See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo.
February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad
offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered.
April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister.
May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening
Standard.
June -
Nicéphore Nièpce makes a true photograph.
July 6 - Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks
agree to an armistice in Greece.
August 31 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister
of the U.K. following the death of Canning.
October 20 - Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy
the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.
September 21 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold
plates, one-third of which is translated into The Book of Mormon.
Births:
March 2 -
Jacoba van den Houten.
March 8 -
Wilhelm Bleek, linguist, (+ 1875).
March 11 -
Maria van den Houten.
April 5-
Joseph Lister, British inventor of antiseptic.
May 19 -
Paul Amand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (+ 1896).
June 12 -
Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (+ 1901).
July 13 -
Hugh O'Brien, mayor of Boston.
August 30 -
Lena van den Houten.
November 25 -
Johanna Korsten.
November 26 -
Ellen G. White, prophetess, co-founder or Seventh-Day Adventism.
December 6 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
George M. Harding, architect.
Deaths:
March 26 -
Ludwig van Beethoven, aged 56, German composer.
May 14 -
Neeltje Witte.
May 17 -
Adriaan Overdulve.
June 2 -
Maatje Klaasse Landman.
July 23 -
Jacob van de Velde.
August 8 -
George Canning, aged 57, British statesman and Prime Minister.
August 12 -
William Blake, poet.
September 4 -
Anna van Heest.
December 30 -
Neeltje Witte.
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