The Boston Bicycle Club was formed, becoming the first cycling club in the United States.
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Charles Dickens and his wife arrived in Boston, US, from Liverpool, UK.
Telegraph wires linked new York and Boston.
Boston became the first American city to have a town meeting.
A medical paper on smallpox was published in Boston, making it the first medical publication in American history.
$500 million worth of art was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, US.
