Charles Dickens and his wife arrived in Boston, US, from Liverpool, UK.
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British Novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine left England for America on board the Britannia ship.
Charles Dickens gave his first public reading.
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.
The Great Fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.
