Historical place archive

Baltimore in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Baltimore in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

8 records8 event labels6 people1832–1965

Historical events in Baltimore

1832

22 May 1832
Constitution of USA
Andrew Jackson · Democratic Party Government

The Democratic Republican Party becomes the Democratic Party during its 1st convention

22 May 1832
Convention
Andrew Jackson · Democratic Party Government

The Democratic Republican Party becomes the Democratic Party during its 1st convention

22 May 1832
Reform of Political Parties
Andrew Jackson · Democratic Party Government

The Democratic Republican Party becomes the Democratic Party during its 1st convention

1864

6 August 1864
National Union Nomination
Abraham Lincoln · National Union Party Government

National Union Convention nominates Lincoln for a 2nd term

1879

1879
Hall Effect
Edwin Herbert Hall · Physics

Discovers that a magnetic field produces a transverse voltage in a current-carrying conductor, later understood through electron motion.

1915

7 April 1915
Birth of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday · Popular Music

Birth of Billie Holiday

1940

21 December 1940
Birth of Frank Vincent Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa · Popular Music

Birth of Frank Vincent Zappa

1965

7 April 1965
Speech
Lyndon Baines Johnson · Vietnam War, 2nd

Delivers "Peace Without Conquest" Speech offering Hanoi "unconditional discussions" to stop the war in return for massive modernization of Vietnam

Provenance

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