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| 1 | 1804 | - Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
- Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
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| 2 | 1806 | - A total eclipse of the sun occurred June 1*, 1806. It happened in the forenoon the great obscuration being between eleven and twelve o’clock, when everything had the appearance of night. The fowls hastened to their roosts; the chill of evening came on; and the stars were visible.
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| 3 | 1809 | - Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
- James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
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| 4 | 1810 | - German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 5 | 1811 | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
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| 6 | 1812 | - 18 Jun 1812 - War declared by the United States against the King of Great Britain. The war known as 'The War of 1812'.
- 26 Jun 1812 - Hanging of the Indian 'Omic' in Cleveland.
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| 7 | 1814 | - George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 8 | 1815 | - 23 Sep 1815 - Great September Gale of 1815. The hurricane struck with an 11 foot storm surge to Providence, Rhode Island. New London, Connecticut was also in the path of this great storm, as was Massachusetts and much of New England.
- Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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| 9 | 1816 | - 1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
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