New Mexico, Arizona admitted as 47th and 48th states of USA
RMS Titanic to make Maiden Voyage on April 10th!
Scott Antarctic expedition perishes en route back from the south pole
Woodrow Wilson elected president
Henry Ford closes striking Buffalo auto factory. Moves business to Detroit!
The First Balkan War begins in October (Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria vs. the Ottoman Empire)
Games of the V Olympiad open in Stockholm
Republic of China established.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs is released/becomes an immediate bestseller
Aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright dies of typhoid fever at his home in Dayton, Ohio
Former President Theodore Roosevelt shot in the chest while campaigning on the Bull Moose Party ticket
African National Congress established in South Africa
Socialist Eugene V. Debs of Indiana wins 6% of the popular vote in the presidential election
(He received just as many votes numerically in the 1920 election; women could vote for the first time so almost twice as many votes were cast, so while he received roughly the same numerically it was only 3.5% of the popular vote. Still not bad considering he was in prison during the election of 1920 and all votes were write-ins.)
Somebody else may choose the next up.
President James Madison is reelected, defeating DeWitt Clinton
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in House of Commons
Earthquake in Caracas claims at least 15,000 lives
French forces under Napoleon invade Russia
Furious over the Battle of Tippecanoe and viewing the New Madrid earthquakes of December 1811 as a sign, Tecumseh travels widely in the midwest and southern states preaching American Indian solidarity against the Americans
President James Madison is reelected, defeating DeWitt Clinton
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in House of Commons
Earthquake in Caracas claims at least 15,000 lives
French forces under Napoleon invade Russia
Furious over the Battle of Tippecanoe and viewing the New Madrid earthquakes of December 1811 as a sign, Tecumseh travels widely in the midwest and southern states preaching American Indian solidarity against the Americans
President James Madison is reelected, defeating DeWitt Clinton
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in House of Commons
Earthquake in Caracas claims at least 15,000 lives
French forces under Napoleon invade Russia
Furious over the Battle of Tippecanoe and viewing the New Madrid earthquakes of December 1811 as a sign, Tecumseh travels widely in the midwest and southern states preaching American Indian solidarity against the Americans
Louisiana admitted as 18th state
George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States, is dead.
President James Madison is reelected, defeating DeWitt Clinton
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in House of Commons
Earthquake in Caracas claims at least 15,000 lives
French forces under Napoleon invade Russia
Furious over the Battle of Tippecanoe and viewing the New Madrid earthquakes of December 1811 as a sign, Tecumseh travels widely in the midwest and southern states preaching American Indian solidarity against the Americans
Louisiana admitted as 18th state
George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States, is dead.
President James Madison is reelected, defeating DeWitt Clinton
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in House of Commons
Earthquake in Caracas claims at least 15,000 lives
French forces under Napoleon invade Russia
Furious over the Battle of Tippecanoe and viewing the New Madrid earthquakes of December 1811 as a sign, Tecumseh travels widely in the midwest and southern states preaching American Indian solidarity against the Americans
Louisiana admitted as 18th state
George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States, is dead.
Treaty of Bucharest ends Russo-Turkish War
Luddites attack wool processing factory of Frank Vickerman in West Yorkshire, England
President James Madison is reelected, defeating DeWitt Clinton
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in lobby of House of Commons
Earthquake in Caracas claims at least 15,000 lives
French forces under Napoleon invade Russia
Tecumseh preaches American Indian solidarity against the Americans
Louisiana admitted as 18th state
George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States, is dead.
Treaty of Bucharest ends Russo-Turkish War
Luddites attack wool processing factory of Frank Vickerman in West Yorkshire, England
Frigate USS Constitution defeats HMS Guerriere
Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes The Analytical Theory of Probabilities, laying the foundations of statistics
Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, Calif.
Americans repulsed by Canadians and Brits.
(Militarily that is; not a matter of taste or anything.)
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