halted at Stoney Creek, Ontario.
(HN, 6/6/98)
1813 Jun 8, David D. Porter, Union
Admiral, was born.
(HN, 6/8/98)
1813 Jun 21, The Peninsular War
ended. It began on February 16, 1808, when Napoleon ordered a large
French force into Spain under the pretext of sending reinforcements to
the French army occupying Portugal.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1813 Jun 24, Henry Ward Beecher
(d.1887), American clergyman and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was
born. "Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to
make the lie good for anything."
(AP, 5/2/97)(HN, 6/24/01)
1813 Jun 26, Metternich met with
Napoleon at Dresden and informed him that he must sue for peace if he
wanted continued Austrian support.
(ON, 5/04, p.3)
1813 Jul 15, Napoleon Bonaparte’s
representatives met with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.
(HN, 7/15/98)
1813 Jul 31, British invaded
Plattsburgh, NY.
(MC, 7/31/02)
1813 Aug 9, After reports that
British naval vessels were nearing St. Michaels, Md., to attack the
shipbuilding town that night, the county militia placed lanterns on the
tops of the tallest trees and on the masts of vessels in the harbor;
and had all other lights extinguished. When the British attacked, they
directed their fire too high and overshot the town.
(HNQ, 11/25/02)
1813 Aug 10, A number of British
barges manned by marines shelled the town of St. Michaels, Md., on the
Chesapeake Bay. Residents had hoisted lanterns to treetops and masts
and caused the British canons to overshoot their mark. One house was
hit by a cannonball on the roof and the ball rolled across the attic
and down the staircase frightening Mrs. Merchant as she carried her
infant daughter downstairs.
(SMBA, 1996)
1813 Aug 14, British warship
Pelican attacked and captured US war brigantine Argus.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1813 Aug 23, At the Battle of
Grossbeeren Prussians under Von Bulow repulsed the French.
(MC, 8/23/02)
1813 Aug 23, Alexander Wilson
(b.1766), Scottish-born poet and naturalist, died in Philadelphia. He
had completed 7 volumes of “American Ornithology” and was working on a
8th volume when he died.
(AH, 10/04,
p.23)(www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/PA_Env-Her/alexandar_wilson.htm)
1813 Aug 27, The Allies defeated
Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1813 Aug 30, Creek Indians
massacred over 500 whites at Fort Mims Alabama.
(HN, 8/30/98)
1813 Sep 7, The earliest known
printed reference to the United States by the nickname "Uncle Sam"
occurred in the Troy Post. [see Oct, 1814]
(HN, 9/7/98)
1813 Sep 10, The nine-ship
American flotilla under Oliver Hazard Perry wrested naval supremacy
from the British on Lake Erie by capturing or destroying a force of six
English vessels in the War of 1812. With Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry’s flagship unable to fight, an outmatched British flotilla faced
the prospect of a remarkable victory. But Perry only transferred his
pennant to another ship and fought on. American Captain Oliver Hazard
Perry led his home-built 10-vessel fleet to victory against a
six-vessel British squadron commanded by Captain Robert H. Barclay in
the Battle of Lake Erie. Perry’s triumph, marked by his legendary
message to General William Henry Harrison, "We have met the enemy and
they are ours," was of great strategic value for the United States
because it ensured American control of the Northwest Territory. During
the battle, Perry left his badly damaged Lawrence and transferred his
motto flag, reading, "Don’t Give Up the Ship," to Niagara. From there
he continued the fight.
(AP, 9/10/97)(HN, 9/10/98)(HNPD, 9/10/98)
1813 Sep 13, John Sedgwick
(d.1864), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1813 Sep 24, Andre-Ernest-Modeste
Gretry, composer, died at 72.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1813 Oct 5, The Battle of
Moraviantown was decisive in the War of 1812. Known as the Battle of
the Thames in the United States, the U.S. victory over British and
Indian forces near Ontario at the village of Moraviantown on the Thames
River is know in Canada as the Battle of Moraviantown. Some 600 British
regulars and 1,000 Indian allies under English General and Shawnee
leader Tecumseh were greatly outnumbered and quickly defeated by U.S.
forces under the command of Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison. Tecumseh
(45) was killed in this battle.
(HN, 10/5/98)(PC, 1992 ed, p.378)
1813 Oct 9, Giuseppe Verdi,
Italian composer (Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida), was born. [see Oct 10]
(MC, 10/9/01)
1813 Oct 10, Composer Giuseppe
Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy. [see Oct 9]
(HFA, ‘96, p.40)(AP, 10/10/97)(HN, 10/10/98)
1813 Oct 16-1813, Oct 19, In the
Battle at Leipzig (aka Battle of the Nations) Napoleon faced Prussia,
Austria and Russia and suffered one of his worst defeats.
(DoW, 1999, p.325)
1813 Oct 17, Georg Buchner, German
playwright (Danton's Death, Woyzeck), was born.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1813 Oct 18, The Allies defeated
Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig.
(HN, 10/18/98)
1813 Oct 26, Canadian militia
defeated American forces at the Battle of Chateauguay.
(www3.sympatico.ca/dis.general/chatgy.htm)
1813 Oct 29, The Demologos, the
first steam-powered warship, was launched in New York City.
(HN, 10/29/98)
1813 Nov 2, Treaty of
Fulda. After the Battle of Leipzig (Oct 16-19) King Frederick I of
Württemberg (1754-1816) deserted Napoleon’s waning fortunes. By a
treaty made with Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
(1773-1858) at Fulda, Hessen, Germany he secured the confirmation of
his royal title and of his recent acquisitions of territory, while his
troops marched with those of the allies into France.
(DoW, 1999, p.325)
1813 Nov 3, American troops
destroy the Indian village of Tallushatchee in the Mississippi Valley.
US troops under Gen Coffee destroyed an Indian village at Talladega,
Ala.
(HN, 11/3/99)(MC, 11/3/01)
1813 Nov 6, Chilpancingo congress
declared Mexico independent of Spain.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1813 Nov 12, J. H. St. John de
Crevecouer, French explorer and writer, died. He had spent more than
half of his life in the New World and contributed two important
concepts to the American consciousness. The first is the idea of the
"American Adam," that there is something different, unique, special, or
new about these people called "Americans." The second idea is that of
the "melting pot," that people's "American-ness" transcends their
ethnic, cultural, or religious backgrounds.
(http://cs1.mcm.edu/~cetheridge/crevec.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/3cbq3j)
1813 Nov 16, The British announced
a blockade of Long Island Sound, leaving only the New England coast
open to shipping.
(HN, 11/16/98)
1813 Nov 29, Giambattista Bodoni
(73), Italian stamp cutter, publisher, and type font designer (bodoni),
died.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1813 Dec 8, Ludwig van Beethoven's
7th Symphony in A, premiered.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1813 Dec 10, Zachariah Chandler,
US merchant and politician, was born. He founded the Republican Party.
(MC, 12/10/01)
1813 Dec 19, British forces
captured Fort Niagara during the War of 1812.
(AP, 12/20/06)
1813 Dec 20, Dr. Samuel Mudd,
doctor who helped Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, was born. [2nd
ref. says 1833]
(HN, 12/20/98)(MC, 12/20/01)
1813 Dec 30, The British burned
Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.
(AP, 12/30/06)
1813 Dec 31, Some 83,000 Prussian
and Russian soldiers pursued Napoleon across the Rhine at
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.T5)
1813 Raphaelle Peale, son of
Charles Willson, painted his still life "Black-berries."
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.E1)
1813 The Rossini opera "L’Italiana
in Algeri" had its premier in Venice. [see 1808]
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.E1)
1813 In New Mexico El Santuario
del Senor de Esquipulas was built. It is a tiny chapel near the village
of Chimayo, and one of the 6 adobe missions scattered along the western
shoulder of the Sangre de Cristo mountains between Taos and Santa Fe.
Rumor has it that Don Bernardo Abeyta, a Catholic penitent from Santa
Cruz, found a buried crucifix here in 1810 while on a pilgrimage.
Native Americans called this valley Tsimayo-pokwi and believed it to be
holy ground.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.T-5)
1813 The US federal government was
almost broke from the war with Britain but was able to get Stephen
Girard, wealthy ship owner and banker, to help finance the war effort.
Congress quickly moved to charter the Second Bank of the US.
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A18)
1813 Immigrants John Jacob Astor,
David Parish, Alexander Dallas and Stephen Girard stepped in to provide
over $9 million to finance the US War of 1812.
(WSJ, 1/2/97,
p.6)(www.fee.org/~web/0203iolpdf/col4.pdf)
1813 A new 45 carat blue diamond
emerged in France. It was guessed to have been cut from the 112 carat
Blue Diamond of the crown jewels. The 112 carot stone was recut in 1673
to 67 carats.
(THC, 12/3/97)(EB, 1993, V6 p.51)
1813 John (Cameron) Gilroy of
Scotland sailed from England on the Isaac Todd to Monterey, Ca., where
he was dropped off to recover from scurvy.
(SFC, 11/29/97, p.A14)
1813 A troop ship returning from
the War of 1812 was blown ashore at Cape Pine on Newfoundland’s Avalon
Peninsula. All 350 passengers died.
(SFEC, 9/29/96, p.T-6)
1813 Andrew Jackson received a
bullet wound that shattered his left shoulder. The bullet was not
removed until 1832 and was later suspected of causing lead poisoning.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A2)
1813 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, the
American explorer who has a Colorado mountain named for him, died
leading an attack that captured York, now known as Toronto, in the War
of 1812. Pike, born in New Jersey in 1779, sighted in 1806 but did not
climb the mountain that would later be named Pikes Peak in the Colorado
Rockies. Pike led two expeditions from 1805 to 1807, one in the upper
Mississippi region of the Louisiana Purchase and the second in what is
now New Mexico and Colorado. As a brigadier general, Pike was killed,
when a powder magazine exploded as he led the assault on York, then
capital of upper Canada. Some 320 Americans were killed or wounded in
the explosion.
(HNQ, 5/7/98)
1813 In Australia explorers
Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson blazed the first
trail from Sidney across the Blue Mountains to the fertile western
plains.
(Hem., 1/97, p.53)
1813 William Charles Wells
presented a paper to the Royal Society in which he introduced the idea
of natural selection to explain why people might vary in skin color in
different climates.
(Econ, 2/7/09, p.73)
1813 In Canada American militiamen
burned down the town of Niagara-on-the Lake.
(WSJ, 8/29/97, p.A9)
1813 The Tokujo-maru, a Japanese
ship with a cargo of rice for Edo, was blown off course. Three
surviving crew members were picked up 18 months later by a British ship
off the coast of California.
(Econ, 12/22/07, p.64)
1813 Prussia took over Danzig.
(WSJ, 8/31/98, p.A4)
1813 The Prussians introduced the
Iron Cross during the Napoleonic wars.
(WSJ, 4/23/99, A1)
1813 The Clark family of Paisley,
Scotland, began manufacturing cotton thread. By the 1840s members of
the family moved to the US and in 1866 developed a twisted cotton
thread for sewing machines, which they named O.N.T. (Our New Thread).
(SFC, 10/5/05, p.G3)
1813 A Swiss traveler discovered
the Great and Small Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel in Egypt.
(NG, May 1985, R. Caputo, p.591)
1813-1820 The classic Vietnamese love poem "The Tale
of Kieu" was written by Nguyen Du (1766-1820). It was based on an
earlier Chinese novel entitled "The story of Kim-Van-Kieu ", written by
an author under the pen-name of "Thanh-Tam Tai-Nhan" in the 16th or the
early 17th century.
(SFC, 9/25/96,
p.E7)(www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/5908/literature/kieu.html)
1813-1828 Russia gains control of northern Azerbaijan
due to the weak local power of the khanates. Industrialization and oil
extraction are expanded.
(Compuserve Online, Grolier’s Amer. Acad. Enc./
Azerbaijan)
1813-1843 Robert Southey was the poet laureate of
England over this period. He was the author of "The Three Bears."
(SFEC, 2/15/98, Z1 p.8)
1813-1855 Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher:
"Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was
within him all the time." "Don’t forget to love yourself."
(AP, 10/23/97)(AP, 3/5/98)
1813-1887 Ellen Wood, English playwright and
journalist: "It is not so much what we have done amiss, as what we have
left undone, that will trouble us, looking back."
(AP, 2/13/01)
1813-1891 Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, linguist,
amassed a collection of some 14,000 books on linguistics. Because his
special interest was the Finnish and Estonian languages, he gathered
extensively from the whole Baltic region. The collection was sold in
1894 to the Newberry Library in Chicago from a London bookseller.
(DrEE, 9/28/96, p.4)
1813-1901 Oct 10, Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
was born. Best know for his operas.
(AHD, 1971, p.1422)(HFA, ‘96, p.40)
1813-1908 Thomas Mellon, American empire builder and
judge, made his fortune in real-estate speculation and founded the
Mellon Bank.
(WSJ, 2/27/95, p.A-10)
1814 Jan 2, Lord Byron completed
"The Corsair."
(MC, 1/2/02)
1814 Jan 27, Johann Gottlieb
Fichte (b.1762), German philosopher, died.
(MC, 1/27/02)
1814 Feb 9, Samuel Jones Tilden,
philanthropist, was born.
(HN, 2/9/97)(MC, 2/9/02)
1814 Feb 10, Napoleon personally
directed lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward
Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
During the Napoleonic Wars a British naval officer proposed the use of
saturation bombing and chemical warfare to undermine the strength of
Emperor Napoleon.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1814 Feb 21, Nicolo Gabrielli,
composer, was born.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1814 Feb 27, Ludwig von
Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F, premiered.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1814 Feb 27, Napoleon’s Marshal
Nicholas Oudinot was pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor’s allied
enemies shortly before his abdication.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1814 Feb, A man claiming to be an
aide-de-camp to the armies fighting Napoleon landed in Dover and
claimed that Cossacks had butchered Napoleon and that Paris had fallen.
Stock prices soared and conspirators sold shares at a 15% profit before
the fraud was unmasked.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1849 Mar 3, Gold Coinage Act
authorized the $20 Double Eagle gold coin.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1849 Mar 4, The US had no
President. Polk's term ended on a Sunday and Taylor couldn't be
sworn-in; Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term had ended March
3rd.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1814 Mar 10, Napoleon Bonaparte
was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon, in
France.
(HN, 3/10/99)
1814 Mar 27, General Jackson led
U.S. soldiers who killed 700 Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend, La. [in
Northern Alabama] Jackson lost 49 men. In 2001 John Buchanon authored
"Jackson’s Way" and Robert V. Remini authored "Andrew Jackson and His
Indian Wars."
(SFEC, 2/16/97, BR p.4)(HN, 3/27/99)(WSJ, 7/26/01,
p.A12)
1814 Mar 29, In the Battle at
Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, Andrew Jackson beat the Creek Indians. [see
Mar 27]
(MC, 3/29/02)
1814 Mar 30, Britain and allies
marched into Paris after defeating Napoleon.
(MC, 3/30/02)
1814 Mar 31, Forces allied against
Napoleon captured Paris.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1814 Apr 2, Henry Lewis "Old Rock"
Benning, Brig General in Confederate Army, was born.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1814 Apr 4, Napoleon Bonaparte
first abdicated at Fontainebleau. He was allowed to keep the title of
emperor. [see Apr 11]
(www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/legislation/restoration.cfm)
1814 Apr 11, Napoleon Bonaparte
(45) abdicated at Fontainebleau a 2nd time and was banished to the
island of Elba, a small island in the Mediterranean, retaining the
title of emperor and 400 volunteers to act as his guard. He was granted
sovereignty over Elba and a pension from the French government. [see
Apr 6]
(www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/legislation/restoration.cfm)
1814 Apr 15, John Lothrop Motley,
US historian, author (Rise of Dutch Rep), was born.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1814 Apr 20, Napoleon departed for
exile in Elba.
(Econ, 4/14/07, p.94)
1814 Apr 26, King Louis XVIII
landed on Calais from England.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1814 Apr, The Duke of Wellington
led 60,000 troops against 325,000 French troops at Toulouse and
defeated them just days after Napoleon abdicated the throne.
(WSJ, 1/6/95, A-10)
1814 May 4, Napoleon Bonaparte
disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
(HN, 5/4/99)
1814 May 4, Bourbon reign was
restored in France. Louis XVIII was crowned as successor to his
guillotined brother.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1814 May 5, The British attacked
Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York.
(HN, 5/5/98)
1814 May 6, Wilhelm Ernst,
violinist, composer, was born.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1814 May 6, George Joseph Vogler
(64), composer, died.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1814 May 11, Americans defeated
the British at Battle of Plattsburgh.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1814 May 12, Robert Treat Paine
(83), US judge (signed Declaration of Ind), died.
(MC, 5/12/02)
1814 May 17, Norway’s constitution
was signed, providing for a limited monarchy. Denmark ceded Norway to
Sweden.
(AP, 5/17/97)(HN, 5/17/98)
1814 May 29, Empress Josephine
(1804-14), first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, died. She maintained grand
roses at Malmaison, where there were an estimated 250 varieties.
(TGR, 1995, p.2)(SC, 5/29/02)
1814 May 30, The First Treaty of
Paris was declared, after Napoleon's first abdication. It returned
France to its 1792 borders and secured for the British definite
possession of the Cape of Good Hope.
(HN, 5/30/98)(HN, 5/30/99)(EWH, 4th ed, p.884)
1814 Jun 1, Philip Kearney, Union
Civil War general, was born. He was killed at the Battle of Chantilly,
Virginia.
(HN, 6/1/99)
1814 Jun 3, Nicolas Appert
(b.1749), French cook, died. He was the winner of a 12,000 franc prize
offered by Napoleon for developing a method to preserve food. His
original canning method took 14 years to develop and used glass jars
sealed with wax reinforced with wire.
(WSJ, 1/21/03, p.A1)(www.foodreference.com)
1814 Jul 5, US troops under Gen.
Jacob Brown and Gen. Winfield Scott defeated a superior British force
under Maj. Gen. Phineas Riall near the Niagara River at Chippewa,
Canada. British casualties exceeded 500 compared to some 300 Americans.
(AH, 10/07, p.53)
1814 Jul 7, Sir Walter Scott's
(1771-1832) novel "Waverly" was published anonymously so as not to
damage his reputation as a poet.
(HN, 7/7/01)(WUD, 1994 p.1281)
1814 Jul 18, The British captured
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
(MC, 7/18/02)
1814 Jul 19, Samuel Colt, inventor
of the first practical revolver, was born.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1814 Jul 22, Five Indian tribes in
Ohio made peace with the United States and declared war on Britain.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1814 Jul 25, British and American
forces fought each other to a stand off at Lundy's Lane (Niagara
Falls), Canada, in some of the fiercest fighting in the War of 1812.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1814 Aug 7, Pope Pius VII
reinstated the Jesuits.
(MC, 8/7/02)
1814 Aug 9, Andrew Jackson and the
Creek Indians signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving the whites 23
million acres of Mississippi Creek territory. This ended Indian
resistance in the region and opened the doors to pioneers after the
conclusion of the War of 1812.
(HN, 8/9/98)(HNQ, 8/13/99)
1814 Aug 10, John Clifford
Pemberton (d.1881), Lt Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1814 Aug 13, Treaty of
London-Netherland was signed to stop the transport of slaves. By
agreement Britain paid the Dutch £6 million in compensation for
the Cape of Good Hope. [see May 30]
(EWH, 4th ed, p.884)(MC, 8/13/02)
1814 Aug 14, British marines
landed near the mouth of the Patuxent River in Maryland and began
marching overland to attack Washington, DC.
(ON, 6/08, p.1)
1814 Aug 24, 5,000 British troops
under the command of General Robert Ross marched into Washington, D.C.,
after defeating an American force at Bladensburg, Maryland. It was in
retaliation for the American burning of the parliament building in York
(Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada. Meeting no resistance from the
disorganized American forces, the British burned the White House, the
Capitol and almost every public building in the city before a downpour
extinguished the fires. President James Madison and his wife fled from
the advancing enemy, but not before Dolly Madison saved the famous
Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington. This wood engraving of
Washington in flames was printed in London weeks after the event to
celebrate the British victory.
(AP, 8/24/97)(HNPD,
8/24/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bladensburg)
1814 Aug 24, The US Capitol and
White House in Washington D.C. were burned and sacked by British
General Robert Ross and Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn. This made
Congress realize the need for quick transportation and sparked the
digging of the Chesapeake-Delaware Canal.
(NG, Sept. 1939, J. Maloney p.379)
1814 Aug 25, British forces
destroyed the Library of Congress, containing some 3,000 books.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1814 Aug, After the British burned
the White House in 1814, President James Madison lived in the nearby
Octagon—so named because of its unique eight-sided shape—until the end
of his term.
(HNQ, 10/28/00)
1814 Sep 11, An American fleet led
by Thomas Macdonough scored a decisive victory over the British in the
Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
(AP, 9/11/97)(HN, 9/11/98)
1814 Sep 12, A British fleet under
Sir Alexander Cochrane began the bombardment of Fort McHenry, the last
American defense before Baltimore. Lawyer Francis Scott Key had
approached the British attackers seeking the release of a friend who
was being held for unfriendly acts toward the British. Key himself was
detained overnight on September 13 and witnessed the bombardment of
Fort McHenry from a guarded American boat.
(www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/hh/5/hh5h.htm)
1814 Sep 12, The Battle of North
Point was fought near Baltimore during War of 1812. British General
Ross was killed by a sniper’s bullet in a skirmish just prior to the
main battle. The battle proved to be strategic American victory, but
since they left the field in the hands of the British, tactically it
was a defeat for the Americans.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_North_Point)
1814 Sep 13, British ships
bombarded Ft. McHenry under the command of General Armistead. Francis
Scott Key watched the bombing from a detained American boat. The
British used red glaring Congreve rockets and air bursting bombs during
the war.
(NG, Sept. 1939, p.392)(SFC, 6/22/96, p.E4)
1814 Sep 14, In the dawn light
Francis Scott Key saw that the American flag still waved over Fort
McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. He looked on from the deck
of a boat on the Patasco River nine miles away and wrote “The Star
Spangled Banner.” The lyrics were alter adopted to the British tune "To
Anacreon in Heaven,” which had also served as Irish drinking song and a
number of other songs. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was officially
recognized as the national anthem in 1931. The 40 feet long flag had
been made by Baltimore widow Mary Young Pickersgill and her 13-year-old
daughter just a month before the attack. In 1907 the flag was donated
to the Smithsonian.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A2)(AP, 9/14/97)(HN, 9/14/98)(WSJ,
7/3/02, p.B1)
1814 Sep 15, The words of the
"Star-Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key following the Sep
13 attack on Fort Henry, was printed on a handbill without the name of
Francis Scott Key and originally known as "The Defense of Fort McHenry."
(HNQ, 2/16/02)
1814 Sep 21, "Star Spangled
Banner" was published as a poem.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1814 Sep, Alexander I of Russia
entered Paris at the head of an anti-Napoleon coalition.
(WSJ, 6/26/96, p.A16)
1814 Sep, The Congress of Vienna
convened in late September and continued to June 8, 1815. Friedrich von
Gentz of Austria served as secretary to the Congress. It was held after
the banishment of Napoleon to Elba. The congress aimed at territorial
resettlement and restoration to power of the crowned heads of Europe
with Prince Metternich of Austria as the dominant figure. Viscount
Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington represented Britain. Alexander I
stood for Russia. Talleyrand stood for France. Prince von Hardenberg
stood for Prussia. In 2007 Adam Zamoyski authored “Rites of Peace: The
Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna.” In 2008 David King
authored “Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War
and Peace at the Congress of Vienna.
(Econ, 4/14/07,
p.94)(www.bartleby.com/65/vi/Vienna-C.html)(SSFC, 4/6/08, Books p.4)
1814 Oct 3, Mikhail Yurevich
Lermontov (d.1841), Russian poet and writer (Demon), was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.822)(MC, 10/3/01)
1814 Oct 4, Jean Francois Millet
(d.1875), French painter, was born.
(www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=745)
1814 Oct 17, Two giant porter vats
at the Horse Shoe Brewery on London’s Tottenham Court Road burst when
the securing hoops failed. The 25-foot-high vats were owned by Sir
Henry Meux and. Several lives were lost along with an estimated
8,000-9,000 barrels of porter.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meux%27s_Brewery)(http://tinyurl.com/2v43jm)
1814 Oct 19, Mercy Otis Warren
(b.1728), Massachusetts playwright, died.
(WSJ, 2/5/08,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Otis_Warren)
1814 Oct, The name Uncle Sam, a
nickname for the United States, was coined during the War of 1812.
Workers at Samuel Wilson’s meat-packing plant in Troy, N.Y., which
supplied provisions to the U.S. Army, joked that the U.S. stamped on
the barrels bound for the troops actually stood for their boss Uncle
Sam Wilson. Army contractor Elbert Anderson, Jr. sought bids to provide
food for the 5,000 soldiers at the Greenbush Cantonment near Troy, NY.
The firm of E. & S. Wilson (Ebenezar and Samuel, d.1854 at 87)
provided many of the rations in oak casks labeled "E.A.-U.S.," as
required by the contract. A quip attributed the casks to Elbert
Anderson and his Uncle Sam. Later government property in general became
referred to as "Uncle Sam’s." [see Sep 7, 1813]
(Hem., 7/95, p.89)(WC, Summer ‘97, p.3)
1814 Nov 5, Having decided to
abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blew up Fort Erie.
(HN, 11/5/98)
1814 Nov 6, Adolphe Sax (d.1894),
instrument maker and inventor of the saxophone, was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.1272)(HN, 11/6/98)
1814 Nov 7, Andrew Jackson
attacked and captured Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and
driving out a British force.
(HN, 11/7/98)
1814 Nov 13, Joseph Hooker
(d.1879), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1814 Nov 23, Elbridge Gerry
(b.1744), former Massachusetts governor (1810-1811), died in office as
vice-president of the US under Madison (1812-1814).
(WSJ, 10/22/04,
p.W5)(www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/gerry.htm)
1814 Nov, Unable to pay in specie
[i.e. gold] as required by law, the US government offered to pay its
debt in paper. Most banks refused to accept the Treasury notes as
security and war bonds fell to 60 cents on the dollar.
(WSJ, 12/12/95, p.A-19)
1814 Dec 1, The shallow-draft
steamboat Enterprise, completed in Pittsburgh under the direction of
keelboat captain Henry Miller Shreve, left for New Orleans to deliver
guns and ammunition to Gen. Jackson.
(ON, 7/02, p.9)
1814 Dec 2, Marquis de Sade (74),
writer, died.
(MC, 12/2/01)
1814 Dec 13, General Andrew
Jackson announced martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British
troops disembarked at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city.
(HN, 12/13/98)
1814 Dec 14, The steamboat
Enterprise, designed by keelboat captain Henry Miller Shreve, arrived
in New Orleans with guns and ammunition for Gen. Jackson. It was
immediately commandeered for military service.
(ON, 7/02, p.9)
1814 Dec 19, Edwin McMasters
Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), was born in Ohio.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1814 Dec 24, The Treaty of Ghent
between the United States and Great Britain, terminating the War of
1812, was signed at Ghent, Belgium. The news did not reach the United
States until two weeks later (after the decisive American victory at
New Orleans). The treaty, signed by John Quincy Adams for the US,
committed the US and Britain "to use their best endeavors" to end the
Atlantic slave trade.
(AP, 12/24/97)(WSJ, 12/31/97, p.A11)(HN,
12/24/98)(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.T10)
1814 Dec 24, Austrian Emperor
Francis I appointed Joseph Ritter von Prechtl as the first director of
the Polytechnical Institute of Vienna.
(StuAus, April ‘95, p.18)
1814 Mir Ali created a full-length
portrait of Persia’s Fath-Ali Shah (1771) shortly after Shah’s loss of
a major battle against the Russians.
(WSJ, 8/1/06,
p.D6)(www.jsenterprises.com/john/thesis/chapter2.htm)
1814 Jacques-Louis David created
his painting “Leonidas at Thermopylae.”
(WSJ, 4/6/05, p.D11)
c1814 Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
(1758-1823), French artist, drew his "Bust of a Female Figure."
(WSJ, 12/5/96, p.A16)
1814 ETA Hoffman’s "Best Tales of
Hoffman" was published.
1814 Rossini composed his opera
"Il Turco in Italia."
(WSJ, 11/10/98, p.A20)
1814 The Avila House, a
thick-walled adobe building at 14 Olvera in Los Angeles, was built.
(SFEC,12/797, p.T3)
1814 The Monterey Custom’s House
was built by the Mexican government on the Monterey Peninsula in
California.
(Hem., 1/96, p.26)
1814 The 1st Odd Fellows arrived
in the US from Europe. The fraternal organization was founded in Europe
in the 18th century. [see 1819]
(SFC, 11/28/00, p.A25)
1814 Andrew Jackson called the
followers of French freebooter Jean Lafitte "hellish banditti." Jackson
later revised his opinion and asked Lafitte to aid him against the
British in the defense of New Orleans. Many of the 4,500 men behind
Jackson‘s entrenchments at New Orleans on January 8, 1815, were
followers of Lafitte.
(HN, 1/17/00)
1814 David Farragut, a ship's boy
on the frigate Essex, was captured by the British when the Essex was
defeated by the British.
(WSJ, 1/26/00, p.A20)
1814 Jose Dario Arguello,
Spanish-born commander of the Presidio, served as the governor of Alta
California. He was later buried at Mission Dolores.
(SFEC, 9/21/97, p.C7)
1814 The Marquis de Sade died. His
writings included "Justine," "Juliette," and "120 Days of Sodom." In
1999 Neal Schaeffer published "The Marquis De Sade: A Life," and
Francine du Plessix Gray published "At Home With the Marquis De Sade: A
Life."
(SFEC, 7/25/99, BR p.3)
1814 Jose Francisco de San Martin
(1778-1850) became general in chief of Argentina’s Army of the North.
His primary mission was to protect Argentina against Spanish royalists
in Peru.
(ON, 10/09, p.8)
1814 In Austria rebuilding began
of the 14th century Arenberg Castle following a major fire.
(SFC, 4/20/09, p.A2)
1814 In Legazpi, Philippines, the
Mayon volcano erupted and 1,200 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/25/01, p.A9)
1814 The Kingdom of Sardinia was
united with the Kingdom of Liguria.
(WUD, 1994, p.830)
1814-1815 Sep-Jun, The Congress of Vienna was held
after the banishment of Napoleon to Elba. Prince Metternich of Austria
was the dominant figure and it aimed at territorial resettlement and
restoration to power of the crowned heads of Europe. Viscount
Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington represented Britain. Alexander I
stood for Russia. Talleyrand stood for France. Prince von Hardenberg
stood for Prussia. In 2007 Adam Zamoyski authored “Rites of Peace: The
Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna.”
(WUD, 1994, p.310, 1677)(Econ, 4/14/07, p.94)
1814-1864 Hong Xiuquan, believed himself to be the
second son of God. In 1851 he declared himself king of China and the
world. In 1853 his Taiping army took the city of Nanjing as its
heavenly capital. He ruled there until 1864. When the Qing (Manchu)
government troops tightened their siege he died from eating what he
said was manna sent by God to alleviate his believer’s starvation. His
story is told by Jonathan D. Spence in God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping
Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.
(WSJ, 1/5/96, p.A-8)
1814-1876 Mikhail Bakunin was an authoritarian
anarchist.
(WSJ, 8/24/98, p.A10)
1814-1903 Nicolaas Beets, born Sept. 13, died Mar.
13. Dutch poet and prose writer. He was a professor of theology at
Utrecht after 1874. In 1839, while a student in Leiden, he published
under the pseudonym of Hildebrand the first version of his Camera
Obscura (completed 1854), a remarkable collection of stories and essays
filled with keen observations, insight into character, and humorous
episodes.
(CO, Amer. Her. Dic., 6/25/95)
1814-1969 In Hohenberg, Bavaria, C.M. Hutschreuther
operated a porcelain factory and inscribed his ware with various marks.
e.g. A crown over the initials CM in a shield with 18 on one side and
14 on the other was used from 1950-1963.
(SFC, 8/14/96, z-1 p.5)
1815 Jan 5, Federalists from all
over New England, angered over the War of 1812, drew up the Hartford
Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S.
Constitution.
(HN, 1/5/99)
1815 Jan 8, US forces led by Gen.
Andrew Jackson and French pirate Jean Lafitte led some 3,100
backwoodsmen to victory against 7,500 British veterans at Chalmette in
the Battle of New Orleans in the closing engagement of the War of 1812.
A British army marched on New Orleans without knowing that the War of
1812 had ended on Christmas Eve of 1814. A massacre ensued, as 2,044
British troops, including three generals, fell dead, wounded or missing
before General Andrew Jackson's well-prepared earthworks, compared with
only 71 American casualties. Among the British victims were Gen. Sir
Edward Pakenham and the Highlanders of the 93rd Regiment of Foot. In
2000 Robert V. Remini published "The Battle of New Orleans."
(AP, 1/8/98)(HN, 1/8/99)(WSJ, 1/26/00, p.A20)(AH,
2/05, p.16)
1815 Jan 11, Sir John A.
Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in Glasgow,
Scotland.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1815 Jan 21, Horace Wells
(d.1845), dentist, was born. He pioneered the use of medical anesthesia
and was the 1st to use nitrous oxide as a pain killer.
(Dr, 7/17/01, p.2)(MC, 1/21/02)
1815 Jan 30, The burned Library of
Congress was reestablished with Jefferson's 6,500 volumes.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1815 Feb 3, World's 1st commercial
cheese factory was established, in Switzerland.
(MC, 2/3/02)
1815 Feb 6, The state of New
Jersey issued the first American railroad charter to John Stevens, who
proposed a rail link between Trenton and New Brunswick. The line,
however, was never built.
(AP, 2/6/97)
1815 Feb 11, News of the Treaty of
Ghent, ending the War of 1812, finally reached the United States.
(HN, 2/11/99)
1815 Feb 24, Robert Fulton
(b.1765), steamboat pioneer, died at age 49. In 2001 Kirkpatrick Sale
authored the biography: "The Fire of His Genius."
(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A22)(MC, 2/24/02)
1815 Feb 25, Napoleon left his
exile on the Island of Elba, intending to return to France.
(HN, 2/25/98)
1815 Feb 26, Napoleon, escaped
from the Island of Elba, and 1,200 of his men started the 100-day
re-conquest of France.
(HN, 2/26/98)(AP, 2/26/98)
1815 Feb, Congress appropriated
funds for the restoration of the White House and hired James Hoban, the
original designer and builder, to do the work.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, Par p.5)
1815 Mar 1, In France, returning
from Elba, Napoleon landed at Cannes with a force of 1, 500 men and
marched on Paris.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1815 Mar 1, Sunday observance in
Netherlands was regulated by law.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1815 Mar 2, To put an end to
robberies by the Barbary pirates, the United States declared war on
Algiers.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1815 Mar 5, Friedrich (Franz)
Anton Mesmer (b.1734), German physician who pioneered the medical field
of hypnotic therapy, died in obscurity in Meersburg, Swabia (now
Germany). He was suspected of having seduced a pretty pianist while
attempting to cure her blindness through hypnosis.
(HN, 5/23/98)(WSJ, 5/30/00, p.A24)(MC, 3/5/02)
1815 Mar 20, Napoleon Bonaparte
entered Paris, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. He had escaped from
his imprisonment on the island of Elba off the coast of Tuscany. He
gathered his veterans and marched on Paris. At Waterloo, Belgium, he
met the Duke of Wellington, commander of the allied anti-French forces
and was resoundingly defeated. Napoleon was then imprisoned on the
island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic. In 1997 Gregor Dallas
published: The Final Act: The Roads to Waterloo." the book includes a
good account of the Congress of Vienna.
(AP, 3/20/97)(V.D.-H.K.p.232)(SFEC,11/2/97, Par
p.10)(HN, 3/20/98)
1815 Apr 1, Otto von Bismarck
(d.1898), German statesman, was born. He founded the German Empire and
was the chancellor of Germany, the Second Reich, from 1866-90
[1971-1990]. The Iron Chancellor created the modern social insurance
state when he introduced transfer payments to appease worker
insecurities. "History is simply a piece of paper covered with print;
the main thing is still to make history, not to write it." "Every man
had his basic worth - from which must be subtracted his vanity.
(WUD, 1994, p.151)(AP, 11/6/97)(WSJ, 4/24/98,
p.A14)(SFEC, 3/7/99, Z1 p.8)(HN, 4/1/99)
1815 Apr 5, Mount Tambora on
Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, in the Java Sea began erupting. [see Apr 10]
(NOHY, 3/90,
p.41)(www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9071099)
1815 Apr 6, At Dartmoor Prison in
southwest England 7 American prisoners were killed by British soldiers
under the command of Captain Thomas G. Shortland. Some 6,000 prisoners
were awaiting return to the US. A farmer’s jury with no victims or
witnesses issued a verdict on April 8 of "justifiable homicide."
(AH, 10/02, p.36)
1815 Apr 10, A third of the 13,000
foot Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, was blasted into the
air. Some 50,000 islanders were killed and the whole planet was
shrouded in a debris of sulfuric droplets. In 2006 scientist reported
finding traces of Tambora society.
(www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/e3.htm)(AP,
2/28/06)
1815 Apr 28, Andrew Jackson Smith
(d.1897), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1815 Apr 24, Anthony Trollope
(d.1882), British novelist, was born. His 47 novels included "The
American Senator." His 33rd novel was "The Way We Live Now." "Nobody
holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself." An
essay by Cynthia Ozick on the novel is in her 1996 book "Fame and
Folly."
(WUD, 1994, p.1517)(WSJ, 5/22/96, p.A-18)(AP,
10/13/97)(WSJ, 6/9/00, p.W17)(HN, 4/24/01)
1915 Apr, Arthur R. Smith (20)
auditioned to fly for the Panama-Pacific Expo in SF and performed 14
consecutive loop-the-loops. He painted each loop with a stream of gray
smoke. He died in 1926 while testing a new airplane on a night flight
from Chicago to Bryan.
(Ind, 9/5/98, p.5A)
1815 Apr, British General Arthur
Wellesley, duke of Wellington, began assembling troops at Brussels,
Belgium. 73,000 British troops were joined by 33,000 German, Dutch and
Belgian troops preparing to face Napoleon. Prussian Gen. Gebhard
Leberecht von Blucher gathered an army of 120,000 southeast of Brussels.
(ON, 4/06, p.1)
1815 May 5, Eugene-Marin Labiche,
French playwright, was born.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1815 May 29, Cornelis de Gijselaar
(64), politician, patriot, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1815 Jun 1, James Gillray
(b.1757), British caricaturist and printmaker, died. He is famous for
his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792
and 1810.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gillray)(Econ,
12/19/09, p.99)
1815 Jun 8, The Congress of Vienna
ended. Negotiations had begun in 1812 to rearrange Europe following the
defeat of Napoleon. The final conclave began Nov 1, 1814. In 2007 Adam
Zamoyski authored “Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the
Congress of Vienna.”
(www.victorianweb.org/history/forpol/vienna.html)(WSJ, 8/1/07, p.D7)
1815 Jun 16, Napoleon defeated the
Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, Belgium.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ligny)
1815 Jun 16, A French attack at
the crossroads called Quatre Bras badly mauled the British army, but
failed to rout it or to take the crossroads. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
had marched into Belgium to find himself confronted by two allied
armies, which he tried to split apart. Although similarly battered at
Ligny that day, the Prussian army also retired intact. Both armies
would face Napoleon again two days later at Waterloo.
(HNPD, 6/16/99)
1815 Jun 17, A heavy rainstorm
prevented French forces from catching up with Wellington’s army as they
retreated to Waterloo.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.15)(ON, 4/06, p.3)
1815 Jun 18, British and Prussian
troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and his
forces at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium. The French elite troops of
the Imperial Guard wore bearskins to appear more intimidating.
Afterwards Britain established towering bear skin hats for soldiers in
ceremonial duties and to guard royal residencies and the Tower of
London. Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher made a short speech
to his troops saying that he was pregnant and about to give birth to an
elephant. He was taken from the front in protective custody and missed
the battle. Napoleon lost over 40,000 men at Waterloo; the British and
Belgians lost 15,000; the Prussians lost 7,000. The total losses in 3
days of fighting was later estimated at 91,800. In 2002 Andrew Roberts
authored "Napoleon and Wellington." In 2005 Andrew Roberts authored
“Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble.”
(SFEC, 2/28/99, Z1p.10)(WSJ, 9/13/02, p.W10)(Econ,
2/12/05, p.81)(ON, 4/06, p.5)
1815 Jun 22, Napoleon Bonaparte
abdicated a second time.
(AP, 6/22/97)
1815 Jun 30, US naval hero Stephen
Decatur signed a treaty ending attacks by Algerian pirates. Commodores
Stephen Decatur and William Bainbridge had conducted successful
operations against the Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis and
Tripoli [See Aug 5].
(WSJ, 10/9/01,
p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barbary_War)
1815 Jul 7, After defeating
Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies marched into Paris.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1815 Jul 8, With Napoleon
defeated, Louis XVIII returned to Paris.
(HN, 7/8/98)
1815 Jul 9, The 1st US natural gas
well was discovered.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1815 Jul 9, King Louis XVIII left
Ghent for France.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1815 Jul 15, Napoleon Bonaparte
was captured and exiled to St Helena. [see Jul 17]
(MC, 7/15/02)
1815 Jul 17, Napoleon Bonaparte
surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.
(HN, 7/17/98)
1815 Aug 1, Richard Henry Dana
(d.1882), US jurist, novelist, lawyer and sailor, was born. He wrote
"Two Years Before the Mast."
(WUD, 1994, p.366)(SFEC, 2/9/97, p.W5)(MC, 8/1/02)
1815 Aug 5, A peace treaty with
Tripoli, which followed treaties with Algeria (Jun 30) and Tunis (Aug
28), brought an end to the Barbary Wars. Commodores Stephen Decatur and
William Bainbridge had conducted successful operations against the
Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.
(HN, 8/5/98)(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A22)(ON, 10/06, p.10)
1815 Aug 8, Napoleon Bonaparte set
sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, to spend the remainder of
his days in exile.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1815 Sep 8, Alexander Ramsey
(d.1903), territorial governor of Minnesota (1849-1853), was born near
Harrisburg, Pa.
(www.bioguide.congress.gov)
1815 Sep 9, John Singleton Copley
(b.1737), American artist, died in London.
(www.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia)
1815 Aug, The merchant ship
Commerce, under Capt. James Riley (1877-1939) of Connecticut, wrecked
off the northwest coast of Africa. He survived captivity under Muslim
slave traders and endured a lengthy trek across the Sahara. He later
authored “Sufferings in Africa” (1817) and "An authentic Narrative of
the Loss of the American Brig Commerce" (1818). In 2004 Dean King
authored "Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival."
(SSFC, 2/22/04, p.M1)(WSJ, 6/2/07, p.P8)
1815 Sep 26, Russia, Prussia and
Austria signed a Holy Alliance. "Justice, charity and peace" were to be
the precepts that guided the Holy Alliance as envisioned by Czar
Alexander I of Russia. The alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia was
formed after the downfall of Napoleon and later all European rulers
signed the agreement except the prince regent of Great Britain, the
pope and the sultan of Turkey. With no specific aims beyond mutual
assistance, the provisions of the Holy Alliance were so vague that it
had little effect on European diplomacy. Metternich quietly replaced
the entire alliance by the purely political alliance of 20 November,
1815, between Austria, Prussia, Russia and England.
(www.newadvent.org/cathen/07398a.htm)(HNQ, 7/7/98)
1815 Sep 28, Joachim Murat's fleet
sailed from Corsica to Naples.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1815 Oct 7, Marshal Ney, one of
Napoleon’s most trusted field commanders, was condemned to death and
shot for having left the services of the King.
(HN, 10/7/98)
1815 Oct 8, General Joachim
Murat's forces landed at Pizzo, Italy.
(MC, 10/8/01)
1815 Oct 13, Joachim Murat,
marshal of France and King of Naples (1808-15), was executed.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1815 Oct 17, Napoleon (d.1821)
arrived in St. Helena.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1815 Oct 29, Daniel Decatur
Emmett, the composer of "Dixie," which became the unofficial national
anthem of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, was born in
Mount Vernon, Ohio. Organizer of one of the first minstrel shows,
"Dixie" was written in 1859 as a concluding number, or "walk-around,"
for a minstrel show. Emmett died on June 28, 1904.
(HNQ, 3/21/99)
1815 Oct 31, Sir Humphrey Davy of
London patented miner's safety lamp after being hired by the Society
for Preventing Accidents in Coal Mines.
(MC, 10/31/01)(ON, 12/01, p.7)
1815 Nov 1, Crawford Williamson
Long, surgeon and pioneer (use of ether), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1815 Nov 2, George Boole (d.1864),
English-Irish mathematician and logician (Boolean algebra), was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.170)(SFC, 12/2/97, p.C3)(MC, 11/2/01)
1815 Nov 3, Adrien Louis Victor
Boieldieu, composer, was born.
(MC, 11/3/01)
1815 Nov 12, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, a social reformer and militant feminist, was born in
Johnstown, New York, and graduated from the Troy Female Seminary in
1832. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and served as president
of the National Woman Suffrage Association. She died on October 26,
1902. She said, "The male element is a destructive force" in an address
to the Women’s Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C. in 1868.
(AP, 11/12/97)(HNQ, 5/17/98)
1815 Nov 15, John Banvard, painter
of the world’s largest painting (3 mile canvas), was born in NYC.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1815 Nov 20, The treaties known
collectively as the 2nd Peace of Paris were concluded. Austria’s
chancellor Klemens von Metternich helped create a “Concert of Europe,”
a system by which 4-5 big powers kept miscreants in check and managed
the affairs of smaller states for over a decade.
(http://tinyurl.com/2sqgp9)(Econ, 6/9/07,
p.68)(www.newadvent.org/cathen/07398a.htm)
1815 Nov 25, Johann Peter Saloman
(70), composer, died.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1815 Nov 27, Cracow, Poland,
declared itself a free republic.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1815 Nov 28, Johann Peter Salomon
(70), composer, died.
(MC, 11/28/01)
1815 Dec 10, Ada Lovelace (d. Nov
27, 1852), Lord Byron’s daughter and the inventor of computer language,
was born. In 1998 the sci-fi film, "Conceiving Ada," was directed by
Lynn Hershman-Leeson.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.D7)(SFC, 4/30/98, p.E1)
1815 Dec 22, Spaniards executed
Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos.
(MC, 12/22/01)
1815 Dec 31, George Gordon Meade
(d.1872), Union general, was born. He defeated Robert E. Lee at the
Battle of Gettysburg.
(HN, 12/31/99)(MC, 12/31/01)
1815 Adolph Menzel (d.1905),
German painter, was born. He combined elements of many styles and was
considered the greatest artist in Germany at the time and was Prussia’s
foremost historical artist. He was considered Germany’s French
Impressionist.
(WSJ, 10/8/96, p.A20)(WSJ, 7/16/98, p.A16)
1815 J.M.W. Turner made paintings
in this summer renowned for their red skies. The coloration was due to
the April 5 eruption of Mt. Tambora in Indonesia.
(SFEC, 7/9/00, Z1 p.2)
1815 The novel "Emma," by English
writer Jane Austen (1774-1817), was published.
(ON, 12/09, p.8)
1815 Nathaniel Coverly Jr. and
ghostwriter Nathaniel Hill Wright published a fictitious narrative of
the adventures of Lucy Brewer, a "Female Marine" who disguised herself
as a sailor and served as a marine in the War of 1812.
(WSJ, 2/22/00, p.A20)
1815 John Roulstone of Sterling,
Mass., penned the first 3 stanzas of the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
after his classmate Mary Sawyer came to school followed by her pet lamb.
(SFC, 8/24/98, p.B6)
1815 William Smith (d.1839),
British geologist, made the 1st geological map of England and became
impoverished in the process. In 2001 Simon Winchester authored "The Map
That Changed the World."
(RTH, 8/28/99)(WSJ, 8/17/01, p.W6)(SSFC, 8/26/01, DB
p.86)
1815 The San Francisco de Asis
church de Taos, New Mexico, was completed and still operates today as a
parish church. It is one of the 6 adobe missions scattered along the
western shoulder of the Sangre de Cristo mountains between Taos and
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(AWAM, Dec. 94, p.68)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.T-5)
1815 Mackinaw Island, Michigan,
was permanently signed over to the US.
(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.C5)
1815 Jose Francisco de San Martin,
governor of Cuyo, Argentina, founded a militia and prepared for an
attack on Spanish royalists in Chile.
(ON, 10/09, p.8)
1815 Austria’s chancellor Klemens
von Metternich helped create a “Concert of Europe,” a system by which
4-5 big powers kept miscreants in check and managed the affairs of
smaller states for over a decade.
(Econ, 6/9/07, p.68)
1815 The city-state of Geneva,
briefly the capital of the Kingdom of Burgundy, and then a republic,
became part of the Confederation of Switzerland.
(Hem., 1/96, p.81)
1815 The British Foreign
Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, warned the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool,
that Czar Alexander must be watched and resisted just like Napoleon.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p.A16)
1815 Britain passed a law severely
restricting grain imports from European neighbors. Austria retaliated
with tariffs on wool and cotton. Sicily raised tariffs on textiles,
Sweden raised tariffs on silk, wool, cotton, iron steel and copper.
English manufacturers formed the anti-Corn-Law League to lobby against
the measure.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R50)
1815 Britain took action against
pirate sheikhs protected by the Wahabis, later rulers of Saudi Arabia,
because ships of the East India Company were attacked in int’l. waters.
Britain allied with the ruler of Muscat and Oman and Mohamed Ali of
Egypt.
(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A22)
1815 The British took over Ceylon
(Sri Lanka).
(Arch, 7/02, p.34)
1815 British debt reached 745
million pounds.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.105)
1815 Following the wars with
Napoleon John Barrow, 2nd secretary to the admiralty, directed the
British Navy to a campaign of exploration. In 2000 Fergus Fleming
authored "Barrow’s Boys," an account of the expeditions he generated.
(WSJ, 4/18/00, p.A16)
1815 Nepalese soldiers, later
known as Gurkhas, began serving in the British military.
(Econ, 5/2/09, p.58)
1815 The first German
Burschenschaft (fraternity) was founded in Jena, Germany.
(Econ, 2/11/06, Survey p.15)
1815 Authorities in Milan issued
an edict that forbade gambling in the back rooms of the opera houses
including La Scala.
(Civil., Jul-Aug., ‘95, p.88)
1815 Giovanni Battista Belzoni,
Italian hydraulic engineer and vaudeville entertainer, arrived in Egypt
and began to search for tombs of pharaohs.
(NG, 9/98, p.19)
1815 As part of the
post-Napoleonic settlement at the Congress of Vienna, most of Lithuania
was absorbed by Russia.
(Compuserve, Online Encyclopedia)
1815 Switzerland became officially
neutral.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A12)
1815-1820 The current Mission Santa Barbara in Santa
Barbara, Ca. was built around an earlier structure damaged by
earthquake. It is the 10th of California’s 21 missions and is the only
one with twin towers.
(AWAM, Dec. 94, p.66)
1815-1848 This period in US history was later covered
in the book “Waking Giant: American in the Age of Jackson” (2008), by
David S. Reynolds.
(WSJ, 9/27/08, p.W10)
1815-1862 Edwin P. Christy, originator of the popular
Negro minstrel shows.
(BAAC PN, Chambers, 1/8/96)
1815-1864 Eliza Farnham, American reformer: "The
ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become
acquainted with Truth."
(AP, 11/23/98)
1816 Jan 12, France decreed the
Bonaparte family to be excluded from the country forever.
(MC, 1/12/02)
1816 Feb 5, Gioachino Rossini's
Opera "Barber of Seville" premiered in Rome.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1816 Feb 13-14, Teatro San Carlo
in Naples was destroyed by fire.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1816 Mar 6, Jews were expelled
from Free city of Lubeck, Germany.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1816 Mar 20, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Martin vs. Hunter’s Lessee, affirmed its right to review
state court decisions.
(AP, 3/20/97)
1816 Mar 31, Francis Asbury
(b.1745), English-born US itinerant Methodist minister, died in
Virginia.
(http://77.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AS/ASBURY_FRANCIS.htm)
1816 Apr 21, Charlotte Bronte
(d.1855), English novelist, writer of "Vilette" and "Jane Eyre," was
born in Thornton, England. "Better to be without logic than without
feeling." In 1999 Brian Wilks published "Charlotte in Love: The
Courtship and Marriage of Charlotte Bronte."
(WP, 1952, p.37)(AP, 9/13/99)(HN, 4/21/98)(WSJ,
7/28/99, p.A21)
1816 May 12, Lord Grimthorpe was
born. He was the designer of "Big Ben," the most recognized structure
in London.
(HN, 5/12/99)
1816 May 24, Emanuel Leutze, US
painter, was born. His work included "Washington Crossing the
Delaware" (1851).
(MC, 5/24/02)
1816 Jun 6, There was a 10"
snowfall in New England in this "year without a summer". The
oceanographer Henry Stommel and his wife Elizabeth described this year
in their (1983) book “Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, The year
Without a Summer.” The 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora lofted a cloud of
ash that turned this summer into a virtual winter with snow in Europe
and New England.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.130)(SFC, 5/19/97, p.D1)
1816 Jul 3, Dorothea Jordan (65),
French actress, mistress (William IV), died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1816 Jul 6, Philipp Meissner (67),
composer, died.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1816 Jul 9, Argentina declared
independence from Spain. Argentina assumed that the Malvina Islands
were included.
(AP, 7/9/97)(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A12)
1816 Jul 11(Jun 11), Gas Light Co.
of Baltimore was founded.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1816 Jul 21, Paul Julius Baron von
Reuter (d.1899), founder of the British news agency bearing his name,
was born in Hesse, Germany, as Israel Beer Josaphat.
(AP,
7/21/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Julius_Reuter)
1816 Jul 27, US troops destroyed
the Seminole Fort Apalachicola, to punish the Indians for harboring
runaway slaves.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1816 Jul 31, George Henry Thomas
(d.1870), Union general in the Civil War whose bravery at the battle of
Chickamauga earned him the nickname "the Rock of Chickamauga," was born.
(HN, 7/31/98)(MC, 7/31/02)
1816 Aug 14, Great Britain annexed
Tristan da Cunha.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1816 Aug 24, Daniel Gooch, laid
1st successful transatlantic cables, was born.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1816 Aug 27, Admiral Sir Edward
Pellew, a noble from Devon, England, bombed Algiers, a refuge for
Barbary pirates. He flew the green, white and black flag of St. Petroc.
In 1836 the battle was pictured in a painting by George Chambers,
Senior. Pellew was subsequently named Lord Exmouth.
(http://tinyurl.com/gjooc)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.66)
1816 Sep 5, Louis XVIII of France
dissolved the chamber of deputies, which had been challenging his
authority.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1816 Sep 12, Russian agents
commenced construction of a Western-style fortress commanding Waimea
Bay on the island of Kauai, named Fort Elizabeth after the Russian
czarina. Before the fort was completed, Hawaiian King Kamehameha acted
to force the Russians out. The Hawaiians finished construction of the
fort and renamed it Fort Hipo.
(HNQ, 6/5/99)
1816 Oct 7, The 1st double decked
steamboat, Washington, arrived in New Orleans.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1816 Nov 3, Jubal Anderson Early
(d.1891), Lt. General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 11/3/01)
1816 Dec 2, The first savings bank
in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for
business.
(AP, 12/2/99)
1816 Dec 4, James Monroe of
Virginia was elected the fifth president of the United States. He
defeated Federalist Rufus King.
(AP, 12/4/97)(MC, 12/4/01)
1816 Dec 10, The estranged wife of
poet Percy Shelley committed suicide by drowning in London’s Hyde Park.
20 days later Percy married Mary Godwin, author of “Frankenstein”
(1818).
(ON, 11/07, p.8)
1816 Dec 11, Indiana became the
19th state.
(AP, 12/11/97)
1816 Dec 13, E. Werner von
Siemens, German artillery officer and inventor, was born.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1816 Dec 13, Patent for a dry dock
was issued to John Adamson in Boston.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1816 Dec, Henry “Orator” Hunt made
a speech in Spa fields in East London which was disrupted by a group of
revolutionaries who murdered a gunsmith plundered his shop. They then
set off for London, but the insurrection was quickly put down.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.104)
1816 Jacques Louis David
(1748-1825) painted the portrait: "Comte Henri-Amedee de Turenne".
(WUD, 1994 p.369)
1816 Caspar David Friedrich,
German romantic artist, painted "View of a Harbor." It was soon
purchased by Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia as a birthday present for
the crown prince.
(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.A7)
1816 William Smith published his
"Strata identified by Organized Fossils."
(RFH-MDHP, p.70)
1816 William Cullen Bryant, James
Fennimore Cooper, and Washington Irving were popular writers of this
period.
(A&IP, ESM, p.34)
1816 Robert Adams, the 1st
Westerner to reach Timbuktu, transcribed an account of his experiences
there as an enslaved American sailor.
(Econ, 12/20/03, p.126)
1816 Jane Austin completed her
last novel, "Persuasion." In 1995 it was made into a film by a British
company.
(WSJ, 10/6/95, p.A-8)
1816 Gioachino Rossini composed
his opera "Otello."
(SI-WPC, 1997)(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)(WSJ, 8/1/01,
p.A12)
1816 The American Bible Society
was founded. The first president was Elias Boudinot. He was succeeded
by his vice president John Jay. In 1998 its library had 53,000 copies
of the Bible in over 2,000 languages and dialects.
(WSJ, 8/7/98, p.W13)
1816 Elijah Goodridge of Newbury,
Massachusetts, was tried for committing robbery on his own person and
then having Ebenezer Pearson arrested for the crime.
(LSA., Fall 1995, p.22)
1816 The US passed the first
tariff to protect its industries.
(A&IP, ESM, p.34)
1816 The Second Bank of the US was
chartered. It over-lent wildly and then called in its money sparking
financial panic. Pres. Jackson ended its special status in 1836.
(WSJ, 11/19/04, p.A8)(Econ, 12/24/05, p.91)
1816 Indiana was admitted to the
Union.
(A&IP, ESM, p.34)
1816 Pittsburgh was incorporated
on the site of old Fort Pitt.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1816 Medical records from upstate
NY showed that a patient paid 25 cents to have a tooth pulled and $1.25
to have a baby.
(SFEC, 6/27/99, Z1 p.8)
1816 Henry Hall, a Cape Cod
farmer, discovered that sand spread over wild cranberry plants induced
good growth.
(Econ, 12/18/04, p.123)
1816 The California poppy was
correctly described and named by Adelbert von Chamisso, a native
Frenchmen driven to Germany by the revolution. He was appointed
naturalist with the Russian scientific and trapping voyage of Kotzebue
and developed an intimate relationship with the ship’s surgeon, Dr.
Johann Frederich Eschscholtz, for whom he named the San Francisco
poppy, Eschscholzia californica. [see 1792,1794, 1825-1833]
(NBJ, 2/96, p.12)
1816 Gouverneur Morris (b.1752),
chief writer of the US Constitution (1787), died at Morrisania, NY. In
2003 Richard Brookhiser authored "Gentleman Revolutionary," a biography
of Morris.
(WSJ, 5/28/03, p.D8)
1816 In London, England, William
Cobbett brought out twopenny version of his Weekly Political Register
on a single sheet of paper to avoid the stamp duty.
(Econ, 12/23/06,
p.103)(www.nndb.com/people/245/000049098/)
1816 Robert Stirling, British
clergyman, proposed a sealed heated air engine to compete with the
ubiquitous steam engine. His Stirling engine converted heat into
mechanical energy by compressing and expanding a fixed quantity of gas.
(Econ, 8/14/04, p.72)(Econ, 6/6/09, p.24)
1816 Beau Brummell, English dandy,
first sought obscurity to escape his creditors.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1816 Lord Byron (George Gordon),
English romantic poet, separated from his wife Annabella (d.1860)
following an incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh
(d.1851). In 2002 David Crane authored "The Kindness of Sisters:
Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons."
(SSFC, 10/27/02, p.M2)
1816 Lord Byron and guests
gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, Switz. It was here that
Byron challenged his guests to write a ghost story. This led Mary
Shelley to produce Frankenstein in 1818 and John Polidori to create his
short story “The Vampyre” (1819).
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.75)
1816 Lord Elgin sold his Parthenon
sculptures to the British government for 35,000 pounds. A request in
1811 for 62,400 pounds had been rejected. Elgin later fled to France to
avoid his creditors.
(ON, 11/99, p.4)
1816 Two British naval ships under
Captain Basil Hall landed at Okinawa, in the Ryukyu archipelago, which
was then known as Loo-Choo. In 1818 Hall published an account of his
voyage: “Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea,
and the Great Loo-Choo Island.”
(Econ, 10/29/05,
p.44)(www.polybiblio.com/bibliotrek/BT000004..html)
1816 General A.P.Yermolov served
as Commander of the Russian army in the Caucasus. Military pressure
intensifies as Russian troops continue to advance deep into Chechnya.
Chechnya responded by stepping up its resistance movement, which, for
more than 30 years, was headed by Beibulat Teimiev.
(www.chechnyafree.ru)
1816 In France Dr. Rene Theophile
Hyacinthe Laennec invented the stethoscope.
(ON, 9/00, p.11)
1816 In France Joseph N.
Niepce developed the first photographic negative. His earliest recorded
image, an 1825 print of a man leading a horse, sold for $443,220 in
2002.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R14)(SFC, 7/14/99, p.4)(SFC,
3/22/02, p.A2)
1816 In Germany Johann Maelzel
patented the metronome a couple of years after it was drawn up by Dutch
inventor Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1816 Saartjie Baartman (26), taken
from S. Africa in 1810, fell sick and died penniless and friendless in
France after being exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus." Her body was
dissected, her brain and genitals were bottled, and her skeleton was
wired and exhibited in the Musee de l’Homme in Paris. In 2002 her
remains were returned to S. Africa. In 2003 Barbara Chase-Ribaud
authored the novel "Hottentot Venus" based on the Baartman story. In
2007 Rachel Holmes authored “African Queen: The Real Life of the
Hottentot Venus.”
(SFC, 5/4/02, p.A8)(SSFC, 11/9/03, p.M6)(SFC,
1/1/07, p.D2)
1816 Mohammed Ali Pasha, Ottoman
ruler over Egypt, sent Fredric Cailliaud, a French goldsmith and
mineralogist, to find the Roman emerald mines of southeastern Egypt.
(AM, 5/01, p.A38)
1816-1841 Ellen Sturgis Hooper, American poet: "I
slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life
was Duty."
(AP, 8/5/00)
1816-1865 C.J. Thomsen, curator during these years of
the Museum of Northern Antiquities (later the Danish National Museum),
formulates the three age system, from stone to bronze to iron. He was
probably helped in his ideas by the work of Goguet.
(RFH-MDHP,1969, p.13)
1816-1876 Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American
actress: "To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was
Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that
was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand,
divine, eternal Drama."
(AP, 11/7/98)
1817 Jan 17, Jose Francisco de San
Martin led a revolutionary army from Argentina over Andes into Chile.
(ON, 10/09, p.10)
1817 Jan 25, Giocchino Rossini's
opera "La Cenerentola" premiered in Rome. It was based on the
Cinderella story.
(WSJ, 11/2/95, p.A-12)(MC, 1/25/02)
1817 Feb 2, John Glover, English
chemist (sulphuric acid), was born.
(MC, 2/2/02)
1817 Feb 8, Richard Stoddert Ewell
(d.1872(), Lt Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1817 Feb 12, Argentina’s Jose de
San Martin, having led a revolutionary army over the Andes into Chile,
helped defeat the Spanish forces at Chacabuco. The royalists lost 500
men in the battle and another 600 were taken prisoner.
(www.gdws.co.uk/chacabuco.htm)(Econ, 4/25/09,
p.87)(ON, 10/09, p.10)
1817 Feb 12, Under the leadership
of Bernardo O‘Higgins, Chile gained its independence from Spain, when a
combined Argentine and Chilean army defeated the Spaniards. O‘Higgins
went on to become head of state on February 17, supported by the army
but not favored by the oligarchy because he sought abolition of their
privileges. Once the threat from Spain was eliminated from the region,
opposition to O‘Higgins mounted. General unrest and a poor harvest
combined to force O‘Higgins to abdicate his position in 1823. The
official proclamation was made on Feb 12, 1818.
(HNQ, 9/1/99)(AP, 2/12/07)
1817 Feb 14, Frederick Douglass
(d.1895), "The Great Emancipator," was born in Maryland as Frederick
Augustus Washington Bailey. He was the son of a slave and a white
father who bought his own freedom and published “The Narrative Life of
Frederick Douglass” (1845) a memoir of his life as a slave. "The life
of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and
virtuous."
(AHD, 1971, p.394)(HN, 2/14/99)(AP, 2/20/99)(ON,
12/09, p.12)
1817 Feb 17, A street in Baltimore
became the first to be lighted with gas from America’s first gas
company.
(AP, 2/17/98)
1817 Feb 18, Lewis Addison
Armistead (d.1863), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born. He died
leading "Pickett's Charge" on the final day of the Gettysburg battle.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1817 Feb 18, Walter Paye Lane
(d.1892), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1817 Feb 19, William III, King of
the Netherlands, was born.
(HN, 2/20/98)
1817 Mar 2, The 1st US Evangelical
church building was dedicated in New Berlin, PA.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1817 Mar 3, Mississippi Territory
was divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1817 Mar 3, The first commercial
steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans was opened.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1817 Mar 22, Braxton Bragg
(d.1876), Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1817 Mar 25, Tsar Alexander I
recommended the formation of Society of Israeli Christians.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1817 Apr 15, The first American
school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Conn.
(AP, 4/15/97)
1817 Apr 17, 1st US school for
deaf was founded in Hartford, Conn.
(MC, 4/17/02)
1817 Apr 18, George Henry Lewes,
philosophical writer, was born.
(HN, 4/18/98)
1817 Jul 12, Henry David Thoreau
(d.1862), essayist, naturalist and poet, was born in Concord, Mass. His
work included "On Walden Pond." He referred to the three Greek
goddesses of fate: Clotho (spinner of the thread of destiny), Lachesis
(disposer of lots) and especially Atropos (who holds the scissors that
will cut endeavor short). "We have constructed a fate, an Atropos, that
never turns aside." He was also the author of the essays "Civil
Disobedience and Slavery in Massachusetts."
(AHD, p.1339)(Civil., Jul-Aug., '95, p.66)(HFA, '96,
p.34)(HN, 7/12/98)
1817 Jul 14, Madame de Stael (51),
writer and daughter of former French finance minister Jacques Necker,
died. She was intimate with Benjamin Constant and their intellectual
collaboration made them one of the most important intellectual pairs of
their time. In 2005 Maria Fairweather authored “Madame de Stael.” In
2008 Renee Winegarten authored the dual biography “Germaine de Stael
& Benjamin Constant.”
(Econ, 3/19/05,
p.88)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/stael.htm)(WSJ, 6/23/08, p.A15)
1817 Jul 18, Jane Austen (b.1775),
English writer, died at age 41. In 1869 her nephew James Edward
Austen-Leigh published “A Memoir of Jane Austen.”
(SFEC,11/9/97, BR
p.3)(www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janelife.html)(ON, 12/09, p.8)
1817 Aug 18, Gloucester, Mass.,
newspapers told of a wild sea serpent seen offshore.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1817 Aug 24, Aleksei K. Tolstoy,
[Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, writer, was born.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/aleksey_konstantinovich_tolstoy)
1817 Sep 21, Carter Littlepage
Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1817 Sep 23, Leon Charles Francois
Kreutzer, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1817 Oct 13, William Kirby,
Canadian writer, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1817 Oct 15, Tadeusz AB Kosciusko
(b.1746), Polish Lt-Gen. and American Revolution freedom fighter, died.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1817 Oct 19, Tom Taylor, British
playwright, was born. His play "Our American Cousin" was being
performed at Ford’s Theater when President Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe.
(HN, 10/19/98)
1817 Oct 20, The 1st Mississippi
"Showboat," left Nashville on maiden voyage.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1817 Oct, Pres. and Mrs. James
Monroe moved back into the restored White House.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, Par p.5)
1817 Nov 8, Andrea Appiana (63),
Italian royal painter of Napoleon, died.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1817 Nov 9, Edward Richard Sprigg
Canby, Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1817 Nov 10, The Tennessee
legislature enacted laws that defined the common boundary with Georgia
and created a boundary commission to jointly survey and mark the state
border.
(www.profsurv.com/archive.php?article=1215&issue=86)
1817 Nov 12, Mirza Hoseyn 'Ali
Nuri (Baha' Ullah), founder of the Baha'i faith, was born.
(HN, 11/12/00)
1817 Nov 20, 1st Seminole War
began in Florida. [see Nov 27]
(MC, 11/20/01)
1817 Nov 21, Richard Brooke
Garnett (d1863), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born. He died at
Gettysburg.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1817 Nov 22, Fredric Cailliaud
discovered the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.
(AM, 5/01, p.39)
1817 Nov 27, US soldiers attacked
a Florida Indian village and began the Seminole War. [see Nov 20]
(MC, 11/27/01)
1817 Nov, William Wirt was
selected as the attorney general. He served for 11 years and 3 months.
(SFC, 1/11/99, p.A5)
1817 Dec 7, William Bligh (63),
British naval officer of "Bounty" infamy, died.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1817 Dec 10, Mississippi was
admitted as the 20th state of the Union.
(HFA, ‘96, p.44)(AP, 12/10/97)
1817 Dec 16, The Georgia
legislature enacted laws that defined the common boundary with
Tennessee and created a boundary commission to jointly survey and mark
the state border.
(www.profsurv.com/archive.php?article=1215&issue=86)
1817 Dec 28, Benjamin Robert
Haydon (d.1846), British painter, threw a dinner party in London to
show his nearly completed painting "Christ’s Entry Into Jerusalem" and
to introduce poet John Keats to William Wordsworth. Other guests
included essayist Charles Lamb. In 2002 Penelope Hughes-Hallett
authored "The Immortal Dinner."
(WSJ, 9/13/02, p.W10)
1817 Dec, The book “Northanger
Abbey,” by English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817), was published
following her death in July. It was written around 1798-1799 and
revised in 1803.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northanger_Abbey)
1817 Francis Beaufort (1774-1857),
Irish-born hydrogapher, authored a best-selling travel book about the
southern coast of Turkey.
(NH, 11/1/04, p.51)
1817 John Bradbury, Scottish
naturalist, authored "Travels in the Interior of America in the Years
1809, 1810 and 1811."
(ON, 10/99, p.6)
1817 William Hazlitt, the finest
of the romantic critics, published "Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays."
(WSJ, 10/23/98, p.W8)
1817 Dr. William Kitchiner
authored his cookbook "Apicius Redivivus, or the Cook's Oracle." It
included 11 ketchup recipes, including 2 each for mushroom, walnut and
tomato ketchups, and one each for cucumber, oyster and cockles and
mussels ketchups.
(SFC, 8/27/03, p.E4)
1817 Thomas Love Peacock, a friend
and neighbor of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, authored his comic novel
“Melincourt.” A character in the novel was based on Shelley.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.94)
1817 David Ricardo published
"Principles of Political Economy and Taxation." In this he argued for
the labor theory of value. Ricardo here explained why the best farmland
often makes money for the landlord, not the farmer.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R20)(Econ, 11/5/05, p.91)
1817 The multi-volume "Flora
Brasiliensis" was commissioned by Maximilian I of Austria. The
definitive volume on Brazilian botany was completed in 1906.
(WSJ, 7/7/98, p.A14)
1817 Work began on the Erie
Canal, more properly named the New York State Barge Canal. The canal
connected Lake Erie with the Hudson and opened on October 26, 1825. The
canal was proposed by NY Gov. Dewitt Clinton and detractors called it
"Clinton's Folly." Workers were paid a quart of whiskey a day plus $1.
[see 1826]
(WSJ, 7/3/96, p.A8)(HN, 7/4/98)(IB, Internet,
12/7/98)(SFEC, 12/27/98, Z1 p.8)(SFEC, 1/31/99, Z1 p.8)
1817 The Univ. of Michigan was
founded by a Presbyterian minister, John Monteith, and a Catholic
priest, Gabriel Richard and Judge Gus Woodward. The Univ. of Michigan
was established by a Michigan Public Act under a Board of Regents.
(MT, 12/94, p.2-3)(LSA., Fall 1995, p.10)(MT, Fall
‘96, p.10)
1817 Tuscumbia, Alabama was
founded by the US government.
(Postcard, Polychrome Picture Products)
1817 The New York Stock and
Exchange Board (NYSE) was formalized and established its first quarters
in a rented room at 40 Wall St.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R43)
1817 Frederick Eberle was tried
for illegally conspiring to prevent the introduction of the English
language into German Lutheran church services in Philadelphia.
(LSA., Fall 1995, p.22)
1817 Britain banned private coins.
They had been issued to address a major shortage of government coinage.
From 1787 to 1797 and again from 1811 to 1818, the greater part of
Great Britain's stock of coins came not from the Royal Mint in London
but from a score of private mints in Birmingham.
(WSJ, 1/5/09, p.A11)(http://mises.org/story/3168)
1817 The Metropolitan Cathedral in
Mexico City was completed.
(Hem., 1/96, p.49)
1817 In Egypt Giovanni Battista
Belzoni discovered the tomb of Seti I.
(NG, 9/98, p.19)
1817 Baron Karl de Drais de
Sauerbrun of Germany invented the draisienne, the first 2-wheeled,
rider-propelled machine and exhibited it in Paris in 1818. The vehicle
came to be known as the “velocipede,” a 2-wheeled running machine
without pedals.
(www.cycle-info.bpaj.or.jp/english/learn/bcc02.html)(Wired, 2/98,
p.172)(Econ, 2/5/05, p.77)
1817 Spain formally accepted the
principle to abolish slavery.
(WSJ, 12/16/97, p.A18)
1817-1819 Titian Ramsey Peale was curator at the
Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; and again from 1825-1931.
He helped amass one of the largest and earliest systematic collections
of insects in the US. He invented special book boxes for mounting moths
and butterflies between sheets of glass.
(NH, 7/96, p.4)
c1817-1924 Pierre Joseph Redoute printed "Les Roses."
(SFEM, 4/6/97, p.16)
1817-1825 James Monroe became the 5th President of
the US. [see 1758-1831, Monroe]
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo)(WUD, 1994, p.927)
1818 Jan 1, An official reopening
of the White House took place after being repaired from burning by
British during War of 1812.
(MC, 1/1/02)
1818 Jan 1, The novel
"Frankenstein" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was published
anonymously. It was an attack on industrialization. The work stemmed
from a contest in 1816 at Byron’s Villa Diodati in Geneva, between
Byron, Shelley and Mary to produce a ghost story. In 1998 Joan Kane
Nichols published "Mary Shelley: Frankenstein’s Creator." In 2006
Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler authored “The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the
Curse of Frankenstein.” In 2007 Susan Tyler Hitchcock authored
“Frankenstein: A Cultural History.”
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R14)(SSFC, 5/21/06, p.M6)(WSJ,
10/30/07, p.D6)(ON, 11/07, p.8)
1818 Jan 2, Lord Byron completed
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto).
(MC, 1/2/02)
1818 Feb 7, The first successful
U.S. educational magazine, Academician, began publication in New York
City.
(HN, 2/7/99)
1818 Feb 11, In Louisiana sugar
plantation owner Levi Foster sold to his in-laws the slaves named Kit
(28) for $975 and Alick (9) for $400. In 2000 Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and
LSU Press published a CD-ROM database on Louisiana slave transactions:
"Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy,
1699-1860: Computerized Information from Original Manuscript Sources."
(SFEC, 7/30/00, p.)(www.afrigeneas.com)
1818 Feb 12, Chile officially
proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially
renouncing Spanish rule [see Feb 12, 1817].
(AP, 2/12/07)
1818 Mar 28, Wade Hampton
(d.1902), Confederate general, was born.
(HN, 3/28/98)(MC, 3/28/02)
1818 Mar 28, Giuseppe Antonio
Capuzzi (62), composer, died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1818 Apr 4, Congress decided the
flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and
20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union.
(AP, 4/4/97)(HN, 4/4/98)
1818 Apr 7, Gen. Andrew Jackson
captured St. Marks, Fla., from the Seminole Indians.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1818 Apr 14, The US Medical Corp.
formed.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1818 Apr 16, U.S. Senate ratified
the Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border. The
Rush-Bagot Agreement between Great Britain and the U.S. had to do with
mutual disarmament on the Great Lakes. In the exchange of notes between
British minister to the U.S. Charles Bagot and Richard Rush, Acting
Secretary of State, the countries agreed to limits on their inland
naval forces. A sequel to the Treaty of Ghent, the agreement was
approved by the U.S. Senate on April 16, 1818.
(HN, 4/16/98)(HNQ, 6/7/00)
1818 Apr 18, A regiment of Indians
and blacks was defeated at the Battle of Suwanna, in Florida, ending
the first Seminole War.
(HN, 4/18/99)
1818 Apr 28, President Monroe
proclaimed naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
(HN, 4/28/98)
1818 Apr 29, Alexander II, Tsar of
Russia (1855-1881), was born.
(HN, 4/29/98)(MC, 4/29/02)
1818 Apr, Dr. John William
Polidori published “The Vampyre,” a novel based on an unpublished story
fragment by Lord Byron. Polidori was Byron’s personal physician.
(ON, 11/07, p.8)
1818 May 5, Karl Marx, German
philosopher, was born in Prussia. He argued that history was marked by
various stages of class struggle and capitalism which had overcome
feudalism would in turn be overcome by socialism and the elimination of
private property. He and Friedrich Engels founded Communism (1847).
Together they wrote "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Capital."
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R20)(AP, 5/5/97)(HN, 5/5/99)
1818 May 10, Paul Revere (b.1735)
American patriot, died in Boston. Revere, best known for his midnight
ride, fathered 16 children-eight by his first wife Sarah Orne and eight
by his second wife, Rachel Walker. Born to Apollos Rivoire and Deborah
Hitchbourne, Paul Revere was one of 13 children.
(AP, 5/10/97)(HNQ, 7/26/99)
1818 May 20, William George Fargo,
one of the founders of Wells, Fargo & Co., actor, was born.
(HN, 5/20/98)
1818 May 24, Gen. Andrew Jackson
captured Pensacola, Florida.
(MC, 5/24/02)
1818 May 25, Jacob Christoph
Burckhardt (d.1897), Swiss cultural historian, was born. "The people no
longer believe in principles, but will probably periodically believe in
saviors." "Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind
is it desirable to know the future."
(AP, 5/6/98)(AP, 6/11/98)(SC, 5/25/02)
1818 May 27, Amelia Jenks Bloomer
(d.1894), American reformer who popularized the "bloomers" garment that
bears her name, was born in Homer, N.Y. Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Seneca
Falls, N.Y., was the editor of The Lily, a periodical "devoted to the
interests of women. "Along with her support of woman suffrage and
temperance, Bloomer was an advocate of dress reform. Believing that
restrictive corsets and cumbersome skirts were injurious to the health
of women, in the 1850s Bloomer designed and often wore a comfortable
costume of a short skirt worn over baggy trousers drawn tight at the
ankle. Bloomer’s costume, portrayed in this Currier and Ives print,
became so controversial that any reasonable talk of dress reform was
drowned out by the jeers. Finally, Elizabeth Cady Stanton advised
bloomer advocates to abandon the costume. It was not until the 1930s
and 40s that women began wearing pants, although bloomers were the
inspiration for early bicycling and beach apparel.
(AP, 5/27/99)(HNPD, 9/9/98)
1818 May 28, P.G.T. Beauregard,
Confederate general, was born. He first fired on Fort Sumpter and
fought at First Manassas, and Shiloh.
(HN, 5/28/99)
1818 Jun 1, Mathematician James
Camak demarcated the border between Georgia and Tennessee. Due to a
faulty sextant and bad astronomical charts he drew the line a mile
south of the intended boundary, the 35th parallel.
(Econ, 3/15/08,
p.42)(www.profsurv.com/archive.php?article=1215&issue=86)
1818 Jun 2, The British army
defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1818 Jun 10, Pesaro opera theater
opened with Rossini's "La Gaza Ladra."
(MC, 6/10/02)
1818 Jun 16, An ice-dammed lake in
the Val de Bagnes above Martigny broke through its barrier causing many
deaths. This event led Jean de Charpentier to focus on Swiss glaciers
and then influence Louis Agassiz with his ideas regarding glacier
development.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Venetz)
1818 Jun 17, Charles Francois
Gounod, opera composer of "Faust" and "Romeo et Juliette," was born in
Paris, France.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1818 Jul 1, Ignaz Semmelweis
(d.1865), Hungarian gynecologist, was born. He later connected childbed
fever to doctors who spread of germs due to their failure to wash their
hands. In 2003 Sherwin B. Nuland authored "The Doctors' Plague: Germs,
Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis."
(MC, 7/1/02)(SSFC, 11/23/03, p.M3)
1818 Jul 30, Emily Bronte
(d.1848), English author of "Wuthering Heights," was born. She was the
younger sister of Charlotte Bronte and died of tuberculosis.
(WP, 1952, p.38)(HN, 7/30/98)(WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A21)
1818 Aug 1, Maria Mitchell
(d.1889), the first female astronomer in the U.S., was born. She
discovered a comet in 1847 and was the first prof. of astronomy at
Vassar College. In 1869 she was the first woman elected to the American
Philosophical Society.
(Alg, 1990, p.30)(HN, 8/1/00)
1818 Aug 7, Henri Charles Litolff,
French composer, pianist, was born.
(MC, 8/7/02)
1818 Aug 13, Suffragist Lucy
Stone, women’s rights activist, founder of Woman’s Journal, was born in
West Brookfield, Mass.
(AP, 8/13/97)(HN, 8/13/98)
1818 Aug 22, Warren Hastings (85),
1st governor-general of India (1773-84), died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1818 Aug 28, Jean Baptiste Pointe
du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, died.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1818 Sep 12, Richard Gatling
(d.1903), American inventor, was born. The Gatling gun, an early type
of machine gun, was named after him.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jordan_Gatling)
1818 Oct 8, 2 English boxers were
1st to use padded gloves.
(MC, 10/8/01)
1818 Oct 15, Irvin McDowell
(d.1985), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1818 Oct 19, US and Chickasaw
Indians signed a treaty.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1818 Oct 20, The United States and
Britain established the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada
and the United States.
(HN, 10/20/98)
1818 Oct 22, Leconte de Lisle,
writer, was born.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1818 Oct 24, Felix Mendelssohn (9)
performed his 1st public concert in Berlin.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1818 Oct 28, Abigail Adams, wife
of former Pres. John Adams, died. In 1975 some 200 letters of Abigail
Adams were published as “The Book of Abigail and John.”
(WSJ, 2/10/07,
p.P8)(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4)
1818 Oct 28, Ivan Turgenev
(d.1883), Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons), was
born. [see Nov 9]
(MC, 10/28/01)
1818 Nov 1, James Renwick,
architect, was born. His work included St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1818 Nov 5, Benjamin Butler
(d.1893), later Union Civil War general, was born in New Hampshire.
(http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Butler_Benjamin_F_1818-1893)
1818 Nov 9, Ivan Turgenev, Russian
author, was born. His work includes "Fathers and Sons" and "A Month in
the Country." [see Oct 28]
(HN, 11/9/00)
1818 Nov 21, Frenchman Hipolito
Bouchard and Englishman Peter Corney led a 2-ship attack against the
presidio at Monterey, Ca. Gov. Pablo de Sola and his soldiers and
families fled as some 400 rebels pulled to shore. The presidio was
ransacked and burned. Bouchard and Corney days later plundered Mission
San Juan Capistrano and the rancho at El Refugio.
(SFC, 10/10/03, p.B3)
1818 Nov 21, Russia's Czar
Alexander I petitioned for a Jewish state in Palestine.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1818 Dec 3, Illinois was admitted
as the 21st state.
(AP, 12/3/97)(HN, 12/3/98)
1818 Dec 13, Mary Todd Lincoln,
wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was born.
(HN, 12/13/98)
1818 Dec 14, The pirate Hippolyte
Bouchard demanded gunpowder and other supplies from the padres at
Mission San Juan Capistrano, Ca. The padres refused and the pirate sent
140 men to destroy the mission and the town was stripped of its
provisions.
(HT, 3/97, p.61)
1818 Dec 21, Lewis H. Morgan, US
ethnologist (Systems of Consanguinity), was born.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1818 Dec 24, James Prescott Joule,
physicist , was born. He discovered the principal of the conservation
of energy.
(MC, 12/24/01)
1818 Dec 24, "Silent Night" was
composed by Franz Joseph Gruber.
(HFA, ‘96, p.44)(SI-WPC, 12/6/96)(MC, 12/24/01)
1818 Dec 25, "Silent Night" by
Franz Gruber was performed for the first time, at the Church of St.
Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.
(HFA, ‘96, p.44)(AP, 12/25/97)
1818 Theophile Bra, French
academic sculptor, won the Prix de Rome.
(SFEM, 11/1/98, p.4)
1818 The “Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin” (1706-1790), an unfinished record of his life, was
published posthumously in London. An earlier French edition had
appeared in 1791.
(AH, 10/07,
p.26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin)
1818 John Keats published his poem
"Endymion."
(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.A17)
1818 David Young, poet, teacher
and astronomer, began publishing a Farmer’s Almanac.
(CFA, ‘96,Vol 179, p.98)
1818 The Epistles of John were
published by the American Bible Society in the language of the Delaware
Indians.
(WSJ, 8/7/98, p.W13)
1818 People began wearing left and
right shoes. Shoes were made identical for either foot prior to this.
(SFEC, 2/22/98, Z1 p.8)
1818 Henry Sands Brooks began H.
& D.H. Brooks & Co. in mostly rural Manhattan. It became a key
military supplier during the Civil War. A 2nd store opened in 1928 and
operations grew to the well known chain known as Brooks Brothers.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R40)(SFC, 6/29/01, p.A8)(NW,
9/1/03, p.64)
1818 A handful of Cherokee
emigrated to Oklahoma 20 years before the Trail of Tears. They are
known as the Old Settlers.
(NG, 5/95, p.91)
1818 Franciscan priests
established the Santa Ysabel Mission to convert the Kumeyaay Indians in
San Diego County.
(SFC, 9/16/96, p.A15)
1818 Illinois became the 21st
state of the US.
(HFA, ‘96, p.20)
1818 The Libbey Glass Co. of
Toledo, Ohio, was founded as the New England Glass Company by Edward
Drummond Libbey. Libbey collected glass "through the ages" in a museum
for the inspiration his workers. In 1999 it was a division of
Owens-Illinois.
(SFC, 3/31/99, Z1 p.6)(WSJ, 10/19/01, p.W15)
1818 Abigail Adams, wife of former
Pres. John Adams, died.
(WSJ, 5/30/01, p.A20)
1818 Dr. James Blundell
(1791-1878), a British obstetrician, performed the first successful
transfusion of human blood, for the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion)
1818 Grozny was established in the
northern Caucasus as a Russian fortress.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.C14)
1818 In Russia the Smirnoff family
went into the vodka business.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1818 In Spain the last prosecution
of the Spanish Inquisition was held.
(WSJ, 4/16/98, p.A20)
1818 In Spain an annual national
Christmas lottery was begun.
(SFC,12/23/97, p.D3)
1818-1820 John Keats (d.1821), English poet, lived in
Hampstead and wrote "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and
"Ode to a Nightingale."
(SFC, 12/24/96, p.E4)(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.A17)
1818-1883 Karl Marx, German writer and theorist for
socialism. Marx called his own philosophy dialectical materialism, and
claims to start philosophically from a point of view opposite to Hegel.
Marx asserts that he starts from concrete reality and not from an idea,
as does Hegel. Knowing history as well as he hid, he claimed to be able
not only to explain why things happened as they had, but also to
predict what was going to happen in the future.
(V.D.-H.K.p.258)
1818-1885 Henry Wheeler Shaw, "Josh Billings,"
American author: "As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater
than the demand."
(AP, 8/1/99)
1818-1889 James Prescott Joule, English experimental
physicist, measured the mechanical, or energy, equivalent of heat
itself.
(TNG, Klein, p.55)
1819 Jan 17, Simon Bolivar the
"liberator" proclaimed Colombia a republic.
(HN, 1/17/99)
1819 Feb 8, John Ruskin (d.1900),
writer, critic, artist, Gothic Revivalist (Pre-Raphaelite), was born.
His work included "Modern Painter" and "The Stones of Venice."
(WSJ, 3/6/00, p.A28)(MC, 2/8/02)
1819 Feb 9, Lydia E. Pinkham,
patent-medicine maker and entrepreneur, was born.
(HN, 2/9/01)
1819 Feb 14, Christopher Latham
Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewriter, was born.
(HN, 2/14/01)
1819 Feb 22, James Russell Lowell
(d.1891), American essayist, poet, critic, diplomat, abolitionist, was
born: "He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think
security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft."
(AP, 6/29/99)(MC, 2/22/02)
1819 Feb 22, Spain signed the
Adams-Onis Treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John
Quincy Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees
to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida. Spain renounced
claims to Oregon Country. [see 1821]
(AP, 2/22/99)(HN, 2/22/99)
1819 Mar 2, Territory of Arkansas
was organized. [see Jul 4]
(SC, 3/2/02)
1819 Mar 2, US passed its 1st
immigration law.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1819 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court
ruled in McCulloch v. Maryland that the state could not impose a tax on
the notes of banks not chartered in the state. Luther Martin
represented Maryland in the landmark case.
(WSJ, 9/20/08,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCulloch_v._Maryland)
1819 Mar 26, Louise Otto, German
feminist author, was born.
(HN, 3/25/98)
1819 Mar 29, Edwin Drake (d.1890),
the man who drilled the first productive oil well (1859), was born.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1819 Mar 29, Isaac Mayer Wise,
rabbi, founder (American Hebrew Congregations), was born.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1819 Apr 14, Charles Halle,
pianist, conductor, founder (Halle Orch), was born.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1819 Apr 18, Franz von Suppa,
composer (Light Cavalry Overture), was born in Spalato, Dalmatia.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1819 Apr 26, The first Odd Fellow
lodge (Independent Order of Odd Fellows or IOOF) was established in the
U.S. in Baltimore, Md. They started in Great Britain with the purpose:
"to relieve the brethren, bury the dead, and care for the widow and
orphan."
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.1)
1819 Mar 29, Edwin Drake, the man
who drilled the first productive oil well, was born.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1819 May 15, Thomas Leonidas
Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1819 May 21, The 1st bicycles
(swift walkers) in US were introduced in NYC.
(MC, 5/21/02)
1819 May 23, Bolivar’s
revolutionary commanders met in the deserted village of Setenta,
Venezuela, and planned a march across the Andes to attack Spanish
forces in New Granada (Colombia).
(ON, 3/05, p.1)
1819 May 24, Queen Victoria
(d.1901) was born in London. Her reign (1836-1901) restored dignity to
the British crown. She had nine children. "Great events make me quiet
and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
(AP, 5/24/97)(HN, 5/24/99)(AP, 2/24/99)
1819 May 26, The first
steam-propelled vessel to attempt a trans-Atlantic crossing, the
350-ton Savannah, departed from Savannah, Ga., May 26 and arrived in
Liverpool, England, Jun 20. [HNQ set May 24 for the departure]
(AP, 5/22/97)(HNQ, 3/18/02)
1819 May 27, Julia Ward Howe,
writer of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," was born.
(HN, 5/27/99)
1819 May 31, Poet Walt Whitman
(d.1892) was born in West Hill, N.Y. He became America’s national poet
with vibrant works such as 1855’s Leaves of Grass. He poems included:
"When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloomed." Some of Whitman’s poems were
inspired by his Civil War experience as a hospital volunteer in
Washington. Although a staunch supporter of the Union cause, Whitman
comforted dying soldiers of both sides, as described in one of the
poet's wartime newspaper dispatches: "I stayed a long time by the
bedside of a new patient.... In an adjoining ward I found his
brother...It was in the same battle both were hit. One was a strong
Unionist, the other Secesh; both fought for their respective sides,
both badly wounded, and both brought together after a separation of
four years. Each died for his cause."
(AP, 5/31/97)(HN, 5/31/98)(HNQ,
6/1/98)(V.D.-H.K.p.278)(HNPD, 5/25/99)(HN, 5/31/99)
1819 Jun 10, J.D. Gustave Courbet
(d.1877), French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine), was born.
His realistic landscapes were marked by bold shadows and compositions
fragmented by the play of natural light. This technique was pursued
more fully by the impressionists. His work included "Rock at
HautePierre."
(DPCP, 1984)(WSJ, 3/10/00, p.W16)(MC, 6/10/02)
1819 Jun 20, Jacques Offenbach
(d.1880), French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), was born in Cologne. His
work included the comedy opera "Barbe-Bleue" (Blue Beard).
(MC, 6/20/02)(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)
1819 Jun 20, The paddle-wheel
steamship Savannah arrives in Liverpool, England, after a voyage of 27
days and 11 hours--the first steamship to successfully cross the
Atlantic.
(HN, 6/20/01)
1819 Jun 26, Abner Doubleday
(d.1893), Civil War General, was born. He was incorrectly credited with
inventing American baseball.
(HN, 6/26/99)(WSJ, 7/19/01, p.A20)
1819 Jun 26, The bicycle was
patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York City. [see May 21]
(MC, 6/26/02)
1819 Jul 4, The Territory of
Arkansas was created.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1819 Jul 4, William Herschel
(1738-1822), German-born English astronomer, made his last telescopic
observation of an 1819 comet. His son, Sir John Frederick William
Herschel (1792-1871), was also an astronomer.
(WUD, 1994, p.666)(Maggio, 98)
1819 Jul 9, Elias Howe (d.1867),
inventor of the sewing machine, was born in Spencer, Mass. Howe, a
machinist, developed his sewing machine in 1843-45 and patented it in
1846. Although Howe's machine sewed only short, straight lines, tailors
and seamstresses saw it as a threat to their jobs. Unable to market his
machine in America, Howe took it to Britain where he sold the rights to
an English manufacturer in 1847. Upon his return to the United States,
Howe discovered that his patent had been infringed upon by other sewing
machine manufacturers, such as Isaac Singer. After a lengthy court
battle, Howe's patent was upheld and royalties from sewing machine
sales made him a wealthy man.
(WUD, 1994, p.689)(HN, 7/9/99)(MC, 7/9/02)
1819 Aug 1, Herman Melville
(d.1891), American novelist, author of Moby Dick, was born. In 1996
part one of a 2-part biography was published by Hershel Parker: Herman
Melville: 1819-1851. In 1951 Leon Howard wrote a biography. Melville
wrote 5 books between 1845-1850. They included "Typee," "Omoo," and
"White-Jacket."
(AHD, p.818)(WSJ, 11/22/96, p.A14)(HN, 8/1/98)(SFEC,
2/13/00, BR p.6)
1819 Aug 2, The first parachute
jump from a balloon was made by Charles Guille in New York City.
(HN, 8/2/01)
1819 Aug 7, South American
liberator Simon Bolivar defeated Spanish forces under Gen. Jose
Barreiro in New Granada (Colombia) at the Battle of Boyaca. The
revolutionary army entered Bogota Aug 10.
(HNQ, 9/12/99)(ON, 3/05, p.2)
1819 Aug 9, William Thomas Green
Morton (d.1868), American dentist who 1st used ether on a patient
(1846), was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.932)(MC, 8/9/02)
1819 Aug 16, English police
charged unemployed demonstrators at St. Peter's Field in the Manchester
Massacre. 11 people were killed in the Peterloo massacre. The press
responded with a volley of attacks that included “The Political House
that Jack Built” by William Hone and illustrator George Cruikshank.
(www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1819peterloo.html)(Econ, 12/23/06, p.104)
1819 Aug 23, Oliver Hazard Perry,
naval hero, died on his 34th birthday.
(MC, 8/23/02)
1819 Aug 25, Allan Pinkerton
(d.1884) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He fled Scotland in 1842 to
avoid capture for his involvement with the revolutionary group called
the Chartists. He later founded a Chicago detective agency and worked
as Abe Lincoln's bodyguard.
(www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters2/pinkerton/)
1819 Aug 26, Albert "Bertie" von
Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (d.1861), husband of queen Victoria, was born at
Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Bavaria.
(WUD, 1994,
p.34)(http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
1819 Sep 6, William Starke
Rosecrans, Maj. General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1819 Sep 6, Thomas Blanchard
(b.1788) patented the lathe.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1819 Sep 13, Clara Josephine
Schumann, [nee Wieck], pianist and composer, was born in Leipzig, Germ.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1819 Sep 16, Dr. John Jeffries,
who crossed the English Channel (1785) with Frenchman Jean-Pierre
Blanchard for the first time in a hydrogen balloon, died in Boston.
(HN, 5/15/98)(HN, 1/7/99)
1819 Sep 17, Jean-Bernard-Leon
Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates), was born. [see Sep
18]
(MC, 9/17/01)
1819 Sep 18, Leon Foucault, French
physicist, was born. [see Sep 17]
(HN, 9/18/00)
1819 Oct 6, Willem A. Scholten,
Dutch potato flour manufacturer, was born.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1819 Oct 20, Daniel Edgar Sickles
(d.1914), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1819 Oct 22, The 1st ship passed
through Erie Canal (Rome-Utica).
(MC, 10/22/01)
1819 Nov 22, George Eliot (Mary
Ann Evans), novelist who wrote "Adam Bede," was born.
(HN, 11/22/98)
1819 Nov, Nantucket whalers lost
their ship to an 80-ton bull sperm whale and attempted to make landfall
in 3 boats on the coast of South America. 8 crewmen survived after they
consumed 7 of their mates. [see Owen Chase in 1821] 5 men in 2 boats
were picked up after 90 days. In 1960 cabin boy Thomas Nickerson wrote
an account of the tragedy. In 2000 Nathaniel Philbrick authored "In the
Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex."
(WSJ, 4/28/00, p.W6)(SFEC, 7/23/00, BR p.12)
1819 Dec 14, Alabama was admitted
as the 22nd state, making 11 slave states and 11 free states.
(AP, 12/14/97)(HN, 12/14/98)
1819 Theodore Chasseriau (d.1856),
artist, was born in Semana, Dominican Republic. He was the son of a
French diplomat and French-Creole mother.
(WSJ, 11/26/02, p.D8)
1819 Caspar David Friedrich
(1774-1840), German Romantic painter, created his "Two Men
Contemplating the Moon." He painted it as part of a series of 3
(1824,1830). The 3rd had the same title, the 2nd was titled "Man and
Woman Contemplating the Moon."
(WSJ, 9/21/01, p.W2)(WSJ, 10/17/01, p.A24)
1819 J.M.W. Turner (44), English
artist (1775-1851), visited Venice for the 1st time. He returned in
1833 and 1840. His 1st oil painting with a Venetian setting was done in
1833.
(WSJ, 3/17/04, p.D4)
1819 Spain’s Prado opened as the
Real Mueso de Pintura y Escultura.
(WSJ, 4/16/03, p.D10)
1819 John Vanderlyn depicted the
Versailles gardens in a panorama later transferred to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A20)
1819 Washington Irving published
"The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon," which included "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
(USAT, 11/12/99, p.2D)
1819 Johann Wilhelm Klein of
Vienna, Austria, published a book on training dogs for the blind.
(ON, 12/03, p.5)
1819 The opera "La Donna del
Lago," by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini premiered in Naples. It was based
on the Walter Scott romance "The lady of the Lake."
(WSJ, 7/29/97, p.A12)
1819 William Jay age 22, English
architect, built several fine homes in Savannah, Georgia. These
included the Scarbrough House and the Owens-Thomas House.
(Hem. 1/95, p. 70)
1819 The American Geological
Society was founded at Yale College. The membership included the
illustrious Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864). The Society was
short-lived, going out of existence in 1828.
(www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/history/1840aagn.html)
1819 Thomas Jefferson founded the
Univ. of Virginia.
(SSFC, 2/11/07, p.F2)
1819 Hannibal, Missouri, the small
Midwestern city and boyhood home of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), was
settled by Moses Bates on land belonging to Abraham Bird.
(HNQ, 2/6/01)
1819 In Savannah Chatham Artillery
Punch was served to Pres. James Monroe. It was a concoction of Catawba,
rum, gin, brandy, rye whiskey, strong tea, brown sugar, Benedictine,
juices of oranges and lemons, Maraschino cherries and champagne.
(SFEC,11/30/97, p.T4)
1819 Chief Justice John Marshall
in Dartmouth College v. Woodward described the corporation as "an
artificial being, invisible, intangible." Among its properties "are
immortality; and if the expression be allowed, individuality."
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A16)
1819 In Philadelphia Dr. Thomas W.
Dyott, (druggist, patent-medicine vendor, and physician) purchased the
Kensington Glass Works. He expanded the business and changed the name
to the Dyottville Glass Works. He was forced out of the firm in 1838,
but the glassworks continued operating until about 1923.
(SFC, 1/14/98, Z1 p.2)
1819 Caffeine was isolated by this
year. Its pure form turned out to be a bitter powder readily soluble in
boiling water.
(WSJ, 1/30/00, p.A20)
1819 Hans Christian Oersted
discovered that an electric current will deflect the needle of a
compass pointing to the unity of the electromagnetic force.
(JST-TMC,1983, p.72)
1819 In Sidney, Australia, convict
labor built the Hyde Park Barracks and the state Parliament.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, p.T4)
1819 Johann Baptist von Spix
discovered the Spix macaw of Brazil (Cyanopsitta spixii). The last wild
Spix macaw disappeared in 2000.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A15,18)(SFC, 12/27/00, p.C2)
1819 The British burned the Arab
port of Ras al Khaymah in response to attacks by Arab "pirate" ships.
Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad of the emirate of Sharjah publishes a book
in 1987, The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf, claiming the Arabs were
defending their native waters.
(NG, 5/88, p.662, 670)
1819 Bogota became the capital of
Colombia.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.15)
1819 In Hawaii monarchists
defeated traditionalists at the battlefield of Kuamoo. 300 warriors
perished along with the old Hawaiian religion.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T9)
1819 William Moorcroft, East India
Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, set out for Bukhara,
Uzbekistan, to trade for horses.
(ON, 1/02, p.3)
1819 In India a British hunting
party discovered the painted caves at Ajanta that dated from
c200BC-650AD.
(WSJ, 11/12/98, p.A28)
c1819 In France a silver soup
tureen was manufactured by Jean-Baptiste Claude Odiot. It fetched over
a million dollars in a 1997 auction.
(WSJ, 10/24/97, p.B18)
1819 Hawaii’s King Kamehameha II
abolished the brutal kapu system of laws. Temples and sacred sites
associated with the system began to fall into disrepair. Queen
Kaahumanu, helped overturn the kapu belief system by sharing a meal
with Kamehameha II following the death of King Kamehameha.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T8)(SSFC, 8/30/09, p.M5)
1819 Russia declared Odessa to be
a free port.
(Econ, 12/18/04, p.86)
1819 Singapore was declared a free
port after it was taken over by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, an officer
of the British East India Co. Sultan Hussein was enthroned by the
British but he never ruled. Raffles laid out the city into ethnic zones.
(WSJ, 11/12/96, p.A18)(WSJ, 7/22/99,
p.A23)(SFCM, 3/11/01, p.70)(SSFC, 2/07/04, p.C9)
1819-1861 Prince Albert of Britain, consort to Queen
Victoria.
(WUD, 1994, p.34)
1819-1880 George Eliot, English writer, was driven
out of England with her companion, G.H. Lewes, for a while for not
being married. Her books tore away the curtain of Victorian life and
revealed its bitter small-mindedness for anyone to see. "The happiest
women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
(V.D.-H.K.p.279)(AP, 11/14/98)
1819-1891 Donn Piatt, American journalist: "There is
no tyranny so despotic as that of public opinion among a free people."
(AP, 3/10/01)
1819-1898 Theodor Fontane, German author:
"Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being
where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going
through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not
being hurt by new shoes." His work included practical hiking guides to
Brandenburg, poetry theater criticism, foreign correspondence and
novels. His novels included "Effi Briest" and "L’Adultera." In 1998 a
biography by Gordon Craig was scheduled to be published.
(AP, 8/7/97)(WSJ, 12/2/98, p.A20)
1819-1910 Julia Ward Howe, US writer and reformer.
She wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
(WUD, 1994, p.689)
1820 Jan 12, Royal Astronomical
Society was founded in England.
(MC, 1/12/02)
1820 Jan 20, Anne Clough, promoter
of higher education, was born.
(HN, 1/20/99)
1820 Jan 20-1820 Jan 29, As George
IV was about to become King of England, his wife Caroline (the German
princess of Brunswick) returned to claim her rights. She had been
living on the continent and was rumored to have had as lovers such men
as: the politician George Canning, the admiral Sir Sydney Smith, the
painter Sir Thomas Lawrence. The House of Lords introduced a Bill of
Pains and Penalties, which sought to strip Caroline of her title of
Queen on the grounds of her scandalous conduct. George had previously
married Maria Anne Fitzherbert in secret. A trial ensued, but witnesses
refused to speak against the queen and the bill had to be amended.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_of_Brunswick)(WSJ, 5/23/96,
p.A-10)(WSJ, 3/26/99, p.W10)
1820 Jan 29, Britain's King George
III (b.1760) died insane at Windsor Castle at age 81, ending a
reign that saw both the American and French revolutions. He was
succeeded by his son George IV (1762-1830), who as Prince of Wales had
been regent for 9 years during his father’s insanity. In 2005
scientists reported high levels of arsenic in the hair of King George
III and said the deadly poison may be to blame for the bouts of
apparent madness he suffered. In 2006 Stella Tillyard authored “A Royal
Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings” and Jeremy Black
authored “George III: America’s Last King.”
(http://tinyurl.com/gsbuj)(AP, 1/29/98)(WSJ,
12/26/06, p.D8)(Econ, 1/28/06, p.80)
1820 Jan 30, Edward Bransfield
discovered Antarctica and claimed it for the UK.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1820 Jan, A large fire in
Savannah, Georgia wiped out 463 buildings.
(SFC, 6/25/95, p.T-7)
1820 Feb 6, The American
Colonization Society sent its 1st organized emigration of blacks back
to Africa from NY to Sierra Leone.
(AH, 2/05, p.17)
1820 Feb 6, US population
announced at 9,638,453 including 1,771,656 blacks (18.4%).
(MC, 2/6/02)
1820 Feb 7, Samuel Adams Holyoke
(57/58), composer, died.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1820 Feb 8, General William T.
Sherman (d.1891), Union general in America's Civil War, was born. His
famous "March to the Sea" changed the face of modern warfare.
(HN, 2/8/99)(AP, 4/7/99)(MC, 2/8/02).
1820 Feb 15, American suffragist
Susan B. Anthony (d.1906) was born in Adams, Mass. Her middle name was
Brownell. Her biography by Lynn Sherr was titled: "Failure Is
Impossible."
(SFEC, 9/21/97, Par p.4)(AP, 2/15/98)(HN,
2/15/98)(SFC, 8/15/98, p.E4)
1820 Feb 15, Pierre-Joseph Cambon
(63), member of Committee of Public Safety (French Revolution), died.
(MC, 2/15/02)
1820 Feb 17, Henri Vieuxtemps,
composer, teacher (Brussels Cons), was born in Verviers, Belgium.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1820 Feb 28, John Tenniel
(d.1914), illustrator of "Alice in Wonderland," was born. He was an
English caricaturist.
(HN, 2/28/98)(WUD, 1994, p.1463)
1820 Feb, The Cato Street
Conspiracy, organized by revolutionary Arthur Thistlewood, was
the. assassination of the entire British Cabinet. Earlier,
in 1816, Thistlewood helped plan the Spa Fields Riots, during which the
Bank of England and Tower of London were to be seized. In February,
1820, Thistlewood learned the entire British Cabinet planned to dine at
the Earl of Harrowby’s house in London’s Grosvenor Square. His plot for
murder was revealed to the police, who apprehended Thistlewood and a
number of accomplices as they prepared to leave a room on Cato Street
for Grosvenor Square. Thistlewood was tried for high treason and
hanged, along with four others.
(HNQ, 6/28/99)
1820 cFeb, Five surviving crew
members in 2 boats of whale ship Essex were picked up by 2 ships. [see
Owen Chase in 1819, 1821]
(SFEC, 7/23/00, BR p.12)
1820 Mar 3, The Missouri
Compromise was passed by Congress. It allowed Missouri to enter the
Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state. [see Mar 6]
(PCh, 1992, p.389)(SC, 3/3/02)
1820 Mar 5, Dutch city of
Leeuwarden forbade Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1820 Mar 6, The Missouri
Compromise, enacted by Congress, was signed by President James Monroe.
This compromise provided for the admission of Missouri into the Union
as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern
Louisiana Purchase territory. The compromise was invalidated in the
1856 Scott vs. Sanford case. [see Mar 3]
(HN, 3/6/98)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A3)
1820 Mar 9-11, Philippines chased
out foreigners and about 125 died.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1820 Mar 9, Congress passed the
Land Act, paving the way for westward expansion.
(HN, 3/9/99)
1820 Mar 14, Victor Emmanuel II,
King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), was born.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1820 Mar 15, Maine, a province of
Massachusetts since 1647, became the 23rd state. Maine entered the
Union as a free state and helped maintain the balance in the US Senate,
that would have been disrupted by the entrance of Missouri Territory
into the Union as a slave state.
(AP, 3/15/97)
1820 Mar 22, The Decatur-Barron
Duel. U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur (b.1779) was killed in a duel
with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C.
(HFA, ‘96, p.26)(AP, 3/22/97)
1820 Mar 30, Anna Sewell, English
novelist, was born. Her "Black Beauty" has become the classic story
about horses.
(HN, 3/30/99)
1820 Apr 15, Evander McNair, Brig
General (Confederate Army), died in 1902, was born.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1820 Apr 17, Alexander Cartwright,
sportsman, was born. He developed baseball.
(HN, 4/17/01)
1820 Apr 20, Arthur Young, author
(Annals of Agriculture), died.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1820 May 4, Joseph Whitaker,
bookseller and publisher, was born. He founded Whitaker's Almanac.
(HN, 5/4/99)
1820 May 12, Florence Nightingale,
Crimean War nurse known as "Lady with the Lamp," was born in Florence,
Italy. She is also known as the founder of modern nursing
(AP, 5/12/97)(HN, 5/12/99)
1820 May 13, The opera "Die
Jearsbraut" was completed.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1820 May 15, The US Congress
designated the slave trade to a form of piracy.
(HN, 5/15/99)
1820 May 23, James Buchanan Eads,
engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, was born.
(HN, 5/23/98)
1820 Jun 14, John Bartlett,
editor, compiler of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, was born.
(HN, 6/14/01)
1820 Jun 19, Joseph Banks, English
natural historian (Cook, Australia), died.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1820 Jun 28, The tomato was proven
to be non-poisonous.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1820 Aug 2, John Tyndall
(d.1893), British physicist, was born. He was the first scientist to
show why the sky is blue. "It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink
(at) facts because they are not to our taste."
(AP, 9/25/99)(HN, 8/2/00)
1820 Aug 6, M.A. Elisa Bonaparte
(43), Corsican monarch of Lucca, died.
(MC, 8/6/02)
1820 Aug 7, The 1st potatoes were
planted in Hawaii.
(MC, 8/7/02)
1820 Aug 12, Oliver Mowat, a
founder of the Canadian Confederation, was born.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1820 Aug 13, George Grove,
biblical scholar, musicographer (Grove's Dictionary), was born in
London, England.
(MC, 8/13/02)
1820 Aug 14, The 1st US eye
hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opened in NYC.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1820 Sep 4, Czar Alexander
declared that Russian influence in North America extended as far south
as Oregon and closed Alaskan waters to foreigners.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1820 Sep 20, John Fulton Reynolds,
Major General (Union volunteers), was born. He died in 1863 on first
day at Gettysburg.
(MC, 9/20/01)
1820 Sep 26, The legendary
frontiersman Daniel Boone died quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of
his son Nathan, at age 85.
(HN, 9/26/99)
1820 Sep 28, Friedrich Engels,
socialist who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto
and Das Kapital, was born.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1820 Sep, John Keats and the young
painter Severn started for Italy aboard the cargo boat Maria Crowther.
(WP, 1951, p.15)
1820 Sep, William Moorcroft, East
India Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, arrived in
Ladakh, while enroute to Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to trade for horses. He
spent 2 years here before continuing his journey.
(ON, 1/02, p.5)
1820 Oct 6, Jenny Lind (d.1887),
soprano, was born. She was known as the "Swedish Nightingale."
(HN, 10/6/00)
1820 Oct 11, Sir George Williams,
founder of the YMCA, was born.
(HN, 10/11/00)
1820 Oct 12, John James Audubon
boarded the steamboat Western Engineer in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
embarked on a 5-year journey along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
collecting and painting birds.
(ON, 12/05, p.7)
1820 Oct 15, Florence Nightingale
(d.1910), English hospital reformer and nursing pioneer, was born.
"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world
would never reach anything better."
(AP, 11/12/97)(HN, 10/15/98)
1820 Oct 20, Spain sold a part of
Florida to US for $5 million.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1820 Oct, Argentina’s Jose de San
Martin blockaded Lima, Peru, and urged the people of Peru to join in
the uprising against Spain.
(www.gdws.co.uk/chacabuco.htm)(Econ, 4/25/09,
p.87)(ON, 10/09, p.10)
1820 Nov 18, U.S. Navy Capt.
Nathaniel B. Palmer discovered the frozen continent of Antarctica.
(AP, 11/18/97)
1820 Nov 28, Friedrich Engels
(d.1895), German social philosopher; Marx's collaborator, was born.
(V.D.-H.K.p.257)(MC, 11/28/01)
1820 Dec 6, James Monroe, the 5th
US president, was elected for a 2nd term.
(MC, 12/6/01)
1820 Dec 20, Missouri imposed a $1
bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1820 Dec, Franz Schubert composed
his String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor (Quartettsatz). It was only
introduced to the public in 1867.
(www.owlhaven.com/schubert/schubertchron.htm)
1820 Anne Bronte (d.1849), younger
sister of Charlotte and Emily, was born. Her novels included "Agnes
Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."
(WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A21)
1820 Lola Montez, cabaret singer
and countess, was born Eliza Gilbert and grew up in India as a military
brat. She was later involved with King Ludvig of Bavaria and he made
her Countess of Landsfeld. She later traveled to California. Her
biography by Bruce Seymour is titled: "Lola Montez: A Life."
(SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.8)
1820 Constable made his painting
of Salisbury Cathedral.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A19)
1820 Keisai Eisen, Japanese
artist, pictured an intricately coifed woman that later appeared on the
cover of a French magazine and inspired Van Gogh’s 1887 "Courtesan."
(WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)
1820 Mary Shelley wrote her
children’s story "Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot. " It did not get
published until 1998 when Claire Tomalin published an edition with an
extensive editorial preface.
(SFEC, 11/15/98, BR p.3)
1820 Helen Keller’s grandfather
built the Ivy Green House in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
(PC, Polychrome Picture Products)
1820 In New Jersey a county
poorhouse farm was established on 200 acres of land in what later
became Hudson County, directly across the river from Manhattan. Be the
end of the century it had become the sprawling Snake Hill complex with
isolation hospitals and 3 burial grounds. In the 20th century it was
renamed Laurel Hill. The institutions steadily emptied after the
Depression and in 1950 the new New Jersey Turnpike ran through the
site. In 2002 the New Jersey Turnpike Authority purchased the eastern
burial ground of Snake Hill. Research soon revealed an estimated 3,500
burials on the purchased property, which became known as the Secaucus
Potter’s field site. In 2003 the last burial was disinterred for a
total of 4,571 sets of human remains from 2686 graves.
(Arch, 5/05, p.43)
1820 In Tennessee an iron forge
was established by settler Isaac Love on the Little Pigeon River at the
foot of the Great Smokey Mountains.
(SFC, 6/9/97, p.A3)
1820 Congregational missionaries
from New England arrived. The brig Thaddeus delivered the first
missionaries and Lucy Thurston taught the native women to sew calico
patch work. James Michener later used their story as the focus of his
historical novel "Hawaii."
(Wired, 8/95, p.90)(Hem., 2/96, p.72)(SFEM, 2/8/98,
p.10)
1820 Thomas Jefferson wrote of
slavery: "We have a wolf by the ears and can neither hold him, nor
safely let him go." Although a slaveholder himself, Jefferson had
expressed hopes that in the wake of the American Revolution, slavery in
the South would wither and die.
(HNQ, 2/16/00)
1820 Eliphalet Snedecor rented
land on Long Island, NY, and established a tavern. It became popular
among fisherman and bird shooters.
(WSJ, 10/9/07, p.D6)
1820 Norwich Univ. began as a
private military college in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
(Hem, 9/04, p.69)
1820 American cotton exports
reached 400,000 bales a year.
(Econ, 12/20/03, p.46)
1820 An American whaling ship from
Brighton, Massachusetts, was later believed to be the first to enter
Japanese waters.
(Econ, 12/22/07, p.64)
1820 In the Antelope seizure, a
Spanish flag vessel was involved at a time when Spain still sanctioned
the slave trade.
(WSJ, 12/31/97, p.A11)
1820 The industrial force exceeded
the number of people engaged in agriculture in Great Britain.
(V.D.-H.K.p.284)
1820 There are more than a
thousand ships engaged in transporting timber from the North America to
the British Isles. Human cargo filled the return journey.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.52)
1820 US census takers on the
Virginia-Tennessee border at Stone Mountain labeled the local
Melungeons as "free persons of color." The people were of a mixed
ancestry, neither all black, nor all white, nor all Indian. In 1997
some 500 Melungeon descendents still lived in the area. Later N. Brent
Kennedy wrote: "The Melungeons... An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing
in America."
(WSJ, 4/14/97, p.B1)
1820 Hans Christian Oersted,
Danish physicist, discovered that an electric current creates a
magnetic field around a conductor.
(V.D.-H.K.p.269)
1820 The Greek Venus de Milo
statue of marble was found in 1820 on Melos and is now in the Louvre.
It was sculpted about c200BC. [2nd source says 2,500 years old]
(WUD, 1994, p.1586)(SFEC, 3/9/96, Z1 p.5)
1820 Scotsman Gregor MacGregor
(1791-1845), later known as His Serene Highness Gregor I, Prince of
Poyais, returned to London from Venezuela and began selling land in the
fictional kingdom of Poyais. He served 8 months in jail after English
and French expeditions revealed the hoax. In 1839 he returned to
Venezuela. In 2004 David Sinclair authored "The Land That Never Was:
Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Land Fraud in History."
(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.M2)
1820 Some 4,000 British colonists,
the Albany settlers, settled in the eastern coastal region of the Cape
of Good Hope.
(EWH, 4th ed, p.884)
c1820 In London Thomas Hancock
sliced up a rubber bottle from the Americas to create garters and
waistbands.
(SFC, 9/19/98, p.E3)
1820 In India the Prince of Baroda
was forbidden to increase his daily number of canon salutes by the
British Raj, so instead he had his fort's canons made from solid gold
at 28 pounds each.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R4)
1820 In southern Poland Jan
Kutschera opened the Sczcawnica Zdroj health resort. He sold it in 1929
to the Hungarian Szalay family, which turned it into a fashionable
place. Josef Szalay bequeathed it to Krakow’s Academy of Arts and
Sciences, which sold it to Count Stadnicki in 1909. Stadnicki (d.1982
at 99) was ousted by the communists in 1948. By 2008 his heirs had
regained control of the spa and invested $4.5 million in restoration.
(SSFC, 8/17/08, p.F7)
1820 Nguyen Du (b.1766), author of
“The Tale of Kieu,” died. His Vietnamese epic tells the story of woman
who sells herself into prostitution to pay off her father’s debt.
(SSFC, 8/21/05, p.B1)
1820s Grain prices collapsed in
Britain.
(WSJ, 12/11/98, p.W10)
1820s Renegade Zulus rebelled
against King Chaka, but were crushed. Descendents of the renegade Zulus
are of the Ndebele tribe, which forms a 5th of Zimbabwe’s 11 million
people, the majority of which are of the Shona tribe.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C16)
1820s The Garinagu, descendants of
African slaves and Caribbean Indians, fled to Belize from the Bay
Islands of Honduras.
(SFEC, 6/1/97, p.T3)
1820-1825 In India Ghulam Ali Khan painted his
gouache and watercolor: "Assembly of Ascetics and Yogins around a Fire."
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.E8)
1820-1891 George Hearst, later businessman and
politician, was born.
(SFEM, 10/24/99, p.20)
1820-1903 Herbert Spencer, nineteenth-century British
thinker and early upholder of the theory of evolution, regarded human
progress as "not an accident but a necessity." Spencer was born in
England believed that every aspect of reality must be viewed in terms
of a continuing development from lower to higher stages. His
naturalistic philosophy had a great influence on the development of
biology, psychology, anthropology and sociology. Spencer published his
idea of the evolution of biological species before Charles Darwin and
Alfred Russel Wallace. Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the
fittest in his 1864 work Principles of Biology. "Hero-worship is
strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."
(HNQ, 8/19/98)(AP, 2/25/00)
1820-1904 Christian Nestell Bovee, American author:
"Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself."
(AP, 3/10/99)
1820-1910 Felix Nadar, French photographer, was born
in Paris as Gaspard-Felix Tournachon. He is known for photographing
such people as George Sand, Alexandre Dumas, Gioacchino Rossini, Eugene
Delacroix, Sarah Burnhardt, Charles Baudelaire and Gerard de Nerval. He
was the first photographer to experiment with electric lighting, and
explored the realm of aerial photography.
(Smith., 5/95, p.72)
1820-1920 Some 6 million Irish people, 90% of them
Catholic, immigrated to America.
(WSJ, 10/27/08, p.A15)
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