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1829

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March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia, France and Britain.

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1828

U.S. presidential eletion; Andrew Jackson beat John Quincy Adams

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1827

June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph. France.

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1826

April 1 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. (USA)

Bonus Info

Deaths

July 4 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
July 4 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)

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1825

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July 6 - The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg later became the Royal House of Greece, Denmark and Norway.

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1824

With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.

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1823

April 3, 1823 U. S. Congress approves $500,000 to purchase all Georgia reservations

USA

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1822

First group of freed slaves from USA arrive to modern-day Liberia and founded Monrovia.


Liberia

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1821

In 1821 a congress of Central American Creoles declared their independence from Spain, effective on 15 September of that year.

Central America

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1820

February 6 - 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Bonus

Births

May 12 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist activist (d. 1913)