1801 - Thomas Jefferson inaugurated - John Marshall Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1802 - Congress repeals Judiciary Act of 1801

1803 - Marbury v. Madison - Louisiana Purchase

1804 - Hamilton-Burr duel - Lewis and Clark expedition
 

1806 - Burr Conspiracy

1807 - Chesapeake Affair
Embargo introduced

1808 - African slave trade prohibited

1809 - Embargo Act repealed, Non Intercourse Act passed

1810 - Fletcher v. Peck

1811 - Battle of Tippicanoe - Charter of U.S. Bank expires

1812 - War with England
 
 
 
 
 

1814 - Washington burned by British troops - Treaty of Ghent ends war

1815 - Jackson wins battle of New Orleans
 
 

1816 - Second U.S. Bank

1817 - Construction of Erie Canal begins in New York

1819 - Missouri Compromise, McCullough v. Maryland
 
 

1823 - Monroe Doctrine
 
 
 
 

1828 - Andrew Jackson elected President

1830 - Congress passes the Indian Removal Act

1831 - Nat Turner Rebellion

1832 - Bank of the United States crisis - South Carolina nullifies 1828 & 1832 tariffs

1836 - Roger B. Taney becomes Chief Justice - Texas war for independence

1838 - Cherokee Trail of Tears

1842 - Oregon Trail opens

1845 - Florida and Texas admitted to the union

1846 - U.S. and Mexico at war 

1847 - Mormons settle in Utah

1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Gold discovered in California

1850 - Compromise on California's statehood

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

1855 - "Bleeding Kansas"

1857 - Dred Scott decision - Kansas passes pro-slavery constitution

1858 - Lincoln-Douglas debates

1860 - Lincoln elected - South Carolina secedes

1861 - Lincoln inaugurated - Jefferson Davis becomes president of the Confederacy - Fort Sumter bombarded and Civil War begins

1803 - Property requirements for voting abolished
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1812 - Anti-Federalist  violence in Baltimore
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1826 - Religious test for voting and office holding removed

1828 - C&O canal and B&O railroad construction begins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1836 - Eight Million Dollar Act
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1850 - C&O canal reaches Cumberland

1851 - New Maryland Constitution adopted
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1859 - John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, VA

1801-03 - Napoleon tries to restore French control over St. Domingue (Haiti)
 

1802 - Napoleon elected Consul for life
 
 
 

1804 - Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France

1805 - Nelson defeats French fleet at Trafalgar - naval blockade of France begins

1806 - French and English neutrality shipping laws

1808 - Napoleon invades Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1812 - Napoleon invades Russia

1813 - Napoleon defeated at Leipzig in the Battle of the Nations

1814 - Napoleon exiled to Elba
Congress of Vienna sets conservative mood in Europe

1815 - Napoleon returns - Batle of Waterloo - final exile to St. Helena
 
 
 
 

1818 - Quintuple Alliance formed

1821 - Mexico declares independence from Spain

1822 - Revolutions in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia

1825 - Decembrist Revolution in Russia
 
 
 
 

1830 - Revolutions in France and Belgium
 
 

1832 - English reform bill

1834 - Poor Law reforms in England
 
 

1837 - Victoria becomes Queen of England
 
 

1845 - Potato famine in Ireland
 
 
 
 
 

1848 - Revolutions throughout Europe - Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto