President:
Pres: James Monroe reelected over John Quincy Adams
General
- Land: US Land Law fixes land price at minimum of $1.25 per acre
- Politics: Missouri Compromise allows slavery in Missouri, but nowhere else west of the Mississippi, and Maine as free state
Henry Clay suggests Pan- American movement
- Sports: "Ballown" soccer played for first time in US
East
- Maine: Splits from Massachusetts
In union as #23
- New York: Edmund Kean appears onstage as Richard III
- Pennsylvania: Unknown fever breaks out
Midwest
South
- Alabama: Hurricane in Mobile kills 200
- Louisiana: New Orleans becomes major international port
Poker invented in New Orleans
- Texas: First US settlers in Texas
West and Pacific