The congregation of the African Zion Baptist Church formally organized for the black community of Malden.
Lemuel Chenoweth designed and built Philippi's covered bridge.
Buckhannon was chartered
Archibald Campbell graduated from Bethany College
James Watson organized the Montana Mining Company
Martin Delany published The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, And Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
William Edwards opened his first coal mines on Paint Creek
Thomas Moore Jackson was born
Jacob Jackson was admitted to the bar
Anna Maria Reeves married Granville E. Jarvis
George Smith Patton graduated the Virginia Military Institute
La Belle Ironworks was founded
Robert E. Lee became superintendent of West Point
Weston's first bank opened its doors
The Wheeling Intelligencer was established
The Ritchie Mines was discovered by Frederick Lemon
Shinnston was chartered as a town by the General Assembly
David Strother contributed 20 illustrations to John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion
George Summers was elected circuit judge of Kanawha County
Grafton emerged as a city
A major flood hit Virginius Island
James O Watson joined with Francis H. Pierpont to open a mine in Fairmont
Wheeling had a library
The Wheeling Intelligencer began
The Potomac River flooded
The Shenandoah River flooded
