Timeline: OLDHAM, Ephraim

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OLDHAM, Ephraim (1791 - 1850)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1789	1789 —1797: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797
2	1791	1791 : John Barber invents the gas turbine 1791 : Early bicycles invented in Scotland 1791 : Vermont becomes the first new state to join the original Thirteen States 15 Dec 1791 : The Bill of Rights becomes part of the U. S. Constitution, guaranteeing the right of freedom of speech, press, asssembly and religion.
3	1792	1792 : William Murdoch invents gas lighting 1792 : The first ambulance
4	1793	1793 : Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress, making it a crime to hide a fugitive from enslavement or interfere with his or her arrest. 1793 : Yellow Fever Epidemic kills more than 4,000 people in Philadelphia
5	1793	4 Mar 1793: Washington's second inauguration is held in Philadelphia
6	1794	1794 : Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin 1794 : Welshman, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings 1794 : First major turnpike in America completed between Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1794 : Whiskey Rebellion - Angry farmers in western Pennsylvania oppose a government tax on liquor. 1794 : White Powdered hair goes out of fashion for men, for the first time in more than 100 years.
7	1795	1795 : Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food 1795 : Thomas Pickney negotiates a treaty with Spain that opens navigation on the Mississippi River
8	1796	1796 : Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination 1796 : Gilbert Stuart completes his famous portrait of George Washington
9	1797	1797 : A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe 1797 : John Chapman, known as "Johnny Appleseed" beings planting apple seeds along the Ohio Valley
10	1797	1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine 4 Mar 1797—1801: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801
11	1798	1798 —1800: Franco-American Naval War: United States vs France 1798-1800 1798 : Aloys Senefelder invents lithography 1798 : The first soft drink invented 1798 : Eli Whitney develops the idea of mass production. The following year he wins a government contract to manufacture firearms with virtually identical parts.
12	1799	1799 : Alessandro Volta invents the battery 1799 : Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making 1799 : Pennsylvania farmers stage a revolt against a federal tax on their property. 1799 : George Washington, less than three years after his retirement from the Presidency, dies at the age of 67 at his Mount Vernon, Virginia plantation.
13	1799	1799: James(95) Oldham signs Petition for Inhabitants South of the French Broad
14	1800	1800 : renchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom 1800 : The new city of Washington, D.C. becomes the United States capital. 1800 : Free African Americans in Philadelphia unsuccessfully petition the United States Congress to end slavery 1800 : Philadelphia shoemaker is the first to design shoes especially for the right and left feet
15	1801	1801—1805: SA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805
16	1801	1801 —1809: Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809 1801 : Mastodon fossils are discovered on a New York farm, the first skeletons ever reportedly found of the extinct mammal.
17	1803	1803 : Louisiana Purchase - The United States more than doubles its size after buying over 820,000 square miles of land, from the French government.
18	1804	1804 : Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive 1804 : Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting 14 May 1804 : Merriwether Lewis and William Clark begin their exploration of the vast Northwest territory, traveling from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
19	1805	1805 : Joseph Smith, Jr, founder of the Mormon movement was born in Sharon, Vermont
20	1806	1806 : Zebulon Pike explores the territory that later became the American southwest, discovering Pike's Peak, the famous Colorado mountain named for him. 1806 : Congress authorizes improvements to the Natchez Trace, a Native American trail running from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi, turning it into a road for American settlers.
21	1807	1807 : Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, makes its first run from New York City to Albany in 32 hours, traveling at the top speed of 5 mph
22	1807	4 Apr 1807: James(95) Oldham Sevier County Tennessee land survey, East Ford of the Little Pigeon River
23	1808	1808: James(95) Oldham Sevier County, Tennessee, Church member Forks of Little Pigeon with Stephen Oldham (son)
24	1808	1808 : The United States prohibits the importation of Africans for enslavement
25	1809	1809 —1817: James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817 1809 : Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp 1809 : William Maclure publishes the first detailed geological survey of the United States.
26	1809	28 Feb 1809: James(95) Oldham Sevier county, Tennessee, down payment on land adjoining John Oldham (son) 28 Sep 1809: James(95) Oldham Sevier County, Tennessee 255 acres granted - also granted to John and Stephen Oldham (sons)
27	1810	1810: James(95) Oldham Jennings Twp., Fayette County, Indiana land
28	1810	1810 : erman, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press 1810 : Peter Durand invents the tin can 1810 : American settlers in the region of western Florida rebel against Spanish control and establish ties to the United States.
29	1811	1811: onstruction begins on the National Road, a main route for settlers moving west and farmers shipping farm products to eastern cities. By the time it was completed in 1838, the road ran from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois
30	1811	1811 : Enslaved African Americans lead an unsuccessful revolt in Louisiana.
31	1812	18 Jun 1812: War of 1812: The United States goes to war with Great Britain after the British interfere with American trade and force American sailors to serve in the British navy.
32	1813	1813: James(95) Oldham Sevier County, Tennessee signed Petition for French Broad 1813—1814: Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814 4 Mar 1813: Madison's second inauguration Oct 1813: James(95) Oldham Sevier County, Tennessee obtained land in Indiana
33	1813	1813 : Admiral Nelson and the United States Navy wins a battle with a British war ship on Lake Erie, strengthening the American position on the Great Lakes. 1813 : Francis Cabot Lowell, Waltham, Massachusetts, installs the first American power loom, a machine for weaving cotton cloth.
34	1814	1814: James(95) Oldham received as member of New Bethel Baptist Church, Fayette County, Indiana 1814: German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects Aug 1814: British capture Washington, DC, and set fire to White House and Capitol
35	1814	1814 : George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive 1814 : Joseph NicÃ©phore NiÃ©pce was the first person to take a photograph 1814 : The first plastic surgery is performed in England 13 Sep 1814 : Francis Scott Key writes the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" during an unsuccessful attack on Fort McHenry by the British 24 Dec 1814 : The War of 1812 is ended by the Treaty of Ghent.
36	1815	1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp
37	1815	1815 : Signing of a treaty with Algeria, pirates from the Barbary Coast are no longer a threat to American trading ships and sailors
38	1816	1816 : American Colonization Society is organized to buy land in West Africa for the resettlement of free blacks
39	1817	1817—1825: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825
40	1817	1817 : The construction of the Erie Canal through New York State begins. This important canal connects the Hudson River with Lake Erie, providing a continuous inland water route to the Great Lakes region.
41	1818	1818 : The President's House in Washington, D.C., burned by the British during the War of 1812, becomes known as the "White House" when it is repaired and given a gleaming coat of white paint.
42	1819	1819 : RenÃ© LaÃ«nnec invents the stethoscope 1819 : Spanish Florida becomes a territory of the United States through a treaty signed with Spain.
43	1819	1819: McCulloch v. Maryland: Landmark Supreme Court decision upholds the right of Congress to establish a national bank, a power implied but not specifically enumerated by the Constitution.
44	1820	1820: The United States government declares that any American involved in the importation of Africans for enslavement will receive the death penalty. 3 Mar 1820: Missouri Compromise: In an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states, Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) is admitted as a free state so that Missouri can be admitted as a slave state; except for Missouri, slavery is prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36Â°30'
45	1821	1821 : The American colony of Liberia is established on the west coast of Africa, and is settled by 130 African Americans.
46	1821	5 Mar 1821: Monroe's second inauguration
47	1822	1822 : Denmark Vesey, a free African American living in Charleston, South Carolina, plans a rebellion against enslavement. The plot is discovered, and Vesey and 34 co-conspirators are hanged.
48	1823	1823 : Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland 1823 : The poem "The Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" (The Night Before Christmas) was published anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinal. Later attributed to Clement C. Moore 1823 : The United States adopts a policy, known as the Monroe Doctrine, discouraging further colonization of either North or South America by European countries.
49	1824	1824 : Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon 1824 : nglishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material 1824 : American Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, is welcomed with enthusiasm during a return visit to the United States from his native France.
50	1824	2 Mar 1824: Gibbons v. Ogden: Landmark Supreme Court decision broadly defines Congress's right to regulate interstate commerce (March 2).
51	1825	1825 —1829: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829 1825 : William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
52	1826	26 Oct 1826: Erie Canal, linking the Hudson River to Lake Erie, is opened for traffic
53	1827	1827: James(95) Oldham obtained land in Rush County, Indiana Jun 1827: James(95) Oldham Will probated in Fayette County, Indiana
54	1827	1827 : Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone 1827 : John Walker invents the modern matches 1827 : Artist and ornithologist John James Audubon publishes the first of his drawings of the hundreds of colorful birds of North America. 1827 : John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish of New York City publish the first African-American newspaper, Freedom's Journal
55	1828	1828 : Noah Webster completes his monumental American Dictionary of the English Language, after working on it for 20 years.
56	1828	4 Jul 1828: Construction is begun on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first public railroad in the U.S. (July 4).
57	1829	1829 —1837: Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837 1829 : William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter 1829 : Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing 1829 : American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
58	1830	1830 : Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine 1830 : Louis Godey publishes the Lady's Book, the first successful women's magazine in the United States.
59	1830	28 May 1830: President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which authorizes the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River (May 28). By the late 1830s the Jackson administration has relocated nearly 50,000 Native Americans.
60	1831	1831 : Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history. He and his band of about 80 followers launch a bloody, day-long rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. The militia quells the rebellion, and Turner is eventually hanged. As a consequence, Virginia institutes much stricter slave laws. 1831 : Cyrus McCormick invents a labor-saving mechanical reaper, allowing farmers to harvest grain more efficiently.
61	1832	1832 —1836: Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836 1832 : Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope 1832 : The first school for the blind opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
62	1833	4 Mar 1833: Jackson's second inauguration
63	1834	1834 : Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine) 1834 : Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent
64	1835	1835 : Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller 1835 : Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography 1835 : Solymon Merrick patents the wrench 1835 : Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
65	1836	1836 : Samuel Colt invented the first revolver 24 Feb 1836 —6 Mar 1836: Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and 200 Texans are killed when the Alamo, a fort in San Antonio, Texas, is captured by Mexican leader Santa Anna.
66	1837	1837 —1841: Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841 1837 : Samuel Morse invents the telegraph 1837 : English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp
67	1838	1838: "Trail of Tears" claims 4,000 lives as 15,000 Cherokee Native Americans are forced to leave their lands in Georgia and southeastern Tennessee, and travel to new lands in Oklahoma
68	1839	1839 : Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography 1839 : Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle 1839 : American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization 1839 : Welshman, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell 1839 : Charles Goodyear invents a process for vulcanizing rubber, hardening the naturally sticky substance for use in many different products. 1839 : The era of photography begins in the United States, as Louis Daguerre's process for capturing photographic images is introduced.
69	1839	1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales
70	1840	1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint
71	1840	1840 : The Underground Railroad, a secret network of hiding places and routes for helping enslaved persons escape to the North or Canada, is well established by this time
72	1841	1841 : Samuel Slocum patents the stapler 4 Mar 1841 —4 Apr 1841: William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as the ninth president (March 4). He dies one month later (April 4) and is succeeded in office by his vice president, John Tyler.
73	1841	4 Apr 1841—1845: John Tyler president of the USA 1841-1845. John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president
74	1842	1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator
75	1842	1842 : The first gummed postage stamps bring changes in the postal system, as senders--rather than the receivers--begin paying for a letter to be delivered. 1842 : The state of Massachusetts passes a law that limits children under 12, who worked in factories, to a ten-hour day.
76	1843	1843 : Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile 1843 : African American Sojourner Truth starts her travels speaking against enslavement
77	1844	1844 : Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton 1844 : Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland
78	1845	1845 : American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine 1845 : Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire 4 Mar 1845 —1849: James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849
79	1846	1846 —1848: Mexican-American War 1846-1848 - U.S. annexes Texas by joint resolution of Congress (March 1). James Polk is inaugurated as the 11th president (March 4). The term â€œmanifest destinyâ€ appears for the first time in a magazine article by John L. O'Sullivan (Julyâ€“August). It expresses the belief held by many white Americans that the United States is destined to expand across the continent. 1846 : Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction 1846 : Oregon Treaty signed with Great Britain sets the boundary between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel.
80	1846	4 Mar 1846—1850: James Polk is inaugurated as the 11th president
81	1847	1847 : Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antiseptics 1847 : Thousands of Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine in Ireland come to the United States. 1847 : Maria Mitchell of Nantucket, Massachusetts discovers a new comet, later becoming the first woman professor of astronomy in the United States. 1847 : Frederick Douglass, an African American, begins publication of an abolitionist newspaper, The North Star.
82	1848	1848 : Mexico recognizes Rio Grande as new boundary with Texas and, for $15 million, agrees to cede territory comprising present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. 1848 : Women's Rights convention is held at Seneca Falls, New York.
83	1848	24 Jan 1848: Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California (Jan. 24); gold rush reaches its height the following year.
84	1849	1849 : Walter Hunt invents the safety pin 5 Mar 1849 —9 Jul 1850: Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office
85	1849	1849: Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated members of the Underground Railroad.
86	1850	1850 : Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent 9 Jul 1850 —1853: Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor\'s death