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Jan 01 African Benevolent Society (education) forms 
Jan 01 Congress prohibits importation of slaves.
Jan 01 Importation of slaves into the United States is banned as of January 1 by an act of Congress passed last year, but illegal imports continue
Jan 01 Sierra Leone is recorded as becoming a British colony.
Jan 07 Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894.
Jan 08 Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies.
Jan 10 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
Jan 10 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
Jan 11 Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist.
Jan 12 Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer.
Jan 12 The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh
Jan 13 Salmon P Chase, (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73).
Jan 19 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law.
Jan 19 Louis Napoleon signs inaugural Dutch aviation law.
Jan 26 Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia
Jan 27 David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life)
Feb 09 Francesco Gomez da Rocha, composer.
Feb 11 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Feb 11 Anthracite coal inaugural burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre PA.
Feb 20 Daumier, Marseilles France, artist.
Feb 25 James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886.
Mar 02 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh
Mar 06 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
Mar 06 The inaugural college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard.
Mar 07 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro.
Mar 12 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
Mar 13 Denmark's demented Christian VII has died March 13 at age 59 after a 32-year reign.
Mar 14 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brig General (Union volunteers).
Mar 15 Gaetano Gaspari, composer
Mar 23 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook).
Mar 23 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
Mar 25 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes).
Mar 26 Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII
Mar 26 Napoleon announces that France must guard the coast of Spain against Britain, he orders upwards of 70000 men to cross the Spanish frontier in January, French forces occupy the fortresses of San Sebastian, Pamplona, Figuera, and Barcelona by treachery in February, and by mid-March there are nearly 100000 French troops in Spain Their commander in chief Joachim Murat occupies Madrid and Carlos IV abdicates in favor of his son Ferdinand, 23.
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