1823

Events from the year 1823 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: Philip P. Barbour (DR-VA) (until March 4), Henry Clay (DR-KY) (starting December 1)
* Congress: 17th (until March 4), 18th (starting March 4)
==Events==
* February 3 – Jackson Male Academy, precursor of Union University, opens in Tennessee.
* August 4 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, the Mexican government administrator in charge of Anglo-American immigration into Mexico's state of Coahuila y Tejas, allows Stephen F. Austin to put together an 11-man police force, that will later be expanded to become the Texas Ranger Division.
* August 9 – The Arikara War breaks out between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians.
* August 23 – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a sow grizzly bear and left for dead in the Missouri Territory. He crawls 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in The Revenant.
* September 22 – Joseph Smith first goes to the place near Manchester, New York, where the golden plates are stored, having been directed there by God through an angel (according to what he writes in 1838).
* November 15 – Lone Horn succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the Minneconjou Sioux; he will be chief until his death on October 16, 1875.
* December 2 – Monroe Doctrine: U.S. President James Monroe delivers a speech to the U.S. Congress, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
* December 23 – A Visit From St. Nicholas, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, is first published.
==Memoriam==
* January 21 – Gideon Olin, politician (aged 79; Shaftsbury, VT, USA)
* April 18 – George Cabot, merchant, seaman and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1791 to 1796 (aged 70; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 23 – John Williams Walker, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1819 to 1822 (aged 39; Huntsville, AL, USA)
* September 28 – Charlotte Melmoth, tragic actress (aged 74; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* October 8 – Martin D. Hardin, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1816 to 1817 (aged 43; Frankfort, KY, USA)
==External links==
* 1823 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5