Timeline of United States history (1790-1819)

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1790 to 1819.

Table of contents

1 1790s
2 1800s
3 1810s

1790s

1790 - Rhode Island becomes a state
1791 - Bill of Rights ratified
1791 - First Bank of the United States chartered
1791 - Vermont becomes a state
1792 - Kentucky becomes a state
1793 - Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
1793 - Fugitive Slave Act passed
1793 - Chisholm v. Georgia 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of 11th Amendment
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
1794 - Battle of Fallen Timbers
1795 - Jay Treaty
1795 - 11th Amendment
1796 - Tennessee becomes a state
1796 - Pinckney's Treaty
1797 - John Adams (Federalist) inaugurated, Jefferson (Republican) Vice-President
1797 - XYZ Affair
1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts
1798 - Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
1798 - Eleventh Amendment passed
1799 - George Washington dies
1799 - Fries Uprising
1799 - Logan Act

1800 - Convention of 1800
1800 - Library of Congress founded
1801 - Thomas Jefferson becomes President
1803 - Marbury v. Madison 5 US 137 1803 allows U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate law passed by Congress for first time, the Judiciary Act of 1789
1803 - Louisiana Purchase Treaty
1803 - Ohio becomes a state
1804 - 12th Amendment
1804 - Essex Junto
1804 - New Jersey ends slavery
1804 - Aaron Bur/Alexander Hamilton duel
1804 - Lewis and Clark set out
1805 - Barbary pirates defeated in Tripoli
1806 - Noah Webster's first dictionary
1806 - Cumberland Road passed
1807 - Embargo Act
1807 - US ship Leopard sunk by the British
1807 - Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
1807 - Robert Fulton builds steamboat
1808 - US slave trade with Africa ends
1809 - James Madison becomes President
1809 - Non-Intercourse Act

1810 - Macon's Bill Number 2
1810 - Fletcher v. Peck 10 US 87 1810 marks first time U.S. Supreme Court invalidates state legislative act
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe
1811 - First Bank of the United States expires
1812 - War of 1812 begins
1812 - Daniel Webster elected to Congress
1812 - Louisiana becomes a state
1814 - Treaty of Ghent settles War of 1812
1814 - Hartford Convention
1816 - Second Bank of the United States chartered
1816 - Martin v. Hunter's Lessee 14 US 304 1816 establishes U.S. Supreme Court's power to review state court decisions
1816 - Indiana becomes a state
1817 - James Monroe becomes President
1817 - Rush-Bagot Treaty
1817 - Harvard Law School founded
1817 - Bonus Bill
1817 - Mississippi becomes a state
1818 - Cumberland Road opened
1818 - Convention of 1818
1818 - Illinois becomes a state
1819 - Panic of 1819
1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty, also called the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819
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 a state

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