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| 1800 |
| | | The Library of Congress, the US national library in all but name, is founded in Washington | |
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| 1800 |
| | | US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election | |
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| 1801 |
| | | The US House of Representatives votes for Jefferson as president, after a dead heat between him and Burr in the Electoral College | |
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| 1803 |
| | | In Marbury v. Madison, a landmark example of judicial review, the US Supreme Court declares an act of Congress to be unconstitutional | |
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| 1803 |
| | | In the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price, doubling the size of the USA | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from St Louis to explore up the Missouri river and west to the coast | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded by a bullet to the head in a duel with his political adversary Aaron Burr | |
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| 1804 |
| | | George Rapp and his followers establish a utopian community in Pennsylvania and call it Harmony | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Lewis and Clark make their way through the Rockies and reach the Pacific | |
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