...Date... AGE Event
1823/--/-- -1 - Charles Babbage begins work on his difference engine, a precursor of the computer.
1823/--/-- -1 - Charles Lamb publishes his Essays of Elia in The London Magazine.
1823/--/-- -1 - Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof fabric used in mackintosh raincoats.
1823/--/-- -1 - General Santa Anna leads a coup against Mexican Emperor Agustin I (Iturbide).
1823/--/-- -1 - James Fenimore Cooper publishes the first volume of The Leatherstocking Tales.
1823/--/-- -1 - Japanese artist Hokusai begins a series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
1823/--/-- -1 - Ludwig van Beethoven completes his 9th Symphony.
1823/--/-- -1 - Monroe Doctrine
1823/--/-- -1 - Rugby football originates at Rugby School in England.
1823/--/-- -1 - The Monroe Doctrine warns Europe not to interfere in the Americas.
1823/10/05 0 *** Littrell, Emmanuel S. - Born
1824/--/-- 0 - De Sucre defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Ayacucho, liberating Peru.
1824/--/-- 0 - Disputes over the border of India lead to war between Britain and Burma.
1824/--/-- 0 - English poet Lord Byron travels to Greece to aid the patriots but dies of a fever.
1824/--/-- 0 - Jons Jakob Berzelius discovers the element silicon about this time.
1824/--/-- 0 - Sadi Carnot lays the foundations for the second law of thermodynamics.
1824/--/-- 0 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 0 - The Ashanti begin a war of resistance against Britain in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1824/--/-- 0 - The National Gallery is founded in London.
1824/05/14 0 *** Koger, Rachel (Littrell) [Wife] - Born to Koger, Thomas and Majors, Louisa (Koger)
1825/--/-- 1 - Adams is inaugurated as the 6th U.S. president; Calhoun becomes vice-president.
1825/--/-- 1 - American painter Thomas Cole founds the Hudson River School about this time.
1825/--/-- 1 - English literary critic William Hazlitt publishes The Spirit of the Age.
1825/--/-- 1 - John Quincy Adams (Democratic Republican) becomes president of the United States
1825/--/-- 1 - Kappa Alpha, the first social fraternity, is formed at Union College, New York.
1825/--/-- 1 - Mountain man James Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake.
1825/--/-- 1 - Nicholas I is made emperor of Russia; the Decembrists revolt breaks out.
1825/--/-- 1 - The Central American Federation declares its independence from Mexico.
1825/--/-- 1 - Thomas Cole establishes Hudson River school of landscape painting
1825/--/-- 1 - Uruguayan leader Lavalleja precipitates a war between Brazil and Argentina.
1825/--/-- 1 - Welsh reformer Robert Owen founds a community at New Harmony, Indiana.
1826/--/-- 2 - American engineer John Stevens builds the first U.S. steam locomotive.
1826/--/-- 2 - Andre Ampere publishes his Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomenon.
1826/--/-- 2 - British engineer Thomas Telford builds the Menai suspension bridge in Wales.
1826/--/-- 2 - Felix Mendelssohn composes his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at age 17.
1826/--/-- 2 - German poet Heine begins the publication of Reisebilder (Travel Pictures).
1826/--/-- 2 - Ohm's law establishes the relationship of electrical voltage, current and resistance.
1826/--/-- 2 - Revolutionary leader Antonio Jose de Sucre is elected first president of Bolivia.
1827/--/-- 3 - American frontiersman Davy Crockett is elected to Congress.
1827/--/-- 3 - Audubon publishes " Birds of America"
1827/--/-- 3 - Britain, France and Russia demand that Turkey ends the war with Greece.
1827/--/-- 3 - English inventor John Walker introduces the first friction matches.
1827/--/-- 3 - French landscape artist Camille Corot paints the Bridge at Narni.
1827/--/-- 3 - Mountain man Jedediah Smith pioneers an overland route to California.
1827/--/-- 3 - Ornithologist John James Audubon begins the publication of his Birds of America.
1827/--/-- 3 - The Allied navies destroy the Turkish and Egyptian fleet at Navarino in Greece.
1828/--/-- 4 - Composer Frederic Chopin begins concert tours at age 18.
1828/--/-- 4 - Greeks win War of Independence from Ottoman Empire
1828/--/-- 4 - Lavalleja's Thirty-three Immortals achieve Uruguayan independence from Brazil.
1828/--/-- 4 - Noah Webster publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1828/--/-- 4 - Rammohun Roy founds the Brahmo Samaj religious society in India.
1828/--/-- 4 - The Duke of Wellington becomes prime minister of Britain.
1828/--/-- 4 - Virtuoso violin player Niccolo Paganini performs in Vienna.
1829/--/-- 5 - Andrew Jackson (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1829/--/-- 5 - Delacroix paints "Death of Sardanapalus"
1829/--/-- 5 - Explorer Charles Sturt charts the Murray River in Australia.
1829/--/-- 5 - Jackson introduces spoils system
1829/--/-- 5 - Jackson is inaugurated as the 7th U.S. president; Calhoun continues as vice-president.
1829/--/-- 5 - Lord Bentinck bans the Indian custom of suttee (the burning of widows).
1829/--/-- 5 - Louis Braille publishes his braille system of writing for the blind.
1829/--/-- 5 - Serbia becomes an autonomous principality under Prince Milos.
1829/--/-- 5 - Sir Robert Peel reorganizes the London police; his policemen are nicknamed Bobbies.
1829/--/-- 5 - Sir Robert Peel sponsers the Catholic Emancipation Act in Britain.
1829/--/-- 5 - The convict-free British colony of Western Australia is founded.
1829/--/-- 5 - The first U.S. encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, is begun.
1830/--/-- 6 - Belgium asserts its independence from the Netherlands.
1830/--/-- 6 - British geologist Charles Lyell begins publishing his Principles of Geology.
1830/--/-- 6 - Fructuoso Rivera is elected as first president of Uruguay.
1830/--/-- 6 - George Catlin begins his paintings of North American Indians about this time.
1830/--/-- 6 - Greece becomes independent from Turkey.
1830/--/-- 6 - Hector Berlioz composes his first major work the Symphonie Fantastique.
1830/--/-- 6 - Indian Removal Act moves eastern Indians west of Mississippi
1830/--/-- 6 - Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church at Fayette, New York.
1830/--/-- 6 - Louis Philippe is chosen as the citizen king of France.
1830/--/-- 6 - Philipon publishes the satirical weekly La Caricature, with contributions by Daumier.
1830/--/-- 6 - Polish rebellions are suppressed by Russia.
1830/--/-- 6 - Simon Bolivar resigns as dictator of Gran Colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- 6 - The Indian Removal Act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to Indian Territory.
1830/--/-- 6 - The July Revolution in France forces the abdication of Charles X.
1830/--/-- 6 - The Women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book is published in the U.S.
1830/--/-- 6 - The locomotive Best Friend of Charleston is in use on the first U.S. railroad.
1830/--/-- 6 - William IV succeeds George IV as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1831/--/-- 7 - British naturalist Charles Darwin sails to South America aboard H.M.S. Beagle.
1831/--/-- 7 - Cyrus McCormick invents a mechanical reaper.
1831/--/-- 7 - Explorer James Clark Ross determines the position of the north magnetic pole.
1831/--/-- 7 - Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini founds the Young Italy movement.
1831/--/-- 7 - Jose Antonio Paez becomes the first president of Venezuela.
1831/--/-- 7 - King Louis Philippe founds the French foreign legion.
1831/--/-- 7 - Leopold I is selected as the first king of Belgium.
1831/--/-- 7 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his theory of electromagnetic induction.
1831/--/-- 7 - Nat Turner leads a black slave revolt in Virginia; he is captured and hanged.
1831/--/-- 7 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin completes his masterpiece Eugene Onegin.
1831/--/-- 7 - The crown colony of British Guiana (Guyana) is formed.
1831/--/-- 7 - Victor Hugo "Hunchback of Notre Dame"
1831/--/-- 7 - William Lloyd Garrison publishes the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.
1832/--/-- 8 - George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) publishes her first novel Indiana.
1832/--/-- 8 - Japanese artist Hiroshige begins work on Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido.
1832/--/-- 8 - Samuel F.B. Morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph
1832/--/-- 8 - The Black Hawk War is the last major Indian conflict east of the Mississippi River.
1832/--/-- 8 - The Democratic party is formally established as a national organization.
1833/--/-- 9 - A Bavarian prince becomes King Otto of Greece.
1833/--/-- 9 - Britain occupies the Falkland Islands.
1833/--/-- 9 - Carl von Clausewitz's classic study of warfare On War is published.
1833/--/-- 9 - General Santa Anna becomes president of Mexico.
1833/--/-- 9 - Isabella II succeeds Ferdinand VII, King of Spain; the Carlist Wars begin.
1833/--/-- 9 - President Jackson withdraws federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1833/--/-- 9 - Santa Anna elected President of Mexico
1833/--/-- 9 - The American Anti-Slavery Society is inaugurated in Philadelphia.
1833/--/-- 9 - Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published in English.
1834/--/-- 10 - A Quadruple Alliance is formed to aid Isabella II of Spain and Maria II of Portugal.
1834/--/-- 10 - American inventor Jacob Perkins patents the first practical ice-making machine.
1834/--/-- 10 - British politician Sir Robert Peel founds the Conservative Party.
1834/--/-- 10 - Indian Territory founded
1834/--/-- 10 - Slavery abolished in British Empire
1834/--/-- 10 - The Carlist Wars resume in Spain.
1834/--/-- 10 - The Hansom cab is designed; it becomes the standard horse-drawn cab in London.
1834/--/-- 10 - The Whig party is formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party.
1835/--/-- 11 - American settlers begin the Texas Revolution against Mexican rule.
1835/--/-- 11 - Attempts to move the Seminole Indians begins the second Seminole War.
1835/--/-- 11 - Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen publishes Tales Told for Children.
1835/--/-- 11 - French politician Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America.
1835/--/-- 11 - James Gordon Bennett founds the New York Herald newspaper.
1835/--/-- 11 - Second Seminole War in Florida
1836/--/-- 12 - American educator William Holmes McGuffey begins editing his Readers.
1836/--/-- 12 - American inventor Samuel Colt begins manufacturing the first revolver.
1836/--/-- 12 - American literary figure Ralph Waldo Emerson founds the Transcendental Club.
1836/--/-- 12 - Arkansas is inaugurated as the 25th state of the Union.
1836/--/-- 12 - Boer (Afrikaner) settlers begin the Great Trek into the South African interior.
1836/--/-- 12 - Bolivian president Santa Cruz invades Peru and forms the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
1836/--/-- 12 - Charles Barry designs Westminster Palace in the Gothic Revival style.
1836/--/-- 12 - Charles Dickens publishes his first popular work The Pickwick Papers.
1836/--/-- 12 - John C. Calhoun supports the gag rules to prevent Congress debating slavery.
1836/--/-- 12 - Republic of Texas forms
1836/--/-- 12 - Russian author Nikolai Gogol writes his play The Inspector General.
1836/--/-- 12 - Santa Anna's army storms the Alamo in Texas, killing the defenders.
1836/--/-- 12 - Texans under Sam Houston defeat Santa Anna at the San Jacinto River.
1836/--/-- 12 - Texas Revolution
1836/--/-- 12 - The Arc de Triomphe, the world's largest triumphal arch, is completed in Paris.
1837/--/-- 13 - Britain's refusal to grant more home rule in Canada leads to the Rebellions of 1837.
1837/--/-- 13 - British scientist Charles Wheatstone designs an electric telegraph system.
1837/--/-- 13 - Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"
1837/--/-- 13 - Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype method for taking permanent photographs.
1837/--/-- 13 - Martin Van Buren (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1837/--/-- 13 - Michigan is inaugurated as the 26th state of the Union.
1837/--/-- 13 - Mikhail Lermontov writes the Death of a Poet, inspired by the death of Pushkin.
1837/--/-- 13 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is killed in a duel.
1837/--/-- 13 - Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle publishes The French Revolution.
1837/--/-- 13 - Seminole Indian leader Osceola is captured.
1837/--/-- 13 - Van Buren is inaugurated as the 8th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1837/--/-- 13 - William IV dies; Victoria succeeds him as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1837/06/-- 13 - Victoria succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1838/--/-- 14 - Boer (Afrikaner) leader Andries Pretorius defeats the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River.
1838/--/-- 14 - British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner paints the Fighting Temeraire.
1838/--/-- 14 - Charles Wilkes heads a U.S. Navy expedition to Antarctica.
1838/--/-- 14 - Cherokee "Trail of Tears"
1838/--/-- 14 - French philosopher Auguste Comte inaugurates the science of sociology.
1838/--/-- 14 - Iowa Territory organized
1838/--/-- 14 - John Deere develops a steel-tipped plow capable of turning heavy prairie soil.
1838/--/-- 14 - Samuel F.B. Morse develops the Morse code for electric telegraph systems.
1838/--/-- 14 - Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan makes the first pedal-driven bicycle.
1838/06/08 14 - Victoria crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Will
1839/--/-- 15 - American inventor Charles Goodyear develops the vulcanization of rubber.
1839/--/-- 15 - Chile defeats Santa Cruz's Peru-Bolivian Confederation at the Battle of Yungay.
1839/--/-- 15 - Daguerre invents first form of photography
1839/--/-- 15 - French novelist Stendhal writes The Charterhouse of Parma.
1839/--/-- 15 - Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt embarks on a concert tour of Europe.
1839/--/-- 15 - Jose Rafael Carrera captures Guatemala; the Central American Federation is dissolved.
1839/--/-- 15 - Stephens and Catherwood explore Maya ruins in the Yucatan.
1839/--/-- 15 - The Anglo-Afghan Wars begin in Afghanistan.
1839/--/-- 15 - The Opium Wars begin between Britain and China.
1839/--/-- 15 - Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden formulate the cell theory.
1840/--/-- 16 - Civil War breaks out in Uruguay between the Colorados (reds) and Blancos (whites).
1840/--/-- 16 - Edgar Allen Poe: "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
1840/--/-- 16 - French philosopher and anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon writes What is Property.
1840/--/-- 16 - Horatio Greenough's classical statue of George Washington is strongly criticized.
1840/--/-- 16 - Maori chiefs sign over their tribal lands to Queen Victoria in the Treaty of Waitangi.
1840/--/-- 16 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
1840/--/-- 16 - Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of ice ages.
1840/--/-- 16 - The Liberty party is founded in Albany, N.Y. based exclusively on an antislavery platform.
1840/--/-- 16 - The Underground Railroad is active in helping escaping slaves in the U.S.
1840/--/-- 16 - The first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued in London.
1840/--/-- 16 - The metric system of measurement is reinstated in France.
1840/--/-- 16 - Upper and Lower Canada are united in the single Province of Canada.
1840/--/-- 16 - Upper and lower Canada united
1841/--/-- 17 - Edgar Allan Poe writes an early detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
1841/--/-- 17 - George Grey is appointed governor of South Australia to help save the colony.
1841/--/-- 17 - Harrison is inaugurated as the 9th U.S. president; Tyler becomes vice-president.
1841/--/-- 17 - Horace Greeley founds the New York Tribune newspaper.
1841/--/-- 17 - Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi creates the role of Giselle.
1841/--/-- 17 - John Tyler (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1841/--/-- 17 - Muhammad Ali defeats the Ottomans and becomes the hereditary ruler of Egypt.
1841/--/-- 17 - New Zealand is established as a separate British colony.
1841/--/-- 17 - President Harrison dies; John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th U.S. president
1841/--/-- 17 - Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne resigns; he is succeeded by Sir Robert Peel.
1841/--/-- 17 - William Henry Harrison (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1841/--/-- 17 - William Henry Talbot patents the calotype photographic process.
1842/--/-- 18 - 10-hour day for children under 12 in Massachusetts
1842/--/-- 18 - American explorer John C. Fremont begins surveying the Oregon Trail.
1842/--/-- 18 - American showman P.T. Barnum discovers the 40-inch midget Tom Thumb.
1842/--/-- 18 - Austrian physicist Christian Johann Doppler predicts the Doppler effect.
1842/--/-- 18 - China cedes Hong Kong to Britain.
1842/--/-- 18 - China is defeated in the first Opium War; Chinese ports are opened to British trade.
1842/--/-- 18 - Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti writes his opera Don Pasquale.
1843/--/-- 19 - A coup in Greece forces King Otto to accept a constitutional monarchy.
1843/--/-- 19 - Black American Sojourner Truth begins her reform mission.
1843/--/-- 19 - Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard publishes Either/Or.
1843/--/-- 19 - English art critic John Ruskin begins publishing Modern Painters.
1843/--/-- 19 - German astronomer Samuel Schwabe discovers the sunspot cycle.
1844/--/-- 20 - Alexander Dumas "The Three Muskateers"
1844/--/-- 20 - Eastern Hispaniola declares independence from Haiti as the Dominican Republic.
1844/--/-- 20 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas pere) publishes The Three Musketeers.
1844/--/-- 20 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, is killed by a lynch mob.
1844/--/-- 20 - Samuel F.B. Morse establishes the first U.S. telegraph link.
1844/--/-- 20 - Settlers in New South Wales force Britain to stop sending convicts to the colony.
1844/--/-- 20 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in England.
1844/--/-- 20 - William Henry Talbot begins his Pencil of Nature, the first book of photographs.
1845/--/-- 21 - American author Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century.
1845/--/-- 21 - British archaeologist Austen Layard excavates the sites of Nimrud and Nineveh.
1845/--/-- 21 - Civil War ends in Peru; Castilla Ramon is elected as president.
1845/--/-- 21 - Failure of the potato crop leads to a famine in Ireland.
1845/--/-- 21 - Florida is inaugurated as the 27th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 21 - French artists Gavarni and Grandville begin designing the first elaborate posters.
1845/--/-- 21 - German composer Robert Schumann writes his Piano Concerto in A minor.
1845/--/-- 21 - German scientist Alexander von Humboldt publishes the first volume of his Kosmos.
1845/--/-- 21 - James K. Polk (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1845/--/-- 21 - Polk is inaugurated as the 11th U.S. president; Dallas becomes vice-president
1845/--/-- 21 - Sir John Franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.
1845/--/-- 21 - The Republic of Texas becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 21 - The Republic of Texas is annexed by the U.S.; it becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 21 - The Sikh Wars begin in British India.
1845/--/-- 21 - The first clipper ship the Rainbow is built in New York.
1845/--/-- 21 - The term Manifest Destiny is first used in defense of U.S. territorial ambitions.
1845/03/14 21 *** Koger, Rachel (Littrell) [Wife] & Littrell, Emmanuel S. - Married
1846/--/-- 22 - Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone in Paris.
1846/--/-- 22 - American dentist William Morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 22 - German astronomer Johann Galle makes the first observation of the planet Neptune.
1846/--/-- 22 - German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach publishes The Essence of Religion.
1846/--/-- 22 - Henry Creswicke Rawlinson deciphers the Mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 22 - Iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the Union.
1846/--/-- 22 - Mexican War
1846/--/-- 22 - Mormon trek from Navoo to Salt Lake City
1846/--/-- 22 - Oregon boundary with Canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 22 - The Christy Minstrels begin performing in New York.
1846/--/-- 22 - The Mexican War begins over the U.S. annexation of Texas.
1846/--/-- 22 - The Mexican government collapses; Santa Anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 22 - The Smithsonian Institution is created by Congress.
1846/--/-- 22 - The border between the U.S. and Canada is established, settling the Oregon Question.
1846/--/-- 22 - U.S. forces under Stephen Watts Kearny occupy New Mexico.
1846/--/-- 22 - U.S. forces under Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at Palo Alto and Monterrey.
1846/--/-- 22 - Writer and artist Edward Lear publishes A Book of Nonsense.
1846/06/11 22 *** Littrell, Samuel R. [Son] - Born to Littrell, Emmanuel S. and Koger, Rachel (Littrell)
1847/--/-- 23 - American missionary Marcus Whitman is killed by Cayuse Indians in Oregon.
1847/--/-- 23 - American oceanographer Matthew Maury publishes his first Wind and Current Charts.
1847/--/-- 23 - Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte publishes Wuthering Heights.
1847/--/-- 23 - English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray begins Vanity Fair.
1847/--/-- 23 - Honore de Balzac completes La Comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 23 - Italian statesman Cavour founds the liberal newspaper Il Risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 23 - Maria Mitchell, the first woman astronomer in America, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 23 - Mormons and the Indians
1847/--/-- 23 - Scott enters Mexico City after a series of battles; Mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 23 - Sir James Simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 23 - Taylor defeats Santa Anna's Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista.
1847/--/-- 23 - The African slave colony of Liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 23 - The American Medical Association is founded.
1847/--/-- 23 - The Mormons under Brigham Young found Salt Lake City.
1847/--/-- 23 - The U.S. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 23 - U.S. forces under Stockton, Fremont and Kearny occupy California.
1847/--/-- 23 - U.S. forces under Winfield Scott land at Veracruz and advance on Mexico City.
1848/--/-- 24 - A Czech uprising under Frantisek Palacky is suppressed by Austria.
1848/--/-- 24 - American engineer James Bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 24 - February Revolution by French workers makes Louis Napoleon III President of 2nd Reublic
1848/--/-- 24 - Ferdinand I abdicates; Francis Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria.
1848/--/-- 24 - French Barbizon artist Theodore Rousseau paints the Forest at Fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 24 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils) publishes his novel Camille.
1848/--/-- 24 - Gold discovered in California
1848/--/-- 24 - Holman Hunt, Millais and Rossetti form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain.
1848/--/-- 24 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
1848/--/-- 24 - Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1848/--/-- 24 - Louis Philippe abdicates; a Second Republic is declared in France.
1848/--/-- 24 - Mexican Cession
1848/--/-- 24 - Risorgimento leader Garibaldi returns to Italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 24 - Scottish physicist William Thomson Kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 24 - The Austrian revolution begins in Vienna; chancellor Metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 24 - The Revolutions of 1848 break out in Europe.
1848/--/-- 24 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ratifies the cession of California and New Mexico.
1848/--/-- 24 - The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill begins the California gold rush.
1848/--/-- 24 - The first U.S. women's rights assembly meets at the Seneca Falls Convention.
1848/--/-- 24 - Uprisings in Berlin force Frederick William IV to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 24 - Wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the Union.
1849/--/-- 25 - Amelia Bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the Lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 25 - Austrian forces crush the Italian revolution; Mazzini and Garibaldi flee from Italy.
1849/--/-- 25 - Austrian premier Felix Schwarzenberg uses the Russian army to defeat the Hungarians.
1849/--/-- 25 - Black slave Harriet Tubman escapes and begins her Underground Railway work.
1849/--/-- 25 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 25 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand publishes Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb.
1849/--/-- 25 - French physicist Armand Fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 25 - Lajos Kossuth declares Hungarian independence from Austria.
1849/--/-- 25 - Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin is deported to Siberia.
1849/--/-- 25 - Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th U.S. president; Fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 25 - Zachary Taylor (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1849/06/09 25 *** Littrell, Lois Vianne (Bristow) [Daughter] - Born to Littrell, Emmanuel S. and Koger, Rachel (Littrell)
1850/--/-- 26 - Allan Pinkerton founds the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
1850/--/-- 26 - American author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter.
1850/--/-- 26 - American popular songwriter Stephen Foster publishes Camptown Races.
1850/--/-- 26 - California is inaugurated as the 31st state of the Union.
1850/--/-- 26 - Congress reinforces the Fugitive Slave Law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 26 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her Sonnets From the Portuguese.
1850/--/-- 26 - English author Charles Dickens writes David Copperfield.
1850/--/-- 26 - French realist artist Gustave Courbet paints The Stone Breakers.
1850/--/-- 26 - Jenny Lind the Swedish nightingale begins her U.S. tour.
1850/--/-- 26 - Millard Fillmore (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 26 - Nathanial Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"
1850/--/-- 26 - Photographer Mathew Brady publishes The Gallery of Illustrious Americans.
1850/--/-- 26 - Plains Indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 26 - President Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th U.S. president.
1850/--/-- 26 - The Compromise of 1850 establishes California as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 26 - The Taiping Rebellion breaks out in China against the Ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 26 - The first issue of Harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 26 - Utah and New Mexico Territories
1850/11/07 27 *** Littrell, Jane (Crockett) [Daughter] - Born to Littrell, Emmanuel S. and Koger, Rachel (Littrell)
1851/--/-- 27 - A gold rush begins in Victoria, Australia; Victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 27 - American author Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1851/--/-- 27 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is produced in Venice.
1851/--/-- 27 - Harriet Beecher Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1851/--/-- 27 - Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones found the New York Times.
1851/--/-- 27 - Isaac Merrit Singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 27 - Jacob Fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in Baltimore.
1851/--/-- 27 - Melville "Moby Dick"
1851/--/-- 27 - Mongkut (Rama IV) becomes king of Siam (Thailand).
1851/--/-- 27 - Singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 27 - The Crystal Palace is built in London to house the Great Exhibition.
1851/--/-- 27 - The U.S. yacht America defeats 17 British yachts in the first America's Cup contest.
1851/--/-- 27 - The first college sorority is established at Wesleyan College, Georgia.
1852/--/-- 28 - Argentinean dictator Rosas is defeated by forces under Urquiza at Monte Caseros.
1852/--/-- 28 - Britain gains control of the Irrawaddy delta after the second Anglo-Burma War.
1852/--/-- 28 - The Grimms begin publication of their Deutsches Worterbuch (German Dictionary).
1852/--/-- 28 - The Second Empire begins in France under Napoleon III.
1853/--/-- 29 - A U.S. naval squadron under Matthew Perry enters Tokyo Bay to negotiate a treaty.
1853/--/-- 29 - Chinese rebels capture Nanking and make it the capital of the Taiping kingdom.
1853/--/-- 29 - Crimean War between Turkey, France & Britain against Russia
1853/--/-- 29 - Franklin Pierce (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1853/--/-- 29 - Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th U.S. president; King becomes vice-president.
1853/--/-- 29 - General Santa Anna becomes dictator of Mexico for the last time.
1853/--/-- 29 - Georges Haussmann begins the reconstruction of Paris.
1853/--/-- 29 - Napoleon III marries the Empress Eugenie.
1853/--/-- 29 - Richard Wagner begins his cycle of four operas The Ring of The Nibelung.
1853/--/-- 29 - Russia occupies the Turkish principalities of Moldavia and Walachia.
1853/--/-- 29 - The U.S. adds land to New Mexico and Arizona with the Gadsden Purchase.
1853/--/-- 29 - Turkey issues an ultimatum to Russia; the Russians destroy the Turkish fleet at Sinope.
1854/--/-- 30 - A commercial treaty is signed between the U.S. and Japan, ending Japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 30 - American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1854/--/-- 30 - An Anglo-French-Turkish expeditionary force lands at Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1854/--/-- 30 - Britain and France declare war on Russia, beginning the Crimean War.
1854/--/-- 30 - Nebraska and Kansas Territories
1854/--/-- 30 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
1854/--/-- 30 - Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt paints The Scapegoat.
1854/--/-- 30 - Republican Party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- 30 - Smith & Wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- 30 - The Allied armies defeat the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman.
1854/--/-- 30 - The British grant independence to the Orange Free State in South Africa.
1854/--/-- 30 - The Charge of the Light Brigade is made by the British during the Battle of Balaklava.
1854/--/-- 30 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- 30 - The Republican party is formed after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1854/--/-- 30 - Upper half of Indian Territory becomes part of Kansas Territory
1855/--/-- 31 - British photographer Roger Fenton documents the Crimean War.
1855/--/-- 31 - Florence Nightingale reforms hygienic standards in Crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 31 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Songs of Hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 31 - Lord Palmerston becomes prime minister of Great Britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 31 - Matthew Fontaine Maury publishes The Physical Geography of the Sea.
1855/--/-- 31 - Mexican dictator Santa Anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 31 - Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia dies; he is succeeded by his son Alexander II.
1855/--/-- 31 - Robert Browning publishes his poetry collection Men and Women.
1855/--/-- 31 - Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls in Africa.
1855/--/-- 31 - The Allies occupy the Russian fortress at Sevastapol in the Crimea.
1855/--/-- 31 - The first formal ice hockey game is played in Kingston, Ontario.
1855/--/-- 31 - Walt Whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the Leaves of Grass.
1856/--/-- 32 - A new Opium War begins between China, Britain and France.
1856/--/-- 32 - English chemist William Perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 32 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War.
1856/--/-- 32 - The first Neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in Germany.
1856/--/-- 32 - Victor Hugo writes Les Miserables during his exile from France.
1856/10/20 33 *** Littrell, Emmanuel S. - Died
In 1823 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
Bicycle
Steamboat
By 1856 Transportation was by:
Train
in addition.
By 1856 Transportation by:
Sailing ship
had been discontinued.
In 1823 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
By 1856 Communications was by:
Telegraph
in addition.
In 1823 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1823 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1823 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1823 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1823 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:53:11