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| 1832 |
| | | The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Robert Schumann composes the song cycle Frauenliebe und -Leben ('Woman's Love and Life') | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Robert Schumann marries the pianist Clara Wieck, daughter of his first teacher | |
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| c. 1841 |
| | | Britain sends four naval ships up the river Niger to make anti-slavery treaties with local kings | |
|  | Anti-slavery treaty with African chiefs
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | The young Friedrich Engels is sent from Germany to manage the family cotton-spinning factory in Manchester | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The Flying Dutchman is the first of Richard Wagner's major operas to be staged, with its premiere in Dresden | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplified now with incidental music, is greeted as a masterpiece at a performance of the play in Potsdam | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Prussian army is the first to adopt a breech-loading rifle, the 'needle-gun' developed by gunsmith Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Delegates of the German states offer the imperial crown of a united Germany to Frederick William IV, the king of Prussia, who rejects it | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Expelled from Germany after the year of revolutions, Marx makes his home in tolerant London | |
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