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Year (''' MDCCCXII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Monday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- Bishop James Madison Society founded at the College Of William & Mary , Williamsburg, Virginia .
- Spanish Cortes , in exile at Cádiz , create the first modern Spanish Constitution .
- The Old Oscar Pepper Distillery (now the Labrot & Graham Distillery ), the oldest Kentucky Bourbon distillery, is established along Glenn's Creek in Woodford County, Kentucky .
- Coffee is banned in Sweden .
- Cholera in Jessore , India .
- Capital of Finland moved from Turku to Helsinki .
- Thomas Lincoln, Jr., the younger brother of United States President Abraham Lincoln , dies in Infancy .
- January 13 - Victor De Laprade , French poet and critic (d. 1883 )
- February 3 - William Fraser Tolmie , Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (d. 1886 )
- February 7 - Charles Dickens , English writer (d. 1870 )
- February 11 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens , Vice President of Confederate States of America (d. 1883 )
- February 15 - Charles Lewis Tiffany , American jeweler (d. 1902 )
- March 1 - Augustus Pugin , English-born architect (d. 1852 )
- March 6 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895 )
- March 22 - Stephen Pearl Andrews , American anarchist and abolitionist (d. 1886 )
- April 22 - Solomon Caesar Malan , Swiss-born orientalist (d. 1894 )
- April 27
- --- Friedrich Von Flotow , German composer (d. 1883 )
- --- William W. Snow , American politician (d. 1886 )
- May 7 - Robert Browning , English poet (d. 1889 )
- June 9 - Johann Gottfried Galle , German astronomer (d. 1910 )
- June 14 - Fernando Wood , New York City Mayor (d. 1881 )
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