Events in History
- Jan 9 Daguerreotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
- Jan 10 First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam, India arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate] [1]
- Aug 19 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
- Sep 5 The First Opium War begins in China
- Nov 25 Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people.
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- Jan 29 English naturalist and "On the Origin of Species" author Charles Darwin (42) marries Emma Wedgwood (41)
- Jun 18 Dutch prince Willem Alexander (later William III) weds cousin Princess Sophia
- Jul 25 British PM William Gladstone (29) weds Catherine Glynne (27) in England
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