Famous Debate
Feb 15 Beginning of the famous debate between French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on animal structure
Hernani
Feb 25 Victor Hugo's play "Hernani" premieres in Paris
- 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
- Mar 28 Javanese Prince Diponegoro, leader of resistance against Dutch colonial rule is arrested by Dutch authorities during peace negotiations
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Apr 6 Joseph Smith and 5 others officially organize the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York
- 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 the manufacture of his invention, a 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" by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published by Boston firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon
- May 24 1st regular passenger rail service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, horse-drawn rail cars connect Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills
Trail of Tears
May 28 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears
- 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 and 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
Horse in Race Against a Train
Aug 28 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!
- Sep 9 Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ, a dsstance of about 25 miles, covered in 3 hours
- Sep 15 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
- Sep 15 First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia
- Sep 15 First passenger to be killed by a railway train (William Huskisson in England)
- Sep 16 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes poem "Old Ironsides" as tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution
- 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 hundreds 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 7 The Black Line begins; a leveé of colonists in Tasmania, Australia, attempts to round up Aborigines onto the Tasman Peninsula [1]
- Oct 26 Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp
- Oct 27 Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)
Election of Interest
Nov 22 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
