January 1: TheZollverein abolishes customs charges at the borders between its member states, beginning the process of German Unification.October 16: Both houses of the British Parliament are destroyed by a fire at Westminster.
March –John Scott Russell'sScottish Steam Carriage Company begins operating a regular passenger service in west central Scotland on the open road betweenGlasgow andPaisley, Renfrewshire.
May 9 – The founder of theSecond Saudi State, Imam Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud, is assassinated after the Friday prayers by Ibrahim Hamza, following the orders of his cousin Mishari.
July 8 – Imam Faisal bin Turki entersRiyadh and upon entering his father's palace, assassinates his father's murderer, Ibrahim Hamza, and his master; Mishari, and becomes the ruler and founder of the Second Saudi State.
August 12 – In theEmpire of Brazil, theAdditional Act provides for establishment of the Provincial Legislative Assembly, extinction of the State Council, replacement of the Regency Trina, and introduction of a direct and secret ballot.
October 16 – ThePalace of Westminster is destroyed byfire, along with both the House of Commons and the House of Lords (which are not in session) of the British Parliament. An investigation later traces the disaster to an order from the Exchequer to the Board of Works to destroy thetally sticks that had been stored as part of record keeping, the use of the furnaces beneath the House of Lords to carry out the task, and the failure of authorities to stop the work or to fight the fire after smoke had first been detected, the conclusion being that the fire was "wholly attributable to carelessness and negligence."[7]
Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of theAnalytical Engine, a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer. It will not be built in his lifetime.[10][11]
Thomas Davenport, inventor of the first AmericanDC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the firstelectric cars.
The Romanian language is banned in the schools and government facilities of the Russian Empire'sBessarabia Governorate.[12]
Heinrich von Treitschke (15 September 1834 – 28 April 1896) German historian, political writer, and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire.
^"Shipping Intelligence".Liverpool Mercury. No. 1225. 24 October 1834.
^"Fires, Great", inThe Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) pp74-75
^Michael S. Patridge,The Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852: A Bibliography (Greenwood Publishing, 1990) p129
^Rory Muir,Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852 (Yale University Press, 2013) pp439-440
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