February 6 – Boer explorer
Piet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by King
Dingane kaSenzangakhona of the
Zulu people, after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith.[2]
March 13 – A combination of rain and melting snow causes the
Danube River to overflow its banks, washing away villages in western
Hungary and inundating the twin cities that become
Budapest. More than 150 people are drowned and Europe's nations come to Hungary's aid to prevent the spread of famine and disease.[4]
Lord Durham and his entourage arrive in
Upper Canada, to investigate the cause of the
1837 rebellion in that province. This leads to Durham submitting the
Durham Report to Britain.
An insurrection breaks out in
Tizimín, beginning the campaign for the independence of
Yucatán from Mexico.
July 4 – In the United States, the
Iowa Territory is formally established, following the signing of a bill by President
Martin Van Buren on
June 12. In addition to
Iowa, which will become a state on December 28, 1846, the Territory also includes most of what will become the states of
Minnesota,
North Dakota and
South Dakota.
Robert Lucas, former Governor of Ohio, takes office as the first Territorial Governor.[10]
October 5 –
Killough massacre, believed to be both the largest and last Native American attack on white settlers in
East Texas. 18 casualties are either killed or carried away.
^Russell W. Burns, Communications: An International History of the Formative Years (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2004) p84
^Dominique Lapierre, A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa (Da Capo Press, 2009)
^"Cilley-Graves Duel", in Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny, by Mark R. Cheathem and Terry Corps (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) p98
^Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy, Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History (Central European University Press, 1999) p58
^Catherine Delafield, Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines (Routledge, 2016) p6
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.
^"Iowa Territory Legal Materials", by David Hanson, in Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and the District of Columbia (The Haworth Information Press, 2006) p388
February 6 – Boer explorer
Piet Retief and 60 of his men are massacred by King
Dingane kaSenzangakhona of the
Zulu people, after Retief accepts an invitation to celebrate the signing of a treaty, and his men willingly disarm as a show of good faith.[2]
March 13 – A combination of rain and melting snow causes the
Danube River to overflow its banks, washing away villages in western
Hungary and inundating the twin cities that become
Budapest. More than 150 people are drowned and Europe's nations come to Hungary's aid to prevent the spread of famine and disease.[4]
Lord Durham and his entourage arrive in
Upper Canada, to investigate the cause of the
1837 rebellion in that province. This leads to Durham submitting the
Durham Report to Britain.
An insurrection breaks out in
Tizimín, beginning the campaign for the independence of
Yucatán from Mexico.
July 4 – In the United States, the
Iowa Territory is formally established, following the signing of a bill by President
Martin Van Buren on
June 12. In addition to
Iowa, which will become a state on December 28, 1846, the Territory also includes most of what will become the states of
Minnesota,
North Dakota and
South Dakota.
Robert Lucas, former Governor of Ohio, takes office as the first Territorial Governor.[10]
October 5 –
Killough massacre, believed to be both the largest and last Native American attack on white settlers in
East Texas. 18 casualties are either killed or carried away.
^Russell W. Burns, Communications: An International History of the Formative Years (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2004) p84
^Dominique Lapierre, A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa (Da Capo Press, 2009)
^"Cilley-Graves Duel", in Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny, by Mark R. Cheathem and Terry Corps (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) p98
^Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy, Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History (Central European University Press, 1999) p58
^Catherine Delafield, Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines (Routledge, 2016) p6
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.
^"Iowa Territory Legal Materials", by David Hanson, in Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and the District of Columbia (The Haworth Information Press, 2006) p388