February 12 – serious choleraepidemic begins in London from the East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. At least 3000 victims
May 30 - In the German town of Hambach , a demonstration for civil liberties and against the sectionalism that has prevailed in Germany since the Thirty Years War ends with no result.
October 8 - Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Elsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, I.T. in the late morning hours. They left the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escorted them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who was waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus began one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the Indians from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
