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1837: The future King Pedro V, 'the Hopeful', is born at the Necessidades Palace in Lisbon; a modernising and widely admired monarch, he reigned from 1853 until his early death in 1861.
1855: Lisbon's first three electric telegraph stations — at the Terreiro do Paço, the Cortes and the Necessidades — are inaugurated, bringing the electric telegraph to the Portuguese capital.

Elsewhere

1620: The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, England, carrying the Pilgrims across the Atlantic to found the Plymouth Colony in New England.