On his last day in office, U.S. PresidentJames Madison vetoesJohn C. Calhoun'sBonus Bill as unconstitutional after it has passed both houses of the U.S. Congress.[2]
April 3 – "Princess Caraboo" appears inAlmondsbury inGloucestershire in England, and convinces the local residents that she had come to their town from a far-off island kingdom of "Javasu" in theIndian Ocean.[5] A Portuguese sailor named Manuel Enes soon arrives and says that he speaks her mysterious language, and translates her story of an escape from pirates. After publicity, Princess Caraboo is discovered to be a servant girl from the village ofWitheridge inDevon.
April 29 – TheRush–Bagot Treaty is signed between the United States and the British Empire, limiting the number of warships on theGreat Lakes between the U.S. and Canada in the aftermath of settling theWar of 1812.[7]
Tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes theSkibbereen Abstinence Society inIreland, considered the first organisation devoted toteetotalism in Europe.[10]
June 22 – KingFerdinand VII of Spain, by royal decree, makes the production and sale of tobacco a legal endeavor inCuba, thus sparking the birth of the Cuban cigar industry.[11]
June 25 – A large riot breaks out inCopenhagen Prison, and the army is sent to quell it.
AtRome, New York, construction on theErie Canal begins in the U.S. to link theHudson River toLake Erie, with the long-range goal of making the first navigable waterway between theAtlantic Ocean and theGreat Lakes, and reducing the amount of time and costs for transporting goods westward past the Appalachian mountains.[12]
November 6 –Princess Charlotte of Wales, the daughter and only child of thePrince Regent George and granddaughter of King George III, dies hours after giving birth to a stillborn son.[21] Her death, tremendously mourned by the British, throws the succession to the British throne into doubt.
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^James Grant Wilson,The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892, Volume IV (New York History Company, 1893) p596
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