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- Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1820]] to [[1859]]'''.
3: === [[1820s]] ===
4: ...as-1970-1820.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1820]]
5: *[[1820]] - [[Missouri Compromise]]
6: *[[1820]] - [[Land Act]]
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...ficer]], who explored the south and western [[Pacific]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], and [[Antarct...
4: ...be his most significant discovery, occurred in [[1820]] during an expedition to the [[Greek islands]]. ...
6: ...errey|Captain Duperrey]], and brought home a very fine collection of animals and plants.
8: In [[1826]] he was sent to the Pacific, surveyed the coasts of [[New Guinea]], [[New Ze... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: '''Susan Brownell Anthony''', ([[February 15]], [[1820]] – [[March 13]], [[1906]]) was an [[United...
7: ...movements in New York, organizing in [[1852]] the first woman's state temperance society in America, a...
17: ...$100 [[June 18]] [[1873]], but she never paid the fine.
21: Susan B. Anthony was honored as the first real (non-allegorical) [[woman]] on circulatin...
29: *[http://www.rochesterunitarian.org First Unitarian Church] - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...lievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He manag...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s...
22: ...n Hibner Koblitz: <cite>A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...htingale,''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1820]] – [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to b...
9: ...t to nursing, a career with a poor reputation and filled mostly by poorer women. Traditionally, the ro...
11: ...ading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[C...
19: ...ightingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advis...
27: ...ts began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On [[October 21]], [... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ...ck Moses'', was an [[African-American]] [[freedom fighter]]. An escaped slave, she worked as a [[guerr...
5: ...Usually it is thought that she was born in around 1820, but that data cannot be authenticated because th...
21: ...bman''. This was of considerable help to her sad financial state - she was not awarded a government p...
34: ...never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God." -- [[Thomas Garrett]] - Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
3: ...ly made of brass. Thus, as exceptional cases one finds brass instruments made of wood, like the [[cor...
41: ... about 1795, and the [[French horn]] before about 1820. Natural instruments are still played in [[authen...
55: ...7 or more in some cases) operated by the player's fingers that introduce additional tubing into the in...
61: ...] and [[keyed trumpet]]. Such instruments were difficult to play and became obsolete with the inventio...
76: ...h a cupped mouthpiece, while [[French horns]] are fitted with a conical mouthpiece. - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
18: ...], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[President of the U...
24: ...alist]]s in the [[Virginia Convention]] which ratified the Constitution, and in [[1790]], an advocate ...
28: ... [[U.S. presidential election, 1820|re-elected in 1820]]. Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]...
38: ...lso Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast. "... the American continents," he stated,...
42: ...ntation to pay off the debts, since then he never financially recovered. As a result, he and his wife ... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
18: ...]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith]].
32: ...sidential election, 1820|presidential election of 1820]]. [[President of the United States|President]] [...
43: |align="right"|'''OFFICE'''||align="left"|'''NAME'''||align="left"|'''TE...
78: ...humb|Adams posed for this photograph in 1843, the first taken of a US President]]
84: ...tly reinterred in the [http://www.ufpc.org United First Parish Church]. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March...
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
22: ...n-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]...
27: ...nued in active and successful practice for twenty-five years.
29: His practice made him financially independent, and paved the way for his e... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Millard Fillmore]]
18: ...illiam R. King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 percent margin in the po...
22: ...easy and good at the political game, charming and fine and handsome. And he was genuinely religious. A...
27: ...as transferred to Francestown Academy in spring [[1820]]. Later that year he was transferred to [[Philli...
49: ...tes Whig Party|Whig]] candidate, [[General]] [[Winfield Scott]] of [[Virginia]], whom Pierce served un... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...of a [[text]] on rectangular sheets of [[paper]]. First invented in [[China]] in [[1041]], the printin...
4: ...ostly used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the difficulties inherent in carving massive quantities of ...
6: ...o used Chinese characters in literature), the benefit of the technique is not as apparent as with alph...
8: ...ake the text. Gutenberg is also credited with the first use of an oil-based [[ink]], and using "rag" [...
12: ...r day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, ar... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...d had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close...
21: ...act knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the...
23: ...t of fishermen and pirates. Behind it there were five native villages scattered along the strip betwe...
51: ...erated him that he completely demolished its fortifications, although he seems to have spared the live... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ... continent occurred in [[1820]] and the first verified landing in [[1821]]. A [[1513]] map by Admiral ...
8: ...[area]] of 13,200,000 km², Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa...
32: ...to the [[South Pole]], the borders of which are defined by degrees of [[longitude]]. In terms of [[lat...
87: ...Africa]]n National Antarctic Expeditions), on the Fimbul Coastal Ice Shelf in [[Queen Maud Land]] {{fl...
93: [[Emilio Marcos Palma]] was the first person born in Antarctica (Base Esperanza) in ... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
59: ...n peninsula and camped on the coasts within small fishing and pearling villages. The clans battled ea...
61: ...ense of political self although it did not gain official standing as a British [[protectorate]] until ...
63: ...e in 1961. Seven years later when the British officially announced that it would disengage (politica...
69: Before the discovery of oil Qatar was a [[fishing]] and [[pearling]] region. After the introdu... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]'''
65: ...wak]] or [[Taino]] people from South America, who first settled there around the year [[1000]] - [[400...
67: ...oduced over 77,000 tons of sugar annually between 1820 - 1824, which was achieved through the massive us...
80: ...gh her representative, the Governor-General) is a figurehead, and what little real power she has is re...
86: ... of Jamaica is [[P. J. Patterson]] who has held office since the 1992 resignation of [[Michael Manley]... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
11: OfficialLang = [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] and [...
37: ...[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Hawaii constitutes the 50th [[U.S. stat...
44: ... Hawaii. These include a [[state bird]], [[state fish]], [[state flower]], [[state gem]], [[state mam...
46: ...]'' is the unofficial state song, often sung in official state events.
54: ...at as the [[tectonic plate]] beneath much the Pacific Ocean moves in a northwesterly direction, the ho... - Maine (17312 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 15]], [[1820]] |
38: ... state along with [[Missouri]] on [[March 15]], [[1820]]. This has become known as the [[Missouri Compro...
45: ...ts]]. In [[1968]], [[Hubert Humphrey]] became the first Democrat in half a century to carry Maine (san...
49: ...te Representative in Maine, its highest elected official nationwide. Maine politicians, Republicans an... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' |
36: ...is the site of the [[New Hampshire primary]], the first [[U.S. presidential primary|primary]] in the [...
38: ...ac|purple lilac]]. Its state bird is the [[purple finch]]. Its state tree is the [[Paper Birch|America...
42: ... it gained international attention for having the first openly [[gay]] bishop, [[Gene Robinson]], with...
49: ...h rule in the [[American Revolution]]. It was the first state to declare its independence, and the his...
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