Prime Minister: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig)
May 7
The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece.
Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria, is chosen King; thus begins
the history of modern Greece.
June 5–6
The June Rebellion in France, anti-monarchist riots led chiefly by
students, breaks out in Paris.
June 7
The Great Reform Act becomes law, extending suffrage to all
upper-middle-class men, and abolishing the rotten boroughs.