This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths. November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia. November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, opens in Milan. November 25 – A disastrous cyclone hits India with terrible winds and a giant 40-foot storm surge, wiping out the port city of Coringa; 300,000 people die. November 27 – The American Statistical Association is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. December 6 – The Whig Party (United States), at its first ever national convention, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, nominates former U.S. Army General William Henry Harrison to be its candidate for President of the United States in the 1840 election. Although Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky has received 103 of the 128 necessary votes on the first ballot, he obtains only 90 on the final vote, while Harrison gets 148. Former U.S. Senator John Tyler is unanimously nominated for vice president. December 26 – Heinola was granted town rights by Czar Nicholas I. Date unknown In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, backed by the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire, compels July Monarchy France to abandon Muhammad Ali of Egypt, and forces him to return Syria and Arabia to the Ottoman Empire. Tanzimat starts in the Ottoman Empire. Emperor Minh Mạng renames Việt Nam to Đại Nam. Michael Faraday publishes "Experimental Researches in Electricity", clarifying the true nature of electricity. Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber. An archaeological excavation on Copán begins. Khalid bin Saud Al Suad usurps the throne from Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud, who assumed power of Nejd in 1834, and is sent to Cairo as prisoner. Omar bin Ofaysan, the Amir Faisal's governor in the Eastern Province seeks asylum in Bahrain, but Khalid the pretender demands his surrender and the surrender of the fort at Dammam; then under the control of the Al Khalifa of Bahrain. Khorshid Pasha vows to attack Bahrain to exert Egyptian rule over Bahrain, but his attack is prevented after Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed of Bahrain pays tribute. A quarrel broke out between the Chief of Abu Dhabi of the Beniyas tribe, Shaikh Khalifa bin Shakboot, and the fugitives who settled there after their departure from Bahrain, the Al