Jun 15 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49ø N

Jun 19 First baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1

Jun 10 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire

Jun 26 In London England, British protectionists repeal Corn Laws to raise price of wheat for British farmers; rioting in the streets; British property values fall 50%, and the Canadas will soon feel the effects.

Dec 06 The opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)

Dec 18 Copper first discovered in Western Australia.

Dec 28 Iowa becomes 29th state

Aug 10 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution

Aug 26 W A Bartlett appointed first US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)

Aug 18 Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM

Aug 22 US annexes New Mexico

Aug 10 Smithsonian Institution founded in the United States

Aug 31 Committee established in Sydney to organise appeal for Irish famine.

Aug 13 Joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA

Aug 14 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance

Aug 17 US takes Los Angeles

Oct 10 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell

Oct 15 Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether

Oct 16 Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether

Jul 09 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US

Jul 07 US annexs California

Jul 21 Mormons found first English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)

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