Timeline
1791-1809: Youth &
Education
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| 1791-1809: Youth &
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| 1791 | |
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Mar. 4 - Vermont becomes the 14th state in the Union. | ||
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Apr. 23 - James Buchanan is born in Cove Gap, PA to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Speer Buchanan. | |
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| Apr. 26 - The Cherokee Indians cede the majority of their land to the US in the Treaty of Holston. | |||||
| Nov. 26 - George Washington conducts the first cabinet meeting. | |||||
| 1792 | Feb. 21 - Congress passes the Presidential Succession Act. | ||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his first birthday. | |||||
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May 17 - The New York Stock Exchange is organized. | ||||
| June 1 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the Union. | |||||
| Oct. 12 - The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York on the 300th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery. | |||||
| Dec. 5 - George Washington is reelected president of the US. | |||||
| 1793 | Jane Buchanan (sister of James Buchanan) is born. | ||||
| Feb. 12 - Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing a slave-owner to recover a runaway. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his second birthday. | |||||
| July 22 - Canadian explorer Alexander MacKenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean, completing the first continental crossing. | |||||
| Aug. 2 - The US asks the Government of France to recall its minister, Citizen Genet, who is compromising American neutrality in the war between France and England. | |||||
| 1794 | James Buchanan's father purchases the Dunwoodie Farm, near Mercersburg, PA. | ||||
| Mar. 14 - Eli Whitney of Mulberry Grove, Georgia, is awarded a patent for his cotton gin. | |||||
| Mar. 22 - Congress passes a bill banning slave trade with other nations. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his third birthday. | |||||
| 1795 | Maria Buchanan (sister of James Buchanan) is born. | ||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his fourth birthday. | |||||
| Aug. 3 - The Indians cede two thirds of Ohio and part of Indiana to the US in the Treaty of Greenville. | |||||
| 1796 | James Buchanan's father relocates his family to Mercersburg, PA; John Speer (uncle of James Buchanan) temporarily takes charge of the family's mercantile business in Cove Gap, PA. | ||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his fifth birthday. | |||||
| June 1 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the Union. | |||||
| Oct. 29 - Captain Ebenezer Dorr, aboard the Otter, becomes the first American to explore the California coast. | |||||
| 1797 | Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his sixth birthday. | ||||
| 1798 | James Buchanan's father moves his mercantile business to Mercersburg, PA. | ||||
| Sarah Buchanan (sister of James Buchanan) is born. | |||||
| Apr. 7 - Congress establishes the Mississippi Territory from land ceded from Spain. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his seventh birthday. | |||||
| May 28 - John Adams orders American warships to seize French ships interfering with American shipping. | |||||
| June 6 - Congress passes a bill abolishing debtors’ prisons in the US. | |||||
| July 4 - Congress enacts the first tariff bill, putting protective duties on several commodities. | |||||
| 1799 | Jan. 30 - Congress passes the Logan Act, making it illegal for a private citizen to conduct negotiations with a foreign government. | ||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his eighth birthday. | |||||
| Nov. 10 - Napoleon Bonaparte becomes first consul of France. | |||||
| Dec. 14 - Alexander Hamilton presents a plan for a Bank of the US to Congress. | |||||
| Dec. 14 - George Washington dies at his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia. | |||||
| 1800 | Elizabeth Buchanan (sister of James Buchanan) is born; she dies within a year. | ||||
| Apr. 4 - Congress passes the first Federal Bankruptcy Act, applying to merchants and traders. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his ninth birthday. | |||||
| Apr. 24 - The Library of Congress is founded in Washington, DC when John Adams approves an appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of books. | |||||
| Sep. 30 - The Convention of 1800 restores normal diplomatic relations between France and the US. | |||||
| Oct. 1 - France and Spain sign the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso, in which Spain returns the Louisiana Territory to France. | |||||
| Nov. 17 - The first congress to sit in Washington, DC convenes. | |||||
| 1801 | Jan. 20 - John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | ||||
| Feb. 17 - Presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson wins the support of a majority of congressional representatives, displacing the incumbent John Adams. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his tenth birthday. | |||||
| May 14 - The Tripolitan War begins with the Pasha of Tripoli’s soldiers cutting down the flagpole at the US Consulate. | |||||
| 1802 | Harriet Buchanan (sister of James Buchanan) is born. | ||||
| Jan. 29 - John Beckley becomes the first librarian of the Library of Congress. | |||||
| Feb. 6 - Congress empowers Thomas Jefferson to arm US ships in order to protect themselves against Tripolitan pirates. | |||||
| Mar. 16 - Congress approves legislation establishing the US Military Academy at West Point, one of the oldest military service academies in the world. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his eleventh birthday. | |||||
| Apr. 30 - Congress passes the Enabling Act, authorizing territories organized under the Northwest Ordinance to prepare for statehood. | |||||
| 1803 | Feb. 19 - Ohio becomes the 17th state in the Union. | ||||
| Feb. 24 - The Supreme Court rules an act of Congress null and void if it conflicts with the US Constitution. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his twelfth birthday. | |||||
| Apr. 30 - The US acquires from France 828,000 square miles of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, in the Louisiana Purchase. | |||||
| Oct. 20 - The US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty by a vote of twenty-four to seven. | |||||
| 1804 | John Buchanan (brother of James Buchanan) is born; he dies within the year. | ||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his thirteenth birthday. | |||||
| May 14 - The Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis to explore the new territory acquired by the Louisiana Purchase. | |||||
| May 18 - Napoleon Bonaparte becomes emperor of France. | |||||
| July 7 - Aaron Burr fatally shoots Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. | |||||
| 1805 | William Speer Buchanan (brother of James Buchanan) is born. | ||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his fourteenth birthday. | |||||
| June 4 - A peace treaty is signed ending the Tripolitan War, with Tripoli agreeing to stop menacing US shipping. | |||||
| Nov. 8 - The Lewis and Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean. | |||||
| 1806 | Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his fifteenth birthday. | ||||
| June 5 - A race horse named Yankee becomes the first trotter to break the three minute mile. | |||||
| Nov. 15 - The Literary Cabinet, published at Yale University, becomes the first college magazine. | |||||
| Nov. 15 - American explorer Zebulon Pike discovers Pike’s Peak in present-day Colorado. | |||||
| 1807 | Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his sixteenth birthday. | ||||
| Aug. 11 - Robert Fulton’s steamboat, Clermont, makes its first run on the Hudson River, from New York to Albany. | |||||
| Nov. - James Buchanan enters the junior class of Dickinson College, after preparing for college at the Old Stone Academy in Mercersburg, PA. | |||||
| 1808 | George Washington Buchanan (brother of James Buchanan) is born. | ||||
| Apr. 6 - John Jacob Astor establishes the American Fur Company. | |||||
| Apr. 17 - Napoleon Bonaparte orders the French seizure of American shipping. | |||||
| Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his seventeenth birthday. | |||||
| Sep. - James
Buchanan is expelled from Dickinson College, but permitted to return after
pledging good behavior to his parents' minister and college trustee, Dr.
John King. |
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| Nov. 10 - The Osage Indians sign the Osage Treaty with the US, ceding all of their land in present-day Missouri and Arkansas. | |||||
| 1809 | Apr. 23 - James Buchanan celebrates his eighteenth birthday. | ||||
| June 10 - The Phoenix becomes the first steamboat to navigate in the open sea, making a 13-day voyage from Philadelphia to New York. | |||||
| Sep. 19 - James Buchanan graduates from Dickinson College. | |||||
| Dec. - James Buchanan goes to Lancaster, PA to study law with James Hopkins; he lives in the Widow Duchman's Inn on East King Street. | |||||