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January 8 - Hanging of body-selling murderer William Burke - his associate William Hare, who testified against him, is released

captures the armed slave ship ''Voladora'' off the coast of Cuba .

June 10 - University Of Oxford win the first Boat Race .

October 8 - George Stephenson 's steam locomotive, The Rocket , defeats John Ericsson 's The Novelty and thus wins The Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool .

December 4 - In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted Suttee in India were guilty of culpable Homicide .

December 13 - Last British hanging for Forgery – Thomas Maynard

The last of the HMAV Bounty mutineers dies at Pitcairn Island .

Peel's Metropolitan Police Act institutes Bobbies

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