1834

Events from the year 1834 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Andrew Jackson (D-TN)
* Vice President: Martin Van Buren (D-NY)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Andrew Stevenson (D-VA) (until June 2), John Bell (W-TN) (starting June 2)
* Congress: 23rd
==Events==
* January 25 – Hillsborough County is created by Florida's territorial legislature.
* March 11 – United States Survey of the Coast transferred to the Department of the Navy.
* March 28 – The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States (censure expunged in 1837).
* April 14 – The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay.
* June 30 – the 6th Indian Trade and Intercourse Act is updated and renewed Indian Territory is effective.
* July 7 – Anti-abolitionist riots in New York City.
* July 29 – Office of Indian Affairs organized.
* August 11 – Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston begins.
* August 12 – Ursuline Convent Riots ends.
* October 31 – Solon Robinson settled in the location that would eventually become Crown Point, Indiana.
* November 4 – Delta Upsilon fraternity founded at Williams College.
* November 11 – The rare 1804 dollar coin is struck by the United States Mint.
==Memoriam==
* February 2 – Lorenzo Dow, minister (aged 56; Georgetown, MD, USA)
* February 18 – William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (aged 61; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 28 – Isaac D. Barnard, U.S. Senator from 1827 to 1831 (aged 42; West Chester, PA, USA)
* May 20 – Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War (aged 76; Paris, France)
* July 26 – Jonathan Jennings, 1st governor of Indiana (aged 50, Charlestown, IN, USA)
* August 24 – William Kelly, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (aged 47; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* September 15 – William H. Crawford, politician and judge (aged 62; Crawford, GA, USA)
* October 10 – Thomas Say, naturalist (aged 47; New Harmony, IN, USA)
* October 31 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (aged 63; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
==External links==
* 1834 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 6