1807 Embargo Act bans all trade with foreign countries and forbids American ships to set sail for foreign ports. This act has a lasting negative effect on New England seaports. Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start an anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi. The Osage, a Sioux tribe, sign the Osage Treaty ceding their lands in what is now Missouri and Arkansas to the U. S. Thomas Jefferson refuses to run for a third term as president, naming James Madison as his successor. Shawnee leader Tecumseh begins to establish a defensive confederacy to resist the westward movement of white settlers.
Phoenix completes the first sea voyage by a steamboat by traveling around the shores of New Jersey.
A Time Line 1440-1866 at the Internet Public Library.