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Events:
February 3 - The previously autonomous state of Greece gains full independence from the
Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. Negotiations for the
borders between the two states continue until 1832, under the supervision of Russia, France
and Britain.
April 6 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized.
May 13 - Ecuador gains its independence.
May 26 - The Indian Removal Act was passed by the United States Congress.
June 26 -
William IV succeeds George IV as King of the UK.
July 5 - France invades Algeria.
July 18 - Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
July 28 - Beginning of the July Revolution in France.
August 2 - Abdication of King Charles X of France in favor of his grandson, Henry V, who
is not allowed to take the throne.
August 9 - The Duke of Orleans becomes King of the French as Louis Philippe.
August 13 - Louis Philippe appoints the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister of France.
August 25 - Revolt in Brussels against King
William I.
October 4 - The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent
state of Belgium, in revolt against the government of the Netherlands.
November 2 - Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister of France.
November 8 - Ferdinand II becomes King of the Two Sicilies.
November 22 - The Whig Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey succeeds Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke
of Wellington as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
November 29 - Beginning of a major Polish insurrection in Warsaw against Russian rule.
December 20 - Recognition of the Independence of Belgium by the Great Powers.
First long-distance (Manchester-Liverpool) railway begins operation.
Edwin Beard Budding invents the lawnmower.
Births:
February 3 -
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom.
February 4 -
Maarten van der Werf.
February 9 -
Abd-ul-Aziz, future Ottoman sultan.
March 15 -
Paul Heyse, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910 (+ 1914).
April 8 -
Plona van den Houten.
April 15 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
April 24 -
Hendrina Raap.
May 20 -
Hector Malot, French writer of Without family.
August 18 - Emperor
Franz Josef of Austria.
August 29 -
Leentje van den Houten.
August 29 -
Marinus Beije.
September 5 -
Leendert van den Houten.
October 3 -
Leentje Jansen.
October 8 -
Abraham van den Houten.
October 10 - Queen
Isabella II of Spain.
November 3 -
Krijn Bakker.
November 23 -
Johanna Cornelia Rommelse.
December 10 -
Emily Dickinson, American poet (+ 1886).
December 17 -
Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt (+ 1870).
Deaths:
April 17 -
Jacob van de Velde.
June 7 -
Johanna Gezina van den Houten.
June 26 - King
George IV of the United Kingdom.
July 12 -
Elizabeth Jonker.
September 18 -
William Hazlitt, British essayist.
October 21 -
Willemina van den Houten.
November 5 -
Leentje van den Houten.
November 8 - King
Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
November 9 -
Pieternella Raap.
November 30 - Pope
Pius VIII.
December 5 -
Johanna Grinwis.
December 17 -
Simon Bolivar, South American politician and activist.
Paulus van der Schelde.
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