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Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor has its premiere in Naples
A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains
The architect Charles Barry employs Pugin to design the Gothic detail required in the competition to build the new House of Parliament
Henry Bevan buys Cambridge Park with 30 acres of land and enlarges the mansion which becomes known as Cambridge House.
The Partisan, set in South Carolina, launches the series of novels by William Gilmore Simms known as the Revolutionary Romances
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East
Charles Barry wins the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament
Pugin publishes his most famous book, Contrasts, a polemical comparison showing the 'present decay of taste' compared to medieval architecture
The inhabitants of the Mexican province of Texas declare their independence as a new republic
200 Texans, among them Davy Crockett, hold out for twelve days in San Antonio before being killed in the Alamo by a Mexican army
Hendrik Potgieter sets off with some 200 Boers and their cattle at the start of the Great Trek to the north
Sarah and Angelina Grimké join the abolitionist crusade, each publishing a powerful anti-slavery pamphlet in the same year
24-year-old Charles Dickens begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837)
A site is selected for Adelaide and emigration begins from Britain to south Australia
The Inspector General, a farce by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol satirising Russian offialdom, has tsar Nicholas I in the audience for the premiere
Sam Houston destroys a Mexican army near the San Jacinto river, completing the seizure of Texas from Mexico
The Tolpuddle Martyrs are brought back to England from Australia after public protest leads to their sentences being remitted
The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola
Hendrik Potgieter and the Boers, protected by a laager at Vegkop, hold off an attack by a large force of Ndebele tribesmen
American professor William Holmes McGuffey writes the first of his immensely popular school reading books
Work begins on the suspension bridge over the river Avon, at Clifton, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
HMS Beagle reaches Falmouth, in Cornwall, after a voyage of five years, and Charles Darwin brings with him a valuable collection of specimens
In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism
Martin van Buren, previously vice-president to Andrew Jackson, wins the US presidential election on the Democratic ticket
Louis Agassiz builds a hut on the Aar glacier in Switzerland and succeeds in recording gradual movement of the ice
