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Mexico gets it's independence from Spain -
Andrew Jackson is elected president. -
Texans wants independence from Mexico. -
Panic over the economy results in depression -
Boers and Zulus battle in what's now South Africa -
17,000 Cherokees forced to leave their homeland -
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna gets control again over Mexico as a dictator -
The Irish potato famine kills more then one million people -
Freed U.S slaves -
A convention for women right is held in Senera falls it was the first big women convention. -
A failed revolution attempt in Germany fails so some Germans come to the U.S.A -
Gold was found in Sacramento, thousands of people rush to the site -
Poet Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of grass a heart felt book with poems -
The second opium war begins in China -
Shoemakers go on a strike for a higher pay raise