1835

Events from the year 1835 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: John Bell (W-TN) (until March 4), James K. Polk (D-TN) (starting December 7)
* Congress: 23rd (until March 4), 24th (starting March 4)
==Events==
* January 8 – The Federal Government declares that Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt for the first and only time.
* January 30 – Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tries to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol; this is the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
* March 31 – Hostile action opens the Toledo War between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.
* May 6 – James Gordon Bennett Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
* July 4 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed construction of its Thomas Viaduct then the longest bridge in the United States, and second only to London Bridge in the world; the longer Canton Viaduct is completed two weeks later.
* August 1 – P. T. Barnum begins his career as a showman in New York City by displaying Joice Heth, a black woman who he claimed was 161 years old and the former nursemaid of George Washington.
* August 25 – The Great Moon Hoax begins.
* October 2 – Texas Revolution: Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
* December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
* December 16 – The Great Fire of New York begins destroys 530–700 buildings and kills two.
* December 17 – The Great Fire of New York ends.
* December 19 – Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
* December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.
* December 28 – The Second Seminole War breaks out. Seminole fighter Osceola and his warriors attack government agent Thompson outside Fort King in central Florida.
* December 29 – The Treaty of New Echota, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi to the United States, is signed.
==Memoriam==
* February 19 – Amzi Chapin, singer, composer and music teacher (aged 67; Northfield, OH, USA)
* March 15 – Samuel Dinsmoor, teacher, lawyer, banker and politician (aged 68; Kenne, NH, USA)
* April 21 – Samuel Slater, "father of the American Industrial Revolution" (aged 66; Webster, MA, USA)
* May 1 – Elkanah Tisdale, engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (aged 67; Norwich, CT, USA)
* July 6 – John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835 (aged 79; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* August 25 – Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's alleged first love (aged 22; New Salem, IL, USA)
* August 30 – William T. Barry, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1814 to 1816 and U.S. Postmaster General from 1829 to 1835 (aged 51; Liverpool, England, UK)
* September 2 – Sally Hemings, slave and concubine to Thomas Jefferson (aged 62; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* September 15 – Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor and wife of Jefferson Davis (aged 21; St. Francisville, LA, USA)
* November 14 – James Freeman, first American clergyman to call himself a Unitarian (aged 76; Newton, MA, USA)
* December 12 – Elias Kane, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1825 to 1835 (aged 41; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 13 – John Storm, soldier in the American Revolution (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 22 – David Hosack, physician and educator, attending doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel (aged 75; Greene County, IN, USA)
==External links==
* 1835 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 6