What year is it?

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How about this one:

January 5 -San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
January 19-1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between U.S. and England
February 24 - U.S. signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
July 1 -1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
September 7 -Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in New York
 
Feb 1st - Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
Mar 27th - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama
Jul 3rd - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
Jul 5th - Americans defeat British Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
Aug 24th - British forces captured Washington, DC, burned down many landmarks
Sep 21st - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem
Dec 24th - Treaty of Ghent signed
 
Sorry to take so long guys. As Johnny Horton sang: In Eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip. Along with Colonel Jackson down the mightly Missisip
Good job T-bolt go for it...
 
Sorry for the delay

Jan 1 1st illustrated weekly magazine in U.S. publishes 1st issue, New York City
Jan 2 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
Feb 21 1st known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington D.C
Oct 15 Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung
Nov 22 Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts
 
T-bolt, Mt St Hellens was the give away. the big 1980 eruption was at goat rock dome which had been formed 138 years earlier by a similiar eruption. So had to be 1842
 

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