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| | Timeline 1841-1849 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | McKinley was the last Civil War veteran to serve as President of the United States. |
 | | 1846 Jun 15, The United States and Britain signed a treaty settling a boundary dispute between Canada and the United States in the Pacific Northwest at the 49th parallel. |
 | | When Carry Nation's appeals to close the saloons were ignored, she took matters into her own hands--she drove a buggy, full of bricks and stones she had wrapped in newspapers, up to a saloon, smashed its mirrors, glasses, bottles and windows, and said to the proprietor as she left, "I have finished. |
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