1839 in the United States
Events from the year 1839 in the United States.
Incumbents
Events
- February 11 – The University of Missouri is established in Columbia, Missouri, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River.
- March 5 – Longwood University is founded in Farmville, Virginia.
- March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland.
- March 23 – The Boston Morning Post first records the use of "OK" (oll korrect).
- August 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
- September 9 – In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.
- November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- November 27 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
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