1835 in the United States

1835 in the United States
Decades:	1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s
Years:	1832 1833 1834 – 1835 – 1836 1837 1838
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Events from the year 1835 in the United States.

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January 30: First assassination attempt against a President.

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.^[1]
May 6 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
June 2 – P. T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.
August 25 – The Great Moon Hoax begins.

July 4: Thomas Viaduct completed.

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.
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 16–17 – The Great Fire of New York destroys 530–700 buildings and kills two.
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.

The Toledo War was fought between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory over the city of Toledo and the Toledo Strip.
Independent Order of Rechabites founded as part of temperance movement
Judge William Harper of South Carolina rules that a person's acceptance as white, not the proportion of white and black blood, determine a person's race.
Fort Cass is established, the military headquarters and site of the largest internment camps during the 1838 Trail of Tears.