American History timeline: 1810-1819

1810: Beethoven's Fur Elise
    Macon's Bill #2

1811: Battle of Tippecanoe

1812: New Madrid Earthquake
    U.S. declares war on Britain
    U.S. Invades Canada
    Detroit surrenders
    Constitution vs. Guerriere
    Battle of Borodino
    Napoleon invades Russia
    Battle of Queenston Heights
    James Madison re-elected President

1813: Battle of Lake Erie
    Battle of the Thames
    Battle of Leipzig
    Battle of Crysler's Farm

1814: Battle of Horseshoe Bend
    Bourbon Restoration/Napoleon's abdication
    Battle of Lundy's Lane
    British burn Washington D.C
    Battle of Lake Champlain
    Fort McHenry & The Star Spangled Banner
    Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812

1815: Battle of New Orleans
    Hartford Convention
    Napoleon's 100 Days
    Waterloo
    Mt. Tambura explodes leading to the Year without summer
    Congress of Vienna
    Napoleon exiled to St. Helena

1816: James Monroe elected President

1817: Rush-Bagot Treaty
    First Seminole War begins

1818: Frankenstein published
    Jackson invades Florida
    "Silent Night" written

1819: Panic of 1819
    Dartmouth College vs Woodward
    Adams-Onis Treaty
    McCullough vs Maryland
    Peterloo Massacre
    Missouri Crisis begins

19th Century timeline: 1801-1810

1801: Thomas Jefferson wins the Presidential Election in the House of Representatives
    Battle of Abukir
    The Concordant
    First Barbary War (1801-05)

1802: Treaty of Amiens

1803: Marbury v Madison
    Louisiana Purchase
    Robert Emmet executed

1804: Haiti wins independence
    Decatur's Raid
    Napoleonic Code
    Lewis and Clark Expedition begins (1804-06)
    Burr-Hamilton duel
    Jefferson re-elected

1805: Trafalgar
    Austerlitz
    Peace of Pressburg

1806: Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
    Continental System

1807: Battle of Montevideo
    Battle of Eylau
    Burr Treason trial
    Slave trade banned by British Empire
    Chesapeake-Leopold Affair
    Treaty of Tilsit
    First Steamboat
    Embargo Act

1808: Slave Trade banned in U.S.
    James Madison elected President

1809: Peninsular War (1807-14)
    Non-Intercourse Act

18th Century Timeline (1776-1800)

1776: Common Sense published
    Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire published
    Wealth of Nations published
    Virginia Declarations of Rights
    Declaration of Independence
    Battle of Long Island
    Battle of Harlem Heights
    Battle of Valcour Bay
    The American Crisis published
    The Battle of Trenton

1777: Battle of Saratoga
    Valley Forge

1778: Battle of Monmouth

1779: James Cook dies in Hawaii

1780: Gordon Riots
    Battle of Camden
    Arnold's treason
    Battle of King's Mountain
    The Great Hurricane kills 22,000

1781: Battle of Cowpens
    Articles of Confederation
    Battle of Yorktown

1783: Peace of Paris

1786: Shay's Rebellion

1787: Northwest Ordinance
    Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
    Federalist Papers published

1789: Sieyes' publishes What is the Third Estate?
    Constitution goes into effect
    Washington Inauguated first President of the United States
    Tennis Court Oath (France)
    Bastille Stormed
    Declaration of the Righs of Man and of the Citizen

1792: Louis XVI arrested
    September massacres (France)
    Battle of Valmy
    Washington re-elected

1793: Louis XVI executed
    Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality
    Marat murdered
    Reign of Terror begins
    Marie Antoinette executed

1794: Cotton Gin
    Danton executed
    Whiskey Rebellion

1796: John Adams elected president
    Catherine the Great dies
    Battle of Lodi

1797: Battle of Campo Formio
    XYZ Affair
    Battle of the Pyramids
    Battle of the Nile

1798: Quasi War
    Alien and Sedition Acts

1799: Napoleon's coup
    Washington dies

1800: Quasi War ends
    Treaty of Mortefontaine
    Election of 1800 in U.S. goes to the House of Representatives
    Battle of Marengo
    Act of Union (Britain)

History Shorts: The Little Ice Age (1250-1850)

The Earth cooled following the Medieval Warm Period. It began in 1250 (or 1350) and ended around 1850. The cause of the cooling is debated. Theories range from solar activity to ocean currents to volcanic activity. Glaciers spread, winters lengthened, famines occurred, and rain increased. Essentially, it was a cold, wet period in global history. The Little Ice age caused some of histories great famines, ruined crops helping to precipitate the French Revolution, walloped Napoleon in Russia, led to ice in the Great Lakes during June, ended the Viking Age, and may have led to witch hunts after crop failures. It finally ended around 1850. This coincided with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. As a result, some have proposed that global warming began as a result of industrialization. Others have pointed to other natural factors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuZSMVwJLq0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdK6zbPnHw4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AXbSRjMmRI

History Shorts: Charlemagne is crowned Roman Emperor (800 A.D.)

Charlemagne is considered the “Father of Europe.” His reign ushered in a cultural renaissance in the midst of the Dark Ages. During his tenure, Charlemagne fought the Muslims in Spain, protected the Papacy, and united Western Europe for the first time since Rome’s collapse. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned him the Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day. The act culminated Charlemagne’s life and career. At the same time, it helped establish religious authority and control over secular governments. 1000 years later, Napoleon crowned himself in the pope’s presence to avoid any possibility that religious leaders could claim dominance over his empire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGkUNK8kmDw

Sci Fi History: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)

Frankenstein is part gothic horror and part reaction to the Enlightenment and Napoleonic Wars. The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement preaching universal rights. It attacked the aristocracy, monarchy, religion, and inequality. The American and French Revolutions and Napoleon were all the result of Enlightenment thought. The bloodshed of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars led to a visceral reaction against modernism and intellectualism. Frankenstein reflects this conflict between nature and science. It is also an early example of Sci Fi warning against science and technology.