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List of events
Events from the year 1841 in the United States . It was the first calendar year to have three different presidents, which would only occur again in
1881 .
Incumbents
Events
March 4:
William Henry Harrison becomes the ninth U.S. president
John Tyler becomes the tenth U.S. vice president
April 4: President
Harrison dies in office; Vice President
Tyler succeeds him as the tenth U.S. president
January 30 – A fire destroys 300 of the 500 housing units in
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico ,
Spanish Empire .
February 18–March 11 – First ongoing
filibuster in the
United States Senate .
February 24 –
Richland County is chartered by the
Illinois General Assembly .
March 4 –
William Henry Harrison is sworn in as the ninth
president of the United States , and
John Tyler is sworn in as the tenth
vice president .
March 9 –
Amistad : The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in the case that the
Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into
slavery illegally.
April 4 – President
William Henry Harrison dies of
pneumonia , becoming the first
president of the United States to die in office and at one month, the president with the shortest term served. He is succeeded by
Vice President
John Tyler , who becomes the tenth president of the United States.
April 6 – President
John Tyler is sworn in.
April 20 –
Edgar Allan Poe 's
short story "
The Murders in the Rue Morgue " is published in
Graham's Magazine (
Philadelphia ) (of which he became editor in February). The story will be recognized as the first significant work of
detective fiction .
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June 21 –
Fordham University is opened in
The Bronx by the
Society of Jesus as St. John's College.
July 28 –
Mary Rogers , the "Beautiful Cigar Girl", is found murdered in New York City.
August 16 – President
John Tyler vetoes a
bill which called for the re-establishment of the
Second Bank of the United States . Enraged
Whig Party members riot outside the
White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
September 17 –
John C. Colt murders Samuel Adams in an argument over a business debt in New York City.
c. November – The city of
Dallas in Texas is founded by
John Neely Bryan .
Frederick Douglass speaks at the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society Convention.
Iconic chocolate company
Whitman's is established when Stephen F. Whitman opens a small retail "confectionery and fruiterer shop" at Third and Market Streets in Philadelphia.
P. T. Barnum purchases
Scudder's American Museum in New York City.
John Augustus develops the concept of
probation in
Boston , Massachusetts, by standing bail for lesser offenders.
The first steam self-propelled
fire engine in the U.S. is completed by
Paul Rapsey Hodge for use in New York City.
Ongoing
Births
March 1 –
Blanche Bruce , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1875 to 1881 (died
1898 )
March 8 –
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1935 )
March 10 –
Ina Coolbrith , poet (died
1928 )
May 10 –
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. , newspaper publisher (died
1918 )
April 8 –
William J. Babcock ,
Medal of Honor recipient (died
1897 )
May 15
June 1 –
Edward Lyon Buchwalter , businessman (died
1933 )
July 5 –
Mary Arthur McElroy , de facto
First Lady of the United States from 1881 to 1885 (died
1917 )
July 11 –
James A. Barber ,
Medal of Honor recipient (died
1925 )
September 8 –
Charles J. Guiteau , assassin of President
James A. Garfield (executed
1882 )
October 12 –
Joseph O'Dwyer , physician (died 1898)
October 18 –
Bishop W. Perkins , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1892 to 1893 (died
1894 )
October 29 –
William Harris , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1897 to 1903 (died
1909 )
November 6 –
Nelson W. Aldrich , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911 (died
1915 )
November 13 –
Edward Burd Grubb, Jr. ,
American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (died 1913)
December 8 –
Thomas R. Bard , U.S. Senator from California from 1900 to 1905 (died 1915)
Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier , physician (died
1915 )
Deaths
William Henry Harrison
See also
References
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