New Madrid Earthquake/Missouri, One of the worst earthquakes to strike the United States started on Decemand followed with 3 more earthquakes ending on February 7th, 1812. The soldiers won and the Tippecanoe settlement was pulled down. The governor of the Indiana Territory brought soldiers into the area and the Native Americans attacked them on November 7th. The Shawnee had set up camp at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers in Indiana, and called on the surrounding tribes to rise up. The Battle of Tippecanoe, The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa stopped their people from selling land to settlers and to resist the tempting offers that were made to them. The strange thing about this is no one invented a can opener for another 60 years, so a hammer and chisel were used to open the cans. The Tin Can, English inventor Peter Durand patents the Tin Can as a means to create an air-tight container for the distribution or storage of food. His musical masterpieces are even more remarkable when you consider by 1810, his loss of hearing forced him to stop playing in public and concentrate on composition. The suggestion that it is a personal piece to a lady is ratified by it being a close match to the name of one of his lady students. Despite the date which is on the manuscript: April 27th, 1810 it was not published until about fifty years later. Its solo piano is a favorite for many people. The marriage had taken place on October 12th, and the race on October 17th, and its subsequent two week performances have kept to a more regular ending of the first Sunday in October.īeethoven 'Fur Elise'/'For Elise', We don't know who Beethoven's Elise was, but it could be that one of his contemporaries may have incorrectly written its title for him. The 1810 performance was also to celebrate a horse race. Its earlier renditions were disrupted for a number of socio-political reasons, and it did not settle into a regular annual event until the mid-Nineteenth Century. It had originated from the October 18th, 1810 celebration of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese von Saxe-Hildburghausen's wedding. The first Oktoberfest, Aus München, a convivial gathering in which singing and folk dancing are performed. 1819 January 29th Raffles Founding of Modern Singaporeįind More Detailed Information Below 1810.1817 December 10th Mississippi Became the 20th State.1816 July 9th Argentina Gains independence.1814 August 24th British Burn Down The White House and the US Capitol building Washington D.C.1813 January 28th Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was published.1812 April 30th Louisiana Joins The Union.1811 November 7th The Battle of Tippecanoe.1810 October 18th The first Oktoberfest.

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