May 05 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)

May 08 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die

May 30 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria

May 30 Assassination attempt made on Queen Victoria

May 14 The first edition of London Illustrated News

Jan 31 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House

Jan 12 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherlands Antilles

Jan 08 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft

Jan 31 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House

Jan 02 First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania

Jan 06 4,500 British &Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India

Jan 07 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris

Jan 06 4,500 British &Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India

Jan 07 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris

Jan 02 First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania

Feb 15 Postage stamps with adhesive on the back are sold for the first time at the New York City post office.

Feb 21 First known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington DC

Apr 13 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope

Nov 04 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill

Nov 17 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston

Nov 22 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts

Sep 04 Work on K”ln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus

Dec 01 Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer, is hanged for mutiny from the yardarm of the U.S.S. Somers, a small brig of war at sea in West Indian waters. He was convicted at a court-martial held on the ship of conspiring to organize a mutiny, murder the officers, and convert the captured ship into a pirate vessel

Dec 07 New York Philharmonic's first concert

Dec 19 US recognizes independence of Hawaii

Aug 29 Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain

Aug 31 US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress

Aug 09 US-Canada border defined

Aug 14 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma

Jul 04 First test of electrically operated underwater torpedo sinks gunboat Boxer

Mar 30 Ether first used as an anaesthetic during an operation

Mar 03 US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Massachusetts)

Mar 17 Indians land in Ohio, a 12²-mile area in Upper Sandusky

Mar 30 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for first time by Dr Crawford Long (Jefferson GA)