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4/11/1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd, member of a slave-owning family in Kentucky.
9/8/1842. The USA and Britain settled a dispute over the US-Canada border in the Maine region.
6/11/1841, Nelson Aldrich, US politician, was born in Foster, Rhode Island.
10/4/1841, The New York Tribune was first published.
8/3/1841, Oliver Wendell Jr, US Supreme Court Justice, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
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1840, From New York to Boston took 6 hours by train, or an overnight steamer journey; cost of the journey was 7 US$. From New York to Philadelphia by train and ferry took 6 ½ hours, down from 3 days in 1817. However if the Delaware river froze over the journey time was longer as passengers had to walk across the ice rather than use the ferry.
9/2/1840, William Sampson, US naval commander, was born (died 6/5/1902)
8/7/1839, John D Rockerfeller, American philanthropist, was born in Richford, New York State.
4/7/1838. The territory of Iowa was established, with Robert Lucas as governor.
10/5/1838, John Wilkes Booth, American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1837, Atlanta, Georgia, was founded as a railhead.
25/11/1837, Andrew Carnegie, US industrialist and philanthropist, was born in Dunfermline, Scotland.
25/8/1837. The Government in Washington refused to admit Texas to the Union. The US was anxious to maintain its neutrality in the dispute between Texas and Mexico, and did not want to, therefore, take the step of admitting one of the belligerents to the Union.
18/3/1837, Grover Cleveland, Democrat, and twice US President, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, the son of a Presbyterian Minister.
3/3/1837. On his last day in office, President Jackson recognised the Lone Star Republic of Texas.
26/1/1837. Michigan became the 26th State of the USA.
15/6/1836, Arkansas became the 25th State of the Union.
21/4/1836. The Texan Army led by General Sam Houston inflicted a crushing defeat on the Mexicans, at the battle of San Jacinto, and took General Santa Anna prisoner.
6/3/1836, The siege of the Alamo ended.
2/3/1836. Texas was proclaimed a republic, by a group of 59 citizens, independent of Mexico.
23/2/1836. The Mexican Army, with 5,000 soldiers, under Antonio de Lopez Santa Anna, laid siege to the Alamo, a fortified mission station defended by 187 Texans, in San Antonio, Texas. Santa Anna had invaded Texas after Texas had declared itself independent of the USA and elected its own President. The Mexicans captured the Alamo on 6/3/1836, slaughtering all 187 defenders. Deaths included William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davey Crockett. Only 2 women survived, who had sheltered behind the sacristy. The Mexicans told one of them, Susanna Dickinson, a blacksmith’s wife, to pass the message on to other Texans that further fighting was hopeless.
22/10/1835, Sam Houston was sworn in as President of Texas.
2/10/1835, Texan-Americans started their campaign for independence from Mexico by starting an armed rebellion against the government of Antonio de Santa Anna in the town of Gonzales. Americans had settled the area from 1825, when Texas was largely undeveloped and there was little interference from the Mexican Government. However the current administration was changing Mexico from a federation of states into a centralised state.
27/3/1835, Texan rebels were massacred by the Mexican Army at Gohad.
31/1/1835, An assassination attempt on US President Andrew Jackson failed when the gun of Richard Lawson, house painter, jammed twice. Lawrence claimed to be the rightful heir to the British throne.
20/3/1834, Charles William Eliot, US educator, was born in Boston, Massachusetts (died in Maine, 22/8/1926).
24/5/1833, Brooklyn Bridge in New York was opened.
13/7/1832. An expedition led by Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi River.
26/6/1832, Mexico began to assert a more authoritarian rule over the US colonists in its territory of Texas. On this day the US colonists rebelled, and captured the Mexican Army fort of Velasco.
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