·         Andrew Jackson is sworn in as the seventh President of the United States, and John C. Calhoun is sworn in for his second term as Vice President of the United States.

·         The Philadelphia Inquirer is founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer.

·         William Austin Burt obtains the first patent for a typographer (typewriter).

·         James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist, leaves a bequest of £100,000 to fund the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

·          Cincinnati riots of 1829

·         The Georgia Gold Rush begins as the country's first significant gold rush following the discovery of gold on October 27, 1828, by Benjamin Parks in the old Hall County, Georgia.