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The following events occurred in the 1810s:
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1811[]
- General James Wilkinson is court-martialed for his role in the Burr conspiracy. He orders his clerk to forge a letter from General Gilbert Russell, dated two years prior, attesting that Meriwether Lewis was in a deranged and suicidal state during the final weeks before his "suicide."[1]
1812[]
- A new style of beaver hat is popularized in Europe.[2]
1814[]
- The official account of the Corps of Discovery's expedition, less several of Lewis' missing journals, is published.[1]
1815[]
- A new style of beaver hat is popularized in Europe.[2]
1817[]
- Angus MacDowell writes in his diary about a potlatch ceremony he witnessed among a Native American tribe in the Pacific Northwest.[1]
1818[]
- A poison ivy epidemic in the Twin Peaks region "carries off" two dozen people.[2]
