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Business/Industry American-built clipper ship sails from London to Sydney in sixty-seven days
Battles/Soldiers American warships bombard Chinese forts in Canton Province
Military/Violent American soldier of fortune William Walker is recaptured by the U.S. Navy
Crime/Disasters American ship sinks in mid-Atlantic and forty-eight are set adrift thousands of miles from land
Crime/Disasters American ship founders in the Bay of Biscay and is abandoned without loss of life
Crime/Disasters American ship burns at Liverpool hours before leaving for New York
Crime/Disasters American ship bound for New Orleans founders off the coast of Ireland
Science/Technology American Scientific Association closes its fourteenth annual meeting in Newport, Rhode Island
US/the World American sailors on shore leave riot at the port of Colón in Panama
Crime/Disasters American sailing vessel capsizes during a gale and fifteen passengers and crew are lost
Crime/Disasters American sailing ship sinks in North Atlantic and fifty-three passengers and crew drown
Education/Culture American playwright Charles Hale Hoyt is born in Concord, New Hampshire
Campaigns/Elections American Party nominates Millard Fillmore for president
Personal American novelist and essayist Edith Wharton is born into a wealthy family in New York City
Personal American naturalist and Boy Scout pioneer Ernest Thompson Seton born in northern England
Science/Technology American merchant captain discovers the Midway Islands
Education/Culture American Medical Association founded in Philadelphia
Military/Violent American filibuster William Walker proclaims himself president of an independent "Republic of Lower California"
Business/Industry American filibuster William Walker is executed in Honduras
Military/Violent American filibuster William Walker departs San Francisco for Central America
Cultural American Colonization Society holds its forty-third annual meeting in Washington D.C.
Lawmaking/Litigating American Colonization Society charter ship transporting rescued Africans to Liberia sails from Key West, Florida
Education/Culture American child prodigy pianist Willie Pape plays his first public concert in London
Religion/Philosophy - American Bible Union holds its 10th Annual Conference in New York City
Business/Industry American bark sails from Buenos Aires to New York in thirty-six days, fastest on record
Battles/Soldiers American adventurer Henry A. Crabb leads an expeditionary force across the Mexican border into Sonora
Education/Culture America's best trotting horses race in a three heat series at the Union Course on Long Island
Education/Culture America's best trotting horses meet for a second time at the Union Course on Long Island
Crime/Disasters Altercation on board U.S. Navy prize leads to four sailors arrested for mutiny
Education/Culture Along the Monongahela River, large crowds turn out to watch a five-mile sculling race for $2000.