- April 19
- 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay. [1]
- May 20
- Charles X becomes King of France. [1]
- August 6
- Bolivia gains independence from Peru. [1] [5]
- August 25
- Uruguay declares independence from Brazil. [1]
- September 27
- World's first public steam railway begins, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, hauling passengers and coal wagons from colleries of County Durham to Darlington. Speed about 12 mph, trip taking 2 hours. [1383.6] [1615.84]
- October 26
- Formal opening of the Erie Canal, 364 miles long from the Hudson River, New York City to Lake Erie, Buffalo. [1] [5] [303.49] [1067.46] [1073.65]
- November 29
- First Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (New York City). [1]
- December 1
- Aleksandr I P Romanov, czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at age 47. [1]
- December 14
- Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins. [1]
- December 27
- First public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England. [1]
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1826
- January 1
- Baron Van der Capellen resigns as Governor of Dutch-Indies. [1]
- January 30
- The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. [5]
- February 11
- London University is founded. [1]
- March 10
- João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael AKA João VI, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at age 56. [1]
- March 14
- General Congress of South American States assembles at Panamá. [1]
- April 1
- Samuel Morey patents internal combustion engine. [1] [5]
- April 23
- Missolonghi captured by Turks. [1]
- May 22
- The HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage, carrying Charles Darwin. [5]
- August 19
- Canada Company chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario). [1]
- September 3
- USS Vincennes leaves New York to become first warship to circumnavigate globe. [1]
- October 7
- Granite Railway (first chartered railway in US) begins operations. [1]
1827
- January 1
- Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java. [1]
- January 17
- Duke of Wellington is appointed British supreme commander. [1]
- February 27
- First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [1]
- February 28
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is the first US railway to be chartered for commercial transportation of freight and passengers. [1] [421.121]
- April 7
- First sale of friction matches, in England; invented by John Walker. [1544.26]
- May 5
- Frederik Augustus I Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at age 76. [1]
- August 10
- Race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio (1,000 blacks leave for Canada). [1]
- August 27
- Battle of Navarino Bay, British Marines lose 22 killed, 39 wounded in British/Russian/French ships versus Turkey. [858.19]
1828
- February 18
- More than 100 vessels are destroyed in a storm, at Gibraltar. [1]
- February 22
- Russia and Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai. [1]
- April 4
- Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam). [1]
- April 14
- 18-gun sloop Acorn sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard. [1]
- April 26
- Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence. [1]
- April 27
- Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park in London, England, opens. [1]
- April 30
- Shaka, the great Zulu king, is killed. [1]
- May 18
- Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay and Brazil. [1]
- August 1
- The Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic in Britain. [5]
- October 27
- Benjamin Parks claims a gold discovery in Georgia, USA. [450.52]
- December 3
- Andrew Jackson is elected 7th President of US, with John C Calhoun as Vice-President. [1]
- December 28
- 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Echigo, Japan; 30,000 killed. [1]
1829
- February 2
- Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage. [1]
- February 10
- Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 4
- Andrew Jackson swears the oath of office to become 7th President of the USA. [1] [421.24] [432.75]
- April 9
- Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200. [1]
- April 13
- English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics. [1]
- April 28
- Dutch parliament accepts new press laws. [1]
- May 24
- Pope Pius VIII issues his program for the pontificate. [1]
- July 23
- William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter). [1]
- September 24
- Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople. [1]
- September 29
- Scotland Yard is formed in London, England. [1]
- November 13
- Sam Patch loses his life in a 125-foot dive into Genesse Falls. [1]
- November 20
- Jews are expelled from Russia's Nikolayev and Sevastopol. [1]
- December 4
- Britain abolishes "suttee" practice in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre. [1]
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