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Events relating to america
Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, inherits the throne of Portugal (as Pedro IV) but continues to rule from Brazil
Bolívar attempts to create a pan-American gathering in the Congress of Panama
In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief
Lavalleja defeats a Brazilian army at Ituzaingó, in the decisive battle for Uruguayan independence
With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting
After little more than two years of quarrelsome existence, Robert Owen's community at New Harmony comes to an end
Conservative 'bigwigs' and liberal 'novices' emerge as Chile's two main political parties
Connecticut lexicographer Noah Webster publishes the definitive 2-volume scholarly edition of his American Dictionary of the English Language
The independence of Uruguay is agreed in the Treaty of Montevideo between Brazil and Argentina
The Cherokees adopt an American-style constitution and publish the first American-Indian newspaper
Adult white males now have the vote in almost all the states of the USA
Andrew Jackson, elected president of the USA, introduces the era known as Jacksonian democracy
20-year-old Edgar Allan Poe publishes Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems
The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies
A network of undercover abolitionists in the southern states of America help slaves escape to freedom in the north
Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem 'Old Ironsides' prompts a public response that saves the frigate from the scrapyard
Bolívar resigns as president of Gran Colombia shortly before dying of tuberculosis
Sucre is assassinated on his journey home to Quito from a congress in Bogotá
Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, to push the American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi
The Book of Mormon, translated from miraculously discovered holy tablets, is published by their finder Joseph Smith
Diego Portales begins a 30-year spell as Chile's conservative dictator
Panama becomes part of the newly independent rebublic of Colombia
Pedro I abdicates in Brazil and returns to Europe to recover his Portuguese throne (as Pedro IV)
Samuel Francis Smith's patriotic hymn America is sung for the first time on July 4 in Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem The Last Leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea Party
