Decade

US President

Some Events from History

1800

4 Mar 1801

Thomas Jefferson

1803 - France sells Louisiana territories to USA

1808 - Atlantic slave trade abolished

4 Mar 1809

James Madison

1810

1812 to 1815 - US at war with Great Britain

1819 - Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States

4 Mar 1817

James Monroe

1820

1823 - President Monroe declares  American continents are off-limits for further colonization by European powers

1828 - Construction begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first public railroad in the U.S.

4 Mar 1825

John Quincy Adams

4 Mar 1829

Andrew Jackson

1830

1830 - Indian Removal Act - removal of Native Americans living in eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River

1836 - Texas declares independence from Mexico

4 Mar 1837

Martin Van Buren

1840

4 Mar 1841

William H. Harrison

1845 - U.S. annexes Texas

1846 to 1848 - U.S. At war with Mexico

1848 - Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California

4 Mar 1845

James K. Polk

4 Mar 1849

Zachary Taylor

1850

9 Jul 1850

Millard Filmore

1852 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published

1853 - U.S. acquires border territory from Mexico for $10 million

4 Mar 1853

Franklin Pierce

4 Mar 1857

James Buchanan

1860

4 Mar 1861

Abraham Lincoln

1861 to 1865 - Civil War

19 Nov 1863 - President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address

1865 - Lincoln is assassinated

15 Apr 1865

Andrew Johnson

4 Mar 1869

Ulysses S. Grant

1870

1870 - Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving black people the right to vote

1876 - Battle of Little Big Horn

1878 - first telephone in White House

4 Mar 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes

1880

4 Mar 1881

James A. Garfield

1886 - Statue of Liberty is dedicated

19 Sep 1881

Chester A. Arthur

4 Mar 1885

Grover Cleveland

4 Mar 1889

Benjamin Harrison

1890

1890 -  Last major battle of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in South Dakota

1898 - USS Maine is blown up in Havana harbour - U.S. declares war on Spain

4 Mar 1893

Grover Cleveland

4 Mar 1897

William McKinley