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The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers
The Tories in Britain adopt a reassuring name for an uncertain future – Conservatives
St John's, originally a daughter-chapel of St Mary's Hampton, is declared an independent parish and the chapel is given the status of a Church
Six farm labourers, from Tolpuddle in Dorset, are transported for seven years to Australia for administering unlawful oaths in the forming of a union
Pedro IV removes his usurping brother Dom Miguel from the Portuguese throne and restores it to his daughter, Maria II
The opponents of US president Andrew Jackson, mockingly called King Andrew, become known as the Whig party
Lord Melbourne becomes Britain's prime minister, at the head of the same Whig administration after the resignation of Earl Grey
Alexander Pushkin publishes his best-known short story, The Queen of Spades
Prime minister Lord Melbourne has diffculties in holding his government together and is dismissed by William IV
William IV invites the Tory leader Robert Peel to form a government in place of the Whigs
In London a great fire destroys most of the Palace of Westminster, including the two houses of parliament
American novelist William Gilmore Simms publishes Guy Rivers, the first of his series known as the Border Romances
Edward Collins builds ten brick-arch boathouses on St Helena Wharf in Richmond, replacing the previous wooden boatsheds
The St Helena Boathouses are mostly let to the three major Richmond lightermen families of Downs, Jackson and Wheeler, for storage of freight and coal
English architect and designer Augustus Welby Pugin plays a major part in the second stage of the Gothic Revival
French zoologist Félix Dujardin identifies protoplasm, the viscous translucent substance common to all forms of life
St Helena Terrace is built beside the Thames, on land sold by the Crown in 1833
Election results in Britain mean that Robert Peel is unable to form a Tory government, and Lord Melbourne returns as Britain's prime minister
Melbourne, founded by settlers from Tasmania, develops as the centre of a sheep-rearing community
Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator of Argentina and imposes a brutally repressive conservative regime
Fox Talbot exposes the first photographic negatives, among them a view looking out through an oriel window in Lacock Abbey
French author Honoré de Balzac publishes Le Père Goriot, one of the key novels that he later includes in La Comédie Humaine
The New York Sun gains new readers with a convincing report that astronomer John Herschel has observed men and animals on the moon
Pugin converts to Roman Catholicism
Alexis de Tocqueville publishes in French the first two volumes of his extremely influential study Democracy in America
