July–August – The 1829–51 cholera pandemic reaches the Northeastern seaboard, beginning with New York City.[3]
August 27 – Black Hawk (Sauk leader) surrenders to the authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
October 8 – Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (later Fort Gibson, Oklahoma) in the late morning hours. They leave the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escort them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who is waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus begins one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the indigenous peoples of the Americas from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
October 19 – Alpha Delta Phi fraternity is founded at Hamilton College (New York).
November 2–December 5 – Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election.
November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
December 18 – Philip Freneau, poet and journalist (born 1752)
December 22 – Ishmail Spicer, music teacher, composer and publisher (born 1760)
See also
Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)
References
^Weyler, Karen A. (2012). "Chapter 11: John Neal and the Early Discourse of American Women's Rights". In Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J. (eds.). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-61148-420-5.
^Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 98. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
^Rosenberg, Charles E. (1987). The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226726779.
^Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 95. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
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