See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 1 - Constitutionalist military insurrection at Cadiz leads to summoning of Spanish
parliament (March 7) and restoration of 1812 Constitution (March 8) by king
Ferdinand VII.
January 29 -
George the Prince Regent becomes king George IV of the United Kingdom,
ending the period known as the English Regency.
January 30 - Edward Bransfield discovers Antarctica.
February 6 - 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown,
Sierra Leone.
February 23 - The Cato Street conspiracy is exposed. The principals are executed on May 1.
March 3 & March 6 - The Missouri Compromise becomes law in the United States.
March 15 - Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.
Spring - Joseph Smith, Jr. at age 14 claims to be visited in a vision by God and Jesus Christ
(Tradition holds that this occurred on April 6).
July Constitutionalist revolution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
August 24 - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; revolution in Lisbon, September 15.
October 9 - Guayaquil declare independence from Ecuador.
October 25-November 20 - Congress of Troppau (Opava) between rulers of Russia,
Austria and Prussia.
November -
James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
November 17 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the
Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
6th Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica begins appearing.
Republic of Buenos Aires (Argentina) establishes penal colony in Falkland Islands.
Venus de Milo found on island of Melos.
Hans Christian Orsted discovers relationship between electricity and magnetism.
Births:
January 13 -
Johannes Soeteman.
January 17 -
Anne Bronte, author.
February 5 -
Aaltje de Witte.
February 8 -
William Tecumseh Sherman, soldier (+ 1891).
February 15 -
Susan B. Anthony, US suffragist.
February 28 -
John Tenniel, illustrator.
March 14 -
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
May 6 -
Jacomijntje (Jacomina) van den Houten.
May 12 -
Florence Nightingale, nurse (+ 1910).
May 27 -
Mathilde Bonaparte, hostess and socialite.
June 1 -
Jan Dorleyn.
July 23 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
July 23 -
Julia Gardiner Tyler, later First Lady of the United States..
July 29 -
Krina van den Houten.
August 1 -
Dina van Westenbrugge.
August 14 -
Kommertje van den Ouden.
August 30 -
Arjaantje van Splunder.
September 27 -
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, classical scholar.
September 29 -
Henry, Duke of Bordeaux, posthumous son of the Duke of Berry,
future Comte de Chambord and claimant to the French throne.
Harriet Tubman, anti-slavery resistance movement leader.
October 13 -
Leendert Brouwers.
October 14 -
Gerbrand van den Houten.
October 27 -
Leendert Beije.
November 11 -
Cornelia van Dorp.
November 15 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
November 20 -
Leentje van den Houten.
November 25 -
Jacob Vreeswijk.
November 28 -
Leentje van den Houten.
December 24 -
Jacomijntje Volaart.
Deaths:
January 29 -
King George III of the United Kingdom.
February 14 -
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, stabbed on February 13.
March 22 -
Stephen Decatur, sailor.
March 27 -
Christophorus (Christoffel) van den Houten.
April 10 -
Jacob (Jakob) van den Houten.
June 19 - Sir
Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist.
September 3 -
Benjamin Latrobe, architect.
September 7 -
Plona van den Houten.
October 29 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
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