1808

  • James Madison is elected President, defeating Charles Pickney.


  • John Jacob Astor becomes one of the richest men in America by holding all the stock to his company American Fur Company.


  • Napoleon passes the Bayonne Decree, which has the French seize all American ships.


  • American Calvinist establish the Andover Theological Seminary.

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