...date... age event
1845/--/-- -1 - american author margaret fuller publishes women in the nineteenth century.
1845/--/-- -1 - british archaeologist austen layard excavates the sites of nimrud and nineveh.
1845/--/-- -1 - civil war ends in peru; castilla ramon is elected as president.
1845/--/-- -1 - failure of the potato crop leads to a famine in ireland.
1845/--/-- -1 - florida is inaugurated as the 27th state of the union.
1845/--/-- -1 - french artists gavarni and grandville begin designing the first elaborate posters.
1845/--/-- -1 - german composer robert schumann writes his piano concerto in a minor.
1845/--/-- -1 - german scientist alexander von humboldt publishes the first volume of his kosmos.
1845/--/-- -1 - james k. polk (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1845/--/-- -1 - polk is inaugurated as the 11th u.s. president; dallas becomes vice-president
1845/--/-- -1 - sir john franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the northwest passage.
1845/--/-- -1 - the republic of texas becomes the 28th state of the union.
1845/--/-- -1 - the republic of texas is annexed by the u.s.; it becomes the 28th state of the union.
1845/--/-- -1 - the sikh wars begin in british india.
1845/--/-- -1 - the first clipper ship the rainbow is built in new york.
1845/--/-- -1 - the term manifest destiny is first used in defense of u.s. territorial ambitions.
1845/04/13 0 *** wood, elizabeth gibbons (gwinn) - born to wood, reuben bayless and gibbons, elizabeth (wood) clinton county, kentucky
1846/--/-- 0 - adolphe sax patents the saxophone in paris.
1846/--/-- 0 - american dentist william morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 0 - german astronomer johann galle makes the first observation of the planet neptune.
1846/--/-- 0 - german philosopher ludwig feuerbach publishes the essence of religion.
1846/--/-- 0 - henry creswicke rawlinson deciphers the mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 0 - iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the union.
1846/--/-- 0 - mexican war
1846/--/-- 0 - mormon trek from navoo to salt lake city
1846/--/-- 0 - oregon boundary with canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 0 - the christy minstrels begin performing in new york.
1846/--/-- 0 - the mexican war begins over the u.s. annexation of texas.
1846/--/-- 0 - the mexican government collapses; santa anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 0 - the smithsonian institution is created by congress.
1846/--/-- 0 - the border between the u.s. and canada is established, settling the oregon question.
1846/--/-- 0 - u.s. forces under stephen watts kearny occupy new mexico.
1846/--/-- 0 - u.s. forces under zachary taylor defeat the mexicans at palo alto and monterrey.
1846/--/-- 0 - writer and artist edward lear publishes a book of nonsense.
1847/--/-- 1 - american missionary marcus whitman is killed by cayuse indians in oregon.
1847/--/-- 1 - american oceanographer matthew maury publishes his first wind and current charts.
1847/--/-- 1 - charlotte bronte publishes jane eyre; emily bronte publishes wuthering heights.
1847/--/-- 1 - english novelist william makepeace thackeray begins vanity fair.
1847/--/-- 1 - honore de balzac completes la comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 1 - italian statesman cavour founds the liberal newspaper il risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 1 - maria mitchell, the first woman astronomer in america, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 1 - mormons and the indians
1847/--/-- 1 - scott enters mexico city after a series of battles; mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 1 - sir james simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 1 - taylor defeats santa anna's mexican army at the battle of buena vista.
1847/--/-- 1 - the african slave colony of liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 1 - the american medical association is founded.
1847/--/-- 1 - the mormons under brigham young found salt lake city.
1847/--/-- 1 - the u.s. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 1 - u.s. forces under stockton, fremont and kearny occupy california.
1847/--/-- 1 - u.s. forces under winfield scott land at veracruz and advance on mexico city.
1848/--/-- 2 - a czech uprising under frantisek palacky is suppressed by austria.
1848/--/-- 2 - american engineer james bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 2 - february revolution by french workers makes louis napoleon iii president of 2nd reublic
1848/--/-- 2 - ferdinand i abdicates; francis joseph becomes emperor of austria.
1848/--/-- 2 - french barbizon artist theodore rousseau paints the forest at fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 2 - french author alexandre dumas (dumas fils) publishes his novel camille.
1848/--/-- 2 - gold discovered in california
1848/--/-- 2 - holman hunt, millais and rossetti form the pre-raphaelite brotherhood in britain.
1848/--/-- 2 - karl marx and friedrich engels publish the communist manifesto.
1848/--/-- 2 - karl marx and friedrick engels publish "communist manifesto"
1848/--/-- 2 - louis philippe abdicates; a second republic is declared in france.
1848/--/-- 2 - mexican cession
1848/--/-- 2 - risorgimento leader garibaldi returns to italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 2 - scottish physicist william thomson kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 2 - the austrian revolution begins in vienna; chancellor metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 2 - the revolutions of 1848 break out in europe.
1848/--/-- 2 - the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo ratifies the cession of california and new mexico.
1848/--/-- 2 - the discovery of gold at sutter's mill begins the california gold rush.
1848/--/-- 2 - the first u.s. women's rights assembly meets at the seneca falls convention.
1848/--/-- 2 - uprisings in berlin force frederick william iv to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 2 - wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the union.
1849/--/-- 3 - amelia bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 3 - austrian forces crush the italian revolution; mazzini and garibaldi flee from italy.
1849/--/-- 3 - austrian premier felix schwarzenberg uses the russian army to defeat the hungarians.
1849/--/-- 3 - black slave harriet tubman escapes and begins her underground railway work.
1849/--/-- 3 - elizabeth blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 3 - francois rene de chateaubriand publishes memoirs from beyond the tomb.
1849/--/-- 3 - french physicist armand fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 3 - lajos kossuth declares hungarian independence from austria.
1849/--/-- 3 - russian anarchist mikhail bakunin is deported to siberia.
1849/--/-- 3 - taylor is inaugurated as the 12th u.s. president; fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 3 - zachary taylor (whig) becomes president of the united states
1849/09/06 4 *** wood, james [great uncle] - died macoupin county, il macoupin county, il wood-davis cemetery, macoupin county, il
1850/--/-- 4 - allan pinkerton founds the pinkerton national detective agency.
1850/--/-- 4 - american author nathaniel hawthorne writes the scarlet letter.
1850/--/-- 4 - american popular songwriter stephen foster publishes camptown races.
1850/--/-- 4 - california is inaugurated as the 31st state of the union.
1850/--/-- 4 - congress reinforces the fugitive slave law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 4 - elizabeth barrett browning publishes her sonnets from the portuguese.
1850/--/-- 4 - english author charles dickens writes david copperfield.
1850/--/-- 4 - french realist artist gustave courbet paints the stone breakers.
1850/--/-- 4 - jenny lind the swedish nightingale begins her u.s. tour.
1850/--/-- 4 - millard fillmore (whig) becomes president of the united states
1850/--/-- 4 - nathanial hawthorne "the scarlet letter"
1850/--/-- 4 - photographer mathew brady publishes the gallery of illustrious americans.
1850/--/-- 4 - plains indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 4 - president taylor dies; millard fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th u.s. president.
1850/--/-- 4 - the compromise of 1850 establishes california as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 4 - the taiping rebellion breaks out in china against the ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 4 - the first issue of harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 4 - utah and new mexico territories
1850/03/20 4 *** wood, mariba (ewing) [aunt] & ewing, jesse - married
1850/05/20 5 *** wood, samuel [great uncle] - died madison, il madison, il
1851/--/-- 5 - a gold rush begins in victoria, australia; victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 5 - american author herman melville publishes moby-dick.
1851/--/-- 5 - giuseppe verdi's opera rigoletto is produced in venice.
1851/--/-- 5 - harriet beecher stowe begins publishing uncle tom's cabin.
1851/--/-- 5 - henry jarvis raymond and george jones found the new york times.
1851/--/-- 5 - isaac merrit singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 5 - jacob fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in baltimore.
1851/--/-- 5 - melville "moby dick"
1851/--/-- 5 - mongkut (rama iv) becomes king of siam (thailand).
1851/--/-- 5 - singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 5 - the crystal palace is built in london to house the great exhibition.
1851/--/-- 5 - the u.s. yacht america defeats 17 british yachts in the first america's cup contest.
1851/--/-- 5 - the first college sorority is established at wesleyan college, georgia.
1851/03/27 5 *** ewing, pernetta jane [1st cousin] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1852/--/-- 6 - argentinean dictator rosas is defeated by forces under urquiza at monte caseros.
1852/--/-- 6 - britain gains control of the irrawaddy delta after the second anglo-burma war.
1852/--/-- 6 - the grimms begin publication of their deutsches worterbuch (german dictionary).
1852/--/-- 6 - the second empire begins in france under napoleon iii.
1852/09/01 7 *** wood, mary elizabeth (gwinn) [2nd cousin] - born to wood, william cargile
1853/--/-- 7 - a u.s. naval squadron under matthew perry enters tokyo bay to negotiate a treaty.
1853/--/-- 7 - chinese rebels capture nanking and make it the capital of the taiping kingdom.
1853/--/-- 7 - crimean war between turkey, france & britain against russia
1853/--/-- 7 - franklin pierce (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1853/--/-- 7 - franklin pierce is inaugurated as the 14th u.s. president; king becomes vice-president.
1853/--/-- 7 - general santa anna becomes dictator of mexico for the last time.
1853/--/-- 7 - georges haussmann begins the reconstruction of paris.
1853/--/-- 7 - napoleon iii marries the empress eugenie.
1853/--/-- 7 - richard wagner begins his cycle of four operas the ring of the nibelung.
1853/--/-- 7 - russia occupies the turkish principalities of moldavia and walachia.
1853/--/-- 7 - the u.s. adds land to new mexico and arizona with the gadsden purchase.
1853/--/-- 7 - turkey issues an ultimatum to russia; the russians destroy the turkish fleet at sinope.
1853/01/11 7 *** wood, william [great uncle] - died albany, clinton, kentucky albany, clinton, kentucky clear fork cem. clinton county kentucky
1854/--/-- 8 - a commercial treaty is signed between the u.s. and japan, ending japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 8 - american writer and naturalist henry david thoreau publishes walden.
1854/--/-- 8 - an anglo-french-turkish expeditionary force lands at sevastopol in the crimea.
1854/--/-- 8 - britain and france declare war on russia, beginning the crimean war.
1854/--/-- 8 - nebraska and kansas territories
1854/--/-- 8 - pope pius ix proclaims the dogma of the immaculate conception of the virgin mary.
1854/--/-- 8 - raphaelite artist holman hunt paints the scapegoat.
1854/--/-- 8 - republican party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- 8 - smith & wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- 8 - the allied armies defeat the russians at the battle of inkerman.
1854/--/-- 8 - the british grant independence to the orange free state in south africa.
1854/--/-- 8 - the charge of the light brigade is made by the british during the battle of balaklava.
1854/--/-- 8 - the kansas-nebraska act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- 8 - the republican party is formed after the passage of the kansas-nebraska act.
1854/--/-- 8 - upper half of indian territory becomes part of kansas territory
1854/02/24 8 *** wood, george [great uncle] - died bone cave, van buren, tn bone cave, van buren, tn cone cave, van buren, tn
1854/06/22 9 *** ewing, thomas wood [1st cousin] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1855/--/-- 9 - british photographer roger fenton documents the crimean war.
1855/--/-- 9 - florence nightingale reforms hygienic standards in crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 9 - henry wadsworth longfellow publishes the songs of hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 9 - lord palmerston becomes prime minister of great britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 9 - matthew fontaine maury publishes the physical geography of the sea.
1855/--/-- 9 - mexican dictator santa anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 9 - nicholas i, emperor of russia dies; he is succeeded by his son alexander ii.
1855/--/-- 9 - robert browning publishes his poetry collection men and women.
1855/--/-- 9 - scottish explorer david livingstone discovers the victoria falls in africa.
1855/--/-- 9 - the allies occupy the russian fortress at sevastapol in the crimea.
1855/--/-- 9 - the first formal ice hockey game is played in kingston, ontario.
1855/--/-- 9 - walt whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the leaves of grass.
1856/--/-- 10 - a new opium war begins between china, britain and france.
1856/--/-- 10 - english chemist william perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 10 - the treaty of paris ends the crimean war.
1856/--/-- 10 - the first neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in germany.
1856/--/-- 10 - victor hugo writes les miserables during his exile from france.
1856/01/19 10 *** ewing, mary ann eliza [1st cousin] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1856/07/27 11 *** ewing, pernetta jane [1st cousin] - died albany, clinton, kentucky albany, clinton, kentucky
1856/07/29 11 *** ewing, mary ann eliza [1st cousin] - died albany, clinton, kentucky albany, clinton, kentucky peolia church cemetery, albany, kentucky
1856/08/02 11 *** ewing, thomas wood [1st cousin] - died peolia church cemetery, albany, kentucky
1857/--/-- 11 - buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th u.s. president; breckinridge becomes vice-president.
1857/--/-- 11 - disputes between mormons and non-mormon settlers leads to the utah war.
1857/--/-- 11 - elisha graves otis installs the first passenger elevator in a new york city store.
1857/--/-- 11 - english author thomas hughes publishes tom brown's schooldays.
1857/--/-- 11 - french novelist gustave flaubert publishes madame bovary.
1857/--/-- 11 - french poet baudelaire publishes flowers of evil and is arrested for immorality.
1857/--/-- 11 - james buchanan (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1857/--/-- 11 - kansas ratifies anti-slavery constitution
1857/--/-- 11 - mormons and paiute indians kill 120 settlers in the mountain meadows massacre.
1857/--/-- 11 - the indian mutiny begins when indian troops rebel against the british in meerut.
1857/--/-- 11 - the oxford english dictionary is begun in england.
1857/09/05 12 *** ewing, margaret mariba [1st cousin] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton county, kentucky
1858/--/-- 12 - benito juarez becomes the first mexican president of indian descent.
1858/--/-- 12 - bernadette soubirous sees visions of the vigin mary in a grotto near lourdes, france.
1858/--/-- 12 - britain and france impose the tientsin treaty on china.
1858/--/-- 12 - british explorer john hanning speke discovers lake victoria in africa.
1858/--/-- 12 - british naturalist alfred russel wallace outlines his theories of evolution.
1858/--/-- 12 - charles frederick worth establishes his paris fashion house.
1858/--/-- 12 - cyrus w. field lays the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
1858/--/-- 12 - federal forces end the utah war; brigham young is replaced as governor of utah territory.
1858/--/-- 12 - french photographer nadar takes the first aerial photograph from a balloon.
1858/--/-- 12 - german-american artist albert bierstadt begins his landscapes of the american west.
1858/--/-- 12 - jacques offenbach's operetta orpheus in the underworld premiers in paris.
1858/--/-- 12 - james renwick begins the design of saint patrick's cathedral in new york city.
1858/--/-- 12 - minnesota is inaugurated as the 32nd state of the union.
1858/--/-- 12 - the fenians (irish republican brotherhood) are founded to overthrow british rule.
1858/--/-- 12 - the indian mutiny is suppressed by the british army and loyal indian troops.
1858/--/-- 12 - the government of india is transferred from the east india company to the british crown.
1859/--/-- 13 *** ewing, robert matthew [1st cousin] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1859/--/-- 13 - abolitionist john brown leads an attack on harpers ferry; he is captured and executed.
1859/--/-- 13 - charles darwin "origin of species"
1859/--/-- 13 - charles darwin publishes on the origin of species by means of natural selection.
1859/--/-- 13 - ferdinand de lesseps begins building the suez canal in egypt.
1859/--/-- 13 - french inventor ferdinand carre develops a refrigeration system.
1859/--/-- 13 - napoleon iii assists the italian statesman cavour in a war against austria.
1859/--/-- 13 - oregon is inaugurated as the 33rd state of the union.
1859/--/-- 13 - queensland becomes a separate colony of australia.
1860/--/-- 14 - abraham lincoln is elected as the first republican president of the united states.
1860/--/-- 14 - china resists the tientsin treaty; anglo-french forces occupy peking.
1860/--/-- 14 - english novelist wilkie collins writes the woman in white.
1860/--/-- 14 - florence nightingale establishes a school for training nurses.
1860/--/-- 14 - george eliot (mary anne evans) publishes the mill on the floss.
1860/--/-- 14 - italian patriot garibaldi invades sicily and naples with his 1,000 redshirts.
1860/--/-- 14 - jean joseph etienne lenoir patents the first internal-combustion engine.
1860/--/-- 14 - sardinia-piedmont seizes the papal states in italy.
1860/--/-- 14 - south carolina becomes the first southern state to secede from the union.
1860/--/-- 14 - the crittenden compromise tries to prevent a split between slave and free states.
1860/--/-- 14 - the maori wars begin against the british in new zealand.
1860/--/-- 14 - the pony express is inaugurated to deliver mail from missouri to california.
1861/--/-- 15 - abraham lincoln (republican) becomes president of the united states
1861/--/-- 15 - american locksmith linus yale jr. patents the cylinder lock.
1861/--/-- 15 - confederacy
1861/--/-- 15 - civil war begins
1861/--/-- 15 - english designer william morris starts the arts and crafts movement.
1861/--/-- 15 - explorers burke and wills die during their north-south crossing of australia.
1861/--/-- 15 - french artist eugene delacroix paints the lion hunt.
1861/--/-- 15 - general george b. mcclellan is made commander of the union forces.
1861/--/-- 15 - italy is unified under victor emmanuel ii.
1861/--/-- 15 - john ericsson designs the monitor, the first ship with a revolving gun-turret.
1861/--/-- 15 - kansas is inaugurated as the 34th state of the union.
1861/--/-- 15 - lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th u.s. president; hamlin becomes vice-president.
1861/--/-- 15 - nicholas ii abolishes serfdom in russia.
1861/--/-- 15 - the confederate states of america declare their independence from the u.s.
1861/--/-- 15 - the confederates defeat the union army in the first battle of bull run.
1861/--/-- 15 - the southern states meet to draft a constitution; davis is selected as president.
1861/--/-- 15 - the trent affair begins when a union ship intercepts a british steamer.
1861/--/-- 15 - the united states introduce the first national income tax.
1861/--/-- 15 - the bombardment of fort sumter in charleston harbor begins the u.s. civil war.
1861/--/-- 15 - unification of italy
1861/--/-- 15 - western territories reorganized by republican congresses
1861/01/31 15 *** wood, john [great uncle] - died clinton county, ky clinton county, ky clinton county, ky
1861/10/29 16 *** ewing, william jesse [1st cousin] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton county, kentucky
1861/12/04 16 *** wood, reuben bayless [father] - died killed by guerrillas during the civil war. clinton county, kentucky irwin cem. clinton county kentucky
1862/--/-- 16 - a union fleet under david g. farragut captures new orleans.
1862/--/-- 16 - bartolome mitre unites argentina and is elected president.
1862/--/-- 16 - brady, o'sullivan and gardner document the civil war in photographs.
1862/--/-- 16 - explorer john mcdouall stuart makes the first south to north crossing of australia.
1862/--/-- 16 - foucault measures speed of light
1862/--/-- 16 - french actress sarah bernhardt makes her debut at the comedie francaise.
1862/--/-- 16 - french impressionist artist edouard manet paints le dejeuner sur l'herbe.
1862/--/-- 16 - french physicist jean foucault successfully measures the speed of light.
1862/--/-- 16 - french writer victor hugo completes his social novel les miserables.
1862/--/-- 16 - lee defeats the union army in the second battle of bull run.
1862/--/-- 16 - lee's confederate invasion of maryland is halted at the battle of antietam.
1862/--/-- 16 - mcclellan is defeated in the seven days battle and retreats from the peninsular.
1862/--/-- 16 - napoleon iii imposes the austrian prince maximilian as emperor of mexico.
1862/--/-- 16 - richard j. gatling invents the first practical machine gun.
1862/--/-- 16 - russian novelist ivan turgenev publishes fathers and sons.
1862/--/-- 16 - the first recorded ski competition is held near oslo in norway.
1862/--/-- 16 - the ironclad warships monitor and merrimack clash at hampton roads, va.
1862/--/-- 16 - union forces under burnside are defeated at the battle of fredricksburg.
1862/--/-- 16 - union forces under grant defeat the confederates at the battle of shiloh.
1862/--/-- 16 - union forces under mcclellan begin the peninsular campaign to capture richmond.
1862/--/-- 16 - william i appoints otto von bismarck as minister president of prussia.
1862/02/12 16 *** wood, abram [great uncle] - died bunker hill, macoupin, il bunker hill, macoupin, il
1863/--/-- 17 - cambodia (kampuchea) becomes a french protectorate.
1863/--/-- 17 - english philosopher john stuart mill publishes utilitarianism.
1863/--/-- 17 - french impressionist artist camille pissarro exhibits at the salon des refuses.
1863/--/-- 17 - george i succeeds otto as king of greece.
1863/--/-- 17 - grant defeats the confederates in the vicksburg campaign.
1863/--/-- 17 - ismail pasha rules egypt under the suzerainty of the ottoman empire.
1863/--/-- 17 - lincoln's emancipation proclamation abolishes slavery in the confederate states.
1863/--/-- 17 - london's metropolitan railway becomes the first underground subway.
1863/--/-- 17 - the confederate guerrilla band quantrill's raiders pillage lawrence, kansas.
1863/--/-- 17 - the confederates defeat the union army at chancellorsville; jackson is killed.
1863/--/-- 17 - the confederates under lee are defeated at the battle of gettysburg.
1863/--/-- 17 - the french occupy mexico city in support of maximilian, emperor of mexico.
1863/--/-- 17 - the london football association issues the first soccer rules.
1863/--/-- 17 - west virginia is inaugurated as the 35th state of the union.
1863/10/18 18 *** bayless, mary (wood) [grandmother] - died clinton county, kentucky irwin cemetery, huge limestone block
1864/--/-- 18 - a chinese army under gordon recaptures nanking and ends the taiping rebellion.
1864/--/-- 18 - a union army under sherman invades georgia, begining the atlanta campaign.
1864/--/-- 18 - cheyenne and arapaho families massacred at sand creek, colorado
1864/--/-- 18 - denmark is defeated by prussia; schleswig-holstein is ceded to germany.
1864/--/-- 18 - nevada is inaugurated as the 36th state of the union.
1864/--/-- 18 - paraguayan dictator francisco solano lopez begins the war of the triple alliance.
1864/--/-- 18 - sherman defeats the confederates at atlanta and begins his march to the sea.
1864/--/-- 18 - the colorado militia massacre cheyenne indians at sand creek.
1864/--/-- 18 - the confederate submarine hunley sinks a federal ship but is sunk in the process.
1864/--/-- 18 - the geneva convention sets standards of humane treatment in time of war.
1864/--/-- 18 - the ionian islands are ceded to greece by britain.
1864/--/-- 18 - the union launches a drive on richmond but falters in the wilderness campaign.
1864/--/-- 18 - ulysses s. grant is made general in chief of all the union armies.
1864/09/07 19 *** wood, david reuben [nephew] - born to wood, james elvin and baker, aurelia (wood)
1865/--/-- 19 - andrew johnson (republican) becomes president of the united states
1865/--/-- 19 - andrew johnson becomes the 17th president of the u.s.
1865/--/-- 19 - civil war ends
1865/--/-- 19 - confederate forces under lee surrender to grant at appomattox court house.
1865/--/-- 19 - count leo tolstoi begins his monumental russian novel war and peace.
1865/--/-- 19 - english author lewis carroll writes alice's adventures in wonderland.
1865/--/-- 19 - johnston surrenders the last confederate army to sherman, ending the u.s. civil war.
1865/--/-- 19 - leo tolstoy "war and peace"
1865/--/-- 19 - lincoln assassinated
1865/--/-- 19 - lincoln is assassinated by john wilkes booth at ford's theatre in washington d.c.
1865/--/-- 19 - russian author fyodor dostoevsky publishes crime and punishment.
1865/--/-- 19 - the 13th amendment to the u.s. constitution abolishes slavery.
1865/--/-- 19 - the petersburg campaign is won by union forces; lee evacuates richmond.
1866/--/-- 20 - british engineer robert whitehead invents the first self-propelled torpedo.
1866/--/-- 20 - congress authorize (but do not mandate) the use of the metric system in the u.s.
1866/--/-- 20 - mendel publishes his genetic research in experiments with plant hybrids.
1866/--/-- 20 - prussia and italy defeat austria in the seven weeks' war.
1866/--/-- 20 - the ku klux klan is founded in the southern united states.
1866/09/26 21 *** gwinn, george w. [husband] & wood, elizabeth gibbons (gwinn) - married clinton county kentucky
1867/--/-- 21 - alfred nobel patents dynamite
1867/--/-- 21 - bismark forms the north german confederation under prussian leadership.
1867/--/-- 21 - diamond fields are discovered in south africa.
1867/--/-- 21 - english photographer julia margaret cameron takes sir john herschel's portrait.
1867/--/-- 21 - french troops withdraw from mexico; emperor maximilian is executed by juarez.
1867/--/-- 21 - karl marx publishes the first volume of das kapital.
1867/--/-- 21 - nebraska is inaugurated as the 37th state of the union.
1867/--/-- 21 - sir john a. macdonald becomes canada's first prime minister.
1867/--/-- 21 - the compromise (ausgleich) of 1867 creates the dual monarchy of austria-hungary.
1867/--/-- 21 - the dominion of canada is established by the british north america act.
1868/--/-- 22 - a military coup led by general juan prim deposes queen isabella ii of spain.
1868/--/-- 22 - a military coup led by general juan prim deposes queen isabella ii of spain.
1868/--/-- 22 - a skeleton of cro-magnon man is discovered in southern france.
1868/--/-- 22 - british labor unions form the trades union congress.
1868/--/-- 22 - christopher sholes patents the first practical typewriter.
1868/--/-- 22 - chulalongkorn succeeds his father mongkut as the king of siam (thailand).
1868/--/-- 22 - feminists susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton publish revolution.
1868/--/-- 22 - johannes brahms' a german requiem is performed for the first time.
1868/--/-- 22 - ndebele king mzilikazi dies in africa; he is succeeded (1870) by his son lobengula.
1868/--/-- 22 - the meiji dynasty is restored in japan; the tokugawa shogunate is abolished.
1868/--/-- 22 - the ten years' war begins in cuba against spanish rule.
1868/--/-- 22 - u.s. president andrew johnson is impeached by congress but acquitted by the senate.
1868/--/-- 22 - u.s. president andrew johnson is impeached by congress but acquitted by the senate.
1868/--/-- 22 - william gladstone becomes liberal prime minister of britain for the first time.
1868/05/08 23 *** wood, elizabeth sonora (maupin) [niece] - born to wood, james elvin and baker, aurelia (wood)
1869/--/-- 23 - 200 pitched battles between indians and u.s. calvary
1869/--/-- 23 - english author matthew arnold publishes culture and anarchy.
1869/--/-- 23 - french artist eugene louis boudin paints on the beach at deauville.
1869/--/-- 23 - grant is inaugurated as the 18th u.s. president; colfax becomes vice-president.
1869/--/-- 23 - james gordon bennett jr. commissions stanley to search for livingston in africa.
1869/--/-- 23 - john roebling designs the brooklyn bridge but dies after a construction accident.
1869/--/-- 23 - louis riel leads the red river rebellion in canada.
1869/--/-- 23 - ludwig ii (mad ludwig) begins building his fantasy castles in bavaria.
1869/--/-- 23 - philadelphia garment workers organize the knights of labor, an early labor union.
1869/--/-- 23 - pope pius ix calls the first vatican council to discuss the dogma of papal infallibility.
1869/--/-- 23 - russian composer modest mussorgsky begins work on his opera boris gudunov.
1869/--/-- 23 - suez canal opens
1869/--/-- 23 - the cincinnati red stockings become the first professional baseball team.
1869/--/-- 23 - the suez canal is opened in egypt.
1869/--/-- 23 - the first manufacturing patent is issued for chewing gum.
1869/--/-- 23 - the transcontinental railroad is completed at promontory point, utah.
1869/--/-- 23 - ulysses s. grant (republican) becomes president of the united states
1869/--/-- 23 - union pacific meets central pacific
1870/--/-- 24 - american industrialist john d. rockefeller founds the standard oil company.
1870/--/-- 24 - french war minister leon gambetta escapes from besieged paris in a balloon.
1870/--/-- 24 - german archaeologist heinrich schliemann excavates the ancient city of troy.
1870/--/-- 24 - paraguayan dictator solano lopez dies, ending the war of the triple alliance.
1870/--/-- 24 - rome becomes the capital of the kingdom of italy.
1870/--/-- 24 - the franco-prussian war begins over a diplomatic incident engineered by bismark.
1870/--/-- 24 - the prussians defeat the french at sedan; napoleon iii is taken prisoner.
1870/--/-- 24 - the third republic is formed in france; a government of national defense is established.
1870/--/-- 24 - the city of miami is founded in florida.
1870/12/14 25 *** wood, samuel armitage [nephew] - born to wood, james elvin and baker, aurelia (wood)
1871/--/-- 25 - american explorer henry morton stanley finds dr. livingston in central africa.
1871/--/-- 25 - charles taze russell founds the jehovah's witnesses about this time.
1871/--/-- 25 - fire destroys one-third of the city of chicago.
1871/--/-- 25 - p.t barnum launches a traveling circus, museum and menagerie.
1871/--/-- 25 - the franco-prussian war ends; alsace and lorraine are ceded to germany.
1871/--/-- 25 - the french surrender to prussia incites the commune of paris uprising.
1871/--/-- 25 - the german empire is formally proclaimed at the palace of versailles.
1871/--/-- 25 - the paris commune is suppressed by government troops after a 2-month siege.
1871/--/-- 25 - trade unions legalized in britain
1872/--/-- 26 - american artist james mcneill whistler paints the portrait of the artist's mother.
1872/--/-- 26 - english author george eliot (mary anne evans) publishes middlemarch.
1872/--/-- 26 - indian leader kintpuash leaves the modoc reservation; the modoc wars begin.
1872/--/-- 26 - monet paints impression: sunrise; the term impressionism is derived from the title.
1872/--/-- 26 - photographer eadweard muybridge begins his series of motion studies.
1872/--/-- 26 - the challenger expedition begins the first systematic oceanographic survey.
1872/--/-- 26 - the cities of buda and pest unite to form budapest (the capital of hungary from 1918).
1872/--/-- 26 - the death of kamehameha v ends the kamehameha dynasty of hawaiian kings.
1872/--/-- 26 - the first woman impressionist artist berthe morisot paints the cradle.
1872/02/06 26 *** wood, nannie piera (white) [niece] - born to wood, armistead armstrong
1872/10/12 27 *** gwinn, reuben wood [son] - born to gwinn, george w. and wood, elizabeth gibbons (gwinn)
1873/--/-- 27 - englishman maj. walter clopton wingfield invents lawn tennis.
1873/--/-- 27 - french novelist jules verne publishes around the world in eighty days.
1873/--/-- 27 - the pacific scandal in canada causes the collapse of the conservative government.
1873/--/-- 27 - the panic of 1873 leads to 5 years of economic depression in the u.s.
1873/08/07 28 *** wood, elizabeth gibbons (gwinn) - died guinn cem. clinton county kentucky
in 1845 transportation was by:
foot
horse
bicycle
train
steamboat
in 1845 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
telegraph
in 1845 food preparation was by:
wood
in 1845 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1845 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1845 war making was by:
calvary
gun
artillery
submarine
by 1873 war making was by:
machine guns
iron clad ships
mines
in addition.
in 1845 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
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