Timeline: BLACKBURN, John

	Date	Event(s)
1	1744	1744 —1748: King George's War: French Colonies vs Great Britain 1744-1748
2	1745	1745 : E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor
3	1751	1751 : First sugar cane introducted into Louisiana by Catholic Missionaries from San Domingo. Used to make rum
4	1752	1752 : Benjamin Franklin flies his kite and invents the lightening rod
5	1752	1752: First general hospital opens in Philadelphia, offering care to people who are ill - except for those with an incurable or infectious disease. 2 Sep 1752: Britain and the British colonies switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar
6	1753	1753 : John Schulyer brings the first steam engine in America to his New Jersey copper mine and uses it to pump water from the mine.
7	1754	1754 : Benjamin Bannecker, an African American, makes the first clock built entirely in America.
8	1755	1755 : Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary 1755 : British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded in a French and Indian ambush near Fort Duquesne in western Pennsylvania. George Washington, age 23, assumes command of the retrating army of British and colonial troops
9	1756	1756 —1763: French and Indian War: also known as the Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain 1756-1763; the French under General Montcalm capture and destroy British colonial Fort Oswego in New York.
10	1757	1757 : John Campbell invents the sextant
11	1757	1757: Benjamin Franklin's Oil street lamps are installed on a few streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
12	1758	1758 : Dolland invents a chromatic lens 1758 : British troops drive the French from Fort Duquesne, which they rename Pittsburgh
13	1759	1759 —1761: Cherokee War: English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians 1759-1761 1759 : The French at Quebec, Canada surrender to the British.
14	1760	1760 : George III becomes King of Great Britian, Ireland and the 1.6 million colonists living in America
15	1761	1761 : Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude 1761 : Massachusetts Lawyer James Otis opposes the Writs of Assistance, which allow British customs men to invade homes and warehouses of American colonists to search for smuggled goods.
16	1762	1762 : Ethan Allen establishes ironworks and blast furnace at Salisbury, Connecticut. He produced many of the cannons used during the Revolutionary War at this ironworks.
17	1763	1763 : French and Indian War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Canada and all of North America east of the Mississippi come under complete control of the British. 1763 : Proclamation of 1763 forbids American colonists to settle the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
18	1764	1764 : James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny 1764 : British Government begins to levy taxes on colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War and ongoing protection of the colonies. 1764 : Sugar Act - places new taxes on surgar, wines, coffee, indigo and other products imported directly to America 1764 : The Connecticut Courant, the oldest continuously published newspaper in America, begins publishing a weekly newspaper in Hartford, Connecticut
19	1765	1765 —1766: Stamp Act, levying a tax on all newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, almanacs, and playing cards, by requiring that they bear a stamp.
20	1766	1766 : Stamp Act repealed after American colonists stop buying British goods in protest of the tax.
21	1767	1767 : Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water 1767 : Townshend duties imposed by British Parliment places tax on tea, paper, glass and paint imported into the colonies. Colonists immediately begin another boycott. 1767 : David Rittenhouse builds first planetarium in America. Two years later he plots the orbits of Venus and Mercury.
22	1767	1767: James(95) overseer for John Smarr in Loudoun County, Virginia
23	1768	1768 : Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame 1768 : British troops sail to Boston. Two regiments come ashore and take up quarters. 1768 : Massachusetts General Court sends a "Circular Letter" to other colonial governments. The letter states Parliament has no right to tax colonists - No taxation without Representation.
24	1768	1768: James(95) overseer for John Smarr in Loudoun County, Virginia
25	1769	1769 : James Watt invents an improved steam engine 1769 : Daniel Boone ignores the Proclamation of 1763 and leads an expedition to the Kentucky region and explores Cumberland Gap. 1769 : Henry William Stiegel opens his famous American Glassworks in Manheim, Pennsylvania
26	1769	1769: James(95) Tithable with George Oldham in Loudoun County, Virginia
27	1770	1770 : King George III keeps the tax on tea as a symbol of Britian's right to tax its colonies, but repeals other Townshend duties. 5 Mar 1770 : Boston Massacre:British troops fire into a mob, killing five men and leading to intense public protests. Crispus Attucks, African American, is the first to die when British soldiers fire on American Colonists at Boston Massacre.
28	1771	1771 : Phyllis Wheatly is the firt African American woman to have her poems published
29	1772	1772 : Rhode Island merchants attack and burn the British customs ship Gaspee.
30	1773	1773 : Boston Tea Party - American Patriots pitch 342 cases of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.
31	1773	1773: James(95) overseer for Wm. Berkley in Loudoun County, Virginia
32	1774	1774 : Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph 1774 : Intolerable Acts passed by British Parliament, closing the port of Boston, forbidding colonists to hold public meetings without the governor's approval and requiring Massachusetts resident to house and feed British troops. 1774 : First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia with delegates from every colony except Georgia.
33	1774	1774: James(95) overseer for William Berkley in Loudoun County, Virginia 1 Jan 1774: James(95) Oldham marries Leah Stephens in Loudoun County, Virginia. Marriage performed by Rev. David Griffith
34	1775	1775 : American Revolution: Shots fired between Colonial militiamen and British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, 273 British Soldiers and 93 Americans are killed. 1775 : Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet 1775 : Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
35	1775	1775: James(95) Tithable in Shelburne Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia
36	1776	1776 : Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson 1776 : David Bushnell invents a submarine 1776 : Anthony Benezet organizes first abolitionist society in Philadelphia 26 Dec 1776 : George Washington, commander of the American Army, takes a thousand British and Hessian soldiers the day after Christmas in a surprise attack at Trenton, New Jersey
37	1776	1776: General Howe and his British troops occupy New York City. 4 Jul 1776: US Declaration of Independence signed. Aug 1776: James and Leah Oldham receive Lord Fairfax Land Grant Frederick County, Virginia 5 Aug 1776: James(95) Oldham 5th Virginia Regiment Payroll Muster 5 Dec 1776: James(95) Oldham 5th VA Regt Payroll Muster- James & Richard Stephens Deceased
38	1777	1777 : United States Congress adopts the American flag of thirteen alternating red and white stripes and thirteen white starts on a blue background. 1777 : Battle of Bennington - Green Mountain Boys of Vermont and Massachusetts defeat the British. 1777 : Articles of Conferation adopted byt he Continental Congress.
39	1777	5 May 1777: James(95) Oldham, 5th VA Regt Payroll Muster
40	1778	1778 : George Washington and his Continental Army spend the winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with few supplies or shelter.
41	1778	1778: James(95) Oldham Henry County, Virginia Tax List
42	1779	1779 : Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule 1779 : John Paul Jones and his sailors defeat and capture a British Warship in a fierce battle at sea.
43	1780	1780 : Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses 1780 : Gervinus invents the circular saw 1780 : Papers found on captured British messenger Major John Andre reveal General Benedict Arnold's plan to surrender to the British, the American fort in his command at West Point, New York
44	1780	1780: Battle of Charleston, South Carolina - the worst American defeat of the Revolutionary War. Over 5,000 American soldiers surrendered to the British 1780: James(95) Oldham Henry County, VA Survey on Home Creek next to Wm. Stephens
45	1781	1781 : Williamsburg, Virginia - Striking a blow for their own liberty, enslaved Afican Americans rebel. 1781 : British General Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the fighting in the American Revolution.
46	1781	1781: James(95) Oldham Henry County, VA Tithable List
47	1782	1782 : American who wanted to remain under British rule, Loyalists or Tories, began to leave and return to Britian. Most moved to Canada. 1782 : Harvard Medical School opens
48	1783	1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production 1783: United States and Britain sign the Treat of Paris, officially ending the Revolutionary War
49	1783	1783 : Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute 1783 : Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon 1783 : Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock 1783 : George Washington retires from Military Service 1783 : Noah Webster published his "Blue-Backed Speller", which standardizes spelling and word usage. This becomes the chief textbook for generations of American schoolchildren.
50	1784	1784 : Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine 1784 : Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock 1784 : "Empress of China" sails from New Jersey around Cape Horn to the Orient, opening a profitable trade with China.
51	1785	1785 : Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance 1785 : Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom 1785 : Regular stage routes linking New York City, Boston, Albany and Philadelphia begin. 1785 : Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching
52	1785	1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute
53	1786	1786 : John Fitch invents a steamboat 1786 : New Coinage system adopted by Congress, based on the Spanish Dollar, replacing British pounds used during the colonial era. 1786 : John Fitch sails the first steamboat on the Delaware River
54	1786	Aug 1786: Shays' Rebellion erupts; farmers from New Hampshire to South Carolina take up arms to protest high state taxes and stiff penalties for failure to pay.
55	1787	1787 : Northwest Ordinance provides a plan for governing the region northwest of the Ohio River and admitting new states to the Union 1787 : First American Cotton Mill established at Beverly, Massachusetts by John Cabot and Joshua Fisher May 1787 —Sep 1787: Constitutional Convention, made up of delegates from 12 of the original 13 colonies, meets in Philadelphia to draft the U.S. Constitution.
56	1788	1788 : The Constitution becomes effective, creating a new system of government.
57	1788	1788: The First African Baptist Church, formed by African-Americans is established. 1788: James(95) Oldham signs petition for Territory South of the French Road and Holston Rivers in what would become Tennessee
58	1789	1789 —1797: George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797 1789 : The guillotine is invented 1789 : Thanksgiving is celebrated as a national holiday for the first time.
59	1790	1790 : The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1790 : First Census taken finds 3,929,214 people live in this young nation. 1790 : The Columbia becomes the first American ship to sail around the world, a journey of 42,000 miles that took 2 1/2 years. 1790 : Philadelphia becomes the nation's capitol.
60	1790	2 Feb 1790: U.S. Supreme Courtmeets for the first time at the Merchants Exchange Building in New York City (Feb. 2). The court, made up of one chief justice and five associate justices, hears its first case in 1792.
61	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.
62	1792	1792 : William Murdoch invents gas lighting 1792 : The first ambulance
63	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
64	1793	4 Mar 1793: Washington's second inauguration is held in Philadelphia
65	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.
66	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
67	1796	1796 : Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination 1796 : Gilbert Stuart completes his famous portrait of George Washington
68	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
69	1797	1797: Wittemore patents a carding machine 4 Mar 1797—1801: John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801
70	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.
71	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.
72	1799	1799: James(95) Oldham signs Petition for Inhabitants South of the French Broad
73	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
74	1801	1801—1805: SA: Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805
75	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.
76	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.
77	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
78	1805	1805 : Joseph Smith, Jr, founder of the Mormon movement was born in Sharon, Vermont
79	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.
80	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
81	1807	4 Apr 1807: James(95) Oldham Sevier County Tennessee land survey, East Ford of the Little Pigeon River
82	1808	1808: James(95) Oldham Sevier County, Tennessee, Church member Forks of Little Pigeon with Stephen Oldham (son)
83	1808	1808 : The United States prohibits the importation of Africans for enslavement
84	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.
85	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)
86	1810	1810: James(95) Oldham Jennings Twp., Fayette County, Indiana land
87	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.
88	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
89	1811	1811 : Enslaved African Americans lead an unsuccessful revolt in Louisiana.
90	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.
91	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
92	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.
93	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
94	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.
95	1815	1815: Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp
96	1815	1815 : Signing of a treaty with Algeria, pirates from the Barbary Coast are no longer a threat to American trading ships and sailors
97	1816	1816 : American Colonization Society is organized to buy land in West Africa for the resettlement of free blacks
98	1817	1817—1825: James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825
99	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.
100	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.
101	1819	1819 : RenÃ© LaÃ«nnec invents the stethoscope 1819 : Spanish Florida becomes a territory of the United States through a treaty signed with Spain.
102	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.
103	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'
104	1821	1821 : The American colony of Liberia is established on the west coast of Africa, and is settled by 130 African Americans.
105	1821	5 Mar 1821: Monroe's second inauguration
106	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.
107	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.
108	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.
109	1824	2 Mar 1824: Gibbons v. Ogden: Landmark Supreme Court decision broadly defines Congress's right to regulate interstate commerce (March 2).
110	1825	1825 —1829: John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829 1825 : William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
111	1826	26 Oct 1826: Erie Canal, linking the Hudson River to Lake Erie, is opened for traffic
112	1827	1827: James(95) Oldham obtained land in Rush County, Indiana Jun 1827: James(95) Oldham Will probated in Fayette County, Indiana
113	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
114	1828	1828 : Noah Webster completes his monumental American Dictionary of the English Language, after working on it for 20 years.
115	1828	4 Jul 1828: Construction is begun on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first public railroad in the U.S. (July 4).
116	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
117	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.
118	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.
119	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.
120	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.
121	1833	4 Mar 1833: Jackson's second inauguration
122	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
123	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
124	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.
125	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
126	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
127	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.
128	1839	1839: American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales
129	1840	1840: Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint
130	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
131	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.
132	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
133	1842	1842: Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator
134	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.
135	1843	1843 : Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile 1843 : African American Sojourner Truth starts her travels speaking against enslavement
136	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