| January 21 | Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa |
| January 28 | William Kneass becomes 3rd U.S. chief engraver (1824-40) |
| February 4 | J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public |
| February 10 | Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru |
| February 16 | Athenaeum founded |
| March 2 | Interstate commerce comes under federal control |
| March 7 | Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice |
| March 11 | U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| March 17 | England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement |
| March 21 | Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses |
| March 26 | 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" |
| April 17 | Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N |
| May 2 | Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald) |
| May 7 | Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna |
| May 24 | Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee |
| May 26 | Brazil is recognized by U.S. |
| June 8 | Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec |
| June 17 | Bureau of Indian Affairs established |
| July 24 | Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson |
| July 30 | Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris |
| August 6 | Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish |
| August 14 | General Lafayette returns to U.S. |
| August 15 | Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia |
| September 26 | Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives |
| October 4 | Mexico becomes a republic |
| October 21 | Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England) |
| October 23 | 1st steam locomotive is introduced |
| November 2 | Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams |
| November 7 | St. Petersburg flood |
| November 15 | Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland) |
| November 16 | New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business |
| November 19 | Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 |
| November 21 | 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC |
| December 1 | House of Representatives begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams, |
| December 1 | Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president |
| December 9 | Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain |
| December 16 | Great North Holland Canal opens |
