Charles Dickens and his wife arrived in Boston, US, from Liverpool, UK.
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$500 million worth of art was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, US.
A Christmas Carol by English author Charles Dickens was published.
A medical paper on smallpox was published in Boston, making it the first medical publication in American history.
Telegraph wires linked new York and Boston.
American Academy of Arts & Science was established in Boston with James Bowdoin, John, and Samuel Adams as founding members.
