May 12 Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam

May 15 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded

May 17 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis MO

May 28 Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate

May 29 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, & of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time"

May 29 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln

May 22 Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device

Jan 13 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co

Jan 31 Corn Laws abolished in Britain

Jan 02 The first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City

Jan 23 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in US

Jan 23 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine

Jan 31 Corn Laws abolished in Britain

Jan 02 The first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City

Jan 23 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in U.S. history to receive a medical degree.

Feb 04 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students

Feb 18 First regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA starts gold rush prospectors from east coast

Feb 09 Roman Republic declared

Feb 28 The first gold-seekers arrived in San Francisco, aboard the ship California.

Feb 18 First regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA starts: gold rush prospectors from east coast

Apr 12 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #10 Hygiea

Apr 16 M DeGasparis discovers the 10th asteroid, Hygeia [or 0412]

Apr 13 Hungarian Republic proclaimed

Apr 13 Hungarian Republic proclaimed

Apr 16 The opera "Il Profeta" is produced (Paris)

Apr 10 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC) sold rights for $100

Apr 10 Safety pin patented in the United States

Nov 24 The Father of the Tractor John Froelich, the inventor of the first gasoline-powered farm tractor, was born in Froelich, Iowa. Froelich's tractor, completed in 1892, featured a Van Duzen one-cylinder gasoline engine mounted on wooden beams to operate a threshing machine

Nov 24 The birth of Frances Burnett, British novelist

Nov 13 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California

Sep 01 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey

Sep 10 Edwin Booth, later to assassinate president Abraham Lincoln, makes his acting debut.

Sep 19 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California

Sep 29 First passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)

Sep 03 Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey

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