January 27 – Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe first elaborates on his vision of Weltliteratur (world literature), in a letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, declaring his belief that "poetry is the universal possession of mankind", and that "the epoch of world literature is at hand, and each must work to hasten its coming."[3]
February 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in the United States offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
The new state constitution for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas is ratified, including a phasing-out of slavery in its Article 13, which declares that "From and after the promulgation of the constitution in the capital of each district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the introduction of slaves under any pretext shall not be permitted."[5] The prohibition of importing slaves from the United States is lifted when Texas declares independence in 1836, and the Republic of Texas Constitution will provide specifically that Africans and "the descendants of Africans" will not be considered "citizens of the republic".
The predecessor of Qasr El Eyni Hospital and Cairo University School of Medicine is established in Egypt under the direction of Antoine Clot as the first medical school in the region.[6][7]
March 16 – Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
March 26 — Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna at age 56. He died after a prolonged illness, with contemporaries reporting severe liver disease and months of declining health leading up to his final days
May 1 – Georg Ohm publishes Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet (tr., The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically) in which Ohm's law appears for the first time.
June 4 – French inventor Joseph Niépce sends a package to Louis Daguerre revealing the existence of his invention, "heliography", where an image can be reproduced onto a pewter plate and then reprinted.[12] In 1829, the two will begin a partnership, and Daguerre will perfect Niépce's photographic process to reproduce images more quickly.
September 20 – A petition for a land grant for 215 acres on the north bank of Rio Grande, just across from Paso del Norte (modern-day Ciudad Juárez), is approved; the first residence is built on what is modern-day El Paso, Texas.
December 20 – Mexico passes its first "expulsion law", providing for citizens of Spain to be expelled within the next six months, and to remain barred from re-entry until the Kingdom of Spain recognizes Mexico's 1810 declaration of independence. Ultimately, because of all the exemptions within the expulsion act, only 1,779 of the 6,610 Spaniards are required to leave.[19]
^Allin, Michael (1999). Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris. Delta Books. ISBN 0-385-33411-7.
^"A Photo-engraving of 1826", in The Process Photogram and Illustrator (January 1905), p82
^John Frost, History of Ancient and Modern Greece (Lincoln and Edmands, 1831) p355
^Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge University Press, 1984) p208
^Gilles Jacoud, Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought (Routledge, 2010)
^Harrison, John (2009). Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: The Quest for the New Moral World. London: Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 9780203092354.
^Billington, James H. (1999). Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. p. 245. ISBN 9780765804716.
^Williams, Raymond (2014). "Socialism". Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford University Press. p. 224.
^Timothy E. Anna, Forging Mexico, 1821-1835 (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) p203
^"Hautausmaita" (in Finnish). Hautausmaita. Archived from the original on May 24, 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.