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Historical Event(s)
– Wake Forest University is established.
– York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
– Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
– The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
– In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
– Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
– Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
– The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
– Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
– The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
– Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
– Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer (d. 1911)
– Heinrich Caro, German Chemist (d. 1910)
– Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
– Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
– Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont Irish Jewish noblewoman (d. 1882)
– Marshall Field, American retailer(d. 1906)
– Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
– Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)