1835 in the United States

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Events

• January 30 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol - first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
• May 6 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• June 2 - P.T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.
• August 25 - The Great Moon Hoax begins.

Thomas Viaduct

• July 4 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world.
• December 16 - Fire in New York City destroys 530 buildings
• December 19 - Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
• December 28 - Seminole chief Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in Central Florida - it means the outbreak of the Second Seminole War.
• December 29 - The Treaty of New Echota, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi to the United States, is signed.

• The Toledo War was fought between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.
• Independent Order of Rechabites founded as part of temperance movement

See also

• 1834 in the United States
• 1835
• 1835 in Canada
• 1835 in Mexico
• 1836 in the United States