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  1. 2 days ago · James Madison (March 16, 1751 [b] – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.

    • James Monroe

      James Monroe (/ m ə n ˈ r oʊ / mən-ROH; April 28, 1758 –...

    • Dolley Madison

      Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12,...

    • Mount Pleasant

      James Madison's Montpelier, located in Orange County,...

    • Port Conway, Virginia

      Port Conway is an unincorporated community on the north side...

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  2. 1 day ago · Democratic-Republican. The 1816–17 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 30, 1816 and August 14, 1817. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 15th United States Congress convened on December 1, 1817.

    • 119 seats
    • Kentucky 2nd
    • Henry Clay
    • Democratic-Republican
  3. 2 days ago · The Territory of Alabama is organized, March 3, 1817; James Monroe becomes the 5th president of the United States on March 4, 1817; The Territory of Mississippi is admitted to the Union as the State of Mississippi (the 20th state) on December 10, 1817

  4. Aug 30, 2024 · Gathering in 1817 at the Wartburg, the castle near Eisenach where Luther had once taken refuge, they listened to veiled denunciations of the existing order and consigned to flames various symbols of traditional authority.

  5. Sep 2, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau (born July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 6, 1862, Concord) was an American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the ...

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  6. Sep 11, 2024 · Jane Austen (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life.

  7. Sep 5, 2024 · The Erie Canal was an artificial waterway constructed between 1817–1825 to connect the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, spanning over 350 miles across New York state. The canal’s completion was a major engineering feat of the early 19th century.

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