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EVENTS

January events

January 7 - The Baltimore And Ohio Rail Road opens its first section, 1½ Mile s (2.4 Km ), in Baltimore, Maryland .

January 9 - Ground Is Broken in Charleston, South Carolina , for the first railroad to use Steam Locomotive s in South Carolina , the South Carolina Canal And Rail Road .

February events

February 4 - The Camden And Amboy Rail Road , the first railroad to be built in New Jersey , is chartered.

May events

May 22 - The Baltimore And Ohio Rail Road completes construction on the line between Baltimore and Endicott's Mills , Maryland .

May 24 - The first revenue trains on the Baltimore And Ohio Rail Road operate between Baltimore and Endicott's Mills , Maryland , a distance of 13 Mile s (21 Km ).

August events

August - Construction begins on the Mohawk And Hudson Railroad between Albany and Schenectady, New York .

September events

September 15 - the Liverpool And Manchester Railway , the world's first purpose built passenger Railway operated by Steam Locomotive s, opens in England from Liverpool Road, Manchester , to Edge Hill .

September 18 - In a race between the Baltimore And Ohio Railroad 's '' Tom Thumb '' and a Stagecoach near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland , the horse and coach wins.

December events

December 25 - The South Carolina Canal And Rail Road begins operations.

Unknown date events

The Boston And Maine Railroad is formed to build a railroad between Boston, Massachusetts , and Portland, Maine .

BIRTHS

January births

January 2 - Henry Morrison Flagler , visionary and builder of the Florida East Coast Railway (d. 1913 ).

DEATHS

September deaths

September 15 - William Huskisson , the popular Member Of Parliament for Liverpool, at the opening of the Liverpool And Manchester Railway , misjudged the speed of the approaching locomotive ''Rocket'' and was run over, becoming the world's first railway passenger fatality (b. 1770 ).

REFERENCES

About.com, '' The Post Office and the History of Railroad Mail Service ''. Retrieved September 18 2005 .

Association of American Railroads (, 2005 .