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
