May 03 The first black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts)

May 28 Fire in Québec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed

May 03 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China

May 17 Rubber band patents

May 14 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens

May 02 Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"

May 20 The first legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii

Jan 23 Uniform US election day for President &Vice President authorized

Jan 29 The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe's first poem, is published.

Jan 23 Congress decided that all national elections would take place on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November.

Jan 29 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published (New York City NY)

Jan 06 Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford, Ontario following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets

Jan 06 Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford, Ontario following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets

Jan 10 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding

Jan 23 Congress agrees that all national elections in the U.S. will fall on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.

Feb 15 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, first uses 72" (183 cm) reflector

Apr 02 H.L. Fizeau &J Leon Foucault take first photo of Sun

Apr 10 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa

Nov 04 The first nationally observed uniform election day in US

Sep 23 First baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code

Sep 24 The first baseball team is organized

Jun 01 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days

Jun 12 George Abernethy becomes first governor of Oregon Country

Jun 08 Andrew Jackson, seventh US president, dies in Nashville.

Jun 28 Another Quebec fire destroys the suburb of St. John and 1,300 houses.

Dec 29 Texas is admitted as the 28th state of the US.

Dec 27 Ether first used in childbirth in US, Jefferson GA

Dec 22 The first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, was demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia on this day in 1845.

Aug 12 Off Point Pelee, Ontario the steamships Kent and London collide in clear weather, with the loss of ten lives.

Aug 05 In Australia's worst shipping disaster, 407 die when the Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island.

Oct 10 The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis

Oct 13 Texas ratifies a state constitution

Jul 04 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

Jul 14 The first postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC

Jul 04 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US

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