May 04 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio

Jan 09 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

Jan 02 First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

Jan 19 Aden conquered by British East India Company

Jan 06 2 day storm off Irish &English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"

Jan 24 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society

Jan 06 2 day storm off Irish &English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"

Jan 11 Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die

Jan 24 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society

Jan 29 Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood

Jan 02 The first ever photographs o

Jan 21 Acadia College opens in Wolfville Nova Scotia; now Acadia University.

Jan 09 Thomas Henderson measures first stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

Jan 10 Tea from India first arrives in UK

Jan 02 First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

Jan 02 The first ever photographs of the Moon are taken

Jan 19 The birth of Paul Cézanne, French painter

Jan 12 Anthracite coal first used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk PA

Feb 07 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

Feb 08 Aroostook, New Brunswick American and Canadian loggers clash in Aroostook lumber war over undefined boundary with Maine

Feb 20 Anti-duelling law was passed by US Congress

Feb 25 Seminoles &black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West

Feb 24 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia

Feb 26 Jem Mason on Lottery wins first Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)

Apr 19 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom

Apr 18 Henry Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)

Nov 03 First opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks

Nov 13 The first US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY

Nov 27 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston

Sep 09 John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph

Sep 19 The birth of George Cadbury, English founder of 'Cadburys' chocolates

Sep 06 Great fire in NY

Jun 07 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed

Dec 18 First celestial photograph (of the moon) made in US, John Draper, New York NY

Dec 05 The birth of George Armstrong Custer, Killed at the battle of 'The Little Bighorn'

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