Events

February events

• February 28 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated.

Unknown date events

• Claudius Crozet completes surveying a route for the first railroad to be built in Virginia, the Chesterfield Railroad.
• John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company , the forerunner of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

Births

September births

• September 27 - Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (d. 1887).

Deaths