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EVENTS

February 3 - United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York .

February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas .

February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt Revolver

March 1 - Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos to deliberate independence from Mexico

March 2 - Declaration of independence of the Republic Of Texas from Mexico .

March 5 - Samuel Colt makes the first Pistol (.34-caliber).

March 6 - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.

- Antonio López De Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texan s at Goliad, Texas

March 31 - Marshall College, named for John Marshall , opens in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania . It later merges with Franklin College to become Franklin And Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania .

April 20 - U.S. Congress passes act creating the Wisconsin Territory

- Republic Of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López De Santa Anna . (Santa Anna and hundreds of his troops are taken prisoner along the San Jacinto River the next day.)

June 15 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. State .

July 11 - President Andrew Jackson issues the Specie Circular , beginning the failure of the land speculation economy that would lead to the Panic Of 1837 .

September 1 - Narcissa Whitman , one of the first white woman to settle west of the Rocky Mountains , arrives at Walla Walla, Washington .

September 5 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic Of Texas .

September 8 - Transcendental Club founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts

December 10 - Emory College, the forerunner of Emory University , is chartered in Oxford, Georgia .

December 20 - Sudden freeze kills many travelers in Illinois .

Henry R. Campbell builds the first 4-4-0 , a Steam Locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all Railroad s of the United States .

American Temperance Union established.

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