# Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819)

This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1790 to 1819.

## 1790s

* 1790 – Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution and becomes 13th state
* 1791 – The Bill of Rights, comprising the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is adopted.
* 1791 – First Bank of the United States chartered
* 1791 – Vermont becomes the 14th state (formerly the independent Vermont Republic)
* 1792 – Kentucky becomes the 15th state (formerly Kentucky County, Virginia)
* 1792 – U.S. presidential election, 1792: George Washington reelected president, John Adams reelected vice president
* 1793 – Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
* March 4, 1793 – President Washington and Vice President Adams begin second terms
* 1793 – Yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia
* 1793 – Fugitive Slave Act passed
* 1793 – Chisholm v. Georgia (2 US 419 1793) paves way for passage of 11th Amendment
* 1794 – Whiskey Rebellion
* 1794 – Battle of Fallen Timbers
* 1795 – Treaty of Greenville
* 1795 – Jay's Treaty
* 1795 – 11th Amendment "ratified by 12 of the then 15 states"
* 1795 – Pinckney's Treaty (also called Treaty of San Lorenzo)
* 1796 – Tennessee becomes the 16th state (formerly part of North Carolina)
* 1796 – Treaty of Tripoli
* 1796 – U.S. presidential election, 1796: John Adams is elected president, Thomas Jefferson vice president

### Presidency of John Adams

* March 4, 1797 – John Adams becomes the second president, in Philadelphia; Thomas Jefferson becomes the second vice president
* 1798 – Alien and Sedition Acts
* 1798 – the Quasi-War starts
* 1798 and 1799 – Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
* 1798 – Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland published
* 1799 – Charles Brockden Brown's novel Edgar Huntly published
* 1799 – Fries's Rebellion
* 1799 – Logan Act
* 1799 – George Washington dies

## 1800s

* 1800 – Library of Congress founded
* 1800 – Convention of 1800 ends the Quasi-War
* 1800 – U.S. presidential election, 1800: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tie in the Electoral College.
* 1801 – Thomas Jefferson elected president by the House of Representatives; Aaron Burr elected vice president.
* 1801 – President Adams appoints John Marshall Chief Justice

### Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

* March 4, 1801 – Jefferson becomes the third president; Burr becomes the third vice president
* 1803 – Marbury v. Madison (5 US 137 1803) allows Supreme Court to invalidate law passed by the United States Congress for first time: the Judiciary Act of 1789
* 1803 – Louisiana Purchase
* 1803 – Ohio, formerly part of Connecticut, becomes the 17th state
* 1804 – 12th Amendment ratified
* 1804 – New Jersey abolishes slavery
* 1804 – Burr–Hamilton duel (Alexander Hamilton dies)
* 1804 – Lewis and Clark set out
* 1804 – U.S. presidential election, 1804: Thomas Jefferson reelected president; George Clinton elected vice president
* March 4, 1805 – President Jefferson begins second term; Clinton becomes the fourth vice president
* 1807 – Embargo Act of 1807
* 1807 – Robert Fulton invents steamboat
* 1807 – U.S. slave trade with Africa ends
* 1808 – U.S. presidential election, 1808: James Madison elected president, George Clinton reelected vice president

### Presidency of James Madison

* March 4, 1809 – Madison becomes the fourth president; Vice President Clinton begins second term
* 1809 – Non-Intercourse Act (March 1)

## 1810s

* 1810 – Fletcher v. Peck (10 US 87 1810) marks first time U.S. Supreme Court invalidates a state legislative act
* 1811 – First Bank of the United States charter expires
* April 20, 1812 – Vice President Clinton dies
* 1812 – War of 1812, an offshoot of the Napoleonic Wars, begins
* 1812 – Daniel Webster elected to the United States Congress
* 1812 – Louisiana becomes the 18th state
* 1812 – U.S. presidential election, 1812: James Madison reelected president; Elbridge Gerry elected vice president
* March 4, 1813 – President Madison begins second term; Gerry becomes the fifth vice president
* 1813-1814 - Creek War
* 1814 – British troops burn Washington, D.C., but are forced back at Baltimore
* November 23, 1814 – Vice President Gerry dies
* 1814 – Treaty of Ghent settles War of 1812
* 1815 – Battle of New Orleans
* 1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th state
* 1816 – Second Bank of the United States chartered
* 1816 – U.S. presidential election, 1816: James Monroe elected president, Daniel D. Tompkins vice president

### Presidency of James Monroe

* March 4, 1817 – Monroe becomes the fifth president; Tompkins becomes the sixth vice president
* 1817 – Rush-Bagot Treaty
* 1817 – Harvard Law School founded
* 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th state
* 1818 – Cumberland Road opened
* 1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st state
* 1818 – Jackson Purchase in Kentucky
* 1819 – Panic of 1819
* 1819 – Adams-Onís Treaty, including acquisition of Florida
* 1819 – McCulloch v. Maryland (17 US 316 1819) prohibits state laws from infringing upon federal constitutional authority
* 1819 – Dartmouth College v. Woodward (17 US 518 1819) protects principle of honoring contracts and charters
* 1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd state in the U.S.