Jan 06 Samuel F.B. Morse makes the first public demonstration of the telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey.

Jan 08 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out

Jan 08 Edward Theller 1804-1859 fires on Fort Malden from vessel 'Anne', while Thomas Sutherland occupies Bois Blanc Island; US sympathizers of rebels called Hunter's Lodges.

Jan 06 Samuel F.B. Morse makes the first public demonstration of the telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey.

Jan 26 Tennessee becomes first state to prohibit alcohol

Jan 01 The first official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide

Jan 08 The first telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, New Jersey

Jan 01 The first official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide

Jan 06 Samuel Morse gives the first demonstration of the electric telegraph

Feb 26 Rensselaer Van Rensselaer invades Pelee Island in Lake Erie with 500 American sympathizers of the Canadian rebels

Feb 16 The British Parliament passes an act suspending the constitution in Lower Canada.

Feb 16 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions

Feb 18 The birth of Ernst Mach, British Physicist, after whom Mach speed numbers are named

Feb 25 Canadian militia routs American republican sympathizers on Fighting Island, in the Detroit River

Apr 09 National Galley opens in London

Apr 27 Fire destroys half of Charleston

Apr 18 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails

Apr 09 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC) beginning of the end of the Age of Sail

Apr 30 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation

Apr 21 The birth of John Muir, American naturalist

Apr 12 Rebel Col. Samuel Lount and Captain Peter Matthews publicly hanged for treason and sedition during the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada

Nov 05 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation

Sep 24 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law

Jun 12 Territory of Iowa organized

Jun 12 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass

Jun 12 The Iowa Territory is organized in the U.S.

Jun 28 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey

Dec 01 Van Diemen's Land gets its first library to boost morale.

Dec 16 The Boers defeat the Zulus in South Africa.

Dec 16 Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa

Aug 18 First US marine expedition

Aug 23 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) first graduating class

Aug 01 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas

Oct 25 The birth of Georges Bizet, French composer

Jul 08 The birth of Graf von Zeppelin, Designer of the Zeppelin airships

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