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It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history. November 7 – U.S. presidential election, 1840 : William Henry Harrison defeats Martin Van Buren . Ongoing
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
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Harrison's service was the shortest in history, starting with his inauguration on March 4, 1841, and ending when he died on April 4, 1841. Harrison's vice president, John Tyler, replaced him as President (the first such Presidential succession in U.S. history), and served out the rest of his term. Tyler spent much of his term in conflict with ...
William Wells Brown (1814–1884) wrote first novel published by an African American, Clotel. Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships, demanding that they agree to open trade.
This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.
1840 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1840th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 840th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1840, the ...
This is the only election in American history in which a majority of voters in Alabama and a majority of voters in Mississippi voted for different candidates. The 1840 presidential election was the only time in which four people who either had been or would become a U.S. President (Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, and Polk) received at least one ...