April 4 – The
United States Congress adopts the
flag of the United States as having thirteen red and white stripes, and one star for each state (twenty), with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
April 7 – Brooks Brothers, the oldest men's clothier in the United States, opens its first store on the northeast corner of Catherine and Cherry Streets in New York City, where the later
South Street Seaport stands.
April 14–
August 9 – The United States Survey of the Coast operations is suspended.
July 3 – English poet
Lord Byron, resident in Italy, begins work on his satirical epic Don Juan. Although he completes the first
canto by September 19, he will die in
1824 before he can finish the poem, after completing 16
cantos and working on the 17th.[8]
July 11 – The
Bank of the United States reverses its policy of expanding credit, and sends notices to its borrowers nationwide demanding immediate repayment of balances due; the defaults during the next six months will trigger the
Panic of 1819.[9]
July 15 – U.S. President
James Monroe convenes a cabinet meeting, to discuss whether General
Andrew Jackson's unauthorized invasion and conquest of
Spanish Florida should be disavowed by the White House. Secretary of State
John Quincy Adams persuades the President that the action is justifiable, in stopping terror caused by the Seminole tribes.[10]
July 29 – French physicist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the
Diffraction of Light" to the
French Academy of Sciences, precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of
light.
July 31 – The first newspaper in
Cleveland,
Ohio is issued by publisher Andrew Logan.[11] Using the original name of the small settlement (population 172), Logan names the weekly paper The Cleaveland Gazette & Commercial Register.[12]
^Robert Huish, The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. to the Arctic Regions (J. Saunders, 1835) p77
^
abJohn Styles, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. George Canning, Volume 2 (Thomas Tegg, 1828) pp270-273
^John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Henry Colburn Co., 1833) p xxxiii
^Jean Frédéric Ostervald, et al., Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan, by Way of the Simplon (R. Ackermann, 1820) pp43-44
^The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature April 1826. p. 150.
^Jump, John D. (2016). Byron. London: Routledge. p. 103.
^"Congressional Register", Niles Weekly Register July 3, 1824. p. 251.
^Pyle, Christopher H.; Pious, Richard M. (1984). The President, Congress, and the Constitution: Power and Legitimacy in American Politics. Simon and Schuster. p. 294.
^Alaidrus, Syarivah (April 27, 2010).
"Martha Christina Si Pemberani dari Timur" [Martha Christina, the Brave One from the East]. Kompas (in Indonesian). Jakarta. Archived from
the original on April 22, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
April 4 – The
United States Congress adopts the
flag of the United States as having thirteen red and white stripes, and one star for each state (twenty), with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
April 7 – Brooks Brothers, the oldest men's clothier in the United States, opens its first store on the northeast corner of Catherine and Cherry Streets in New York City, where the later
South Street Seaport stands.
April 14–
August 9 – The United States Survey of the Coast operations is suspended.
July 3 – English poet
Lord Byron, resident in Italy, begins work on his satirical epic Don Juan. Although he completes the first
canto by September 19, he will die in
1824 before he can finish the poem, after completing 16
cantos and working on the 17th.[8]
July 11 – The
Bank of the United States reverses its policy of expanding credit, and sends notices to its borrowers nationwide demanding immediate repayment of balances due; the defaults during the next six months will trigger the
Panic of 1819.[9]
July 15 – U.S. President
James Monroe convenes a cabinet meeting, to discuss whether General
Andrew Jackson's unauthorized invasion and conquest of
Spanish Florida should be disavowed by the White House. Secretary of State
John Quincy Adams persuades the President that the action is justifiable, in stopping terror caused by the Seminole tribes.[10]
July 29 – French physicist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the
Diffraction of Light" to the
French Academy of Sciences, precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of
light.
July 31 – The first newspaper in
Cleveland,
Ohio is issued by publisher Andrew Logan.[11] Using the original name of the small settlement (population 172), Logan names the weekly paper The Cleaveland Gazette & Commercial Register.[12]
^Robert Huish, The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. to the Arctic Regions (J. Saunders, 1835) p77
^
abJohn Styles, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. George Canning, Volume 2 (Thomas Tegg, 1828) pp270-273
^John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Henry Colburn Co., 1833) p xxxiii
^Jean Frédéric Ostervald, et al., Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan, by Way of the Simplon (R. Ackermann, 1820) pp43-44
^The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature April 1826. p. 150.
^Jump, John D. (2016). Byron. London: Routledge. p. 103.
^"Congressional Register", Niles Weekly Register July 3, 1824. p. 251.
^Pyle, Christopher H.; Pious, Richard M. (1984). The President, Congress, and the Constitution: Power and Legitimacy in American Politics. Simon and Schuster. p. 294.
^Alaidrus, Syarivah (April 27, 2010).
"Martha Christina Si Pemberani dari Timur" [Martha Christina, the Brave One from the East]. Kompas (in Indonesian). Jakarta. Archived from
the original on April 22, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.