| M : | Gaetano Domenico Maria Donizetti : Opera, Maria Stuarda
('Mary Stuart')
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| M : | Mikhail Glinka : Symphony on Two Russian Themes
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| M : | Frederic Chopin :
12 piano studies, Opus 25, including 'Butterfly and 'Winter Wind' studies
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| M : | Adolphe Adam : Opera, Le Chalet
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| M : | Hector Berlioz : Symphony, Harold in Italy
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| M : | Clara Wieck Schumann : Der Abendstern
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| VA : | Eugène Delacroix : Women of Algiers |
| PH : | Quadruple Alliance: Britain, France, Spain and Portugal |
| RP : | Spanish Inquisition finally suppressed |
| PH : | South Australia Act allows establishment of colony there |
| PH : | Maria II ascends throne of Portugal |
| PH : | Monopoly of the China trade by the East India Company abolished; friction between China and Britain |
| PH : | Carlist Wars begin in Spain |
| ED : | George Bancroft: History of the United States, first volume |
| RP : | Leopold von Ranke: Die Römischen Päpste |
| VA : | The Munich Glyptothek completed |
| ST : | Françis Arago: Astronomie Populaire |
| ST : | Babbage invents the principle of the "Analytical engine" (modern computer) |
| ST : | Von Buch: Theory of Volcanism |
| ST : | Faraday: Law of Electrolysis |
| ST : | McCormick patents his reaping machine |
| ST : | Discovery of phenol (carbolic acid) |
| DL : | Disastrous fire in the British Houses of Parliament |
| DL : | Gabelsberger publishes his system of German shorthand |
| DL : | Hansom cabs introduced in London |
| DL : | Poor Law Amendment Act decrees that no able-bodied man in Great Britain shall receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse |
| ED : | University of Brussels founded |
| ED : | Wilkins begins building the National Gallery, London |
| VA : | William Morris born 24 March |
| VA : | Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas born 19 July |
| LT : | Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies 25 July |
| VA : | Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas dies 27 September |
