The Great Fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.
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The Boston Bicycle Club was formed, becoming the first cycling club in the United States.
Charles Dickens and his wife arrived in Boston, US, from Liverpool, UK.
Telegraph wires linked new York and Boston.
$500 million worth of art was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, US.
A medical paper on smallpox was published in Boston, making it the first medical publication in American history.
