President:
Pres: Martin Van Buren
Pres: William Henry Harrison inaugurated and dies
Pres: John Tyler
General
- Abolition: Frederick Douglass delivers anti-slavery speech
- Culture: First university degrees granted to women in America
- Medicine: Yellow Fever outbreak
- Politics: Tyler becomes first president due to death of Harrison of pheumonia
Tyler's cabinet resigns but Daniel Webster remains as Secretary of State
East
- Massachusetts: "October Gale"
- New York: New York Tribune appears
Barnum opens "American Museum" with exhibition of freaks and curios
Midwest
South
- Florida: Hurricane in St. Jo
- Texas: Sam Houston reelected president of independent republic of Texas
West and Pacific