May 06 New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname

May 01 Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, at Crystal Palace

May 03 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die

May 06 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"

May 15 Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned

May 04 The first major San Fransisco fire

May 28 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

May 06 San Fransisco Chamber of Commerce starts

May 06 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock

May 21 Gold discovered in Australia

May 18 Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked

May 17 Saint John New Brunswick, the launch of the sailing ship Marco Polo; reputed to be the fastest ship in the world.

Jan 31 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk

Jan 31 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California founded

Jan 31 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk

Jan 31 In Hamilton Ontario Hamilton Gas Light Company installs first lamps.

Jan 25 Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)

Jan 15 General Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera

Jan 31 In Hamilton Ontario Hamilton Gas Light Company installs first lamps.

Jan 31 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California founded

Jan 01 City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line

Jan 28 Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered

Jan 01 City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line

Feb 22 The Kirkwood runs aground in New Jersey, mistaking the Smith Hotel for a vessel that refused to return its signal.

Feb 01 Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein.

Feb 01 Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies.

Feb 01 Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53.

Feb 06 Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Düsseldorf

Feb 11 First cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs Victoria, Launceston

Feb 15 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave

Apr 23 Civil engineer Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 designs the red Three-Pence Beaver stamp issued this day; the Province of Canada's first regular postage stamp

Apr 06 Canadian postal service transferred from British control; sets uniform postal rate of 3 pence a letter.

Nov 06 U.S. Navy expedition under command of LT William Lewis Herndon, on a mission to explore the valley of the Amazon and its tributaries, reaches Iquitos in the jungle region of the upper Amazon after their departure from Lima, Peru.

Nov 14 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published

Nov 22 The opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)

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