May 03 Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk purchases 300,000 sq km of Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay Company for a Red River colony named to be named Assiniboia.

May 16 Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera

May 14 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)

Jan 02 US Senator Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)

Jan 08 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast

Jan 10 Norwester David Thompson 1770-1857 crosses the height of land of the Rocky Mountains on the Athabasca Pass

Jan 10 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes

Jan 09 The first Women's Golf Tournament held

Jan 02 US Senator Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)

Feb 02 Russian settlers establish Fort Ross trading post, north of San Francisco

Feb 11 President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years

Feb 20 Austria declares bankruptcy

Feb 20 Austria declares itself bankrupt

Apr 12 First US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA

Nov 05 El Salvador's first battle against Spain for independence

Nov 11 Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain

Jun 04 The birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist

Dec 16 Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region

Oct 22 The birth of Franz Liszt, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer

Oct 29 The first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

Oct 11 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation

Jul 05 Venezuela, first South American country to gain independence from Spain

Jul 13 The birth of George G. Scott, British architect

Jul 18 The birth of W.M Thackery, English novelist

Mar 01 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel

Mar 31 The birth of Robert Bunsen, German who invented the 'Bunsen' burner

Mar 01 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500