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

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

Jun 23 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris

Jun 22 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres

Jun 10 The first telegraph link between NYC &Chicago

Jun 07 The birth of Paul Gauguin, French artist; lived with Van Gogh for some time

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

Dec 25 New Haven Railroad opens

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

Aug 14 Oregon Territory created

Jul 03 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)

Jul 19 The first women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)

Jul 26 The first Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)

Jul 04 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand French novelist/politician, dies

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

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