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EVENTS

March events

March 4 - Gridley Bryant 's Granite Railway is incorporated.

April events

April 1 - Construction begins in Massachusetts on the Granite Railway , one of the First Railroads In North America , under the direction of Gridley Bryant .

October events

October 7 - The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts .

Unknown date events

The Liverpool And Manchester Railway , designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke , and which in 1830 became the world's first purpose built passenger Railway operated by Steam Locomotive s to be opened, was authorised by the Parliament Of The United Kingdom

The Mohawk And Hudson Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany and Schenectady, New York .

BIRTHS

January births

January 2 - Algernon S. Buford , president of the Richmond And Danville Railroad (d. 1911 ).

March births

March 4 - Theodore Judah , American Engineer who argued the case for construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad (d. 1863 ).

April births

April 3 - Cyrus K. Holliday , cofounder of Topeka, Kansas , and first president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railroad (d. 1900 ).

December births

December 1 - William Mahone , American civil Engineer and Confederate Army Major General who built the Norfolk And Petersburg Railroad , a predecessor of the Norfolk And Western (d. 1895 ).

Unknown date births

John P. Laird , Scottish engineer who designed and patented the two-wheel equalized leading truck for Steam Locomotive s (d. 1882 ).

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Virtuology ( 2005 .

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