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| 1831 |
| | | Pedro I abdicates in Brazil and returns to Europe to recover his Portuguese throne (as Pedro IV) | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers | |
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| 1833 |
| | | The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers | |
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| 1835 |
| | | Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator of Argentina and imposes a brutally repressive conservative regime | |
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| 1835 |
| | | The Partisan, set in South Carolina, launches the series of novels by William Gilmore Simms known as the Revolutionary Romances | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Uruguay between the Reds and the Whites, followers respectively of Rivera and Oribe | |
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| 1840 |
| | | The 14-year-old Dom Pedro, son of Pedro I, becomes emperor of Brazil as Pedro II | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Herman Melville goes to sea on the whaler Acushnet and spends moe than a year in the south Pacific | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Wilmot Proviso is defeated in the US Senate, heightening north-south tensions on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives from exile in South America to defend the new Roman republic against a French army | |
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