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Abraham Lincoln born * Edgar Allan Poe born * Oliver Wendell Holmes born * Alfred Lord Tennyson born * Kit Carson born * Ralph Waldo Emerson born * Creation of the territory of the Illinois. * Boston IRISH CHARITABLE SOCIETY incorporated * Ultraviolet radiation is discovered * Food canning developed * W. Irving writes Rip Van Winkle * Rebels fight Spanish in Florida * Robert Fulton patents the steamboat * wearing masks at balls was forbidden in Boston * Bible Society of Maine was founded * Brunswick Cotton Manufactory Company, built * first Dam & Canal built in Lewiston
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Charles Darwin born * Hannibal Hamlin born * Cyrus McCormick born * Felix Mendelssohn born * William Ewart Gladstone born * Frederic Chopin born * Meriwether Lewis died * Thomas Paine died * Joseph Haydn dies * Calais incorporated * Stuben incorporated * Lincoln County jail built in Wiscasset * James Madison replaces Jefferson as president * Napoleon romps through Europe * Beethoven composes Emperor Concerto * Independence of Ecuador * Fort Edgecomb built |