Events in History
- Jan 1 Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
- Jan 30 The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
- Feb 11 University College London founded; known until 1836 as London University
- Feb 13 American Temperance Society forms in Boston
- Feb 24 The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War
- Feb 28 Biela's Comet rediscovered by Austrian astronomer Wilhelm von Biela (originally discovered 1772)
- Mar 4 1st US railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts
- Mar 14 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
- Apr 1 Samuel Morey is issued the first U.S. patent for an internal-combustion engine, which he calls a “Gas or Vapour Engine"
- Apr 10 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
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Francisco Solano López
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- Feb 5 Future US President Millard Fillmore (26) weds Abigail Powers (27)
- Oct 17 Historian Thomas Carlyle (30) weds Jane Welsh (25)
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