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Events relating to north america
The inhabitants of the Mexican province of Texas declare their independence as a new republic
200 Texans, among them Davy Crockett, hold out for twelve days in San Antonio before being killed in the Alamo by a Mexican army
Sarah and Angelina Grimké join the abolitionist crusade, each publishing a powerful anti-slavery pamphlet in the same year
Sam Houston destroys a Mexican army near the San Jacinto river, completing the seizure of Texas from Mexico
In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism
In The American Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson urges his student audience to heed their own intellectuals rather than those of Europe
Oberlin College in Ohio becomes the first in the USA to enrol women as degree students
Rebellions in Canada reveal widespread discontent with the British administration, particularly among the French settlers
US inventor Samuel Morse gives the first public demonstration, in Philadelphia, of his electric telegraph
Five American Indian tribes are forcibly escorted to a new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi in the process that becomes known as the Great Removal
John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume Birds of America
US naval officer Charles Wilkes leads a four-year exploration of the Antarctic and Pacific, proving on the way that Antarctica is a continent
In his Divinity School Address, delivered at Harvard, Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes formal religion and gives priority to personal spiritual experience
US author Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Fanshawe, his first novel, at his own expense
Edgar Allan Poe publishes a characteristically gothic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher
Mutiny by slaves on a Spanish vessel leads two years later to a significant abolitionist victory in the Amistad case
Joseph Smith and the Mormons create the thriving town of Nauvoo in Illinois on the Mississippi
Lord Durham produces his Report on the Affairs of British North America, proposing reforms in the administration of Canada
The first issue of the quarterly magazine The Dial is issued by the Transcendentalists meeting at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home
US lawyer Richard Henry Dana has immediate popular success with Two Years Before the Mast, his account of his time as a merchant seaman
Herman Melville goes to sea on the whaler Acushnet and spends moe than a year in the south Pacific
August Dupin solves the case in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first example of a detective story
Brook Farm, the most famous of the Charles Fourier phalanxes, is established at Dedham near Boston
Horace Greeley founds and edits the New-York Tribune, which will survive for more than a century (till 1966
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and Other Poems includes 'The Village Blacksmith' and 'The Wreck of the Hesperus'
