Interactive Timeline – 1789-1823

correct incorrect Mar Pennsylvania lifts ban on theater

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jeremy Bentham publishes Introduction to the Principles of Morals

correct incorrect Apr Congress establishes patent office

correct incorrect May First U.S. copyright law takes effect

correct incorrect THE WORLD: France grants Jews recognition of civil rights

correct incorrect THE WORLD: The Bounty mutineers settle on Pitcairn Island

correct incorrect Mar Vermont becomes 14th state

correct incorrect THE WORLD: William Wilberforce fails to get Parliament to outlaw slavery in British colonies

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Mozart's The Magic Flute first performed in Vienna

correct incorrect May Robert Gray claims Columbia River and part of Oregon territory for United States

correct incorrect Jun Kentucky admitted to the union

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Bubonic plague kills over 750,000 in Egypt

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Denmark abolishes slavery

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published in London and quickly spreads across Europe and the United States

correct incorrect Apr Scottish fur trader Sir Alexander Mackenzie explores across North American and reaches Pacific Ocean

correct incorrect Oct Eli Whitney refines his cotton gin design

correct incorrect Susannah Rowson's novel Charlotte Temple is published

correct incorrect Jun Richard Allen founds Bethel Church in Philadelphia

correct incorrect Mar U.S. Revolutionary hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko begins unsuccessful uprising in Poland

correct incorrect Jun Tennessee becomes 16th state

correct incorrect THE WORLD: British doctor Edward Jenner invents smallpox vaccine

correct incorrect Eli Whitney contracted to manufacture 10,000 rifles for army using interchangeable parts

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Thomas Malthus publishes Essay on the Principles of Population

correct incorrect Library of Congress is established

correct incorrect THE WORLD: German Alexander von Humboldt maps the S. American Orinoco River

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Ludwig von Beethoven's first symphony first performed in Vienna

correct incorrect Mar Ohio becomes the 17th state in union

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Abortion outlawed in Great Britain

correct incorrect May Lewis and Clark Expedition begins

correct incorrect Nov Lewis and Clark take up winter quarters with Mandan Indians

correct incorrect Hugh Henry Brackenridge publishes Modern Chivalry

correct incorrect Apr Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches mouth of Yellowstone River

correct incorrect Aug Zebulon Pike explores for source of Mississippi River

correct incorrect Nov Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean

correct incorrect Noah Webster publishes American dictionary

correct incorrect Jul Lewis and Clark split Corps of Discovery into two parties

correct incorrect Jul Zebulon Pike sets out to explore southwestern Louisiana territory

correct incorrect Sep Lewis and Clark Expedition ends in St. Louis

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Construction of the Arc de Triomphe begins

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Parliament forbids slave trade in British colonies

correct incorrect Apr John Jacob Astor incorporates American Fur Company

correct incorrect Nov Osage cede lands in Missouri and Arkansas to United States in treaty signed at Ft. Clark, KS

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Goethe publishes Part I of Faust

correct incorrect Campbellite Church of Christ splits from the Presbyterian Church

correct incorrect Jun John Jacob Astor founds Pacific Fur Company

correct incorrect Oct President Madison annexes part of West Florida to Louisiana

correct incorrect THE WORLD: British capture Dutch colony of Java

correct incorrect Apr Louisiana becomes 18th state

correct incorrect Jun Missouri territory is organized

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Swiss archaeologist John Lewis Burckhardt documents ancient city of Petra in current-day Jordan

correct incorrect Emma Willard opens her first school in Middlebury, VT

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Britain buys Cape Colony, South Africa, from Dutch for £20 million

correct incorrect Sep United States declares neutrality in Latin American wars of independence

correct incorrect Indiana admitted to the union

correct incorrect Apr Congress passes 25 percent trade tariff

correct incorrect Dec James Monroe elected president

correct incorrect Mar John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of state

correct incorrect Apr Rush-Bagot agreement improves relations between United States and Britain

correct incorrect Apr Gen. Andrew Jackson takes control of West Floridian the First Seminole War

correct incorrect Dec Illinois admitted to the union

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Feb Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín declare independence in Chile

correct incorrect Jan Cotton prices drop, touching off the Panic of 1819

correct incorrect Feb Adams-Onís Treaty signed

correct incorrect Feb Motions of censure against Andrew Jackson fail in Congress

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Manchester protests against Corn Laws result in violence

correct incorrect Mar Missouri Compromise--Missouri and Maine become U.S. states

correct incorrect Dec President Monroe is reelected

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jan George III dies; George IV becomes King of England

correct incorrect Adams-Onís Treaty ratified

correct incorrect Feb Mexico declares independence

correct incorrect Jul José de San Martín declares Peru's independence

correct incorrect Sep Mexico cements its independence

correct incorrect Mar President Monroe suggests that United States should recognize Latin American countries

correct incorrect THE WORLD: First Ashanti War in West Africa begins

correct incorrect Dec Monroe Doctrine articulated in Monroe's annual message to Congress