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Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Dr Weiss, soon to be followed by Dr Ellis, establishes a hydropathy clinic at Sudbrook Park, which runs for twenty years despite accusations of manslaughter when patients die following the cold water-treatment
Pugin's second wife, Louisa, mother of five of his children, dies
The first great entrepreneur of the railway age, George Hudson, becomes known as the Railway King
The Hungarian diet decrees that Magyar, rather than German, is to be the official language of the kingdom
Pugin publishes a spectacular volume of scholarly text and lavish illustrations, his Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume
Daniel O'Connell is acquitted on appeal and released from prison
In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor
The Russian tsar, Nicholas I, calls Turkey 'the sick man of Europe'
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels meet in Paris and become life-long friends
James Polk pledges in his presidential campaign to include the self-proclaimed republic of Texas in the USA
Richard Turner wins the government contract to build a great new glasshouse in Kew Gardens, the Palm House, with Decimus Burton acting as architectural consultant.
The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London by British drapery assistant George Williams
The Mormon leader, Joseph Smith, and his brother are killed by an armed mob in Nauvoo
The other half of Hispaniola joins Haiti in declaring independence, as the Dominican Republic
Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail complete the first telegraph line, between New York and Baltimore
Democratic candidate James Polk is elected president of the USA, defeating the Whig Henry Clay
Louis Philippe, now King of France, visits Orleans House during a royal visit to Britain.
Alfred Mynn files for bankruptcy
Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
New Yorker Alexander Cartwright devises the set of rules that become the basis of the modern game of baseball
British archaeologist Henry Layard, in his first month of digging in Iraq, discovers the Assyrian city of Nimrud
English naval officer John Franklin sets off with two ships, Erebus and Terror, to search for the Northwest Passage
A blight destroys the potato crop in Ireland and causes what becomes known as the Great Famine
