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Governor of North Carolina: Hutchins Gordon Burton (no political party)
Governor of Ohio: Jeremiah Morrow (Democratic-Republican) (until December 19), Allen Trimble (Federalist) (starting December 19)
Governor of Pennsylvania: John Andrew Shulze (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Rhode Island: James Fenner (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of South Carolina: Richard Irvine Manning I (Democratic-Republican) (until December 9), John Taylor (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 9)
Governor of Tennessee: William Carroll (Democratic-Republican)
Governor of Vermont: Cornelius P. Van Ness (Democratic-Republican) (until October 13), Ezra Butler (National Republican) (starting October 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: John H. Thompson (Democratic-Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Robert B. McAfee (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant (until month and day unknown), Thomas L. Winthrop (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Gerard C. Brandon (no political party) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: William Bull (Democratic-Republican) (until December 9), James Witherspoon (Democratic-Republican) (starting December 9)
January 24 – Treaty of Washington between the United States government and the Creek National Council, in which they cede much of their land in the State of Georgia.
February 6 – First printing of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans.
February 13 – The American Temperance Society is founded in Boston.
March – Aged eight, future orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass is lent by his master to the Aulds of Fell's Point, Baltimore. He will remain their house servant, and later their regular slave, for 12 years until he escapes.[1]
April 1 – Samuel Morey patents an internal combustion engine.
July 4 – Ex-Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
July 15 – The Pan-AmericanCongress of Panama concludes without the U.S. delegates having arrived.
August – The town of Crawford Notch, New Hampshire suffers a landslide; those killed include the Willey Family, after whom Mount Willey is named.
September 3 – The USS Vincennes, commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become the first U.S. warship to circumnavigate the globe.
September – William Morgan (anti-Mason) of Batavia, New York, disappears mysteriously. It is highly likely he was murdered by freemasons.
October 7 – The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.[2][3]
December 21 – Fredonian Rebellion: American settlers in Mexican Texas make the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Fredonia, which will survive for just over a month.
December 25 – The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York during the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service.
Sing Sing prison first opened on the Hudson River.
Births[]
January 5 – Samuel L. M. Barlow I, lawyer (died 1889)
January 26 – Julia Grant, born Julia Boggs Dent, First Lady as wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the U.S. (died 1902)