Technology
- May - A version of the accordion is patented by Cyrill Demian in Vienna.
- June 30 - Henry Robinson Palmer files a British patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings.
- July 23 - In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a form of typewriter.
- October 6–14 - The Rainhill Trials, a steam locomotive competition, are run in England and won by Stephenson's Rocket.
- December 19 - Charles Wheatstone patents the concertina in Britain.
- Louis Braille publishes the first description of his method of embossed printing that allows the visually impaired to read.
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