January 3 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community January 19 Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans January 25 1st U.S. engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, New York February 3 Dutch North Sea coast floods February 5 Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar February 9 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president February 12 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826 February 19 Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna February 22 Russia and Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary March 2 1st grand opera in U.S. sung in English, New York City March 4 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president April 10 1st hotel in Hawaii opens April 10 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon April 19 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay May 20 Charles X becomes King of France May 21 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia May 25 American Unitarian Association founded June 4 Unseasonable hurricane hits New York City June 13 Walter Hunt patents safety pin June 19 Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres June 20 Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon July 21 Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics August 6 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) August 14 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out August 25 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day) September 27 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington) October 17 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris October 25 Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean October 26 Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened November 26 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York)) November 29 1st Italian opera in U.S., "Barber of Seville" premieres (New York City) December 6 President John Quincy Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory December 14 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins December 26 Erie Canal opens December 27 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
