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1800 |
Thomas Jefferson is
elected president |
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1803 |
Louisiana Purchase
expands US territory west of the Mississippi River |
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1807 |
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Napoleon convenes
French "Sanhedrin" |
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1812 |
Congress declares
war on England |
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1817 |
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Jews settle in
Cincinnati |
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1818 |
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First reform temple
is established in Hamburg |
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1823 |
Monroe Doctrine lays
down principle of European non-intervention in the Western
Hemisphere |
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1824 |
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Society of Reformed
Israelites is established in Charleston |
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1825 |
Erie Canal is
completed |
Mordecai Manuel Noah
tries to found Jewish refuge in upstate New York |
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1827 |
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Reinterpretation of
Russia's Conscription Law mandates 31 years of military service
for Jews, beginning at age 12 |
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1828 |
Andrew Jackson is
elected President |
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1831 |
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France provides
public support for Jewish institutions |
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1838 |
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Rebecca Gratz
establishes Hebrew Sunday School in Philadelphia |
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1840 |
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Jews are accused of
murdering a Franciscan friar in the Damascus blood libel |
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1843 |
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B'nai B'rith is
organized |
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1845 |
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Isaac Leeser
publishes his translation of the Pentateuch from the Hebrew into
English |
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1848 |
Mexico gives up
claim to Texas, cedes present-day California, Arizona, Nevada,
Utah, and part of New Mexico to the United States |
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Revolutions and
riots in Central Europe spur increased Jewish immigration to
America |
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1849 |
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High Holiday
services are held in a tent in San Francisco |
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1858 |
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Edgar Mortara, an
Italian Jewish child, is abducted by Papal Guards and placed in
a monestary |
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1859 |
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Board of Delegates
of American Israelites, the first national organization of
Jewish congregations, is formed |
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1860 |
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Morris Jacob Raphall
becomes the first Jew to open a session of the House of
Representatives with prayer |
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1862 |
Judah P. Benjamin is
appointed Secretary of State of the Confederacy |
General Ulysses S.
Grant expels Jewish civilians from the Department of the
Tennessee |
Jacob Frankel is
appointed first Jewish chaplain in the United States Army |
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1863 |
President Abraham
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery |
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1865 |
Lincoln is
assassinated |
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1867 |
The original Ku Klux
Klan is organized to maintain "white supremacy" |
First rabbinical
school in America, Maimonides College, is founded in
Philadelphia |
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1869 |
First
transcontinental railroad is completed |
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1870 |
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Ghetto of Rome is
abolished |
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1871 |
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First Yiddish and
Hebrew newspaper in America is published |
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1875 |
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Isaac Mayer Wise
founds Hebrew Union College, the rabbinical seminary of the
Reform movement, in Cincinnati |
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1876 |
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Abraham Goldfaden
establishes the Yiddish theater in Rumania |
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1877 |
Emil Berliner's
invention of the microphone makes the telephone practical and
the radio possible |
Joseph Seligman is
barred as a Jew from a Saratoga, New York hotel |
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1881 |
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May Laws restricting
the movements and conduct of Jews are enacted in Russia |
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1882 |
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Yiddish theater
production is staged in New York |
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1885 |
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Pittsburgh Platform
articulates the tenets of American Reform Judaism |
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1886 |
Samuel Gompers is
elected first president of the American Federation of Labor |
Jewish Theological
Seminary is founded in New York |
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1891 |
Christian Zionist
William E. Blackstone and 413 prominent Americans petition
President Benjamin Harrison to support the resettlement of
Russian Jews in Palestine |
Baron de Hirsch Fund
and Jewish Colonization Association sponsor Jewish agricultural
in North and South America |
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1893 |
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National Council of
Jewish Women is founded in Chicago |
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1894 |
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French general staff
officer Alfred Dreyfus is sentenced to life on Devil's Island |
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1895 |
Lillian Wald founds
Henry Street Settlement |
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1896 |
Supreme Court rules
"separate but equal" facilities for whites and blacks are
constitutional in Plessy v. Ferguson |
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1897 |
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Jewish Daily
Forward is founded in New York |
First Zionist
Congress is held in Basel, Switzerland
Yiddish Socialist
Labor party (the Bund) is founded in Russia |
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