1835 in the United States

1835 in the United States
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Events from the year 1835 in the United States.

Incumbents

Events

• January 8 – The Federal Government declares that Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time.

January 30: First assassination attempt against a President.

• January 30 – Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tries to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol; this is the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.^[1]
• May 6 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• June 2 – P. T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.
• July 4 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world; the longer Canton Viaduct is completed two weeks later.
• August 25 – The Great Moon Hoax begins.

July 4: Thomas Viaduct completed.

• October 2 – Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.

December 16–17: Great Fire of New York

• December 16–17 – The Great Fire of New York destroys 530–700 buildings and kills two.
• December 19 – Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
• December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
• December 28 – The Second Seminole War breaks out. Seminole fighter Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in central Florida.
• December 29 – The Treaty of New Echota, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi to the United States, is signed.

Births

• January 29 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), children's writer (died 1905)
• February 19 – Henry R. Pease, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (died 1907)
• March 28 – Matthias N. Forney, steam locomotive manufacturer (died 1908)
• March 31 – John La Farge, painter and stained-glass artist (died 1910)
• April 2 – Jacob Nash Victor, railroad builder (died 1907)
• April 10 – Henry Villard, journalist, railroad financier and philanthropist (died 1900)
• April 17 – Augusta Cooper Bristol, poet (died 1910)
• May 27 – Charles Francis Adams Jr., public figure and historian (died 1915)
• June 10 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1922 (died 1930)
• June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, actress, painter and poet (died 1868)
• June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, war reporter (died 1896)
• June 27 – Fred Harvey, entrepreneur (died 1901)
• June 29 – Celia Thaxter, poet (died 1894)
• August 2 – Elisha Gray, inventor and businessman (died 1901)
• September 4 – William Lindsay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901 (died 1909)
• September 10 – Donelson Caffery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1892 to 1901 (died 1906)
• September 14 – Ellen Hamlin, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Hannibal Hamlin (died 1925)
• October 16 – William R. Shafter, general (died 1906)
• October 23 – Adlai Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897 (died 1914)
• October 26 – Thomas M. Bowen, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1883 to 1889 (died 1906)
• October 31 – Adelbert Ames, 27th and 30th Governor of Mississippi from 1868 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to 1874 (died 1933)
• November 17 – Andrew L. Harris, Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (died 1915)
• November 21 – Rose Eytinge, actress (died 1911)
• November 25
  • Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1919)
  • Arthur Sewall, politician and industrialist (died 1900)
• November 30 – Mark Twain, writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer (died 1910)
• December 13 – Phillips Brooks, clergyman and poet (died 1893)
• December 17 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, scientist (died 1910)
• December 18 – Lyman Abbott, clergyman and author (died 1922)

Deaths

• February 19 – Amzi Chapin, singer, composer and music teacher (born 1768)
• April 21 – Samuel Slater, "father of the American Industrial Revolution" (born 1768 in Great Britain)
• August 30 – William T. Barry, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835, died in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom (born 1784)
• March 15 – Samuel Dinsmoor, teacher, lawyer, banker and politician (born 1766)
• July 6 – John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835 (born 1755)
• November 14 – James Freeman, first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (born 1759)
• December 12 – Elias Kane, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835 (born 1794)
• December 22 – David Hosack physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (born 1769)
• Full date unknown
  • Sally Hemings, slave and concubine to Thomas Jefferson (born c. 1773)
  • Elkanah Tisdale, engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (born 1768)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

References

External links

• Media related to 1835 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons