See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 6 -
Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph.
January 8 -
Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner
of Morse code).
January 12 -
Joseph Smith and one of his followers flee Ohio for Missouri.
June 12 - Territory of Iowa established.
September 3 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a
free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his
way to freedom from slavery.
November 5 - Honduras separates from the Central American Federation, weakening the
confederation.
Proteins discovered by
Jons Jacob Berzelius.
The Pastry War.
Start of First British-Afghan War.
Republic of Yucatan declares independence from Mexico.
Start of Central American Civil War.
Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.
Christian Hermann Weisse proposes the two-source hypothesis of gospel origins, which
is held by a majority of biblical scholars to this day.
Births:
January 4 -
Charles Stratton ("General Tom Thumb"), circus performer, entertainer (+ 1883).
January 6 -
Max Bruch, composer (+ 1920).
January 16 -
Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (+ 1917).
January 27 -
Anna van der Werf.
February 16 -
Henry Adams, american historian.
February 18 -
Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher.
March 3 -
Aaltje van den Houten.
March 3 -
George William Hill, astronomer (+ 1914).
April 26 -
Lena van den Houten.
May 10 -
John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
May 20 -
Jules Méline, French statesman (+ 1925).
August 23 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
October 10 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
October 25 -
Georges Bizet, French composer.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin Deaths:
March 21 -
Aaltje van den Houten.
May 17 -
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (* 1754).
July 4 -
Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre and his accomplices, authors of The Riot of
Quillota, Chile were shot.
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