“Cadbury Brothers commenced manufacturing a solid chocolate bar in direct competition with Joseph Fry & Son, who invented it. Both firms exhibited their new sugary nonliquid chocolate products at Birmingham. Robert Schumann started work on Manfred, a melodrama for orchestra, choir, soloists, and speakers (Op. 115), partly based on Lord Byron’s dramatic poem. A fifth attempt was made to assassinate Queen Victoria. Her daughter, Princess Helena, 3, who was present, remarked: ‘Man shot, tried to shoot dear Mamma, must be punished.’ This is believed to have been the princess’s first recorded public statement....”