Event of Interest
Jan 19 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1" premieres

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Feb 2 Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral on fire, does £60,000 damage
- Mar 2 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
President Inaugurated
Mar 4 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President

Andrew Jackson
- Mar 4 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
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Mar 11 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin

Felix Mendelssohn

Johann Sebastian Bach
- Mar 16 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
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Mar 17 Final performance by famous clown Joseph Grimaldi at a benefit performance at Sadler's Wells, London

Joseph Grimaldi
- Mar 22 The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
- Apr 9 Danzig (Gdańsk) dike break flood kills 1,200
- Apr 13 The Roman Catholic Relief Act passed by the British Parliament; it was the culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout the UK.
- Apr 25 Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom
- Apr 28 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
- May 2 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia
Event of Interest
May 15 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith
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Jun 19 Sir Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London

Robert Peel
1st U.S. Typographer
Jul 23 William Austin Burt patents America's first "typographer" (typewriter)
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Music Premiere
Aug 3 Gioachino Rossini's last and greatest opera "Guillaume Tell" (William Tell) premieres at Salle Le Peletier in Paris

Gioachino Rossini
- Aug 8 French government of De Polignac forms
- Aug 9 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
- Aug 16 Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
- Aug 25 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
- Sep 12 Greek War of Independence ends after 8 years and 6 months
- Sep 14 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
- Sep 24 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
Assassination Attempt
Sep 25 Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar

Simón Bolívar
- Sep 28 Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
- Sep 29 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital
- Oct 1 South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
- Oct 16 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
- Oct 17 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens
- Oct 17 1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser
- Oct 25 Eastern State Penitentiary is opened in Pennsylvanian, the 1st prison in the United States to entirely use the solitary confinement system
- Nov 20 Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol, Russia
- Nov 30 First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the groundbreaking
- Dec 4 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
- Dec 21 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore