Mar 07 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia

Mar 19 The birth of Wyatt Earp, American Lawman

Mar 23 First organized band of settlers lands at Dunedin, New Zealand.

Mar 12 Second republic established in France

Mar 29 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam

Mar 04 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution

Mar 20 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez

Mar 29 At about 5 am, the Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam on Lake Erie at the entrance to the River; only time in recorded history

Mar 24 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam

Mar 07 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed

Mar 27 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster

Aug 09 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party

Aug 14 Oregon Territory created

Sep 06 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)

Sep 14 Alexander Stewart opens the first US dept store

Sep 19 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn

Feb 26 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"

Feb 29 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland

Feb 14 James K Polk became first President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)

Feb 24 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared

Feb 15 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston

Feb 02 The first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco

Feb 26 2nd French Republic forms

Feb 23 John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the US, dies of a stroke at age 80.

Feb 02 The Mexican War formally ends, with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Apr 03 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher

Apr 06 Jews of Prussia granted equality

Apr 25 A Graham discovers asteroid #9 Metis

Nov 23 Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston

Nov 21 Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded

Dec 26 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia

Dec 29 Gas lights first installed at White House (Polk's administration)

Dec 02 Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

Dec 29 Gaslights are installed in the White House.

Dec 26 First gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to San Francisco

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