hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for May 8th, 1844 AD or search for May 8th, 1844 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Upshur, Secretary of State, Mr. Gilmer, Secretary of Navy, David Gardiner, and others, besides wounding twelve of the crew......Feb. 28, 1844 Treaty of annexation with Texas signed......April 12, 1844 [Rejected by the Senate, 35 to 16.] National Whig Convention at Baltimore......May 1, 1844 [Henry Clay, of Kentucky, nominated for President, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, for Vice-President.] Riots in Philadelphia between native Americans and the Irish......May 6-8, 1844 National Democratic convention at Baltimore, Md.......May 27, 1844 [Martin Van Buren, of New York, received on the first ballot 146 out of 266 votes, but failed to get the required twothirds vote; his name was withdrawn on the eighth ballot, and James K. Polk, of Tennessee, was nominated on the ninth; Silas Wright, of New York, was nominated for Vice-President, but declined, and George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was nominated.] First telegraphic communications in the United States