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| * [[Egyptian hieroglyph|Hieroglyphs]] are deciphered by [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] and [[Jean-François Champollion]], using the [[Rosetta Stone]]. | * [[Egyptian hieroglyph|Hieroglyphs]] are deciphered by [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] and [[Jean-François Champollion]], using the [[Rosetta Stone]]. | ||
| * [[Galileo Galilei]]'s [[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems|''Dialogue'']] is taken off the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', the [[Roman Catholic Church]]'s list of banned books. | * [[Galileo Galilei]]'s [[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems|''Dialogue'']] is taken off the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', the [[Roman Catholic Church]]'s list of banned books. | ||
| - | * [[Ashley's Hundred]] leave from [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], setting off a major increase in [[fur trade]]. | ||
| - | * An [[earthquake]] in [[Chile]] raises the coastal area. | ||
| - | * [[Coffee]] is no longer banned in [[Sweden]]. | ||
| - | * [[History of Liberia]]: The first group of freed slaves from the [[United States]] arrive in modern-day [[Liberia]] and found [[Monrovia]]. | ||
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| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| - | === January–June === | ||
| - | * [[January 2]] – [[Rudolf Clausius]], German physicist (d. [[1888]]) | ||
| - | * [[January 6]] – [[Heinrich Schliemann]], German archaeologist (d. [[1890]]) | ||
| - | * [[January 9]] – [[Carol Benesch]], [[Silesia]]n and [[Romania]]n [[architect]] (d. 1896) | ||
| - | * [[January 25]] – [[Charles Reed Bishop]], preeminent businessman and [[philanthropist]] in [[Hawaii]] (d. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | * [[January 28]] – [[Alexander Mackenzie]], second [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (d. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | * [[February 4]] – [[Edward Fitzgerald Beale]], American Navy Lieutenant and explorer (d. [[1893]]) | ||
| - | * [[February 16]] – Sir [[Francis Galton]], English explorer and biologist (d. [[1911]]) | ||
| - | * [[March 4]] – [[Jules Antoine Lissajous]], French mathematician (d. [[1880]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 3]] – [[Edward Everett Hale]], American writer (d. [[1909]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 26]] – [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], American landscape architect (d. [[1903]]) | ||
| - | * [[April 27]] – [[Ulysses S. Grant]], 18th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1885]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 20]] – [[Frédéric Passy]], French economist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1912]]) | ||
| * [[May 26]] – [[Edmond de Goncourt]], French writer (d. [[1896]]) | * [[May 26]] – [[Edmond de Goncourt]], French writer (d. [[1896]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 11]] – [[Henry Baker Tristram]], English clergyman, and ornithologist. (d. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 10]] – [[John Jacob Astor III]], American businessman (d. [[1890]]) | ||
| === July–December === | === July–December === | ||
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- March 31 – Greek War of Independence: Start of Chios Massacre, during which 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios are slaughtered by Ottoman troops and 23,000 exiled.
- July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a "difference engine"
- July 31 – The last public whipping is carried out in Edinburgh.
- Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.
- Galileo Galilei's Dialogue is taken off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
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Births
- May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
July–December
- July 18 – Princess Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
- July 20 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist (d. 1884)
- July 21 – Alexander H. Jones, Congressional Representative from North Carolina. (d. 1901)
- July 25 – Andrew Bryson, American admiral (d. 1892)
- October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
- October 6 – Benjamin F. Isherwood, American admiral and United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief (d. 1915)
- December 10 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
- December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
- December 27 – Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist (d. 1895)
Deaths
January–June
- January 10 – Bathilde d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1750)
- January 24 – Ali Pasha, ruler of European Turkey (b. 1741)
- February 10 – Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (b. 1738)
- February 24 – Thomas Coutts, banker (b. 1735)
- February 27 – Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, admiral (b. 1753)
- April 14 – Edmund Butcher, minister (b. 1757)
- April 20 – Allegra Byron, illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (b. 1817)
- May 27 – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772)
- June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author (b. 1776)
July–December
- July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
- August 4 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (b. 1801)
- August 12 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary (suicide) (b. 1769)
- August 25 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
- October 26 – Mahmud Dramali Pasha, Ottoman vizier (b. c. 1780)
- October 31 – Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (b. 1749)
Art and culture
- On Love by Stendhal
- Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy by Théodore Géricault
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
- Trilby by Charles Nodier
- First publication of Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova
Births
- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
- George Lippard (1822-1854)
- Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885)
Deaths
- E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776 -1822)
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