• 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, in
Philadelphia. • 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. • 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-American Congress 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 11 –
William Morgan is arrested in
Batavia, New York, for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against
Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his
mysterious disappearance. • October 7 – The first train operates over the
Granite Railway in
Massachusetts. • 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==