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Events
January 3, Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
June 6, US President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
May 11, French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three.
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.
December 14, assassination of Kaspar Hauser, dies three days later in December 17
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 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 6, Jonas Lie, Norwegian author
November 9, Émile 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)
May 11, Sayers family, respected Morristown, New Jersey farmers
July 2, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader
September 6, Antoine le Blanc, French American murderer executed
September 27, Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformist (b. 1772)
September 29, King Ferdinand VII of Spain
December 17, Kaspar Hauser, German foundling
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