1818

1818 — United States: Illinois becomes the 21st state

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  • 1816개성부(開城府)에서 필요한 경비를 보충하기 위해 동전을 주전 함조선왕조실록CD-ROM간행위원회,
  • 1816호조판서 박종경(朴宗慶)이 대전(大錢)을 새로 주조할 것을 건의조선왕조실록CD-ROM간행위원회,
  • 1817장수인 채수영(蔡壽永)이 홍경래(洪景來)가 살아있다는 등의 말로 사람을 모으고 난을 일으켜 도성까지 진격하려 했다는 혐의로 처벌됨
  • 1817순흥부사 유계린(柳季麟) 부임
  • 1819화성(華城)의 성문에 괘서가 발생함
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  • 1816印尼坦博拉火山的爆发造成全球性气温下降,云南全省出现严重饥荒。(无夏之年)
  • 1820September — The Jiaqing Emperor died.
  • 1820Poverty becomes endemic in the Eight Banners
  • 1820October — The Jiaqing Emperor's son the Daoguang Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty.
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  • Illinois becomes the 21st state
  • Battle of Arroyo Grande
  • Jackson Purchase
  • Cumberland Road opened
  • 1816Indiana becomes the 19th state
  • 1816U.S. presidential election, 1816: James Monroe elected president, Daniel D. Tompkins vice president
  • 1816Second Bank of the United States chartered
  • 1816March 4, 1817 – Monroe becomes the fifth president; Tompkins becomes the sixth vice president
  • 1817Mississippi becomes the 20th state
  • 1817Harvard Law School founded
  • 1817Rush-Bagot Treaty
  • 1819Alabama becomes the 22nd state in the U.S.
  • 1819McCulloch v. Maryland (17 US 316 1819) prohibits state laws from infringing upon federal constitutional authority
  • 1819Panic of 1819
  • 1819African Slave Trade Patrol
  • 1819Adams-Onís Treaty, including acquisition of Florida
  • 1819Dartmouth College v. Woodward (17 US 518 1819) protects principle of honoring contracts and charters
  • 1820Massachusetts divided in two with the admission of Maine as a state.
  • 1820U.S. presidential election, 1820: James Monroe reelected president unopposed, Daniel D. Tompkins reelected vice president.
  • 1820March 4, 1821 – President Monroe and Vice President Tompkins begin their second terms