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Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
July 2 – Robert H. Adams, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1830 (born 1792) August 6 – David Walker, African American abolitionist and writer (born 1796) August 9 – James Armistead Lafayette, African American slave, Continental Army double agent (born 1748 or 1760) September 24 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (born 1768)
The first English people to arrive in America were the members of the Roanoke Colony who came to North Carolina in July 1587, with 17 women, 91 men, and 9 boys as the founding colonists. On August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare was born in the colony; she was the first English child born in the territory of the United States.
1830 Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), painter; Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (1830–1906), painter; Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), photographer; Granville Perkins (1830–1895), painter, engraver; John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), sculptor; 1831 Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (1831–1898), political portrait painter; Hermann Ottomar Herzog ...
The 1830 census asked these questions: [1] Name of head of family; Address; Number of free white males and females in five-year age groups to age 20; in 10-year age groups from 20 to 100; 100 years and older; number of slaves and free colored persons in six age groups; number of deaf and dumb under 14 years old; 14 to 24 years old; 25 years and ...
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
Historians believe that the first cholera pandemic had lingered in Indonesia and the Philippines in 1830. The second cholera pandemic spread from India to Russia and then to the rest of Europe claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. [47] It reached Moscow in August 1830, and by 1831, the epidemic had infiltrated Russia's main cities and towns.
1830s in American law (11 C) P. 1830s in American politics (12 C, 2 P) Presidency of Andrew Jackson (6 C, 24 P) ... 1830 in the United States; 1831 in the United States;