Jul 26 Liberia, setled in Africa by freed U.S. slaves, becomes the first African colony to become an independent state.

Jul 01 Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 2nd asteroid Hebe

Jul 02 Envelope bearing the first US 10. stamps, still exists today

Jul 01 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe

Jul 01 US postage stamps go on sale, 5. Franklin & 10. Washington, NYC

Jul 06 SS Sea King, this paddle steamer which was plying the ferry trade between Belfast and Liverpool when it ran aground on the eastern end of Mew Island, Belfast Lough. It proven impossible to refloat her and she rolled over filled with water and sank, but there was no loss of life.

Jul 26 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society

Jul 10 Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for first time at home of John Herschel

Jul 24 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC

Jun 14 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide

Jun 22 Doughnut created

Jun 27 NY &Boston linked by telegraph wires

Jan 01 Netherlands Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing

Jan 08 Battle of San Gabriel (Navy, Marines, Army defeat Mexicans in CA)

Jan 10 American naval forces occupy Los Angeles.

Jan 01 Michigan is first state to abolish capital punishment

Jan 30 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

Jan 01 Michigan is first state to abolish capital punishment

Jan 14 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US

Jan 01 Netherlands Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing

Jan 03 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

Jan 24 1,500 New Mexican Indians &Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price

Jan 09 The first San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

Jan 15 The first Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in New York City NY

Jan 03 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

Oct 02 The birth of Paul von Hindenberg, German field marshal and politician

Oct 01 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet

Oct 20 Little William Nelman poisons his grandfather

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