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Governor of New York: Joseph C. Yates (Democratic-Republican) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina: Gabriel Holmes (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Pennsylvania: Joseph Hiester (Democratic-Republican) (until December 16), John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 16)
Governor of Rhode Island: William C. Gibbs (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Jonathan Ingersoll (Democratic-Republican) (until month and day unknown), David Plant (National Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Ratliff Boon (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William T. Barry (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Levi Lincoln, Jr. (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
February 3 – Jackson Male Academy, precursor of Union University, opens in Tennessee.
August 4 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, the Mexican government administrator in charge of Anglo-American immigration into Mexico's state of Coahuila y Tejas, allows Stephen F. Austin to put together an 11-man police force, that will later be expanded to become the Texas Ranger Division.[1]
August 9 – The Arikara War breaks out between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians.
August 23 – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a sow grizzly bear and left for dead in the Missouri Territory. He crawls 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in The Revenant (2015 film).
September 22 – Joseph Smith first goes to the place near Manchester, New York, where the golden plates are stored, having been directed there by God through an angel (according to what he writes in 1838).
November 15 – Lone Horn succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the MinneconjouSioux; he will be chief until his death on October 16, 1875.
December 2 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech to the U.S. Congress, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
December 23 – A Visit From St. Nicholas, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, is first published.
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United States jurisprudence first affirms the enduring rights of indigenous landholders (tribal sovereignty).
Orford Parish of East Hartford, Connecticut separates and is incorporated as the Town of Manchester by a special act of the Connecticut General Assembly.
Middlebury College, Vermont, becomes the first US institution of higher education to grant a bachelor's degree to an African American, graduating Alexander Twilight.[2]
John Neal publishes Seventy-Six, the first American work of fiction to include the phrase "son-of-a-bitch."[3]
^Utley, Robert M. (2002). Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. Oxford University Press.
^"Alexander Twilight". Old Stone House Museum. Orleans County Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
^Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 46. ISBN080-5-7723-08.
^Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1904), "Thomas William Evans", The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, vol. 4, Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, retrieved 2009-06-12.