1824 in the United States

Events from the year 1824 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

* President: James Monroe ( DR-Virginia)
* Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins ( DR- New York)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay ( DR-Kentucky)
* Congress: 18th

Events

* March 11 – U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress.
* April – ''The United States Literary Gazette'', a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.
* April 15 – To defend the Cherokees' possession of their land, chief John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.
* May 15 – A boiler explosion occurs on the steamship ''Aetna'', under way in Upper New York Bay, killing more than ten passengers and injuring many more.
* May 26 – Arkansas Territory split creates Indian Territory.
* August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825.
* October 26 – U.S. presidential election opens. Andrew Jackson will receive more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the first election in which this vote is reported.
* November 1 – Miami University (chartered 1809) delivers its first classes in Oxford, Ohio.
* November 5 – Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which becomes the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
* November 15 – Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the Arkansas and the Saline River.
* December 1 – U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
* December 24
**Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington.
**The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.

Undated

* Iowa tribe removed to a Indian reservation, reservation in Kansas.
* A treaty between several tribes and the United States Government establish a Half-Breed Tract in present-day Lee County, Iowa, Lee County, Iowa.
* Harmony Society establishes the settlement of Old Economy Village, Economy, Pennsylvania.
* Thomas Say begins publication of ''American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America'' in Philadelphia, including the first description of the Colorado potato beetle.

Ongoing

* Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)
* A. B. plot (1823–1824)
* John Neal (writer), John Neal publishing serially the first written history of American literature (1824-1825)

Births

* January 21 – Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general (died 1863 in the United States, 1863)
* February 14 – Winfield Scott Hancock, Civil War Union general and political candidate (died 1886 in the United States, 1886)
* March 9 – Leland Stanford, tycoon, U.S. Senator from California from 1885 to 1893 (died 1893 in the United States, 1893)
* March 25 – Clinton L. Merriam, politician (died 1900 in the United States, 1900)
* March 26 – Levi P. Morton, the 22nd Vice President of the United States from 1889 to 1893 (died 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* March 31 – William Morris Hunt, painter (died 1879 in the United States, 1879)
* April 20 – Alfred H. Colquitt, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1883 to 1894 (died 1894 in the United States, 1894)
* May 16 – Edmund Kirby Smith, career United States Army officer who serves with the Confederate States of America, Confederates during the American Civil War (died 1893)
* May 23 – Ambrose Burnside, Union Army general, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist and Rhode Island Senator (died 1881 in the United States, 1881)
* June 20 – John Tyler Morgan, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907 (died 1907 in the United States, 1907)
* July 21 – Stanley Matthews (judge), Stanley Matthews, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1889 in the United States, 1889)
* July 25
** Richard J. Oglesby, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1873 to 1878 (died 1899 in the United States, 1899)
** George Boyer Vashon, African American lawyer, abolitionist, poet and scholar (died 1878 in the United States, 1878)
* August 7 – Gideon T. Stewart, temperance movement leader (died 1907)
* August 15 – Charles Godfrey Leland, folklorist (died 1903 in the United States, 1903)
* September 4 – Phoebe Cary, poet, sister to Alice Cary (1820–1871) (died 1871 in the United States, 1871)
* September 27 – Benjamin Apthorp Gould, astronomer (died 1896 in the United States, 1896)
* October 2 – Henry C. Lord, railroad executive (died 1884 in the United States, 1884)
* October 5 – Henry Chadwick (writer), Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian (died 1908 in the United States, 1908)
* December 11 – Jonathan Letterman, surgeon and "Father of Battlefield Medicine" (died 1872 in the United States, 1872)

Deaths

* March 2 – Susanna Rowson, novelist, poet and playwright (born 1762)
* April 3 – Sally Seymour, pastry chef and restaurateur
* July 14 – Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii (born 1797 in Hawaii; died in London)
* August 12 – Charles Nerinckx, founder of the Sisters of Loretto (born 1761 in Flanders)
* December 24 – Pushmataha, Choctaw chief (born c. 1764)

See also

*Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

References

External links

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