See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Beginning of the Irish potato famine.
James Knox Polk succeeds John Tyler as President of the United States of America.
January 29 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York
Evening Mirror).
March 1 - President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the
Republic of Texas.
March 3 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
March 3 - For the first time the United States Congress passes legislation overriding a
presidential veto.
March 11 - First Maori War: Chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke leads 700 Maoris in the
burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka, now known as Russell.
March 17 - The rubber band is invented in England.
May 20 - The HMS Erebus and Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the
River Thames beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
July 4 - Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year
experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
August 28 - Scientific American begins publication.
October 10 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States
Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
October 13 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution,
that if accepted by the United States Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
December 2 - Manifest Destiny: US President James Polk announces to Congress that the
Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively
expand into the West.
December 27 - Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr. Crawford Williamson
Long in Jefferson, Georgia).
December 29 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
Second separation of Republic of Yucatan from Mexico.
Births:
January 23 -
Stoffelina van den Houten.
February 16 -
Tannetje Cornelia den Engelsman.
February 25 -
George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia, (+ 1918).
March 3 -
Georg Cantor, German mathematician (+ 1918).
March 10 - Emperor
Alexander III of Russia.
March 27 -
Aaltje van den Houten.
March 27 -
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in
physics 1901 (+ 1923).
April 2 -
Aren van den Houten.
April 21 -
Johanna Keuse.
April 23 -
Maria Huiberdina van den Houten.
May 12 -
Gabriel Fauré, composer (+ 1924).
May 17 -
Adriana van den Houten.
May 17 -
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet.
May 30 - King
Amadeus I of Spain.
June 17 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
July 19 -
Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero (+ 1913).
August 4 -
Johanna van den Houten.
August 5 -
Petrus Johannes van den Houten.
August 25 - King
Ludwig II of Bavaria (+ 1886).
August 26 -
Mary Ann Nicholls, first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (+ 1888).
September 15 -
Marinus van den Houten.
October 6 -
Leendert Vreeswijk.
October 16 -
Krina van de Velde.
November 10 -
John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian prime minister.
December 18 -
Jan Noteboom.
Still borns:
November 8 -
Still born (boy) van den Houten.
Deaths:
March 29 -
Dingenis van den Ouden.
April 15 -
Leendert Beije.
May 12 -
Janos Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet.
June 3 -
Adriaantje van den Houten.
June 8 -
Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States of America.
June 25 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
August 17 -
Janna van den Houten.
November 21 -
Maria Hartman.
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