1835 in the United States

Summary

Events from the year 1835 in the United States.

1835
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
See also:

Incumbents edit

Federal government edit

Events edit

  • 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 U.S. president.
 
July 4: Thomas Viaduct completed.
 
December 16–17: Great Fire of New York

Undated edit

  • Judge William Harper of South Carolina rules that a person's acceptance as white, not the proportion of white and black blood, determine a person's race.
  • Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.
  • Tensions between the United States and France reach an all time high as President Andrew Jackson and the French government of Louis Philippe I trade threats and insults over France's refusal to pay the United States reparations which the United States government insists France owes from the Quasi-War.[2]

Ongoing edit

Births edit

Deaths edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Trying to Assassinate President Jackson". American Heritage. January 30, 2007. Archived from the original on April 3, 2007. Retrieved May 6, 2007.
  2. ^ Andrew Jackson's Presidency by Christine Zuchora-Walske pg. 78
  3. ^ "Mark Twain | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved November 30, 2020.

External links edit

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