WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the first half of the 19. century

Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). (6. January 1838)

The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin. (6. January 1839)

HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. (7. January 1835)

Cape Colony becomes a British colony. (8. January 1806)

An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. (8. January 1811)

War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. (8. January 1815)

The United States national debt is zero for the only time. (8. January 1835)

Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. (9. January 1806)

Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. (9. January 1816)

The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. (9. January 1822)

The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. (9. January 1839)

Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British. (10. January 1806)

Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine. (10. January 1810)

The Michigan Territory is created. (11. January 1805)

The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh, Scotland. (12. January 1808)

The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. (12. January 1848)

War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. (13. January 1815)

The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. (13. January 1822)

The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins. (13. January 1830)

President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. (13. January 1833)