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List of events
Events from the year 1824 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
March 11 –
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by
John C. Calhoun without authorization from
Congress .
April – The United States Literary Gazette , a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and
William Cullen Bryant , among many others.
[1]
April 15 – To defend the
Cherokees ' possession of their land, chief
John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.
May 15 – A
boiler explosion occurs on the
steamship Aetna , under way in
Upper New York Bay , killing more than ten passengers and injuring many more.
[2]
May 26 –
Arkansas Territory split creates
Indian Territory .
August 16 –
Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825.
October 26 –
U.S. presidential election opens.
Andrew Jackson will receive more popular votes than
John Quincy Adams in the first election in which this vote is reported.
November 1 –
Miami University (chartered
1809 ) delivers its first classes in
Oxford, Ohio .
November 5 –
Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which becomes the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
November 15 –
Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the
Arkansas and the
Saline River .
[3]
December 1 –
U.S. presidential election : Since no candidate received a majority of the total
electoral college votes in the election, the
United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the
Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution ).
December 24
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 21 –
Stonewall Jackson , Confederate general (died
1863 )
February 14 –
Winfield Scott Hancock , Civil War Union general and political candidate (died
1886 )
March 9 –
Leland Stanford , tycoon, U.S. Senator from California from 1885 to 1893 (died
1893 )
March 25 –
Clinton L. Merriam , politician (died
1900 )
March 26 –
Levi P. Morton , the 22nd
vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 (died
1920 )
March 31 –
William Morris Hunt , painter (died
1879 )
April 20 –
Alfred H. Colquitt , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1883 to 1894 (died
1894 )
May 16 –
Edmund Kirby Smith , career
United States Army officer who serves with the
Confederates during the
American Civil War (died 1893)
May 23 –
Ambrose Burnside , Union Army general, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist and Rhode Island Senator (died
1881 )
June 20 –
John Tyler Morgan , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907 (died
1907 )
July 21 –
Stanley Matthews , politician and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1889 )
July 25
August 7 –
Gideon T. Stewart , temperance movement leader (died 1907)
August 15 –
Charles Godfrey Leland , folklorist (died
1903 )
September 4 –
Phoebe Cary , poet, sister to Alice Cary (1820–1871) (died
1871 )
September 27 –
Benjamin Apthorp Gould , astronomer (died
1896 )
October 2 –
Henry C. Lord , railroad executive (died
1884 )
October 5 –
Henry Chadwick , baseball writer and historian (died
1908 )
December 11 –
Jonathan Letterman , surgeon and "Father of Battlefield Medicine" (died
1872 )
Deaths
See also
References
^ Burt, Daniel S. (2004).
The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN
978-0-618-16821-7 .
^ Grohman, Adam M. (April 2011).
"Sentinels and Saviors of the Sea" (PDF) . Boating World U. S. Coast Guard Series . River & Sound Publishing of NY, Inc. Archived from
the original (PDF) on June 27, 2011. Retrieved September 2, 2011 .
^
"Jefferson County" .
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture . Retrieved November 13, 2013 . At Major John Harrington's lodge, said to be in Jefferson County on the north bank of the
Arkansas , the [Quapaw] signed away the last of their tribal lands on November 15, 1824.
^
"Half-Breed Tract, Lee County, Iowa Territory" . The Joseph Smith Papers . The Church Historian's Press. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
^ Pattee, Fred Lewis (1937). "Preface". In Pattee, Fred Lewis (ed.).
American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824-1825) . Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. v.
OCLC
464953146 .
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