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1832 – 1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson reelected president; Martin Van Buren elected vice president. 1832 – Jackson vetoes the charter renewal of the Second Bank of the United States, bringing to a head the Bank War and ultimately leading to the Panic of 1837. December 28, 1832 – Calhoun resigns as vice president.
May 5 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) begins when companies of the United States Marine Corps land in the Dominican Republic. May 15 – Lynching of Jesse Washington: Jesse Washington, a black farmhand, is brutally lynched in Robinson, Texas by a crowd of white people, for allegedly murdering his employers' wife.
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
July 30 – Richard Rush, 8th United States Attorney General and 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1780) August 2 – Horace Mann, educator and abolitionist (born 1796) August 15 – Nathaniel Claiborne, politician (born 1777) September 2 – Delia Bacon, playwright and writer on the Shakespeare authorship question (born 1811)
September 15 – William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930 (died 1930) October 7 – George P. McLean, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1911 to 1923 (died 1932) October 17 – Mary Abbott, golfer (died 1904) [4]
Wilson was the second of just four presidents in United States history to win re-election with a lower percentage of the electoral vote than in their prior elections, after James Madison in 1812, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 and Barack Obama in 2012.
Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
This article provides a list of "notable deployments of the United States military forces overseas" from 1798 through April 2023, as reported by the US Congressional Research Service (CRS), [1] an office of the United States Congress. [2]