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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 3 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
September 29 - The infant Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain, under the regency of her
mother, Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Her uncle Don Carlos, Conde de Molina
challenges her claim, beginning the First Carlist War.
Charles Babbage described his Analytical engine. (see also History of computing hardware).
The dawn of biochemistry : discovery of the first enzyme, diastase, by Anselme Payen.
The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British
Empire their freedom.
Births:
February 7 -
Elisabeth den Boer.
February 11 -
Melville Weston Fuller 8th chief justice of the United States.
February 28 -
Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (+ 1913).
April 20 -
Willemijntje van den Houten.
May 7 -
Johannes Brahms, composer (+ 1897).
July 27 -
Thomas George Bonney (+ 1923), Alps geologist.
August 2 -
Adrianes Elise van den Houten.
August 29 -
Tanneke van den Houte.
August 30 -
Jacob van den Houten.
September 22 -
Pieter Soeteman.
September 27 -
Johanna van den Houten.
October 21 -
Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize.
November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, writer (+ 1873).
November 12 -
Alexander Borodin, composer.
December 20 -
Dr. Samuel Mudd, doctor to John Wilkes Booth
Still born:
May 24 -
Elisabeth van der Werf.
Deaths:
April 14 -
Janna Geleynse.
July 2 -
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader.
August 30 -
Jacob van den Houten.
September 1 -
Martine Dijkgraaf.
September 10 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
September 29 - King
Ferdinand VII of Spain.
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