Chronological Table
Some events in History of United Some events in English and States. General History.
1759. Capture of Quebec. 1759. Capture of Quebec.
1757-60. Ministry of Chatham (William Pitt).
1760. Contrat Social published.
1764-76. Great inventions in spinning industries.
1765. Stamp Act passed. 1765. Watt’s steam engine.
1776. Declaration of 1776. Publication of “Wealth of Independence Nations.”
1778. Death of Chatham.
1782. Rodney’s victory.
1783. American Independence recognised.
1787. Constitution framed.
North West Territory ceded
by States to Congress and
slavery excluded from it.
1789. Constitution comes into 1789. Meeting of States General.
force.
1793. Eli Whitney invents cotton 1793. England at war with French
gin. Republic.
1794. Slave Trade abolished by
French Convention.
1799. Death of Washington.
1802. Peace of Amiens.
1803. Louisiana purchase. 1803. England at war with Napoleon.
1804. Death of Hamilton.
1805. Trafalgar.
1806. The American Fulton’s steam-boat on Seine.
1807. Fulton’s steam-boat on 1807. Slave Trade abolished by
Hudson. Great Britain.
1808. Slave Trade abolished by 1808. Battle of Vimiera.
U. S. A. Convention of Cintra.
Wordsworth’s literary activity about at its culmination.
1809. Abraham Lincoln born. 1809. Darwin, Tennyson, and
Gladstone born.
1812-1814. War with Great
Britain.
1815. Waterloo.
1820. Missouri Compromise.
1823. Monroe doctrine declared.
1825. First railway opened in
England.
1826. Death of Jefferson. 1826. Independence of Mexico and
Spanish Colonies in South
America recognised by
Canning.
1827. Navarino.
1828. Commencement of
“nullification” movement.
Election of Jackson.
1829. Catholic emancipation.
1830. Hayne-Webster debate.
1831. Garrison publishes first 1831. Mazzini founds Young
number of Liberator. Italy.
Lincoln starts life in New
Salem.
First railway opened in
America.
1832. First Reform Bill.
1833. Slavery abolished in
British Colonies.
1834. Lincoln elected to Illinois legislature
1836-40. Great Boer Trek.
1837. End of Jackson’s second 1837. Queen Victoria’s accession.
presidency. First steam-boat from
England to America.
1838. First telegraph line in
England.
1839. Lord Durham’s report on
Canada.
1841. First telegraph in America.
1842. Lincoln leaves Illinois legislature, and (Nov.) is married.
1844. “Martin Chuzzlewit” published.
1845. Annexation of Texas.
1846. Boundary of Oregon and 1846. Boundary of Oregon and British Columbia settled British Columbia settled with Great Britain. with U. S. A.
1846-7. Mexican War. 1846-7. Irish famine.
1847-8. Lincoln in Congress.
1848. Gold discovery in 1848. Revolution in France and
California. in many parts of Europe.
1850. Clay’s compromise adopted. 1850. Constitution Act for
Death of Calham. Australian colonies.
1852. Deaths of Clay and Webster. 1852. Constitution Act for New
Zealand.
1854. Missouri Compromise 1854-5. Gold rush to Australia.
repealed.
Republican Party formed. Crimean War.
1854-6. Abolition of slavery in
various Portuguese
Dominions.
1856. Defeat of Frémont by
Buchanan.
1857. Dred Scott case. 1857-8. Indian Mutiny.
1858. Kansas. Lincoln-Douglas debate.
1859. John Brown’s raid. 1859. Publication of “Origin of
Species.”
1859-60. Kingdom of Italy formed.
1860. Nov. Lincoln elected 1860. Slavery abolished in Dutch
President. East Indies.
Dec. Secession carried in
South Carolina.
1861. Feb. 4. Southern 1861. Emancipation of Russian
Confederacy formed. serfs.
Mar. 4. Lincoln inaugurated.
Ap. 12-14. Bombardment
of Fort Sumter.
Ap. War begins. Further
secessions.
July. First Battle of Bull
Run.
Dec. Claim of Great Britain
as to Trent accepted.
1862. Ap.-Aug. McClellan in 1862. Alabama escapes from the
Peninsula. Mersey (July).
Ap. Shiloh.
May. Jackson in Shenandoah
Valley.
Aug.-Oct. Confederates in
Kentucky.
Aug. Second Battle of Bull
Run.
Sept. Antietam. Proclamation
of emancipation.
Nov. McClellan removed.
Dec. Fredericksburg.
Murfreesborough.
1863. Mar. 1. Conscription Act. 1863. Revolution in Poland.
Maximilian proclaimed Emperor
of Mexico.
May. Chancellorsville.
Jackson killed.
July. Gettysburg, Vicksburg.
New York riots.
Sept. Chickamauga.
Nov. Gettysburg speech.
Chattanooga.
1864. May. Beginning of Grant’s 1864. Prussia and Austria invade and Sherman’s great Denmark. campaigns.
1864. June. Cold Harbour.
Baltimore Convention.
July. Early’s raid reaches
Washington.
Aug. Mobile. Chicago
Convention.
Sept. Sherman at Atlanta.
Sheridan in Shenandoah
Valley.
Nov. Lincoln re-elected
President.
Dec. Nashville. Sherman
at Savannah.
1865. Jan. Congress passes 13th
Amendment.
Feb. Further progress of
Sherman and Sheridan.
Mar. 4. Second inauguration
of Lincoln.
Ap. 2-9. Richmond falls,
and Lee surrenders.
Ap. 14-15. Lincoln
assassinated and dies.
Dec. 13. Amendment
ratified.
1866. Atlantic cable 1866. Atlantic cable successfully
successfully laid. laid.
War between Austria and
Prussia.
1867. British North America Act.
Slave children emancipated
in Brazil.
Fall and execution of
Maximilian in Mexico.
1868. Rise of acute disorder in 1868. Mikado resumes
“reconstructed” South. government in Japan.
1870. Amendment securing negro 1870. Papal infallibility.
suffrage. Franco-German War.
1872. Alabama arbitration with 1872. Alabama arbitration with
Great Britain. U. S. A.
Responsible Government in
Cape Colony.
1876. Admitted failure of Reconstruction. Election of Hayes.
1877. Federal troops withdrawn from South.
1878. Slavery abolished in Cuba (last of Spanish Colonies).