January 9 – The Portuguese prince
Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
April 25 – The
American Colonization Society lands at
Cape Mesurado on the West African coast, after purchasing 60 miles (97 km) of coastline. The settlement will soon become
Monrovia, as the nation of
Liberia is established to fill the ACS mission of freeing black American slaves and sending them "back to Africa".[2]
April 30 – President of the Board of Control in the House of Commons,
George Canning, moves to repeal a law that prohibited Roman Catholic peers from sitting or voting in the
House of Lords; the motion passes, 235–223, on its second reading, but the House of Lords declines to pass it.[3]
May 16 –
Nairs, the upper caste in British Raj, attack Sandar women for covering their upper body and breasts.
July 3 –
Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a difference engine, a forerunner of the modern computer, for calculating
logarithms and
trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under British Government sponsorship (1823–32), but it will never be completed.[5]
October 8 – The
Galunggungvolcano erupts on
West Java, and is followed four days later by a second, more violent outburst; the two events kill more than 4,000 people and destroy 114 villages.[10]
^"The Republic of Liberia, Its Products and Resources", by Gerald Ralston, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle (October 1862) p520
^Rev. James Taylor, The Age We Live in: A History of the Nineteenth Century, from the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time (William Mackenzie Co., 1882) p286
^Mungo Ponton, Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Their History, Phenomena, and Probable Causes (T. Nelson and Sons, 1870) pp223-225
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp71
January 9 – The Portuguese prince
Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
April 25 – The
American Colonization Society lands at
Cape Mesurado on the West African coast, after purchasing 60 miles (97 km) of coastline. The settlement will soon become
Monrovia, as the nation of
Liberia is established to fill the ACS mission of freeing black American slaves and sending them "back to Africa".[2]
April 30 – President of the Board of Control in the House of Commons,
George Canning, moves to repeal a law that prohibited Roman Catholic peers from sitting or voting in the
House of Lords; the motion passes, 235–223, on its second reading, but the House of Lords declines to pass it.[3]
May 16 –
Nairs, the upper caste in British Raj, attack Sandar women for covering their upper body and breasts.
July 3 –
Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a difference engine, a forerunner of the modern computer, for calculating
logarithms and
trigonometric functions. Construction of an operational version will proceed under British Government sponsorship (1823–32), but it will never be completed.[5]
October 8 – The
Galunggungvolcano erupts on
West Java, and is followed four days later by a second, more violent outburst; the two events kill more than 4,000 people and destroy 114 villages.[10]
^"The Republic of Liberia, Its Products and Resources", by Gerald Ralston, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle (October 1862) p520
^Rev. James Taylor, The Age We Live in: A History of the Nineteenth Century, from the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time (William Mackenzie Co., 1882) p286
^Mungo Ponton, Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Their History, Phenomena, and Probable Causes (T. Nelson and Sons, 1870) pp223-225
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp71