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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.
Year in topic
Births
- February 11 - Melville Weston Fuller 8th chief justice of the United States.
- February 28 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (+ 1913)
- May 7 - Johannes Brahms, composer (+ 1897)
- July 27 - Thomas George Bonney (+ 1923), Alps geologist
- October 21 - Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize
- November 9 - Emile Gaboriau, writer (+ 1873)
- November 12 - Alexander Borodin, composer
- December 20 - Dr. Samuel Mudd, doctor to John Wilkes Booth
Deaths
- April 22 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
- July 2 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader
- September 27 - Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformist (b. 1772)
- September 29 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
heads of State
- China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850
- Denmark - Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
- France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848
- Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
- Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
- Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
- Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
- Spain -
- Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (1813-1833)
- Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
- United States - Andrew Jackson, President of the United States (March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837)