Events
May events
- May 24 – The first rail of the Stockton and Darlington Railway is laid in ceremonial style at Stockton-on-Tees by the Chairman of the company, Thomas Meynell.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080914135120/http://www.railcentre.co.uk/stockton/opening2.htm]
November events
- November 18 – The Hetton colliery railway, near Sunderland, England, opens for locomotive traction, being designed by George Stephenson to be wholly steam worked.
Births
September births
- September 16 – Charles Crocker, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1888).