| YEAR |
AMERICAN |
AMERICAN JEWISH |
WORLD JEWISH |
| 1800 |
Thomas Jeffferson is elected president |
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| 1803 |
Louisiana Purchase expands U.S. territory west of the Mississippi River |
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| 1807 |
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Napoleon convenes French "Sanhedrin" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1828 |
Andrew Jackson is elected President |
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| 1831 |
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France provides public support for Jewish institutions |
| 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 |
| 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 United States |
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Revolutions and riots in Central Europe spur increased Jewish immigration to America |
| 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 monastery |
| 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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| 1861 |
Civil War begins |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 1877 |
Emil Berliner's invention of the microphone makes the telephone practical and 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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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