Virginius Island

Alfred Beckley graduated from West Point

Claude Crozet appointed state engineer of Virginia

John Jay Jackson Sr resigned his commission as a member of Andrew Jackson's staff during the Seminole War

Daniel Lamb's family moved to Wheeling

The Palladium of Virginia and the Pacific Monitor was founded in Lewisburg

The preliminary survey of Staunton Turnpike was made by Col. Claudius Crozet

Betty Zane died

B&O chartered

Alexander Campbell's wife, Margaret Brown, died

Churches of Berkeley and Jefferson organized ecumenical Sabbath School Union

David E. Jackson, William Sublette and Jedediah Smith became partners in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company

Anne Royall wrote The Tennessean

City of Logan was laid out and first named Lawnsville

The stogie became popular when George W. Black of Wheeling sold the cigars to wagon drivers on the National Road

The Northwestern Virginia Turnpike was chartered by the General Assembly to connect Winchester to Parkersburg

Dick Pointer died.

James Blaine built a gristmill on Blaine Island

George Summers was admitted to the bar

Alexander Withers moved to Harrison County

Philip Pendleton Kennedy wrote an account of his visit to the Blackwater area, Blackwater Chronicle

"Winchester" span of Harpers Ferry bridge was constructed to carry Winchester & Potomac Railroad

Wills De Hass published History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia

Daniel Farnsworth became one of early magistrates in new Upshur County

Morris Harvey served as county jailer

John Jay Jackson Jr. began serving the General Assembly of Virginia as a Whig

Stonewall Jackson left the army to teach at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington

Canal construction on the James River was extended to Buchanan

City of Harpers Ferry was established

Benjamin Kelley became freight agent for the B&O Railroad

Joseph Lightburn left the army at rank of sergeant

Wills De Hass wrote History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia

Mountain Cove Spiritualist Community was founded by James L. Scott

The Virginia legislature approved the charter for railroad to run from the B&O mainline to Parkersburg

William S. Miller planted his first orchard in Gerrardstown

George Summers was the Whig candidate for the first popularly elected governor of Virginia

Bushrod Corbin Washington died

The congregation of the African Zion Baptist Church formally organized for the black community of Malden.

Lemuel Chenoweth designed and built Philippi's covered bridge.

Buckhannon was chartered

Archibald Campbell graduated from Bethany College

James Watson organized the Montana Mining Company

Martin Delany published The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, And Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

William Edwards opened his first coal mines on Paint Creek

Thomas Moore Jackson was born

Jacob Jackson was admitted to the bar

Anna Maria Reeves married Granville E. Jarvis

George Smith Patton graduated the Virginia Military Institute

La Belle Ironworks was founded

Robert E. Lee became superintendent of West Point

Weston's first bank opened its doors

Thomas Lake Harris and James L. Scott jointly led the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community

The Wheeling Intelligencer was established

The Ritchie Mines was discovered by Frederick Lemon

Shinnston was chartered as a town by the General Assembly

David Strother contributed 20 illustrations to John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion

George Summers was elected circuit judge of Kanawha County

Grafton emerged as a city

James O Watson joined with Francis H. Pierpont to open a mine in Fairmont

Wheeling had a library

The Wheeling Intelligencer began

The Potomac River flooded

The Shenandoah River flooded