May 21 Washington Navy Yard begins work on first castings for the Dahlgren guns

May 27 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado

May 01 John Geary becomes first San Fransisco mayor

May 11 Work starts on first brick building in San Fransisco

Jan 20 Investigator, first ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England

Jan 29 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate

Jan 05 California Exchange opens

Jan 18 British blockade Piræus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims

Jan 05 California Exchange opens

Jan 10 Robert McClure & Richard Collinson set sail in the Enterprise and Investigator to start search for lost Franklin expedition

Feb 05 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz NY

Feb 18 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties

Feb 12 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300

Apr 04 City of Los Angeles incorporated

Apr 01 SF County Govt established

Apr 08 SF County Govt established

Apr 15 City of San Francisco incorporated

Nov 06 Yerba Buena and Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use

Nov 19 Alfred Tennyson becomes England's Poet Laureate until his death in 1892

Nov 13 The birth of Robert Louis Stevenson, British author

Sep 09 California becomes the 31st state admitted to the US.

Sep 09 New Mexico and Utah become US territories.

Sep 20 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue

Sep 28 Flogging in US Navy &on merchant vessels abolished

Sep 09 Territories of New Mexico &Utah created

Sep 09 California becomes the 31st state of the United States

Jun 14 Fire destroys part of SF

Jun 17 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)

Jun 04 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized

Jun 29 Around Nanaimo BC, coal discovered on Vancouver Island; will prove valuable for refueling Royal navy ships and CPR trains.

Dec 28 Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire

Dec 20 Hawaiian post office established

Dec 27 Hawaiian Fire Department established

Aug 23 In the Lancaster Sound NWT, HMS Assistance and HMS Intrepid find first trace of lost Franklin expedition in Lancaster Sound, at Cape Riley and Beechey Island.

Aug 30 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city

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