Mar 03 Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
Mar 08 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
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
Sep 24 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
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
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
Jul 08 The birth of Graf von Zeppelin, Designer of the Zeppelin airships
Jul 07 Central American federation is dissolved
Jun 12 Territory of Iowa organized
