January 19 Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres February 2 Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does 60,000 pounds damage March 2 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in U.S., incorporated, Boston March 4 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president March 4 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball March 16 Ohio authorizes high school night classes April 9 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 April 13 English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics April 28 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws May 15 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith May 24 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate June 8 1st U.K. municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool June 19 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) July 4 Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. mint (Chestnut and Juniper St, Philadelphia) July 7 Royal Military Chapel forms July 23 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter) August 3 Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris August 8 French government of De Polignac forms August 9 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service August 16 Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited August 25 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses August 31 Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris) September 14 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war September 24 Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople September 25 Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar September 28 Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston September 29 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) October 16 Tremont Hotel, 1st U.S. modern hotel opens (Boston) October 17 Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens October 17 German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser November 20 Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol Russia December 4 Britain abolished "suttee" in India, widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre December 21 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore
