Video: 'Fort Clatsop 1805-1806' (Mar. 23, 1806, at 5:25)
(Monday, March 23, 1806; during the Lewis and Clark Expedition) — Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, left Fort Clatsop in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River today to begin their journey back east.
Video: 'Tripoli War 1801 - 1805'
(Monday, June 10, 1805; during the First Barbary War) — The First Barbary War, the first of two Barbary Wars between the United States and the four North African states known collectively as the Barbary States to battle pirates seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom, ended today when Yusuf Karamanli, the best-known Pasha of the Karamanli dynasty of Tripolitania (in present-day Libya) signed a treaty ending hostilities.
Video: 'First Barbary War: The Battle of Derne.'
(Saturday, April 27, 1805, 2:45 p.m. local time; during the First Barbary War) — An American-led force of Marines and mercenaries today captured the city of Derne, on the shores of Tripoli.
(Monday, March 4, 1805) — President Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated today for a second term of office in the Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol with Chief Justice John Marshall administering oath of office. Continue reading Jefferson sworn in for second term as U.S. President, Clinton as 4th VP 210 years ago today (Mar 4 1805)
Video: 'J. F. Lesueur & N. Roze: Coronation music for Napoleon I (Paris, 1804) / V. Tchernouchenko'
(Sunday, December 2, 1804) — Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French today at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
Video: 'Lewis and Clark Expedition Documentary'
(Monday, May 14, 1804, 4:00 p.m. local time) — The Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest left camp today near present-day Hartford, Illinois.
(Thursday, February 16, 1804, evening) — Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor, the principal sea port in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates during the First Barbary War.
Video: 'The Louisiana Purchase in a Nutshell'
(Saturday, April 30, 1803) — On the authorization of President Thomas Jefferson, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France today for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million, by signing the Louisiana Purchase Treaty in Paris. The move doubled the size of the U.S., adding 828,000 square miles to American territory.
Video: Martha Washington (at 1:03)
(Saturday, May 22, 1802) — Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, the first First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797 as the wife of President George Washington, died today in Mount Vernon, Virginia. She died 11 days before her 71st birthday.
Video: West Point Military Academy, New York
(Tuesday, March 16, 1802) — President Thomas Jefferson signed a measure today authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
