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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 3 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port
Phillip Herald is founded by
George Cavanaugh.
January 10 - Uniform penny postage introduced in the UK.
January 19 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became
known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
January 20 - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
January 22 - British colonists reach New Zealand. Official founding date of Wellington, New
Zealand.
February 6 - Treaty of Waitangi, document granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is
signed.
February 10 - Queen
Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe
Coburg-Gotha.
February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.
May 1 - Great Britain issues the Penny Black, world's first postage stamp.
May 6 - The Penny Black, world's first postage stamp becomes valid for the pre-payment
of postage.
October 7 -
Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
November -
William Henry Harrison defeats
Martin Van Buren in the U.S. presidential
election.
Mount Allison University is founded in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
Births:
February 5 -
John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (+ 1921).
February 11 -
Samuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander (Union Navy).
February 16 -
Janna van de Velde.
February 21 -
Murat V, future Ottoman sultan.
February 22 -
August Bebel, politician (+ 1913).
February 23 -
Carl Menger, economist.
February 29 -
John Philip Holland, developer of the first submarine.
March 28 -
Emin Pasha, German doctor, naturalist to Africa (+ 1892).
April 2 -
Emile Zola, writer (+ 1902).
April 22 -
Odilon Redon, painter.
April 24 -
Bartel van de Panne.
April 27 -
Edward Whymper, explorer - first ascent of the Matterhorn (1865).
May 7 -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (+ 1893).
June 2 -
Thomas Hardy, novelist (+ 1928).
June 3 -
Aren van der Vlugt.
August 4 -
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, sexologist.
August 17 -
Martijntje Keuse.
September 22 -
Pieter van Wezemaal.
October 12 -
Nicolaas Berman.
November 5 -
Adriana van Houten.
November 12 -
Elizabeth Blom.
November 12 -
Auguste Rodin, sculptor.
November 14 -
Claude Monet, painter.
November 21 -
Victoria, Princess Royal, "Vicky," eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert.
November 25 -
Paulus van den Houten.
November 29 -
Rhoda Broughton (+ 1920).
December 19 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 6 -
Fanny Burney, novelist.
January 10 - Princess
Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Dowager Landgravine of
Hesse-Homburg, aunt of Queen Victoria.
January 11 -
Aaltje van den Houten.
January 22 -
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist.
March 18 -
Hendrik de Meris.
May 27 -
Niccolo Paganini, violinist and composer.
June 7 - King
Frederick William III of Prussia.
August 1 -
Jan van den Houten.
October 13 -
Cornelia Steenbak.
October 16 -
Martijntje Keuse.
Emperor
Kokaku of Japan.
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