Julius Wolff supplied the first canned sardines from Maine, USA.
Arbor Day was celebrated for the first time in America in Nebraska.
San Francisco's skies went dark after millions of birds flew across the city's western side.
The existence of the giant panda became known to the Western world after French Armand David received a giant panda's skin from a hunter.
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
French astronomer Pierre Janssen first recorded evidence of helium, a then-unknown element.
American religious leader Mary Baker Eddy was allegedly cured of her spinal injury by reading The Bible.
James H Mason patented the first US coffee percolator.
Alvan Graham Clark discovered the white dwarf star Sirius B.
Urbain Le Verrier announces the discovery of the planet Vulcan.
The largest known solar storm occurred, causing electrical problems to telegraph services.
Hawaii was shaken by an eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano that lasted 300 days and destroyed a coastal village.
George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora.
Frederick Langenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.
The first recorded potato chip was created by chef George Crum in Saratoga Springs, New York.
London opened the world's first public flushing toilets.
British astronomer William Lassell discovered two of Uranus' moons, Ariel and Umbriel.
Fruit producer company Dole was founded in Hawaii.
Inventor Benjamin J. Lane patented the first self-contained gas mask.
Niagara Falls waterfall stopped flowing due to an ice jam.
British astronomer William Lassell discovered Neptune's largest moon, Triton.
Anesthetic was used for the first time on a dental patient by Dr. William Morton.
Anesthesia used for the first time for childbirth.
Chemist Michael Faraday discovered the Faraday Effect.
The Great Auks go extinct.
During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, the National Weather Service reported an alligator falling from the sky.
Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Crawford Long, in Athens, Georgia.
The Moon was photographed for the first time.
Charles Darwin begins his journey on the HMS Beagle.
Michael Faraday was credited for discovering electromagnetic induction.
The British explorer James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
While observing a compass needle, scientist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered electromagnetism.
There were sightings of a giant sea serpent in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Mathematician Sophie Germain became the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Paris Academy of Sizes Prize for her theory of surface vibrations.
First abdominal surgery performed.
German Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the 3 Juno asteroid in the Asteroid Belt.
English chemist John Dalton read his first atomic theory paper to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical society.
The dwarf planet Ceres was discovered by an Italian monk called Giuseppe Piazzi.
German-British astronomer William Herschel discovered the moon of Saturn, 'Mimas.'
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, was discovered by William Herschel.
Astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon.
Astronomer William Herschel first observed Uranus.
William Herschel discovered the first binary star.
The Pointe-à-Pitre hurricane hit Guadeloupe killing 6,000 people.
British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen by removing it from the air.
Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Hurricane San Ramón was the second of three hurricanes in a row to pass through and destroy houses and plantations across Puerto Rico, Barbados, Saint Kitts, and Nevis.
Johann Georg Palitzsch sighted the return of Halley's Comet.
Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Harvard University gave the first smallpox inoculations in Boston following America's biggest outbreak.
French monk Dom Pierre Pérignon accidentally made champagne.
