A charter for a railway, from La Prairie, Quebec to St. John's, is granted; it will be the first railway in Canada.
Massive Patriote campaign to petition the king for reforms.
Male Jews were extended full political and religious rights.
Many African-Canadians were protesting at the time about voting rights, although these weren't granted to them until 7 years later.

Births

February 1 – Francis Evans Cornish, politician (died 1878)^[2]
February 14 – Camille Lefebvre (died 1895)^[3]
March 18 – David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (died 1903)
April 17 – John Macoun, naturalist (died 1920)
May 1 – Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (died 1903)
May 17 – Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (died 1904)
July 30 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1919)
August 16 – John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1901)

Deaths

Web site: 15 January 2016 . William IV . 18 April 2016 . Official web site of the British monarchy . 21 September 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170921001850/https://www.royal.uk/william-iv-r-1830-1837 . live.
Web site: Biography – CORNISH, FRANCIS EVANS – Volume X (1871-1880) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 2022-11-18 . www.biographi.ca.
Web site: Biography – LEFEBVRE, CAMILLE – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 2022-11-18 . www.biographi.ca.