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  1. 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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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
    34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
    53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
    66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
    67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands
  2. Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
    4: ... in [[1820]] during an expedition to the [[Greek islands]]. On that expedition, D'Urville recognized ...
    8: ...ts of [[New Guinea]], [[New Zealand]], and other islands, and found out the probable place of the deat...
    14: ..., [[Irian Jaya]], [[Indonesia]], and [[D'Urville Island]] ([[New Zealand]]) were named after him. The...
  3. Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
    3: '''Susan Brownell Anthony''', ([[February 15]], [[1820]] – [[March 13]], [[1906]]) was an [[United...
    7: ...e agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
    19: In collaboration with Stanton, Mrs. [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], and Mrs. [[Ida Husted Harper]], she pub...
    23: ...scious, both of her looks (one eye always pointed slightly outwards) and of her speaking abilities. Sh...
  4. Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
    5: Her mother was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was granddaughter of [[Theodor Schube...
    19: ...rences==<!--ie things pieces of which I'll try to slip in here one day =)-->
    21: ...sian Childhood</cite> (Springer-Verlag, 1978; translated and introduced by [[Beatrice Stillman]])
  5. Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
    3: ...htingale,''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1820]] &ndash; [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to b...
    57: ...on Nursing]]'' which was published in [[1860]], a slim 136-page book that served as the cornerstone of...
  6. Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
    2: ...all as part of the struggle for liberation from [[slavery]] and [[racism]].
    5: ...Usually it is thought that she was born in around 1820, but that data cannot be authenticated because th...
    9: ...red. And she guided hundreds of people trapped in slavery up to the free states, during the Civil War.
    13: ...effectual chicken chaser could not be the cunning slave stealer.
    15: One time at a train station, she found that slave-catchers were watching the trains heading nort...
  7. Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
    41: ... about 1795, and the [[French horn]] before about 1820. Natural instruments are still played in [[authen...
    51: [[Image:Kinkangakki_slide.png]]
    53: ''Slide''
    57: ...e [[Bazooka_(instrument)|bazooka]] is also in the slide family.
  8. James Monroe (11107 bytes)
    28: ... [[U.S. presidential election, 1820|re-elected in 1820]]. Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]...
    34: ...e state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Missouri forever.
    95: * [[Maine]] &ndash; [[March 15]], [[1820]]
    101: * [[U.S. presidential election, 1820]]
    116: ...|1816]] (won), [[U.S. presidential election, 1820|1820]] (won)}}
  9. John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
    32: ...on]] remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral...
    80: ...nish ship where they were being held as illegal [[slave]]s, should not be returned to [[Spain]], but r...
    95: * [[U.S. presidential election, 1820]]
  10. Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
    33: ...the New York Senate covered two terms ([[1812]]-[[1820]]). In [[1815]] he became the state attorney-gene...
    35: ...ution opposing the admission of [[Missouri]] as a slave state. In the same year he was chosen a presid...
    43: ...uctions from the New York [[State legislature|legislature]] &mdash; an action which was cited against ...
    55: ...District of Columbia]] without the consent of the slave states.
    59: ... He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the same time voting, perha...
  11. Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
    18: ...his running mate [[William R. King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 perc...
    20: ...sion of [[History of slavery in the United States|slavery]] in the [[American West|West]]. Pierce's cr...
    27: ...as transferred to Francestown Academy in spring [[1820]]. Later that year he was transferred to [[Philli...
    45: ...dopted, opposing any further "agitation" over the slavery issue and supporting the [[Compromise of 185...
    47: ...m as a [[war hero]]. Pierce was nominated unanimously on the 49th ballot on [[June 5]]. Senator [[Will...
  12. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    44: ...tion]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven Southern [[slave state]]s [[secession|seceded]][[Confederate St...
    46: ... evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in hi...
    48: ...wever, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the United States with the enactment of...
    53: ..., Louisiana|New Orleans]] he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on h...
    61: ...]]. In [[1837]] he made his first protest against slavery in the [[Illinois House of Representatives|I...
  13. Printing press (12986 bytes)
    8: ...uced into [[Europe]] from [[China]] by way of [[Muslims]], who had a paper mill in operation in [[Bagh...
    12: Previously, books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or...
    14: ... resistance was later encountered in much of the Islamic world, where calligraphic traditions were ext...
    18: ... in a Muslim territory opened in [[Andalusia]] (Muslim Spain) in the 1480s. This printing press was ru...
    23: ...lishment of a community of [[scientists]] (previously scientists were mostly isolated) that could easi...
  14. Alexandria (28378 bytes)
    1: ...3;&#1585;&#1610;&#1577;''', [[transliteration|transliterated]] '''al-&#700;Iskandariyyah''') is the ch...
    3: ... founding of [[Cairo]] by Egypt's medi&aelig;val Islamic rulers its status as the country's capital wa...
    23: ...e possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile m...
    34: ...an influence for more than a hundred years previously. [[Julius Caesar]] dallied with [[Cleopatra VII...
    58: ...port, and a flourishing city arose on the Pharos island and the Heptastadion district, with outlying s...
  15. Antarctica (14761 bytes)
    6: ... accepted sighting of the continent occurred in [[1820]] and the first verified landing in [[1821]]. A [...
    32: ... not cut through any piece of land, continent or island, which is the northern limit of the Antarctic ...
    34: ...[[Tierra del Fuego - Antarctica & South Atlantic Isles]] province
    40: *[[Norway]]: [[Peter I Island]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the ...
    43: ... west, except for the Norwegian claim to Peter I Island (see above).
  16. Qatar (10610 bytes)
    61: ... Wakrah. Bahraini aggression however violated an 1820 Anglo-Bahraini Treaty and the diplomatic response...
    80: ...r, and reaching about 90m [[Above mean sea level|ASL]]. This area also contains Qatar's main onshore ...
    85: Nearly all Qataris are [[Muslim]]. Besides ethnic [[Arab]]s, much of the popula...
    90: ...e founder of Wahhabism, a puritanical version of Islam which takes a literal interpretation of the Kor...
    92: ...[Saudi Arabia]] however the style is not ubitiquously imposed on foreigners.
  17. Jamaica (16893 bytes)
    67: ...the massive use of imported [[Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]] labor.
    69: ...reat of revolt. Following a series of rebellions, slavery was formally abolished in [[1838]].
    71: Jamaica slowly gained increasing independence from the [[Uni...
    82: ... a bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature in 1961-62, approved in the [[United Kingdom...
    94: ...rses depending upon which arm of service they are slated for. Enlisted soldiers are given basic traini...
  18. Hawaii (34434 bytes)
    37: ...archipelago]] of the [[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Hawaii constitute...
    44: ...d various other measures of the Hawaii State Legislature established official symbols meant to embody...
    46: ...al stripes representing the eight major Hawaiian Islands. The constitution declares the [[state motto...
    49: ''Main article: [[Hawaiian Islands]]''
    51: ...lokai, L&#257;nai, Kaho&#699;olawe, Maui and the Island of Hawaii.
  19. Maine (17312 bytes)
    24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 15]], [[1820]] |
    36: ...or the name 'Maine' is that the people living on islands along the coast of Maine used to speak of goi...
    38: ... states into the union kept the balance between [[slave]] and free states. Maine's original capital wa...
    45: ...century to carry Maine (sans for the [[1964]] landslide victory of [[Lyndon Johnson]]), thanks to the ...
    66: ...ral unique geographical features. [[Machias Seal Island]],
  20. New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
    62: ...the Senate. It claims to be the third-largest legislative body in the English-speaking world, behind o...
    66: ...n would require the agreement of both states' legislatures and the [[U.S. Congress]]. Supporters note ...
    88: ...offshore are the [[Isles of Shoals]], nine small islands best known as the site of a 19th-century art ...
    90: ...assachusetts, in the [[Missouri Compromise]] of [[1820]]. This claim is also bolstered by British record...
    236: ...practical and includes measurements for offshore islands and other features such as inlets and rivers ...

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