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US poet William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis, written seven years previously at the age of 16
San Martín and O'Higgins lead an army through the Andes into Chile and capture Santiago
An informal financial market on Wall Street is transformed into the New York Stock and Exchange Board
O'Higgins is elected the 'supreme director' of independent Chile after San Martín declines the post
Bolívar returns to Venezuela and builds up an army of liberation in a remote region up the Orinoco
Bernardo O'Higgins introduces liberal reforms in Chile, reducing the privileges of aristocracy and church
Andrew Jackson, attacking settlements in Spanish Florida, launches the first of three wars against the Seminole Indians
The 49th parallel is agreed as the frontier between the USA and Canada
Thomas Cochrane arrives in Valparaiso to take command of the Chilean navy
Spain sells Florida to the USA for $5 million, in return for the waiving of any American claim to Texas
McCulloch v. Maryland defines the tax relationship between the US government and the states
Bolívar marches his army across the Andes, captures Bogotá and proclaims the republic of Gran Colombia
Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book
The Missouri Compromise, admitting Maine and Missouri to the union, keeps the balance between 'free' and 'slave' states in the US senate
7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine
The newly independent republic of Argentina takes possession of Las Islas Malvinas (the Falklands)
The 22-year-old Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro, is made regent of Brazil
The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company
The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper
San Martín enters Lima and proclaims Peruvian independence with himself as 'Protector'
Bolívar defeats the Spanish at Carabobo and liberates, for the second time, his native city of Caracas
A reactionary movement led by Agustín de Iturbide wins new and lasting independence for Mexico
The Shaker settlements, now widespread in the US, form The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
The spoken language of the Cherokee Indians is captured in written form – an achievement traditionally attributed to Sequoyah
