Curriculum Materials: Art in America Timeline A.D. 0-1600 1600's 1700's 1800's 1900's 1800's 1880s U.S. railroad building boom peaks. 1804 U.S. government purchases land for Fort Snelling. 1819-20 Washington Irving publishes short stories, including "Rip Van Winkle" in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820 Thomas Sully, Portrait of George Washington 1821 Construction of Fort Snelling begins. 1822 U.S. soldiers build a sawmill at St. Anthony Falls to supply Fort Snelling, then under construction. 1823 Construction of "Catskill Mountain House." 1830 U.S. government passes Indian Removal Act, which moved southeastern tribes to the land between the Red and Missouri Rivers. 1835-40 Jazz emerges as a distinct style; first Jazz bands. 1839 Louis J. M. Daguerre of France produces successful Daguerreotype photographs. In England, Henry Fox Talbot announces his almost identical process. 1849 Henry Lewis creates and displays his panorama painting of Mississippi River sites. 1850 Edward K. Thomas, View of Fort Snelling 1851 Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick. 1853 Hiram Powers, Portrait Bust of George Washington 1855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Song of Hiawatha. 1855 Henry Lewis, St. Anthony Falls. 1855 Jasper Cropsey, Catskill Mountain House. 1856 Minneapolis becomes a township. 1861 U.S. elects Abraham Lincoln President. 1863 President Lincoln declares Thanksgiving Day a national holiday. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" in Tales of a Wayside Inn. President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in Confederate held territories. U.S. government sets aside land for Wind River Reservation for Shoshone Indians. 1865 Reconstruction of Southern states begins. Thirteenth amendment abolishes slavery in the U.S. John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Abraham Lincoln. 1867 Minnesota state government declares Minneapolis a city. Earliest recorded leasing of billboards in the U.S. 1868 U.S. government confines Shoshone Indians to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. 1870-1874 Euro-American mass slaughter of bison for sport, hides, and tongue meat causes near annihilation of the animal. 1880-90 Cadzi Cody, Painted Hide 1893 U.S. born Charles L. Burdick patents the airbrush in England. 19th century Keresan, Acoma Pueblo, Jar Seneca, Feast Ladle To the Teacher ~ Introduction ~ Timeline ~ Artwork Index ~ Categories for Comparison ~ Glossary ~ How to Order ~ Your Comments