In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief

The Cherokees adopt an American-style constitution and publish the first American-Indian newspaper

The Emancipation Act, enabling Daniel O'Connell to take his seat at Westminster, at last removes the restrictions on Catholics in UK public life

The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies

The locomotive Rocket, built by George and Robert Stephenson, defeats two rivals in the Rainhill trials, near Liverpool

Old St Mary's Church is demolished but many monuments are transferred to a new Church on the same site and the vaults continue to be used under the new building

Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, to push the American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi

The Book of Mormon, translated from miraculously discovered holy tablets, is published by their finder Joseph Smith

George Stephenson's railway between Liverpool and Manchester opens, with passengers pulled by eight locomotives based on Rocket

Evangelical preacher Charles Grandison Finney leads a new wave of revivalism in the northeastern states

The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic

English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay

Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers

The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers

Six farm labourers, from Tolpuddle in Dorset, are transported for seven years to Australia for administering unlawful oaths in the forming of a union

French zoologist Félix Dujardin identifies protoplasm, the viscous translucent substance common to all forms of life

Henry Bevan buys Cambridge Park with 30 acres of land and enlarges the mansion which becomes known as Cambridge House.

200 Texans, among them Davy Crockett, hold out for twelve days in San Antonio before being killed in the Alamo by a Mexican army

In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism

The Whig party in Britain begin referring to themselves as Liberals

The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson

An Irish packet steamer, the Sirius, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, completing the journey to New York in 19 days

Dingaan's warriors massacre Boer families in a series of dawn raids near the Bloukrans river

Five American Indian tribes are forcibly escorted to a new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi in the process that becomes known as the Great Removal

In his Divinity School Address, delivered at Harvard, Ralph Waldo Emerson criticizes formal religion and gives priority to personal spiritual experience