1819

The Adam-Otis Treaty was signed, whereby Spain ceded Florida to the United States for $5 million.

George Eliot (English author)

Herman Melville (Author, “Moby Dick”)

Elias Howe (Inventor of the sewing machine)

Abner Doubleday (supposed inventor of Baseball)

Walt Whitman (Author)

Queen Victoria (England)

Joshua Abraham Norton (Self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States)

Alabama became the 22nd state in the United States.

The Savannah set sail from Savannah, Georgia, to Liverpool, England, the first trans-Atlantic voyage under steam propulsion.

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