Each Day in History

1800

29-Dec

Charles Goodyear (Inventor)

2-Oct

Nat Turner (Leader of a slave insurrection in 1832)

9-May

John Brown (Abolitionist)

7-Jan

Millard Fillmore (former U.S. President)

17-Nov

Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C. in the partly completed Capitol building.

1-Oct

Spain ceded Louisiana to France in the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso.

30-Aug

Gabriel Prosser led an unsuccessful slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia.

24-Apr

Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., appropriating $5,000 “for the purchase of such books as may be necessary.”

1800

29-Dec

2-Oct

9-May

7-Jan

17-Nov

1-Oct

30-Aug

24-Apr

Reviews

3 August, 1492

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell