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The full text of Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 and 2, is published a few months after the poet's death
English mathematician Charles Babbage builds a sophisticated calculating machine, which he calls a 'difference engine'
The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic
Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore has its premiere in Milan
Robert Schumann's first published composition is Papillons ('Butterflies'), twelve short dance pieces for piano
English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay
After several rejections by Britain's House of Lords, the Reform Bill finally passes and receives royal assent
Greece wins independence, with the 17-year-old Otto of Bavaria as king
The USA suffers the first of several cholera epidemics, spanning the sixty years to 1892
Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) has its premiere in London's Covent Garden
The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger
French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art
20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots
Britain suffers first cholera epidemic
Edward Collins buys the Richmond Friary Site, stretching to the river Thames and St Helena Wharf
27-year-old Isambard Kingdom Brunel wins his first major appointment, as chief engineer to the Great Western railway
30-year-old Robert Stephenson is appointed chief engineer to the London and Birmingham railway
Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers
Civil war breaks out in Spain between supporters of Ferdinand VII's three-year-old daughter, Isabella II, and of his brother Don Carlos
Antonio López de Santa Anna begins the first of five spells as president of Mexico
Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery
Pugin marries his second wife, Louisa Burton
Benjamin Henry Day establishes a new penny daily in New York, the Sun, which lasts until 1966
Alexander Pushkin publishes a novel in verse, Eugene Onegin
Hector Berlioz marries an Irish actress, Harriet Smithson, with whom he has been obsessed since seeing her play Ophelia and Juliet in 1827
