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[[File:Penny Black Block of six.jpeg|thumb|250px|[[May 6]]: The world's first [[postage stamp]]s are introduced.]]
[[File:Victoria Marriage01.jpg|thumb|250px|[[February 10]]: Queen Victoria of Britain marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.]]
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[[File:Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington.jpg|thumb|right| [[January 13]]: Steamship ''Lexington'' sinks.]]
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* [[February 11]] – [[Gaetano Donizetti]]'s opera ''[[La fille du régiment]]'' premieres in Paris.
* [[March 1]] – [[Adolphe Thiers]] becomes prime minister of [[July Monarchy|France]].
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* [[March 9]] – The [[Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad]] is completed, from [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] to [[Weldon, North Carolina]]. At {{convert|161.5|mi|km}}, it is the world's longest railroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historync.org/railroad-WWRR.htm|title=Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon)|work=North Carolina Business History|year=2006|access-date=2011-12-02}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – [[Paweł Strzelecki]] reaches [[Australia]]'s highest summit, [[Mount Kosciuszko]].
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