January 1 1st illustrated weekly magazine in U.S. publishes 1st issue, New York City January 2 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn January 6 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India January 7 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris January 8 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft January 12 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles January 31 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House February 15 1st adhesive postage stamps in U.S. (private delivery company), New York City February 21 1st known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington D.C. March 3 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony March 3 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass) March 9 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan March 17 Indians land in Ohio, a 12 mile area in Upper Sandusky March 30 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long April 13 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope May 5 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) May 8 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die May 14 1st edition of London Illustrated News May 30 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria June 16 Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die July 9 Notary Stamp Law passes August 1 Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens August 9 U.S. - Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty August 14 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma August 29 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war August 31 Micah Rugg patents a nuts and bolts machine August 31 U.S. Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress September 4 Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus September 18 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published October 8 Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach October 15 Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung November 4 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois November 8 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) November 17 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston November 17 Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London) November 22 Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts December 7 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert December 9 St. M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg December 19 U.S. recognizes independence of Hawaii
