Date | Event |
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Jan 7 |
1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore) |
Jan 13 |
Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves |
Jan 21 |
Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported |
Jan 28 |
Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris |
Feb 3 |
The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol. |
Feb 25 |
Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris |
Mar 4 |
V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice |
Mar 10 |
The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created. |
Mar 16 |
London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) |
Mar 16 |
New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded) |
Mar 26 |
The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. |
Apr 6 |
Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY |
Apr 11 |
Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini |
May 3 |
1st regular steam train passenger service starts |
May 13 |
Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president |
May 18 |
Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever |
May 20 |
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American) |
May 20 |
D Hyde patents fountain pen |
May 24 |
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" is published |
May 24 |
1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland) |
May 28 |
US Congress authorizes native Indian removal from all states to western prairie |
Jun 12 |
Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch. |
Jul 5 |
France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest |
Jul 15 |
Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, sign fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri |
Jul 27 |
Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X |
Aug 2 |
Charles X of France abdicates in favour of his grandson the Duc de Bordeaux |
Aug 4 |
Plans for city of Chicago laid out |
Aug 9 |
Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X |
Aug 25 |
Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins the Belgian Revolution |
Aug 28 |
1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb", runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill |
Sep 9 |
Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ |
Sep 15 |
1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila |
Sep 15 |
1st person to be run over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England) |
Sep 15 |
Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway |
Sep 16 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides" |
Sep 20 |
1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods |
Sep 23 |
Dutch troops occupy Brussels |
Sep 27 |
Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed |
Oct 1 |
General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam |
Oct 4 |
Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands |
Oct 5 |
King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army |
Oct 26 |
Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp |
Oct 27 |
Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution) |
Nov 22 |
Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
Nov 29 |
November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins. |
Dec 5 |
Hector Berlioz' "Symphonique Fantastique" premieres in Paris |
Dec 20 |
Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium |
Dec 25 |
Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic" premieres |
Dec 26 |
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan |
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