Englishmen ~ Francis Pettit Smith Invents The Propeller
Englishmen ~ Henry F Talbot Invents Calotype Photography
Solymon Merrick Patents The Wrench
Charles Babbage Invents A Mechanical Calculator
2
1836
President ~ Andrew Jackson
Samuel Colt Invented The First Revolver
Siege Of The Alamo
Texas Declares Its Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature
Transcendentalism Spreads In New England 1836 ~ 1850
3
1837
Samuel Morse Invents The Telegraph
English Schoolmaster ~ Rowland Hill Invents The Postage Stamp
Panic Of 1837
Charles River Bridge V Warren Bridge
4 Mar 1837: President ~ Martin Van Buren
4
1838
President ~ Martin Van Buren
Samual Morse Invents Morse Code
5
1839
President ~ Martin Van Buren
Frenchmen ~ Louis Daguerre And J N Niepce Co ~ Invent Daguerreotype Photography
Kirkpatrick Macmillan Invents A Bicycle
American ~ Charles Goodyear Invents Rubber Vulcanization
Welshmen ~ Sir William Robert Grove Conceives Of The First Hydrogen Fuel Cell
American ~ Thaddeus Fairbanks Invents Platform Scales
6
1840
President ~ Martin Van Buren
Englishmen ~ John Herschel Invents The Blueprint
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque
William Henry Harrison Elected
7
1841
Samuel Slocum Patents The Stapler
Harrison Dies And John Tyler Succeeds
4 Mar 1841: President ~ William Henry Harrison Succumbed To Pneumonia ~ He Was Only President For A Month
4 Apr 1841: John Tyler The First Vice President To Succeed To The Presidency Due To Death Of A President
8
1842
President ~ John Tyler
Joseph Dart Builds The First Grain Elevator
Webster ~ Ashburton Treaty
9
1843
President ~ John Tyler
Alexander Bain Of Scotland ~ Invents The Facsimile
10
1844
President ~ John Tyler
Englishmen ~ John Mercer Invents Mercerized Cotton
Samuel F B Morse Invents The Telegraph
Dispute With Great Britain Over Oregon Territory 1844 ~ 1846
11
1845
American ~ Elias Howe Invents A Sewing Machine
Robert William Thomson Patents The First Vulcanised Rubber Pneumatic Tire
United States Annexes Texas
4 Mar 1845: President ~ James Polk
12
1846
President ~ James Polk
Dr William Morton ~ A Massachusetts Dentist ~ Is The First To Use Anesthesia For Tooth Extraction
Americans Declare California An Independent Republic
United States Declares War On Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
Potato Famine In Ireland
13
1847
President ~ James Polk
Hungarian ~ Ignaz Semmelweis Invents Antisceptics
14
1848
President ~ James Polk
Waldo Hanchett Patents The Dental Chair
Gold Discovered In California
Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Seneca Falls Convention On Women's Rights
15
1849
President ~ James Polk
Walter Hunt Invents The Safety Pin
5 Mar 1849: President ~ Zachary Taylor
16
1850
Joel Houghton Was Granted The First Dishwasher Patent
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Compromise Of 1850
Clayton ~ Bulwer Treaty
9 Jul 1850: President ~ Zachary Taylor Died While In Office
10 Jul 1850: Millard Fillmore ~ Vice President Under Zachary Taylor ~ Sworn In As President After Taylor's Death
17
1851
President ~ Millard Fillmore
Isaac Singer Invents A Sewing Machine
Herman Melville's Moby ~ Dick
18
1852
President ~ Millard Fillmore
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault Invents A Gyroscope
Henri Giffard Builds An Airship Powered By The First Aircraft Engine ~ Unsuccessful Design
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
19
1853
George Cayley Invents A Manned Glider
Gadsden Purchase
4 Mar 1853: President ~ Franklin Pierce
20
1854
President ~ Franklin Pierce
John Tyndall Demonstrates The Principles Of Fiber Optics
Perry's Reopening Of Japan
Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Ostend Manifesto
Kansas ~ Nebraska Act
21
1855
President ~ Franklin Pierce
Isaac Singer Patents The Sewing Machine Motor
Georges Audemars Invents Rayon
Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass
22
1856
President ~ Franklin Pierce
Louis Pasteur Invents Pasteurisation
Bleeding Kansas
23
1857
George Pullman Invents The Pullman Sleeping Car For Train Travel
Dred Scott Decision
4 Mar 1857: President ~ James Buchanan
24
1858
President ~ James Buchanan
Jean Lenoir Invents An Internal Combustion Engine
Hamilton Smith Patents The Rotary Washing Machine
Lincoln ~ Douglas Debates
25
1859
President ~ James Buchanan
John Brown's Raid
Charles Darwin's Origin Of Species
26
1860
President ~ James Buchanan
Southern States Secede From Union 1860 ~ 1861
27
1861
Elisha Otis Patents Elevator Safety Brakes ~ Creating A Safer Elevator
Pierre Michaux Invents A Bicycle
Linus Yale Invents The Yale Lock Or Cylinder Lock
The Civil War Breaks Out
First Battle Of Bull Run
Indian Wars In The West 1861 ~ 1890
4 Mar 1861: President ~ Abraham Lincoln
28
1862
President ~ Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Parkes Invents The First Man ~ Made Plastic
Dr Richard Gatling Patents The Machine Gun
Battle Of Antietam
Battle Of Shiloh
The Homestead Act
29
1863
President ~ Abraham Lincoln
Battle Of Gettysburg
New York City Draft Riots
Lincoln Issues Emancipation Proclamation
30
1864
President ~ Abraham Lincoln
Sherman's March To The Sea
31
1865
Assassination Of President Lincoln
Lee Surrenders To Grant At Appomattox
Freedmen's Bureau Established
14 Apr 1865: President ~ Abraham Lincoln Shot By John Wilkes Booth On 14 Apr 1865 And Dies The Next Day
15 Apr 1865: Johnson Andrew Johnson ~ Vice President Under Abraham Lincoln ~ Sworn In As President Upon Lincoln's Death
32
1866
Englishmen Robert Whitehead Invents A Torpedo
J Osterhoudt Patents The Tin Can With A Key Opener
Alfred Nobel Invents Dynamite
Fourteenth Amendment Passed And Ratified 1866 ~ 1868
33
1867
Christopher Scholes Invents The First Practical And Modern Typewriter
First Reconstruction Act
United States Purchases Alaska
Congressional Reconstruction Of The South 1867 ~ 1877
34
1868
Impeachment Of President Andrew Johnson
J P Knight Invents Traffic Lights
George Westinghouse Invents Air Brakes
Robert Mushet Invents Tungsten Steel
35
1869
President ~ Andrew Johnson
President ~ Andrew Johnson
Completion Of First Transcontinental Railroad
National Woman Suffrage Association Founded
4 Mar 1869: President ~ Ulysses Grant
36
1870
President ~ Ulysses Grant
Standard Oil Company Of Ohio Established By
John D Rockefeller
37
1871
President ~ Ulysses Grant
38
1872
President ~ Ulysses Grant
A M Ward Issues The First Mail ~ Order Catalog
J S Risdon Patents The Metal Windmill
39
1873
President ~ Ulysses Grant
Joseph Glidden Invents Barbed Wire
Crédit ~ Mobilier Scandal
40
1874
President ~ Ulysses Grant
American ~ C Goodyear ~ Jr Invents The Shoe Welt Stitcher
41
1875
President ~ Ulysses Grant
42
1876
President ~ Ulysses Grant
Nicolaus August Otto Invents The First Practical Four ~ Stroke Internal Combustion Engine
Alexander Graham Bell Patents The Telephone
Melville Bissell Patents The Carpet Sweeper
Battle Of The Little Big Horn
Telephone Invented By Alexander Graham Bell
43
1877
Thomas Edison Invents The Cylinder Phonograph Or Tin Foil Phonograph
Eadweard Muybridge Invents The First Moving Pictures
Munn V Illinois
5 Mar 1877: President ~ Rutherford B Hayes ~ Hayes' Wife Lucy Was The First Presidential Wife To Be Called "First Lady"
44
1878
President ~ Rutherford B Hayes
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan Was The First Person To Invent A Practical And Longer ~ Lasting Electic Lightbulb
Bland ~ Allison Act
45
1879
President ~ Rutherford B Hayes
Terence Powderly Becomes President Of Knights Of Labor
Incandescent Bulb Invented By Thomas Edison
46
1880
President ~ Rutherford B Hayes
Englishmen ~ John Milne Invents The Modern Seismograph
The British Perforated Paper Company Invents A Form Of Toilet Paper
47
1881
Chester A Arthur Serves As President
David Houston Patents The Roll Film For Cameras
Alexander Graham Bell Invents The First Crude Metal Detector
Edward Leveaux Patents The Automatic Player Piano
Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century Of Dishonor
4 Mar 1881: President ~ James A Garfield
3 Jul 1881: President ~ James A Garfield Wounded By Assassin's Bullet On 3 Jul 1881 And Dies 19 Sep 1881
19 Sep 1881: Chester A Arthur ~ Vice President Under James Garfield ~ Sworn In As President Upon The Death Of Garfield
48
1882
President ~ Chester A Arthur
Chinese Exclusion Act
49
1883
President ~ Chester A Arthur
Pendleton Act
Brooklyn Bridge Completed
50
1884
President ~ Chester A Arthur
James Ritty Invents The First Working ~ Mechanical Cash Register
Charles Parson Patents The Steam Turbine
Lewis Edson Waterman Invents The First Practical Fountain Pen
George Eastman Patents Paper ~ Strip Photographic Film
Frenchmen ~ H De Chardonnet Invents Rayon
Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
51
1885
Karl Benz Invents The First Practical Automobile To Be Powered By An Internal ~ Combustion Engine
Harim Maxim Invents The Machine Gun
Gottlieb Daimler Invents The First Gas ~ Engined Motorcycle
Josiah Strong Publishes Our Country
4 Mar 1885: President ~ Grover Cleveland
52
1886
President ~ Grover Cleveland
Gottlieb Daimler Builds The World's First Four ~ Wheeled Motor Vehicle
John Pemberton Invents Coca Cola
Josephine Cochrane Invents The Dishwasher
Haymarket Riot
American Federation Of Labor Founded
53
1887
President ~ Grover Cleveland
German ~ Heinrich Hertz Invents Radar
Rowell Hodge Patents Barbed Wire
Emile Berliner Invents The Gramophone
F E Muller And Adolph Fick Invent The First Wearable Contact Lenses
Interstate Commerce Act
National Farmer's Alliance Founded 1887 ~ 1889
54
1888
President ~ Grover Cleveland
John Boyd Dunlop Patents A Commercially Successful Pneumatic Tire
Nikola Tesla Invents The Ac Motor And Transformer
Marvin Stone Patents The Spiral Winding Process To Manufacture The First Paper Drinking Straws
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
55
1889
Sir James Dewar And Sir Frederick Abel Co ~ Invent Cordite ~ A Type Of Smokeless Gunpowder
Joshua Pusey Invents The Matchbook
Hull House Founded By Jane Addams
4 Mar 1889: President ~ Benjamin Harrison
56
1890
President ~ Benjamin Harrison
Battle Of Wounded Knee
Sherman Anti ~ Trust Act
Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives
57
1891
President ~ Benjamin Harrison
Jesse W Reno Invents The Escalator
58
1892
President ~ Benjamin Harrison
Sir James Dewar Invents The Dewar Flask Or Vacuum Flask
Rudolf Diesel Invents The Diesel ~ Fueled Internal Combustion Engine
Homestead Massacre
Populist Party Founded
59
1893
American ~ W L Judson Invents The Zipper
Edward Goodrich Acheson Invents Carborundum
Panic Of 1893
Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets
Chicago World's Fair
4 Mar 1893: President ~ Grover Cleveland ~ He Was The First President To Have A Child Born In The White House The Baby Ruth Candy Bar Was Named After Her
60
1894
President ~ Grover Cleveland
Pullman Strike
61
1895
President ~ Grover Cleveland
Lumiere Brothers Using Their Cinematographe Are The First To Present A Projected Motion Picture To An Audience Of More That One Person
Lumiere Brothers Invent A Portable Motion ~ Picture Camera ~ Film Processing Unit And Projector Called The Cinematographe
Booker T Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech
62
1896
President ~ Grover Cleveland
American ~ H O'sullivan Invents The Rubber Heel
Plessy V Ferguson
63
1897
4 Mar 1897: President ~ William Mckinley
64
1898
President ~ William Mckinley
Rudolf Diesel Receives Patent #608 ~ 845 For An "Internal Combustion Engine" The Diesel Engine
Edwin Prescott Patents The Roller Coaster
Spanish ~ American War
65
1899
President ~ William Mckinley
J S Thurman Patents The Motor ~ Driven Vacuum Cleaner
I R Johnson Patents The Bicycle Frame
Open Door Notes 1899 ~ 1900
Thorstein Veblen's The Theory Of The Leisure Class
66
1900
President ~ William Mckinley
The Zeppelin Invented By Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
Charles Seeberger Redesigned Jesse Reno's Escalator And Invented The Modern Escalator
67
1901
King Camp Gillette Invents The Double ~ Edged Safety Razor
The First Radio Receiver ~ Successfully Received A Radio Transmission
Hubert Booth Invents A Compact And Modern Vacuum Cleaner
14 Sep 1901: President ~ William Mckinley Dies In Buffalo ~ Ny
14 Sep 1901: Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt ~ Vice President Under William Mckinley ~ Sworn In As President Upon Death Of Mckinley
68
1902
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ Teddy Bears Are Named After Him
Willis Carrier Invents The Air Conditioner
French Physicist George Claude Invents Neon Light
The Lie Detector Or Polygraph Machine Is Invented By James Mackenzie
The Birth Of The Teddy Bear
69
1903
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Binney And Harold Smith Co ~ Invent Crayons
Bottle ~ Making Machinery Invented By Michael J Owens
The Wright Brothers Invent The First Gas Motored And Manned Airplane
Mary Anderson Invents Windshield Wipers
William Coolidge Invents Ductile Tungsten Used In Lightbulbs
70
1904
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Teabags Invented By Thomas Suillivan
Benjamin Holt Invents A Tractor
John A Fleming Invents A Vacuum Diode Or Fleming Valve
71
1905
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Albert Einstein Published The Theory Of Relativity And Made Famous The Equation ~ E = Mc2
Mary Anderson Receives A Patent For Windshield Wipers
72
1906
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ He Was The First American To Win The Nobel Peace Prize
William Kellogg Invents Cornflakes
Lewis Nixon Invents The First Sonar Like Device
Lee Deforest Invents Electronic Amplifying Tube (Triode)
73
1907
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Leo Baekeland Invents The First Synthetic Plastic Called Bakelite
Color Photography Invented By Auguste And Louis Lumiere
The Very First Piloted Helicopter Was Invented By Paul Cornu
74
1908
President ~ Theodore Roosevelt
The Gyrocompass Invented By Elmer A Sperry
Cellophane Invented By Jacques E Brandenberger
Model T First Sold
J W Geiger And W Müller Invent The Geiger Counter
Fritz Haber Invents The Haber Process For Making Artificial Nitrates
75
1909
Instant Coffee Invented By G Washington
4 Mar 1909: President ~ William Taft
76
1910
President ~ William Taft
Thomas Edison Demonstrated The First Talking Motion Picture
Georges Claude Displayed The First Neon Lamp To The Public On December 11 ~ 1910 ~ In Paris
77
1911
President ~ William Taft
Charles Franklin Kettering Invents The First Automobile Electrical Ignition System
78
1912
President ~ William Taft
Motorized Movie Cameras Invented ~ Replaced Hand ~ Cranked Cameras
The First Tank Patented By Australian Inventor De La Mole
Clarence Crane Created Life Savers Candy In 1912
79
1913
The Crossword Puzzle Invented By Arthur Wynne
The Merck Chemical Company Patented ~ What Is Now Know As ~ Ecstasy
Mary Phelps Jacob Invents The Bra
Gideon Sundback Invents The Modern Zipper
4 Mar 1913: President ~ Woodrow Wilson ~ He Was The Only President To Date With A Ph D
80
1914
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Garrett A Morgan Invents The Morgan Gas Mask
81
1915
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Eugene Sullivan And William Taylor Co ~ Invented Pyrex In New York City
82
1916
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Radios Tuners Invented ~ That Received Different Stations
Stainless Steel Invented By Henry Brearly
83
1917
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
Gideon Sundback Patented The Modern Zipper (Not The First Zipper)
84
1918
President ~ Woodrow Wilson
The Superheterodyne Radio Circuit Invented By Edwin Howard Armstrong