Burr's Democratic friends resolve to support him for governor against any regular nominee.... .1804 Morgan Lewis elected as the regular Democratic candidate...... Lieut. J. D. Elliott captures the Cale donia and Detroit, British vessels anchored near Fort Erie, opposite Buffalo Oct. 8, 1812 .1804 [Congress votes Lieutenant Elliott a Burr proposed as Federalist candidate sword for this exploit.] in coalition with his faction; the plan defeated by Alexander Hamilton....1804 This opposition of Hamilton to Burr culminates in a duel at Hoboken, in which Burr kills Hamilton.......July 11, 1804 New York Historical Society founded Battle of Queenston, Upper Canada, and death of Sir Isaac Brock, governor of Upper Canada..........Oct. 12-13, 1812 [The Americans, at first successful, are` finally beaten.] Gen. James Clinton, Revolutionary 1804 soldier, father of De Witt Clinton, dies Philip Schuyler dies at Albany, aged at Little Britain, Orange county seventy-three.... Nov. 18, 1804 .Jan. 13, 1813 and captured by Feb. 22, 1813 Dec. 22, 1812 Legislature appropriates the proceeds of Albany Argus started in Albany, Jesse the remaining State lands, over a million Buel editor.... acres, for the school fund.. 1805 Ogdensburg attacked Corner-stone of the old State capitol the British.. laid at Albany..... ..April 23, 1806 Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, makes first trip, New York to Albany; average speed, 5 miles an hour Aug. 7, 1807 Daniel D. Tompkins elected governor 1807 James Geddes, of Onondaga, surveys a route for a canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, and reports it practicable 1808-9 York (now Toronto) taken by the Americans..... .April 27, 1813 British repulsed at Sackett's Harbor Population of the State, 959,049...1810 near Fort George, by the Americans A commission appointed to inquire into under General McClure, who was severely the practicability of a canal from Lake censured, and Fort George evacuated Erie to the Hudson explores the whole route .....1810 It reports in favor of the canal; estimated cost, $5,000,000.... ..1811 West Point reorganized and made efficient 1812 George Clinton, first governor of New York, dies at Washington, D. C. April 20, 1812 Hamilton College, at Clinton, Oneida county, established.. .1812 "Detached militia" of New York arranged by the War Department in two divisions and eight brigades. April 21, 1812 War declared against Great Britain by the United States...... .June 20, 1812 Stephen Van Rensselaer (the patroon), of Albany, commissioned major - general and assigned to the 1st Division, and Benjamin Mooers, of Plattsburg, to the 2d 1812 Dec. 10, 1813 British capture Fort Niagara Dec. 19, 1813 They burn Buffalo and Black Rock Dec. 30, 1813 Battle of Bridgewater, or Lundy's Lane, Canada, one of the most destructive of the war. The Americans, 2,600 strong, lose 858 men killed and wounded, and the British (4,500) lose about twenty more; fought from 8 P.M. to midnight July 25, 1814 British attack Sackett's Harbor and are repulsed... ....July 29, 1812 fleet on Lake Champlain at Plattsburg, under Commodore Downie..Sept. 11, 1814 General Macomb, with about 6,000 men, defeats 12,000 British under Sir George Provost, at Plattsburg....Sept. 11, 1814 Americans make a successful sortie at Fort Erie and destroy the British works Sept. 17, 1814 British raise the siege after fifty-six days..... .Sept. 21, 1814 Americans, under General Izard, abandon Fort Erie and blow it up. Nov. 5, 1814 Treaty of peace ratified and promulgated.... Feb. 17, 1815 Robert Fulton dies at New York City Feb. 24, 1815 General disappearance of the Federal party .1815-17 De Witt Clinton elected governor to succeed Governor Tompkins, chosen VicePresident of the United States......1817 Legislature abolishes slavery from July 4, 1827.. . April, 1817 Erie Canal begun at Rome, Oneida county.... ...July 4, 1817 State grants $20,000 to county agricultural societies to promote agriculture and family domestic manufactures....... 1817 State library founded at Albany April 21, 1818 First steamboat, Walk-in-the-water, on Lake Erie... 1818 Hamilton Theological Seminary, Madison county, incorporated. . . . . 1819 Steamship Savannah, 380 tons, Capt. Moses Rodgers, sails from New York, where she was built, for Savannah, Ga. April 10, 1819 [Arriving there April 17, she sails from that port, May 24, for St. Petersburg, Russia, via Liverpool, reaches Liverpool, June 20; sails for St. Petersburg, July 23; returns to Savannah, fifty days from St. Petersburg, December, 1819; first American steamship to cross the Atlantic.] ....... 1828 .1828 Oswego Canal finished... Martin Van Buren elected governor; resigns..... . March 12, 1829 Enos T. Throop, acting governor.. 1829 Manufacture of brick by machinery suc cessfully begun in New York.......1829 John Jay dies at Bedford, Westchester county... . May 17, 1829 Sam Patch jumps from the Genesee Falls at Rochester and is killed....1829 Albany Evening Journal started, edited by Thurlow Weed.... ..1830 First omnibus built and used in New York City...... .1830 Book of Mormon first published by E. B. Grandin at Palmyra............. .1830 Population of the State 1,918,608.. 1830 University of the City of New York opened ..1830 First locomotive engine, "The Best Friend," built in the United States, finished at West Point foundry, New York City, and tested..... Dec. 9, 1830 Albany and Schenectady Railroad opened, 16 miles.... Population of the State, 1,372,111..1820 [From this time the State has been styled the "Empire State."] Revised State constitution adopted and ratified.... .... February, 1822 Joseph C. Yates, governor.. 1822 Champlain Canal begun 1816, finished 1823 De Witt Clinton elected governor.. 1824 Lafayette lands in New York City Aug. 15, 1824 .1831 Cholera in New York City, June 27 until Oct. 19; 4,000 die. . 1832 Buffalo and Utica incorporated as cities 1832 First horse street-railroad in the world opened in Fourth Avenue, New York City 1832 Red Jacket, the Indian chief, dies near Buffalo, aged seventy-eight. .Jan. 20, 1832 Anti-slavery society of New York organized..... ..Oct. 2, 1833 William L. Marcy, governor.... 1833 Riot in New York against the abolitionists ...1834 A geological survey of the State ordered Attica and Buffalo Railroad opened 1842 William C. Bouck, governor... 1843 Morgan Lewis, prominent soldier in the two wars with Great Britain and gov ernor of New York, born in 1754, dies at New York City.... .April 7, 1844 Armed resistance begun by anti-renters in Albany, Delaware, and Rensselaer counties ...1844 [Tenants of the patroon refuse to pay rent.] Silas Wright, Jr., governor Jan. 1, 1845 Steamer Swallow, Captain Squires, from 1836 New York to Albany, strikes a rock near Union Theological Seminary in New Athens; many passengers drowned 1836 April 7, 1845 York City founded.... Schenectady and Utica Railroad opened Gov. Silas Wright proclaims Delaware 1836 county in a state of insurrection on account of anti-rentism......Aug. 27, 1845 Madison University, at Hamilton, Madison county, chartered...... May 26, 1846 Aaron Burr dies at New York, aged eighty..... .Sept. 14, 1836 Legislature appropriates $200,000 a year for three years to form township and district libraries.... ..1837 Patriot war-Canada. ..1837 Navy Island in Niagara River occupied by the Patriots..... December, 1837 Steamer Caroline, at Schlosser's Landing, on the American side of Niagara kiver, is fired and sent over the Falls by Canadian soldiers under Colonel McNab, night of.... .Dec. 29, 1837 Auburn and Syracuse Railroad opened William H. Seward elected governor [Hamilton Literary and Theological Seminary, at the same place, established in 1819, is included in this charter.] State constitution revised and adopted November, 1846 John Young, governor......Jan. 1, 1847 Oneida community established....1847 Meeting at Seneca Falls to advocate political equality of women..... ...1848 Hamilton Fish elected governor by the Whigs . 1848 1837 Spirit rappings, phenomena begun in the house of John D. Fox, Hydersville 1838 and afterwards in Rochester........1848 . 1838 Continuous railroad, Boston to New York, opened.... .Jan. 1, 1849 Population of the State, 3,097,394..1850 University of Rochester, at Rochester, chartered . May 8, 1850 Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin sails from New York under Lieutenant De Haven and Dr. Elisha Kent Kane.... May 24, 1850 Collins line of steamships begin between New York and Liverpool-an American line .......1850 Washington Hunt elected governor. 1850 Erie Railroad completed; Piermont on the Hudson to Lake Erie Free banking law passed.... ..... to .1841 Steam-packet President sails for Liverpool (never heard from).. March 11, 1841 First Washington temperance meeting in New York.. March 24, 1841 Steamboat Erie burned on Lake Erie: 180 perish.... ..Aug. 9, 1841 Auburn and Rochester Railroad opened 1841 April 28-29, 1851 Hudson River Railroad opened.... 1851 James Fenimore Cooper, born in 1789, .1842 dies at Cooperstown, N. Y... Sept. 14, 1851 Croton aqueduct finished; five years in construction; cost, $12,500,000; length. 401⁄2 miles Whig party disappears from State and national politics after.... ...1852 Jan. 1, 1853 Second Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin sails from New York under Dr. Kane. Funds mostly furnished by Henry Grinnell, of New York, and George Peabody. Grinnell land discovered May 30, 1853 New York clearing-house established Horatio Seymour, governor 1853 District libraries of the State have 1,604,210 volumes... .....1853 [This number was reduced more than one-half through carelessness and loss up to 1890.] New York Central Railroad formed by the consolidation of the local railroads 1853 Continuous line of railway opened, New York to Chicago..... 1853 First train over a uniform gauge from Buffalo to Erie and Chicago Feb. 1, 1854 Office of the State superintendent of public instruction created by a law of March 30, 1854 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, dies at Washington, D. C., aged ninety-seven years Reuben E. Fenton, Republican, elected governor.. November, 1864 'mber of troops furnished by the State in t. Civil War in all branches of the service reduced to a three years' standard was 392,270, about 12 per cent. of the population ..1865 Eliphalet Nott, born in 1773, dies at .1855 Schenectady... ....Jan. 29, 1866 Nov. 9, 1854 Railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls completed... Last survivor of Washington's Life- [Made president of Union College in guard, Sergeant Uzel Knapp, dies, aged 1804. Over 3,700 students graduated durninety-seven, at New Windsor, Orange ing his presidency.] county.. .Jan. 11, 1856 St. Lawrence University, Canton, St. Lawrence county, incorporated April 3, 1856 Dudley observatory built at Albany 1856 Failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company in New York; a commercial panic spreads throughout the United States Aug. 24, 1856 First telegraphic despatch received in New York from London by the Atlantic telegraph...... .Aug. 5, 1858 Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, elected governor 1858 M. Blondin (Emile Gravelet) crosses the Niagara River, just below the Falls, for the first time on a tight-rope June 30, 1859 Fenian raid into Canada; about 1,200 men cross Niagara River near Buffalo, camping near old Fort Erie.. May 31, 1866 Slight conflict takes place near Ridgeway.... .June 2, 1366 [Force withdraws the next evening.] Reuben E. Fenton re-elected governor November, 1866 Vassar Female College at Poughkeepsie incorporated, Jan. 11, 1861; name changed by legislature to Vassar College.. Feb. 1, 1867 Normal school at Brockport established Public schools made entirely free 1867 Oct. 1, 1867 State board of charities organized.. 1867 Memorial or Decoration Day made a legal holiday; date of first celebration May 30, 1868 June 18, 1869 Financial panic in New York City culminates in Black Friday; the price of gold reaches 1621⁄2.... .Sept. 24, 1869 [During the excitement it is estimated that contracts were made for the sale of $500,000.000 of gold. The crisis ruined thousands, and disarranged the business of the country.1 Cardiff giant discovered on the farm of William C. Newell, near Cardiff, Onondaga county.. ...Oct. 16, 1869 Population of the State, 4,382,759.1870 Lenox Public Library, New York City, incorporated.... .June 20, 1870 John T. Hoffman re-elected governor November, 1870 Corner-stone of the new capitol at Albany laid..... .June 24. 1871 Syracuse University (Methodist Episcopal) founded at Syracuse.. ..1871 Captain Hall sails from New York in the United States ship Polaris, on an Arctic exploring expedition........June 29, 1871 William M. Tweed arrested in New York City..... .Oct. 27, 1871 [His bail bond was fixed at $2,000,000.] Legislature establishes a commission of State parks..... May 23, 1872 Topographical survey of the Adirondack wilderness begun by the State under the supervision of Verplanck Colvin 1872 Susan B. Anthony and some other women vote at Rochester..... Nov. 5, 1872 Gen. John A. Dix elected governor November, 1872 Horace Greeley dies.. Nov. 29, 1872 Commercial panic beginning in the Stock Exchange of New York spreads throughout the country. . . . . . . . Sept. 19, 1873 International Railway Bridge crossing Niagara River at Black Rock (Buffalo) to Canada, built under authority of Congress and the British Parliament and the State and province governments at a cost of over $1,500,000. Total length 3,6511⁄2 feet. over the river proper 1,9671⁄2 feet. Began 1870, opened.... ...Oct. 31, 1873 Tweed sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary..... Nov. 22, 1873 [He is discharged, but is rearrested, and escapes Dec. 4, 1875. He goes to Spain, is there arrested at Vigo, and brought back, Nov. 24, 1876. He dies in prison, April 12, 1878.] Millard Fillmore, former President of the United States, born 1800, dies at Buffalo............. . March 7, 1874 Compulsory education law passed April 15, 1874 Term of the governor changed from two years to three. ...1874 Samuel J. Tilden elected governor November, 1874 New York State soldiers' home incorporated at Bath.. . May 15, 1876 Hallett's Point reef, Hell Gate, successfully blown up; work directed by Gen. John Newton, U. S. A., from the beginning, 1869. .Sept. 24, 1876 Lucius Robinson elected governor over Edwin D. Morgan..... November, 1876 Cornelius Vanderbilt dies at New York Jan. 4, 1877 Rock salt first discovered in the State by Charles B. Everest, 4 miles from Warsaw.... ...June 20, 1878 William Cullen Bryant, born 1794, dies at New York City.. ..1878 |