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| c. 1806 |
| | | Tecumseh's younger brother, Tenskwatawa, becomes known as the Shawnee Prophet | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Lewis and Clark get back to St Louis with a wealth of information about the unopened west of the continent | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Congress sets up the US Coast Survey to map and chart the country's coastline | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Anglo-US tensions are heightened by a clash between the frigates Leopard and Chesapeake off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia | |
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| 1807 |
| | | US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The German-born US entrepreneur John Jacob Astor establishes the American Fur Company | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa set up a permanent base in Indiana, calling it Prophetstown | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The Shakers define their Millennial laws in the Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing | |
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