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| Banks in United States suspended specie payments | 1837 |
| Caroline steamer burned at Schlosser, and the crew murdered by the Canadians | 1837 |
| United States Ex. Expedition under Com. Wilkes sailed | 1838 |
| President Steamer lost on the Atlantic, March | 1841 |
| Insurrection in Rhode Island in favor of a new constitution | 1842 |
| Treaty of commerce with China, made by Caleb Cushing | 1844 |
| Philadelphia riots between Americans and Irish | 1844 |
| Postage reduced to five and ten cents in United States | 1845 |
| Texas annexed to United States | 1845 |
| Death of General Jackson, at the age of seventy-eight, June 8 | 1845 |
| United States declared war against Mexico | 1846 |
| Mexicans, 20,000 strong, under Santa Anna, at Buena Vista, defeated by General Taylor, with 5,000 men, Feb. 23 | 1847 |
| Vera Cruz and castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, captured by General Scott, March 29 | 1847 |
| Rice introduced into the United States | 1695 |
| Louisiana settled by the French, at Iberville | 1699 |
