Timeline of United States history (1790-1819)

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1790 to 1819.

Table of contents

1 1790s 2 1800s 3 1810s

1790s

• 1790 - Rhode Island becomes a state
• 1791 - Bill of Rights ratified
• 1791 - First Bank of the United States chartered
• 1791 - Vermont becomes a state
• 1792 - Kentucky becomes a state
• 1793 - Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
• 1793 - Fugitive Slave Act passed
• 1793 - Chisholm v. Georgia 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of 11th Amendment
• 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
• 1794 - Battle of Fallen Timbers
• 1795 - Jay Treaty
• 1795 - 11th Amendment
• 1796 - Tennessee becomes a state
• 1796 - Pinckney's Treaty
• 1797 - John Adams (Federalist) inaugurated, Jefferson (Republican) Vice-President
• 1797 - XYZ Affair
• 1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts
• 1798 - Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• 1798 - Eleventh Amendment passed
• 1799 - George Washington dies
• 1799 - Fries Uprising
• 1799 - Logan Act

1800s

• 1800 - Convention of 1800
• 1800 - Library of Congress founded
• 1801 - Thomas Jefferson becomes President
• 1803 - Marbury v. Madison 5 US 137 1803 allows U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate law passed by Congress for first time, the Judiciary Act of 1789
• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase Treaty
• 1803 - Ohio becomes a state
• 1804 - 12th Amendment
• 1804 - Essex Junto
• 1804 - New Jersey ends slavery
• 1804 - Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton duel
• 1804 - Lewis and Clark set out
• 1805 - Barbary pirates defeated in Tripoli
• 1806 - Noah Webster's first dictionary
• 1806 - Cumberland Road passed
• 1807 - Embargo Act
• 1807 - US ship Leopard sunk by the British
• 1807 - Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
• 1807 - Robert Fulton builds steamboat
• 1808 - US slave trade with Africa ends
• 1809 - James Madison becomes President
• 1809 - Non-Intercourse Act

1810s

• 1810 - Macon's Bill Number 2
• 1810 - Fletcher v. Peck 10 US 87 1810 marks first time U.S. Supreme Court invalidates state legislative act
• 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe
• 1811 - First Bank of the United States expires
• 1812 - War of 1812 begins
• 1812 - Daniel Webster elected to Congress
• 1812 - Louisiana becomes a state
• 1814 - Treaty of Fort Jackson ends Creek War
• 1814 - Treaty of Ghent settles War of 1812
• 1814 - Hartford Convention
• 1816 - Second Bank of the United States chartered
• 1816 - Martin v. Hunter's Lessee 14 US 304 1816 establishes U.S. Supreme Court's power to review state court decisions
• 1816 - Indiana becomes a state
• 1817 - James Monroe becomes President
• 1817 - Rush-Bagot Treaty
• 1817 - Harvard Law School founded
• 1817 - Bonus Bill
• 1817 - Mississippi becomes a state
• 1818 - Cumberland Road opened
• 1818 - Convention of 1818
• 1818 - Illinois becomes a state
• 1819 - Panic of 1819
• 1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty, also called the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819
• 1819 - McCulloch v. Maryland 17 US 316 1819 prohibits state laws from infringing upon Federal constitutional authority
• 1819 - Dartmouth College v. Woodward 17 US 518 1819 protects principle of honoring contracts and charters
• 1819 - Alabama becomes a state

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1790-1819 History of the United States

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