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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 23 -
Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva,
New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
January 31 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom.
February 14 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the
United States to have his photograph taken.
February 28 - Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United
States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay. The California
left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South
America, and arrived at San Francisco, California after the 4 month 21 day journey.
March 3 - End of Term for President of the United States James Knox Polk.
March 3 - Minnesota becomes a United States territory.
March 3 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
March 3 - The United States Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the
minting of gold coins.
March 4 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday).
Concequently the office of President of the United States of America is vacant for a
single day. Urban legend instead helds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore
of the United States Senate was President for a single day.
March 5 - Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th President of the United States of America.
March 29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
June 5 - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy.
November 16 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for
anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, but his execution is
canceled at the last minute.
Joseph Fry makes the first chocolate bar.
Births:
January 4 -
Leendert van den Houten.
January 18 -
Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia († 1920).
January 22 -
August Strindberg, Swedish author, playwright and painter.
January 24 -
Maarten van den Houten.
February 5 -
Leendert Vreeswijk.
February 22 -
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, mathematician.
February 24 -
Pietronella de Kater.
March 2 -
Robert Means Thompson, naval officer († 1930).
March 7 -
Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist.
March 9 -
Jozina Kwik.
March 19 -
Alfred von Tirpitz, German soldier († 1930).
April 14 -
Cornelis Stoutjesdijk.
April 22 -
Sara Keuse.
May 18 -
Roelfina Jacoba (Rose) Oosterhuis.
May 21 -
Cornelia Noteboom.
July 29 -
Max Nordau, author, philosopher and Zionist leader († 1923).
August 3 -
Willem van den Houten.
August 3 -
Catharina van den Houten.
August 25 -
Geertruij de Leeuw.
October 15 -
Leendert Meerman.
November 8 -
Anna van den Houten.
November 9 -
Abraham Kamerling.
December 2 -
Janna van der Maas.
December 4 -
Crazy Horse, Chief of the Oglala Sioux.
December 9 -
Johannis Maller.
December 21 -
Johannes Tholenaars.
Emma Abbott, american opera singer.
John William Waterhouse, artist.
Deaths:
January 24 -
Maarten van den Houten.
March 14-
Willem II, king of the Netherlands (1840-1849).
March 28 -
Pietertje van den Houten.
April 23 -
Sara Keuse.
May 21 -
Maarten van den Houten.
May 28 -
Anne Bronte, author.
June 15 -
James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States.
September 8 -
Catharina van den Houten.
September 14 -
Kaatje Verschoor.
September 25 -
Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer.
October 7 -
Edgar Allan Poe, writer.
October 8 -
Willem van den Houten.
December 2 -
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William IV of
the United Kingdom.
December 16 -
Lena van den Houten.
William Miller, American baptist preacher.
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