1843- North American Phalanx founded near Red Bank

1844 - Second Constitution of New Jersey adopted; it provided suffrage only to white males

1846 - State legislature passed an act abolishing slavery but substituted "apprenticeship for life" unless voluntarily freed by owner; baseball played between the Knickerbockers and the New York at Elysian Fields, Hoboken; New York won 23 to 1 (June 19)

1847 - Colgate-Palmolive Co. established its first factory on Jersey City waterfront; site was later known for its 54 foot high clock; company closed in 1985; clock is now located on the waterfront south of the Morris Cana; Joseph Dixon moved to Jersey City to found Dixon Crucible Company for the manufacture of graphite crucible for pottery and steell

1848 - First state hospital opened at Trenton due to efforts of Dorothea Dix

1852 - Clara Barton established a free public school in Bordentown

1854 - Railroad line from Atlantic City to Camden

1855 - The first normal school in New Jersey founded at Trenton

1860 - The Underground Railroad and Map

1863 - Draft riots occurred in Newark (July 13) as well as Bloomfield, Orange, Jersey City and Princeton

1864 - George B. McClellan of West Orange carried New Jersey in presidential race against Abraham Lincoln; Rutgers is selected as New Jersey's land grant college

1866 - New Jersey State Board of Education started

1870s - P. Lorillard and Company moved to First Street in Jersey City