See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography
process.
January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden.
January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.
February 24 - William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
March 23 - First recorded use of "OK" oll korrect (Boston Morning Post).
March 26 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
November 17 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
November 27 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud II (1808-1839) to Abd-ul-Mejid
(1839-1861).
In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in
Jackson, Mississippi.
The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas
Henderson.
Births:
January 3 -
Johannis Berman.
January 19 -
Paul Cézanne, painter (+ 1906).
January 29 -
Lena van der Werf.
February 11 -
Josiah Willard Gibbs theoretical physicist/chemist.
February 22 -
Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (+ 1906).
February 24 -
Jan van den Houten(n).
March 8 -
Marinus Spits.
March 11 -
Aaltje van den Houten.
March 19 -
Klara van Westenbrugge.
March 21 -
Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
March 31 -
Daniel de Bruine.
May 25 -
Willemina Quant.
May 31 -
Maarten van den Houten.
June 19 -
Olivier Moermond.
July 1 -
Jan van den Houten.
July 8 -
John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist.
August 5 -
Arend van den Houten.
August 5 -
Leendert van den Houten.
August 23 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
October 12 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
October 17 -
Adriana Lukus.
October 19 -
Johan Felix van den Houten.
October 24 -
Nicolaas Jacobus (Nikolaas Jacobus) van den Houten.
November 29 -
Willemijntje van Damme.
December 5 -
George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer.
December 10 -
Pieternella Tona Verton.
Deaths:
April 11 -
John Galt, Scottish novelist, founder of Guelph, Ontario.
May 17 -
Archibald Alison, Scottish author.
June 19 -
Krijna van den Houten.
July 22 -
Stoffelijntje van Staalen (Stalen).
August 5 -
Johannis Berman.
August 22 -
Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist.
August 28 -
Arend van den Houten.
August 28 -
William Smith, geologist/cartographer.
September 4 -
Leendert van den Houten.
October 21 -
Herdrica van den Houten.
November 15 -
William Murdoch, inventor.
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