Mar 06 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany

Mar 20 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions

Aug 21 Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!!

Feb 27 Dutch regain Suriname

Feb 20 Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome

Feb 29 Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna

Feb 13 Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire

Feb 12 St. John's Newfoundland is almost completely destroyed by a fire

Apr 21 The birth of Charlotte Bronte, British writer

Apr 09 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)

Dec 11 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders

Dec 04 James Monroe, Va elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King

Dec 11 Indiana becomes 19th state

Dec 15 Charles Stanhope, a British earl, invented two early mechanical calculators, as well as a printing press, a microscope lens, and various other scientific devices.

Dec 02 First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)

Dec 28 American Colonization Society organizes

Dec 13 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston

May 10 English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor

May 11 American Bible Society forms (New York)

May 05 American Bible Society organized

Jul 09 Argentina, in South America, declares its independence from Spain

Jul 21 The birth of Paul von Reuter, News agency founder

Jul 01 French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's "Raft of the Medusa"

Jul 19 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days

Jul 27 Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay Fla, attacked by US Troops

Jul 08 Frost in Waltham, MA

Jul 09 Argentina declares independence from Spain

Jul 03 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas

Jun 18 Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.

Jun 06 10" snowfall in New England, the "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)

Jun 18 Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada: deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.

Jan 12 France decrees Bonaparte family to be exiled from the country forever

Jan 12 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever

Oct 07 First double decked steamboat, the Washington, arrived in New Orleans