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- September 18 - The Fugitive Slave Act, written by Senator James Murray Mason, is signed into law by President Millard Fillmore. The Act mandates that all escaped slaves, upon capture, are to be returned to the slaver and that officials and citizens of free states have to cooperate.
- December - Beginning of the Mariposa War.