1824

Events from the year 1824 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: James Monroe (DR-VA)
* Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-NY)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (DR-KY)
* Congress: 18th
==Events==
* March 32 – U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed by John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress.
* April 1 – The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.
* April 15 – To defend the Cherokees' possession of their land, chief John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.
* May 15 – A boiler explosion occurs on the steamship Aetna, under way in Upper New York Bay, killing more than ten passengers and injuring many more.
* May 26 – Arkansas Territory split creates Indian Territory.
* August 16 – Lafayette visits the United States, departing on September 7, 1825.
* October 26 – U.S. presidential election opens. Andrew Jackson will receive more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the first election in which this vote is reported.
* November 1 – Miami University (chartered 1809) delivers its first classes in Oxford, Ohio.
* November 5 – Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which becomes the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.
* November 15 – Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the Arkansas and the Saline River.
* December 1 – U.S. presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution).
* December 24
** Chief Pushmataha of the Choctaw Nation dies in Washington.
** The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is founded at Princeton University.
==Memoriam==
* March 2 – Susanna Rowson, novelist, poet and playwright (aged 62; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 3 – Sally Seymour, pastry chef and restaurateur (aged 45; Charleston, SC, USA)
* July 14 – Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii (aged 26; London, England, UK)
* August 12 – Charles Nerinckx, founder of the Sisters of Loretto (aged 62; Ste. Genevieve, MO, USA)
* December 24 – Pushmataha, Choctaw chief (aged 60; Washington, DC, USA)
==External links==
* 1824 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5