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The Proprietors of Richmond's New Theatre of 1819. The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July, 1939), pp. 302–308; Dorothy Riker. Two accounts of the upper Wabash country, 1819–20. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 37, No. 4 (1941), pp. 384–395; Fritz Redlich. William Jones and His Unsuccessful Steamboat Venture ...
1819 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1819th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 819th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of ...
1819 – Adams-Onís Treaty, including acquisition of Florida; 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 the 22nd state in the U.S.
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 Panic of 1819 was the first widespread and durable financial crisis in the United States that slowed westward expansion in the Cotton Belt and was followed by a general collapse of the American economy that persisted through 1821. The Panic heralded the transition of the nation from its colonial commercial status with Europe toward an ...
To fill this gap in American historical information, the National Endowment for the Humanities, in the late 1970s and 1980s, supported research which became two of the most important and award-winning reference books in American political history. These books provided researchers, teachers and students with an additional critical dimension for ...
The Annual Register was created in 1758 by the publishers James and Robert Dodsley.On 24 April 1758 the Dodsley brothers signed a contract with Edmund Burke (1729–97) to write and edit the material for The Annual Register, which was conceived as an annual publication which would review the history, politics and literature of the day.
January 30 – Romney Literary Society is established in the United States as the Polemic Society of Romney, West Virginia. [1]April – John Keats begins his "Great Year" or "Living Year", during which he is at his most productive, having given up work at Guy's Hospital and moved into a new house, Wentworth Place, on Hampstead Heath on the edge of London.