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Events
- February 6 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
- February 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan
- May 22 - The first major wagon train headed for the northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
- October 13 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
- December 17 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
- Quaternions are discovered by William Rowan Hamilton.
- The Economist is first published.
- Bishop's University is founded.
Year in topic
Births
- January 10 - Frank James, American outlaw (+ 1915)
- January 29 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (+ 1901
- April 4 - William Jackson, photographer
- April 25 - Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
- June 3 - Frederick VIII of Denmark, King
- June 15 - Edvard Grieg, composer (+ 1907)
- July 29 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (+ 1901)
- August 1 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman (+ 1926)
- November 27 - Elizabeth Stride, third confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (+ 1888)
- November 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railway magnate (+ 1899)
- December 11 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (+ 1910)
Deaths
- April 17 - Samuel Morey, American inventor
- June 6 - Friedrich Hoelderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
- March 27 - Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist
- William Abbot - english actor
- Francis Scott Key, writer of the "Star Spangled Banner"
heads of State
- China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850)
- Denmark - Christian VIII, King of Denmark (December 13, 1839 to January 20, 1848)
- France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848)
- Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
- Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June 25, 1861)
- Prussia - Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-1861)
- Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
- Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
- United States - John Tyler, President of the United States (April 4, 1841 to March 4, 1845