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America's Best History, ... from sea to shining sea. United States History Timeline, the 1840's, the Mexican War, includes the top events of each year of the decade.
The Mexican–American War led to the redrawing of national boundaries in North America. In the United States , mass migration to the new West Coast occurred following the annexation of California from Mexico , with a Gold Rush beginning at the end of the decade.
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January 10: Penny postage was introduced in Britain.January 13: In a shocking maritime disaster, the steamship Lexington burned and sank in Long Island Sound. Only four men survived and more than 150 passengers and crew perished.February 10: Queen Victoria of England married Prince Albertof Saxe Coburg-Gotha.May 1: The first postage stamps, Britain’s “Penny Black,” were issued.March 4: William Henry Harrison was inaugurated as president of the United States. He delivered a two-hour inaugural addressin very cold weather. As a result, he caught pneumonia, from which he nev...Spring: A free Black New Yorker, Solomon Northup, was lured to Washington, D.C., drugged, kidnapped, and enslaved. He would tell his story in the powerful memoir "Twelve Years a Slave."April 4: President William Henry Harrison died after only one month in office. He was the first American president to die in office and was succeeded by Vice President John Tyler.Autumn: Land was purchased in Massachusetts for Brook Farm, an experimental farming community frequented by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other writers and thinkers of the era.January: The British retreated from Kabul, Afghanistan and were massacred by Afghan troops.August 29: The First Opium War ended with the Treaty of Nanking.November: Showman Phineas T. Barnum tracked down a child in Connecticut said to be peculiarly small. The boy, Charles Stratton, would become a show business phenomenon known as General Tom Thumb.February 28: An accident with a cannon on US Navy warship killed two members of John Tyler’s cabinet.May 24: The first telegram was sent from the U.S. Capitol to Baltimore. Samuel F.B. Morsewrote, “what hath God wrought.”August: Karl Marxand Friedrich Engels met in Paris.November: James Knox Polk defeated Henry Clayin the U.S. presidential election.January 23: The U.S. Congress established a uniform date for federal elections, naming the first Tuesday after the first Mondayin November as Election Day.March 1: President John Tyler signed a bill annexing Texas.March 4: James Knox Polkwas inaugurated as President of the United States.May: Frederick Douglasspublished his autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave."February 26: American frontier scout and showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was born in Iowa.April 25: Mexican troops ambushed and killed a patrol of U.S. soldiers. Reports of the incident inflamed tensions between the two nations.April-August: Francis Parkman traveled from St. Louis, Missouri to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, and later wrote of the experience in the classic book "The Oregon Trail."May 13: The U.S. Congress declared war against Mexico.February 22: U.S. troops commanded by General Zachary Taylor defeated a Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vistain the Mexican War.March 29: U.S. troops commanded by General Winfield Scottcaptured Veracruz in the Mexican War.June 1: Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of America's richest and most competitive men, raced a steamboat against rival Daniel Drew in the Hudson River. Many thousands of New Yorkers lined the city's dock...Late summer: The potato famine continued in Ireland, and the year became known as "Black '47."January 24: James Marshall, a mechanic at John Sutter's sawmill in northern California, recognized some unusual nuggets. His discovery would set off the California Gold Rush.February 23: Former president John Quincy Adams, who served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts after leaving the presidency, died after collapsing in the U.S. Capitol building.July 12-19: A conference at Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Lucretia Mottand Elizbeth Cady Stanton, took up the issue of Women's Rights and planted the seeds of the suffrage movement in the U.S.November 7: Zachary Taylor, Whig candidate and a hero of the Mexican War, was elected President of the United States.March 5: Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as the 12th president of the U.S. He was the third, and last, candidate of the Whig Partyto hold the office.
Events. January 13–14 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks in icy waters, 4 miles off the coast of Long Island; 139 die, only 4 survive. January 19 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what becomes known as Wilkes Land for the United States. March 4 – Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson open their ...
Los años 1840 fueron una década activa y turbulenta que se extendió desde el 1 de enero de 1840 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 1849 . A lo largo de la década, muchos países (particularmente en Europa) en todo el mundo vieron muchas revueltas y levantamientos, siendo los más importantes en 1848. En esta década comienza la Revolución ...
The United States became a continental nation with the purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803 and the settlement of the lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Westward expansion fueled conflict with Native populations and led to their forced removal.
20 de jun. de 2008 · This decade of the 1800s featured several significant events in America and across the globe: a steam locomotive raced a horse, the U.S. President beat up the man who tried to assassinate him, Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands, and a tragic siege at the Alamo became legendary.
