See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February-March - Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian
troops.
February 20 - Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.
March 19 - City Bank of New York is the site of the first bank robbery in United States
history ($245,000 taken).
April 7 - Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as emperor of Brazil in favor of his son Pedro II of
Brazil.
May 26 - Battle of Ostrolenka. The Poles fight another indecisive battle.
July 21 - inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
August 2 - Dutch invasion of Belgium. It is repelled by a French army.
August 21 - Outbreak of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia.
Approximately 55 whites stabbed, shot and clubbed to death.
September 6-8 - Battle of Warsaw - The Russians take the Polish capital and crush resistance.
October 30 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and
arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
November 11 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave
uprising.
December 27 - Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
Births:
January 7 -
Heinrich von Stephan, organizer of the German postal union and founder of
the Universal postal union (d. 1897).
January 17 -
Johannis Berman.
January 26 -
Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (d. 1907).
March 3 -
George Pullman, inventor, industrialist.
March 6 -
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian (d. 1910).
March 12 -
Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
March 20 -
Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. 1881).
May 6 -
Teunis Johannes van den Houten.
May 8 -
Jacob van der Werf.
May 8 -
Leendert van der Werf.
May 23 -
Pieter van der Meet.
June 10 -
Hendrik (Hendrikus) van den Houten.
June 25 -
Arie van Vliet.
June 28 -
Joseph Joachim, violinist (d. 1907).
August 9 -
Pieter Hendrikse.
August 17 -
Adrianus van den Houten.
September 23 -
Aartje van den Houten.
September 30 -
Marinus Cornelus Gerardus van den Houten.
October 6 -
Richard Dedekind, German mathematician.
October 18 -
Frederick III, German Emperor.
November 12 -
Marijn van den Hout.
Emperor Komei of Japan.
Stillborn:
October 10 -
Bartel van de Velde.
Deaths:
February 14 -
Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero.
February 17 -
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg,
founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
April 8 -
Maria Pieternella Hendrikse.
April 27 -
Charles Felix of Savoy, King of Sardinia.
June 18 -
Marinus Klaasse Beije.
July 4 -
James Monroe, 5th President of the United States.
October 9 -
Adrianus van den Houten.
October 12 -
Adriana Rommelse.
November 11 -
Nat Turner, leader of slave revolt.
November 14 -
Georg Hegel, German philosopher.
November 16 -
Carl von Clausewitz, German strategist.
November 29 -
Johannis Berman.
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