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Events relating to america
Nat Turner leads a revolt by fellow slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, killing 59 whites and provoking more repressive legislation
Evangelical preacher Charles Grandison Finney leads a new wave of revivalism in the northeastern states
English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay
The USA suffers the first of several cholera epidemics, spanning the sixty years to 1892
Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers
Antonio López de Santa Anna begins the first of five spells as president of Mexico
Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery
Benjamin Henry Day establishes a new penny daily in New York, the Sun, which lasts until 1966
The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers
The opponents of US president Andrew Jackson, mockingly called King Andrew, become known as the Whig party
American novelist William Gilmore Simms publishes Guy Rivers, the first of his series known as the Border Romances
Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator of Argentina and imposes a brutally repressive conservative regime
The New York Sun gains new readers with a convincing report that astronomer John Herschel has observed men and animals on the moon
Alexis de Tocqueville publishes in French the first two volumes of his extremely influential study Democracy in America
A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains
The Partisan, set in South Carolina, launches the series of novels by William Gilmore Simms known as the Revolutionary Romances
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
American professor William Holmes McGuffey writes the first of his immensely popular school reading books
In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism
Martin van Buren, previously vice-president to Andrew Jackson, wins the US presidential election on the Democratic ticket
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
