British government terminates the British East India Company's monopoly on trade with China.
Honolulu Police Department is founded by Hawaiian King Kamehameha III.
Charleston, West Virginia enacts law protecting vultures from hunters. The vultures eat some of the city's garbage.
Bavarian Philip Franz von Siebold visits Petersburg and shows Russian officials maps made by Japanese explorer Mamiya Rinzo in 1808 revealing that Sakhalin is an island and not a peninsula.
Timeline
May 20: Marie-Joseph-Paul-Roch-Yves-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette dies.
June 30: Congress passes "An Act To Regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes and to Preserve Peace on the Frontier."
