See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 19 -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.
March 4 -
Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President of the United
States of America.
March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the
Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic
negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia, France and Britain.
June 10 - Oxford University win the first Boat Race.
July 23 - In the United States,
William Burt patents the first typewriter.
August 8 - The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of
France.
September 16 - Treaty of Adrianople ends the Russo-Turkish War. Russia gains territory at
the mouth of the Danube and along the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
October - George Stephenson's steam locomotive, The Rocket, wins The Rainhill Trials
held near Liverpool.
December 4 - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a
regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
Peel's Metropolitan Police Act.
Religious freedom restored in Ireland (see History of Ireland).
The last of the HMS Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island.
Births:
January 3 -
Konrad Duden, philologist (+ 1911).
January 7 -
Johannis van den Houten.
January 21 -
King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway.
February 2 -
Alfred Brehm, zoologist (+ 1884).
February 11 - William Anderson Pile Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).
February 19 -
Tona Priemis.
February 26 -
Levi Strauss, clothing designer (+ 1902).
March 2 -
Carl Schurz, German revolutionist and American statesman, (d. 1906).
March 16 -
Sully Prudhomme, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
March 28 -
Leendert Berman.
May 5 -
Shusaku Honinbo, Go player (+ 1862).
May 6 -
Anna Hendrikse.
May 30 -
Lena Quant.
June 19 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
June 27 -
Johanna Maria van den Houten.
September 7 -
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, chemist (benzene ring).
September 23 -
Cornelis Bouman.
October 30 -
Hugo de Meris.
November 28 -
Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer.
December 14 -
Elizabeth Luikaart.
December 19 -
Jacob van de Velde.
Deaths:
January 24 -
Cornelia Pieternella van de Spiegel.
February 10 -
Pope Leo XII.
April 1 -
Leendert Berman.
April 6 -
Niels Henrik Abel, norwegian mathematician.
April 17 -
Jacoba van den Houten.
May 17 -
John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States.
May 29 - Sir
Humphry Davy, British chemist.
June 16 -
Pieter van den Houten.
July 20 -
Pietertje van den Houten.
August 9 -
Wouter van den Houten.
Krijna van der Schelde.
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