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 |
|
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
advertisement
- 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 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
| 1760-1789 | 1790-1819
History of the United States |
1820-1859 |