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Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada.

by charles-feigelstock on December 31, 2012

Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico for 10M to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

by charles-feigelstock on December 30, 2012

The Treaty of New Echota is signed, giving all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.

by charles-feigelstock on December 29, 2012

Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

by charles-feigelstock on December 28, 2012

On the HMS Beagle Charles Darwin sets out on the Pacific on an expedition which will later help shape his theory of evolution.

by charles-feigelstock on December 27, 2012

As a result of Austria’s defeat to Napoleon’s French Army, the fourth Treaty of Pressburg is signed.

by charles-feigelstock on December 26, 2012

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