Hawaiian King Kamehameha III signs The Great Mahele allowing commoners and haoles to own land outright or in "fee simple," a concept that continues today.
al-hajj Umar Tal returns from pilgrimage to Mecca, joins the Tijanyyia brotherhood and launches jihad as the Tijanyyia leader of West Africa.
Comanches stuck with smallpox epidemic.
Ladislus Magyan explores Congo River.
Timeline
January 24: James W. Marshall discovers gold in Coloma, California.
February 24: Louis Phillipe abdicates and the French Second Republic declared from the Hotel de Ville.
March 3: Lajos Kossuth calls for representative government in Hungary.
March 3: Revolution in the Rhineland.
March 12: Revolution in Vienna.
March 15: Revolution in Berlin.
March 18: Revolution in Milan.
March 22: Revolution in Venice, Venetian Republic was reestablished.
April 10: Great Chartist Demonstration terrifies British ruling class.
September: Rioting in Frankfurt.
September 20: American brig Daphne sights and pursues a sea monster, a huge snake with a dragon's head, swimming in the eastern Atlantic. Guardian News Report
December: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte wins 70% of the popular vote in French national elction.
