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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ention at Baltimore, Md.......May, 1835 [Martin Van Buren, of New York, nominated for President; Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, for Vice-President.] Anti-slavery documents taken from the mail and burned at Charleston, S. C.......August, 1835 Name Loco-focos first applied to the Democratic party......1835 Gen. William H. Harrison, of Ohio, nominated for President, with Francis Granger, of New York, for Vice-President, by a State Whig Convention at Harrisburg, Pa.......1835 Samuel Colt patents a revolving pistol ......1835 Twenty-fourth Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 2, 1835 Speaker of the House, James K. Polk, of Tennessee. The President, in his message, suggests laws to prohibit the circulation of antislavery documents through the mails. Great fire in New York City......Dec. 16-17, 1835 General Thompson, Lieut. C. Smith, and others massacred by the Seminole Indians at Fort King, 60 miles southwest of St. Augustine, Fla.......Dec. 28, 1835
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut, (search)
, 1839 John W. Niles appointed postmastergeneral in Van Buren's cabinet......May 25, 1840 Amendment to article VIII. of the State constitution abolishing freehold qualification for electors, etc., ratified......October, 1845 State Teachers' Association organized......April 7, 1846 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University opened......1847 Act passed for registering births, marriages, and deaths......1848 Isaac Toucey appointed attorney-general......June 21, 1848 Samuel Colt begins the manufacture of revolvers at Hartford......1852 Samuel D. Hubbard appointed postmaster-general......Aug. 31, 1852 Legislature establishes the Supreme Court of Errors and the Superior Court, and abolishes the county courts......May, 1855 Amendment to State constitution ratified, making ability to read the constitution a qualification for electors......October, 1855 Act abolishing school societies and putting the support of schools upon towns, who are to elect a board