first bus service in London. July 23 – In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a form of typewriter, the typographer. August 3 – Gioacchino Rossini's opera William Tell (Guillaume Tell) is first performed, in Paris. August 8 – France: The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France. August 10 – Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps, is first ascended. August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the founding day of the town of Perth, Western Australia. August 14 – King's College London is founded by Royal Charter, under the patronage of King George IV and the Prime Minister, The Duke of Wellington. September 14 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War. September 28 – African-American abolitionist David Walker publishes his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, in Boston, Massachusetts. October–December October 1 – South African College is inaugurated in Cape Town. October 6-14 – Rail transport: Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials. October 16 – The first modern hotel in the United States, Tremont House (Boston), opens. October 17 – Kaspar Hauser is found wounded. November 5 Technical University of Denmark (DTU) opens. The Chalmers University of Technology is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. November 30 – The original Welland Canal opens for a trial run, with a ceremony at Port Dalhousie, Upper Canada. December 4 – History of India: Lord William Bentinck, British Governor General of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, pushes through a regulation declaring that all who abet sati (suttee) (the self-immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre) in parts of British India are guilty of culpable homicide. This follows long campaigning by Bengali reformer Ram Mohan Roy. Births January–June January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian actor (d. 1915) January 3 – Konrad Duden, German philologist (d. 1911) January 10 – Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1879) January 17 – Catherine Booth, English Mother of The Salvation Army (d. 1890) January 21 – King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907) January 27 – Isaac Roberts, Welsh astronomer (d. 1904) February 2 Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884) William Stanley, British inventor, engineer (d. 1909) February 22 – Princess Sumiko, Japanese princess (d. 1881)