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Elizabeth Peabody
1804May, 16

Elizabeth Peabody

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (d. 1894)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.

Peabody was also the first translator into English of the Buddhist scripture the Lotus Sutra, translating a chapter from its French translation in 1844.

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    First Serbian Uprising

    Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
  • 16Feb

    Stephen Decatur

    First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
  • 11Jul

    Aaron Burr

    A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
  • 12Jul

    Burr-Hamilton duel

    Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.
  • 25Sep

    Lewis and Clark Expedition

    The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.