Herman Melville publishes Omoo . Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is a long poem about the expulsions of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755 and 1784. The Mormons found Salt Lake City. Minneapolis is founded across from St. Anthony's Falls on the west bank of the upper Mississippi. The town takes its name from the Falls of Minnehaha combined with the Greek word for city.
Evaporated milk is made for the first time.
Charitable Cookery, or the Poor Man's Regenerator, is published in London. Its author is Reform Club chef Alexis Soyer, who establishes a soup kitchen for starving Londoners as the economic depression creates widespread unemployment. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin begins publication April 12. Chicago Tribune begins publication as the Chicago Daily Tribune. New York, with a population of 400,000, has 16 daily newspapers including the Evening Post, Sun, Herald, and Tribune.