Aug 31 Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets

Aug 05 Australia Government Act grants representative governments to South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, which is separated from New South Wales.

Aug 17 Jose de San Martin, liberator of Chile, dies.

Oct 17 James Young obtains a patent for the extraction of paraffin from shale, the beginning of the paraffin industry in West Lothian

Jul 09 President Zachary Taylor , the twelfth president of the United States, died from an attack of cholera morbus, and was succeeded by Millard Fillmor

Jul 17 Harvard Observatory takes first photograph of a star (Vega)

Jul 01 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay

Jul 14 The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

Jul 10 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death

Mar 29 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die

Mar 31 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))

Mar 11 Richard Blanshard arrives at Fort Victoria; reads proclamation establishing the new colony of Vancouver Island, with himself as the first Governor.

Mar 18 American Express company formed in Buffalo, New York

Mar 18 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo

Mar 31 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population 3,638,808 (15.7%))

Mar 12 US $20 gold piece first issued

Mar 11 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)

Mar 16 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published

Mar 30 SS Theresa Jane, the storm on this night was particularly bad and the Theresa Jane was one of a number of ships lost. She went onto the rocks of Mew Island, Belfast Lough during her sailing from Liverpool to Mauritius. Seven of the crew of fifteen lost their lives.

Mar 07 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850

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