George Bruce received the first US design patents for typefaces and bordering.
Micah Rugg patented a machine for dressing bolt heads.
A fire broke out in Hamburg, Germany. It burned for over 100 hours, killed 51 people, and destroyed 1,700 homes.
Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Crawford Long, in Athens, Georgia.
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed its first concert.
The first sewing machine was patented in the US.
Charles Dickens and his wife arrived in Boston, US, from Liverpool, UK.
British Novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine left England for America on board the Britannia ship.
