Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson, both members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, travel from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.

Births

January 9 – George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (died 1901)
January 25 – William McDougall, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (died 1905)
January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1892)
March 9 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1892)
March 12 – Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (died 1883)
April 25 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (died 1892)
May 2 – Jacob Yost Shantz, Mennonite farmer, businessman and industrialist (died 1909)
May 4 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (died 1915)
July 16 – Charles Sangster, poet (died 1893)
August 31 – Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896)
October 2 – Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (died 1887)
November 1 – Lemuel Owen, shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1912)
November 13 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (died 1895)

Deaths

Web site: King George IV . 18 April 2016 . Official website of the British monarchy.
Web site: Memorable Manitobans: Peter Fidler (1769-1822) . 2022-08-12 . www.mhs.mb.ca.