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Brunel's Great Western, a wooden paddle-steamer, arives in New York the day after the Sirius, with the record for an Atlantic crossing already reduced to 15 days
US inventor Samuel Morse gives the first public demonstration, in Philadelphia, of his electric telegraph
During a ceremony to celebrate their treaty with Dingaan, Piet Retief and his Boer companions are overpowered and killed
Dingaan's warriors massacre Boer families in a series of dawn raids near the Bloukrans river
Five American Indian tribes are forcibly escorted to a new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi in the process that becomes known as the Great Removal
In his Contributions to Phytogenesis Matthias Schleiden states that all parts of a plant organism consist of cells
Queen Victoria opens Hampton Court Palace to the public
The Central American Federation splits into Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
The London Prize Ring rules disallow kicking, gouging, head-butting and biting in the sport of boxing
John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume Birds of America
The People's Charter, with its six political demands, launches the Chartist movement in England
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire
The Public Records Act creates the Public Record Office with headquarters in existing buildings on the Rolls Estate in Chancery Lane, in the City of London
Civil war breaks out in Uruguay between the Reds and the Whites, followers respectively of Rivera and Oribe
The river Ncome becomes known as the Blood River after thousands of Zulu die attacking Andries Pretorius and the Boers
Pugin designs St Chad's in Birmingham, completed in 1841 and the first cathedral built in England since Christopher Wren's St Paul's
Seven Manchester merchants and mill-owners found the Anti-Corn Law League
US naval officer Charles Wilkes leads a four-year exploration of the Antarctic and Pacific, proving on the way that Antarctica is a continent
In his Divinity School Address, delivered at Harvard, Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes formal religion and gives priority to personal spiritual experience
US author Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Fanshawe, his first novel, at his own expense
The Royal Exchange, rebuilt after the Great Fire, burns down again
Charles Dickens rents Elm Cottage (later Elm Lodge) in Petersham, while working on Nicholas Nickleby
The London and Croydon railway links with the Greenwich railway
The British seize the strategic port of Aden and administer it as a province annexed to India
Theodor Schwann, after collaboration with Schleiden, shows that all living organisms, animal as well as vegetable, are composed of cells
