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October 6 – The United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island. November 4 – 1884 United States presidential election: Democratic governor of New York Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.
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.
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)
February 18 – Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the United States. February 21 – United States President Chester A. Arthur dedicates the Washington Monument. March 3 – A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
June 2 – Willard Saulsbury, Sr., U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1859 to 1871 (died 1892) July 5 – Luke Pryor, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (died 1900) July 23 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (died 1889) July 31 – John W. Garrett, banker, railroad president and philanthropist (died 1884)
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:
A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Roosevelt-Taft Administration (8 vols.). Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000) online version "1884 Election Cleveland v. Blaine Overview", HarpWeek, July 26, 2008. Roberts, North (2004).