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The young Friedrich Engels is sent from Germany to manage the family cotton-spinning factory in Manchester
The success of the opera Nabucco, premiered in Milan, is a turning point in the fortunes of Giuseppe Verdi
Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell pioneers mass political demonstrations, which become known as 'monster meetings'
English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The publication of the first part of the satirical novel Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, proves a sensation in Russia
Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine
English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome
The First Opium War ends with the island of Hong Kong, and extensive new trading rights, ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking
The British take control of the existing Boer republic and proclaim Natal a British protectorate
Henry Cole commissions 1000 copies of the world's first Christmas card, designed for him by John Calcott Horsley
The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square
Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches the Great Britain, the first iron steamship designed for the transatlantic passenger trade
Daniel O'Connell is convicted of seditious conspiracy and is sentenced to prison
Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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
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
The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London by British drapery assistant George Williams
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
With his emphasis on the subjective experience of human Existenz, the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard plants the seed of existentialism
The first Anglo-Sikh war breaks out between Sikh forces in the Punjab and encroaching forces of Britain's East India Company
