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e. The 1800s (pronounced "eighteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1800, and ended on 31 December 1809. The term "eighteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1800 to 31 December 1899 (the years beginning with "18"), and is almost synonymous with the 19th century (1801–1900).
July Revolution in France. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama), Ecuador, and Venezuela took its place. November Uprising in Poland against Russia; it fails.
The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century. [4]
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Battle of Manassas) 1862 – Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg) 1862 – Dakota War of 1862 begins. 1862–1863 – Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation. 1863 – Battle of Gettysburg. 1863 – The Siege of Vicksburg ends. 1863 – New York City draft riots.
September 30 – The Convention of 1800, or Treaty of Mortefontaine, is signed between France and the United States of America, ending the Quasi-War. October 1 – In the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain returns Louisiana to France. U.S. President John Adams becomes the first president of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion ...
Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president Territorial growth in the U.S. between 1800 and 1810. Thomas Jefferson is a central figure in early American history, highly praised for his political leadership but also criticized for the role of slavery in his private life. He championed equality, democracy and republicanism, attacking aristocratic ...
1804 – Lewis and Clark set out. 1804 – U.S. presidential election, 1804: Thomas Jefferson reelected president; George Clinton elected vice president. March 4, 1805 – President Jefferson begins second term; Clinton becomes the fourth vice president. 1807 – Embargo Act of 1807. 1807 – Robert Fulton invents steamboat.
The social structure of the Old South was made an important research topic for scholars by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips in the early 20th century. [53] The romanticized image of the "Old South" tells of slavery's plantations, as famously typified in Gone with the Wind , a blockbuster 1936 novel and its adaptation in a 1939 Hollywood film , along ...