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In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used.
A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of ...
December 1 – U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution). December 24
The 19th century in the United States refers to the period in the United States from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. For information on this period, see: History of the United States series: History of the United States (1789–1849) History of the United States (1849–1865) History of the United States (1865–1918) Historical eras:
But once it was clear that the United States had the upper hand on the battlefield, the possibility of an Anglo-American war vanished. [14] Fathers of Canadian Confederation by Robert Harris (1885). Her diary entries suggest the Queen had contemplated the possibility of a union of her North American colonies as early as February 1865.
Constitutional development in the United States Supreme Court during the 1790s (PhD). Drew University. Galluzzo, Anthony Michael (2008). Revolutionary Republic of letters : Anglo-American radical literature in the 1790s (PhD). UCLA. Irwin, Douglas A. and Richard Eugene Sylla, eds. Founding choices : American economic policy in the 1790s ...