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Events:
February 9 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United
States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
February 12 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States
government, and migrate west.
March 4 - John Quincy Adams officially succeeds James Monroe as President of the United
States.
July 6 - The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg
and changed his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-
Glücksburg. The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg later became the Royal
House of Greece, Denmark and Norway.
July 30 - Malden Island discovered.
August 6 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
September 27th The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
in England.
October 26 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
November 26 - At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form
Kappa Alpha as the first college social fraternity (it was the first to combine aspects of secret
Greek-letter societies, literary societies and formalized student social groups).
Decembrist Revolt in Russia.
Births:
January 25 -
George Pickett, Confederate general (+ 1876).
January 31 -
Maria van den Houten.
March 22 -
Jane Sym, future First Lady of Canada (+ 1893).
May 4 -
Johanna van Zuijen.
May 4 -Sir
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist ( 1895).
May 27 -
Adriaan Beije.
August 8 -
Janna Quist.
September 11 -
Eduard Hanslick, music critic ( 1904).
September 13 -
Jacob van den Houten.
October 10 -
Jan Vlaander.
October 22 -
Kaatje van den Houten.
October 23 -
Willemina van den Houten.
October 25 -
Johann Strauss II, composer ( 1899).
October 29 -
Josina van den Houten.
November 9 -
A.P. Hill, Confederate general (+ 1865).
November 11 -
Christoffel van den Houte.
December 16 -
Jacob van de Velde.
December 23 -
Jacob van den Houten.
December 25 -
Bastiaan Meerman.
December 31 -
Sara Sijrier.
Deaths:
January 14 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
January 26 -
Martijntje Adriaantje Kostense (Martine, Maatje, Martina Adriana).
March 19 -
Maria van den Houten.
May 7 -
Antonio Salieri, composer.
May 9 -
Jan Verpoort.
May 19 -
Comte, founder of French socialism.
June 24 -
Adriaan Beije.
October 24 -
Maria van den Houten.
November 17 -
Jacob van den Houten.
December 8 -
Willemina van den Houten.
Guillaume van der Schelde.
Henri Boulard, literary figure.
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