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Events * Nicphore Nipce makes the first true photograph * February 20 - Battle of Huzaingo * February 28 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. * March 15 - The University of Toronto is chartered * April 10 - George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister * May 21 - Launch of the Standard newspaper of London, which later became the Evening Standard. * June - Nicphore Nipce makes a true photograph. * July 6 - Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece. * August 31 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister of the U.K. following the death of Canning * October 20 - Battle of Navarino. British, French, and Russian Naval Forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece. * September 2 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which is translated into The Book of Mormon. Births * April 5- Joseph Lister, British inventor of antiseptic * May 19 - Paul Amand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (+ 1896) * June 12 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (+ 1901) * George M. Harding, architect Deaths * March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, aged 56, German composer * August 8 - George Canning, aged 57, British statesman and Prime Minister * August 12 - William Blake, poet Heads of states * Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839) * Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)
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