Beagle's First Landing
Jan 16 Charles Darwin lands at Porto Prayo in the Cape Verde islands, the first landing of his HMS Beagle voyage
Event of Interest
Feb 26 Polish constitution abolished and replaced by Tsar Nicholas I
- Feb 28 Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, arrives in the town of Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia
- Feb 29 Charles Darwin walks through the tropical forests of Bahia in Brazil, describing the experience as being in "transports of pleasure"
- Mar 12 The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.
Reform Act Passed
Mar 22 British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to electoral system of England and Wales, increasing electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000
Joseph Smith Tarred and Feathered
Mar 24 Mormon leader Joseph Smith is beaten, tarred and feathered in Hiram, Ohio
- Apr 4 Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
- May 7 Greece becomes independent, Otto of Bavaria is chosen as king
- May 12 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore" premieres in Milan
Hebrides
May 14 Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture "Hebrides" premieres in London, England
- May 21 First US Democratic National Convention, is held in Baltimore
- May 24 The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference
- May 30 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
- May 30 The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. Oldest continuously operated canal system in North America.
- Jun 4 3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
- Jun 5 Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion
- Jun 6 The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end
- Jun 6 The Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad opens its initial line from Philadelphia to Germantown, Pennsylvania; run is 6 miles (9.7 km) long and creates first US 'railroad suburb'
- Jun 7 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
- Jun 16 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois - Illinois militia fight small force of Native Americans
- Jun 22 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
- Jun 28 Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns
- Jul 10 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
Source of Mississippi Discovered
Jul 13 Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
- Jul 24 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming's South Pass
- Jul 25 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachusetts, kills 1
- Jul 26 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
- Aug 2 Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US
- Aug 15 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
- Aug 27 Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
- Sep 3 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
- Sep 22 During his HMS Beagle voyage Charles Darwin discovers a large number of fossils at Punta Alta in Argentina
- Nov 14 First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Streets
- Nov 15 Felix Mendelssohn's "Symphony No. 5 (Reformation)" premieres
- Nov 23 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
- Nov 24 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional in and unenforceable in South Carolina, precipitating the Nullification Crisis which presaged the American Civil War
- Nov 26 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with 12 cent fare
- Dec 4 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
Andrew Jackson Re-elected
Dec 5 Andrew Jackson re-elected US President after defeating Henry Clay
- Dec 17 Real Estate developer Samuel Ruggles deeds Gramercy Park to board of trustees to hold as parkland, he is granted tax exempt status by New York City for the park, and develops the surrounding lots ensuring private access only to those properties
- Dec 18 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard reaches Tierra del Fuego for the first time
- Dec 23 Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
- Dec 24 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia
- Dec 24 HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
Calhoun First VP to Resign
Dec 28 John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
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