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Lieutenant Governor of New York: John Tracy (Democratic) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Benjamin Babock Thurston (political party unknown) (until May 2), Joseph Childs (political party unknown) (starting May 2)
January 6 – Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph.
January 8 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
January 12 – History of the Latter Day Saint movement: Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri
January 27 – Abraham Lincoln speaks at the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum.
March 8 – The New Orleans Mint strikes its first coinage, 30 dimes.
April–June[]
May 26 – Trail of Tears: The Cherokee removal begins with the forced relocation of the CherokeeNative American tribe, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4,000 Cherokee Indians.
June 12 – Iowa Territory is created. At the time of its founding, Iowa Territory encompassed parts of modern-day Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, as well as all of Iowa. The river city of Burlington functions as the territorial capital until 1841.[1]
September 3 – Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionistFrederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
September 4 – Potawatomi Trail of Death, the forced relocation of 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to Kansas, begins. More than 40 Potawatomi die from disease and the stress of the march.
October–December[]
October 5 – Killough massacre, believed to have been both the largest and last Native American attack on white settlers in East Texas; 18 casualties are either killed or carried away.
October 16 – Grave Creek Stone, a probable hoax, allegedly discovered in Moundsville, West Virginia.
October 27 – Governor of MissouriLilburn Boggs issues Missouri Executive Order 44 (the "Extermination Order"), ordering the expulsion of all Mormons from the state. This winter, Mormons fleeing this persecution are welcomed in Quincy, Illinois.[2]
November 4 – Survivors of the Potawatomi Trail of Death arrive at the modern-day site of Osawatomie, Kansas.
Undated[]
Duke University is established in North Carolina as the Brown School.
Second Seminole War (1835–1842)
Births[]
January 4 – General Tom Thumb, circus performer and entertainer (died 1883)
January 29 – Edward W. Morley, chemist (died 1923)
February 10 – Gustav Oelwein, founder of Oelwein, Iowa (died 1913)