President:
Pres: Martin Van Buren
Pres: William Henry Harrison elected over Van Buren
General
- Business: End of the fur-trapping era
- Culture: Census reveals African-American population at 2.87 million
First wave of US prohibition
- Education: Public school movement begins in US with Horace Mann
- Entertainment: Fanny Elssler the Viennese dancer tours the US until 1842
- Finance: Federal treasury established
- Law: Mercein v. People rules that children owe allegiance to government at birth
- Politics: Manifest Destiny taught
US passes Union Act to unite Canada and try and Free Canada from Britain, but neither party is interested
- Sports: Game of ninepins reaches peak of favor in America
- Technology: Possible date of first flush toilet in America
- Weather: ad year for tornadoes in US
East
- General: Great Swell (tsunami or storm surge) hits Delaware River
- Washington DC: Washington Temperance Society founded
Midwest
South
- Florida: Indian Key massacre
- Mississippi: Tornado hits Natchez killing 300
- Texas: Republic of the Rio Grande (Texas) declares independence to 1841 - southern parts return later this year - north claimed by Republic of Texas by 1845
Juliet Watts of South TX was saved when her corset stops an arrow
West and Pacific