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
Sep 10 Elias Howe receives a US patent for his hand-crank sewing machine.
Sep 30 Anesthetic ether used for first time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
Sep 23 Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
Sep 23 Neptune discovered by German astronomer Johann Galle
Sep 19 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes
Feb 04 Mormons leave Nauvoo MO for settlement in the west
Feb 10 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
Feb 20 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
Feb 21 First US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell MA
Feb 05 "Oregon Spectator" is first newspaper to be published on the West Coast
Feb 23 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
Feb 10 Beginning of Mormon march to west US
Feb 19 Texas state government formally installed in Austin
Feb 16 Battle of Sobraon ends first Sikh War in India
Feb 26 The birth of William Cody, 'Buffalo Bill', the American showman
Apr 18 The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House of New York City.
