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Mohawk Chief Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) dies. He was a Mohawk military and political leader who rose to prominence due to his education, abilities and his personal connections.
Brant fought in various wars throughout his life time. He participated in French and Indian War, allied with the British he fought with Mohawk and Iroquois allies. He received the silver medal from the British for service. He was fluent in English as well as at least three of the Six Nations’ Iroquoian languages. Brant led Mohawk and colonial Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. More
The Portuguese Royal Family, D João VI and its court of over 10,000 people, leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil aboard 36 vessels to escape the invading Napoleonic troops.
The travelers arrived in Rio on March 7, 1808. The stay lasted until 1820 when D João VI went back to Portugal leaving his eldest son Pedro in charge. Pedro remain in Brazil and in 1822 led the move for Brazilian independence from Portugal and declared himself Emperor. More
The Osage, were the largest tribe of the Southern Sioux people occupying what would later become the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Several treaties starting in 1808 between the Osages and the United States resulted in the Osage leaving their tribal lands and to settled in southeast Kansas on the Cherokee Strip.
Later in 1865, in a decision that would eventually make them one of the wealthiest surviving Native American nations, the Osage tribe agreed to abandon their lands again, and move from Missouri and Arkansas to a reservation in Indian Territory in Oklahoma, site of present-day Osage County. More
The United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Amiens, ending hostilities during the Napoleonic Wars.
The first modern parachute is tested by André-Jacques Garnerin in France.
The Hidalgo Revolt, a precursor to the Mexican War of Independence, begins in Mexico.
Tecumseh's War culminates in the Battle of Tippecanoe, where U.S. forces led by William Henry Harrison defeat Native American forces.
The Times of London makes newspapers available to a mass audience by using automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer. More
The American whaling ship Essex, under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr. is rammed by a sperm whale and later sank. Although all 20 crewmen initially survived, only 8 were rescued following an arduous journey that devolved into cannibalism. The sinking inspired in part the climactic scene in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851). More
The presidential election in the United States is decided by the House of Representatives, with John Quincy Adams becoming president.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob while defending the site of his anti-slavery newspaper the St. Louis Observer. His death both deeply affected many individuals who opposed slavery and greatly strengthened the cause of abolition. More
The University of Notre Dame is founded on November 26, 1842 in the State of Indiana, U.S
Democratic candidate James K. Polk defeated Whig Party candidate Henry Clay to become the eleventh president of the United States. More
The Sonderbund War, a civil war in Switzerland, begins over religious and political disputes.
Charles Darwin’s book, "On the origin of species by means of natural selection" was published in London. The book was very popular and the first edition sold out on the first day.
It is considered to be one of the most important books on biology ever printed. The book was translated into 11 languages during Darwin's life time. More
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, replacing James Buchanan. Before Lincoln’s election was certified on February 15, 1861, seven southern states had left the Union and the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as its President had been established.
From 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War and succeeded in defeating the insurgent Confederacy, abolishing slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. More
President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address during the ceremony to consecrate the grounds of what eventually became the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Four months earlier it had been the site the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
More than 10,000 soldiers were killed or mortally wounded, 30,000 injured, and 10,000 captured or went missing at the battle which proved to be the turning point of the war; Gen. Robert E. Lee’s defeat and retreat marked the last Confederate invasion of northern territory. It also marked the beginning of the southern Army’s decline. President Lincoln's 271 words, two minute speech, become one of the most memorable speeches in American history as it served as a reminder to a war-weary public as to why the Union had to fight and win the Civil War.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, gives Alice the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day" and with illustrations by Carroll.
The published version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is about twice the length of Alice's Adventures Under Ground and includes episodes, such as the Mad Tea-Party, that did not appear in the manuscript and all 42 wood-engraved illustrations are by John Tenniel. The only known manuscript copy of Under Ground is held in the British Library. Macmillan published a facsimile of the manuscript in 1886.
Colonel John M. Chivington leads a surprise attack, on a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory. Known as the Sand Creek Massacre, the U.S troops murdered more than 230 Native people, who were at the site under a white flag of truce. The group was composed mostly of women, children, and the elderly who had been directed by the American Military to camp there.
The massacre had its roots earlier on June 27 1864, when Colorado Territory Governor, John Evans issued ia proclamation commanding all “Friendly” Native Americans of the Cheyenne and Arapaho to go to Fort Lyon to receive supplies and to find safety. Unfortunately, this was in direct conflict with the standing order at all Forts within the Territory of Colorado that all members of the Military should shoot and kill any Native American that approached a Fort. Frustrated with a lack of compliance, Evans issued a second proclamation in August 1864 that authorized all citizens to "kill and destroy, as enemies of the country" any "hostile Indians". More