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January 10 - DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana

January 26 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. State

February 8 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President Of The United States chosen by the United States Senate

February 11 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston

February 15 - Knox College founded in Galesburg , Illinois

February 25 - First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

March 4 - Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois .

banks fail, and Unemployment reaches record levels.

June 5 - The city of Houston, Texas is granted a city Charter .

October 21 - General Thomas Jessup captures Osceola in pretext of negotiations

November 7 - In Alton, Illinois , abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot to death by a mob (supporters of Slavery ) while he was attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

November 8 - Formation of Mount Holyoke Seminary , first US college founded for women

Great_Moon_Hoax – New York Sun claims that astronomer John Herschel has found life in the Moon

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