Mar 09 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
Mar 26 The first Henley Royal Regatta is held
Aug 23 Hong Kong is taken by British in war with China.
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
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
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'
May 04 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
Jul 03 The first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
Jul 30 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
Jun 07 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
Jan 09 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
Jan 02 First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
