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| 1 | 1741 | - 1741: Jonathan Edwards writes the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
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| 2 | 1742 | - 1742: Handel's Messiah premieres in Dublin, Ireland
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| 3 | 1744-1748 | - 1744-1748: King George's War
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| 4 | 1750 | - 1750: Bach dies, ending the Baroque period in music.
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| 5 | 1751 | - 1751: Benjamin Franklin publishes New Experiments and Observations on Electricity.
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| 6 | 1756-1763 | - 1756-1763: French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
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| 7 | 1758 | - 1758: Benjamin Franklin writes "The Way to Wealth."
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| 8 | 1759-1761 | |
| 9 | 1768 | - 1768: John Dickinson writes Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
- 1768: Milcah Martha Moore writes "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768."
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| 10 | 1775-1783 | - 1775-1783: American Revolution
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| 11 | 1776 | - 1776: Thomas Paine writes Common Sense.
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| 12 | 1786 | - 1786: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna, Austria.
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| 13 | 1787-1788 | - 1787-1788: James Madison & Alexander Hamilton & John Jay write The Federalist Papers.
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| 14 | 1789-1797 | - 1789-1797: George Washington serves as first president of the Untited States.
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| 15 | 1790 | - 1790: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes."
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| 16 | 1796 | - 1796: Edward Jenner develops small pox vaccine.
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| 17 | 1797-1801 | - 1797-1801: John Adams serves as second president of the United States of America.
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| 18 | 1798-1800 | - 1798-1800: Franco-American Naval War
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| 19 | 1801-1809 | - 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson serves as third president of the United States of America.
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| 20 | 1807 | - 1807: Beethoven completes his Symphony No. 5.
- 1807: Washington Irving, his brother William, and James Kirke Paulding start the anonymous satirical magazine, Salmagundi.
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| 21 | 1809 | - 1809: Washington Irving writes a History of New York.
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| 22 | 1809-1817 | - 1809-1817: James Madison serves as fourth president of the United States of America.
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| 23 | 1812-1815 | |
| 24 | 1813-1814 | |
| 25 | 1814 | - 1814: Francis Scott Key writes the "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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| 26 | 1816 | - 1816:
Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts in Rome, Italy.
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| 27 | 1817 | - 1817: William Cullen Bryant writes "Thanatopsis."
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| 28 | 1817-1825 | - 1817-1825: James Monroe serves as fifth president of the United States of America.
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| 29 | 1819 | - 1819: Washington Irving writes "Rip Van Winkle."
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| 30 | 1820 | - 1820: Washington Irving writes The Sketch Book.
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| 31 | 1825-1829 | - 1825-1829: John Quincy Adams serves as sixth president of the United States of America.
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| 32 | 1826 | - 1826: James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans.
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| 33 | 1829-1837 | - 1829-1837: Andrew Jackson serves as seventh president of the United States of America.
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| 34 | 1836 | - 1836: War of Texas Independence
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| 35 | 1837-1841 | - 1837-1841: Martin Van Buren serves as eighth president of the United States of America.
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| 36 | 1839 | - 1839: The New York Philharmonic is established.
- 1839: Edgar Allen Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher."
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| 37 | 1841 | - 1841: Ralph Waldo Emerson writes Essays, First Series.
- 1841: William Henry Harrison served as ninth president of the United States of America.
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| 38 | 1841-1845 | - 1841-1845: John Tyler served as tenth president of the United States of America.
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| 39 | 1845 | - 1845: Edgar Allen Poe writes The Raven and Other Poems.
- 1845: Frederick Douglass writes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
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| 40 | 1845-1849 | - 1845-1849: James Knox Polk served as eleventh president of the United States of America.
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| 41 | 1846-1848 | |
| 42 | 1849-1850 | - 1849-1850: Zachary Taylor served as twelfth president of the United States of America.
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| 43 | 1850 | - 1850: Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter.
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