2, Captain Benjamin de Bourneville started on a 3-year expedition to explore the Rocky Mountains.
25/1/1832, The State of Virginia rejected the abolition of slavery.
See also Mexico for events with USA at this time
21/4/1831, Texans defeated the Mexicans at the Battle of San Jacinto.
27/6/1829, James Smithson, British scientist whose bequest established the Smithsonian Institute at Washington to encourage scientific research, died in Genoa.
15/5/1829, US Congress declared the slave trade to be piracy.
21/4/1828, The American Dictionary of the English language was published. This both standardised American English and put cultural difference between it and British English.
26/10/1825. The Erie Canal, linking New York with the Great Lakes via Niagara and the Hudson River, begun 4/7/1817, was completed. Influenced by Governor DeWitt Clinton the New York state legislature agreed to fund the US$ 7 million project. The canal, 363 miles long, 40 foot wide, 4 foot deep, with 82 locks, would make New York the principal port of America.
21/1/1824, Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, the General who commanded Confederate forces in the American Civil War, was born.
2/12/1823. President Monroe of the USA declared that no part of the Americas is now ‘res nullius’, or open to further European colonisation, although existing European influences would be tolerated. This was the basis of the Monroe Doctrine.
27/4/1822, Ulysses Grant, General in the Union Army, Democrat, and 18th President, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, the son of a tanner.
10/8/1821, Missouri became the 24th State of the Union.
26/9/1820, Death of US frontiersman Daniel Boone. He explored the Kentucky area.
15/5/1820. Congress in the USA designated the slave trade as a form of piracy.
15/3/1820. Congress reached a compromise on the slavery issue by admitting Maine (23rd state of the Union) to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. This measure was to keep the number of slave and non-slave states equal.
9/3/1820. The USA passed the Land Act, paving the way for westward expansion by rich land speculators.
8/2/1820, General William Sherman, American Union Army commander during the Civil War, was born in Lancaster, Ohio.
1819, The US concluded a treaty with Spain substituting the River Sabine (present day boundary between Louisiana and Texas) for the Rio Grande as boundary between them. Spain/Mexico thereby gained the right to govern what is now Texas.
14/12/1819. Alabama became the 22nd State of the USA.
28/4/1819, Ezra Abbot, US scholar of the Bible, was born in Jackson, Maine.
1818, With the number of US States growing, the US passed the Third Flag Act (see 1794), returning to the original thirteen stripes, with an extra star for each new State. The exact pattern of the stars was still variable, see 1912.
3/12/1818. Illinois became the 21st State of the USA.
20/10/1818. The USA and Britain agreed the border between the USA and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
23/8/1818, The first steamship service began on the Great Lakes, North America.
20/5/1818, William Fargo, co-founder of the freight carrier Wells Fargo, was born.
10/5/1818, Paul Revere, who made the famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington to warn US militia of British troops, died aged 83 in Boston, Massachusetts.
6/2/1818, William Maxwell Evarts, US statesman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts (died 28/2/1901 in New York City).
10/12/1817. Mississippi became the 20th State of the USA.
11/12/1816. Indiana became the 19th State of the USA.
30/10/1815, Andrew Jackson Downing, US landscape gardener (died in Yonkers, New York, 28/7/1852) was born in Newburgh, New York.
30/6/1815. Faced with US threats to bombard Algeirs, the Dey agreed to cease piracy and release US prisoners.
3/3/1815. The USA, angered by piracy in the Mediterranean, authorised hostility against the Bey of Algiers.
8/1/1815. The British, led by General Sir Edward Pakenham, were defeated at New Orleans by the Americans led by Andrew Jackson. This was the last battle Britain fought against the USA. See 24/12/1814.
24/12/1814. The Americans 