Historical place archive

Hartford in History

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

5 records5 event labels5 people1814–1941

Historical events in Hartford

1814

1814
Convention
James Madison · USA-Britain War

New England Federalists set up a defeatist Hartford Convention that discusses secession

1815

22 January 1815
Birth of Horace Wells
Horace Wells · Medicine

Birth of Horace Wells, discoverer of "laughing gas"

1860

3 May 1860
Hartford Speech
Abraham Lincoln · Republican Party

Lincoln addresses Hartford Republicans before the presidential campaign

1889

13 August 1889
Invention of Coin-Operated Telephone
William Gray · Technology

The first coin-operated telephone is patented by William Gray of Hartford

1941

17 February 1941
Birth of Gene Pitney
Gene Pitney · Popular Music

Birth of Gene Pitney

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Hartford. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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