...Date... AGE Event
1830/--/-- -1 - Belgium asserts its independence from the Netherlands.
1830/--/-- -1 - British geologist Charles Lyell begins publishing his Principles of Geology.
1830/--/-- -1 - Fructuoso Rivera is elected as first president of Uruguay.
1830/--/-- -1 - George Catlin begins his paintings of North American Indians about this time.
1830/--/-- -1 - Greece becomes independent from Turkey.
1830/--/-- -1 - Hector Berlioz composes his first major work the Symphonie Fantastique.
1830/--/-- -1 - Indian Removal Act moves eastern Indians west of Mississippi
1830/--/-- -1 - Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church at Fayette, New York.
1830/--/-- -1 - Louis Philippe is chosen as the citizen king of France.
1830/--/-- -1 - Philipon publishes the satirical weekly La Caricature, with contributions by Daumier.
1830/--/-- -1 - Polish rebellions are suppressed by Russia.
1830/--/-- -1 - Simon Bolivar resigns as dictator of Gran Colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- -1 - The Indian Removal Act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to Indian Territory.
1830/--/-- -1 - The July Revolution in France forces the abdication of Charles X.
1830/--/-- -1 - The Women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book is published in the U.S.
1830/--/-- -1 - The locomotive Best Friend of Charleston is in use on the first U.S. railroad.
1830/--/-- -1 - William IV succeeds George IV as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1830/06/23 0 *** Cowan, John L. - Born to Cowan, Thomas A. and Long, Margaret Louise (Cowan)
1831/--/-- 0 - British naturalist Charles Darwin sails to South America aboard H.M.S. Beagle.
1831/--/-- 0 - Cyrus McCormick invents a mechanical reaper.
1831/--/-- 0 - Explorer James Clark Ross determines the position of the north magnetic pole.
1831/--/-- 0 - Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini founds the Young Italy movement.
1831/--/-- 0 - Jose Antonio Paez becomes the first president of Venezuela.
1831/--/-- 0 - King Louis Philippe founds the French foreign legion.
1831/--/-- 0 - Leopold I is selected as the first king of Belgium.
1831/--/-- 0 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his theory of electromagnetic induction.
1831/--/-- 0 - Nat Turner leads a black slave revolt in Virginia; he is captured and hanged.
1831/--/-- 0 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin completes his masterpiece Eugene Onegin.
1831/--/-- 0 - The crown colony of British Guiana (Guyana) is formed.
1831/--/-- 0 - Victor Hugo "Hunchback of Notre Dame"
1831/--/-- 0 - William Lloyd Garrison publishes the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.
1832/--/-- 1 - George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) publishes her first novel Indiana.
1832/--/-- 1 - Japanese artist Hiroshige begins work on Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido.
1832/--/-- 1 - Samuel F.B. Morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph
1832/--/-- 1 - The Black Hawk War is the last major Indian conflict east of the Mississippi River.
1832/--/-- 1 - The Democratic party is formally established as a national organization.
1832/05/04 1 *** Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen) [Sister] - Born to Cowan, Thomas A. and Long, Margaret Louise (Cowan)
1833/--/-- 2 - A Bavarian prince becomes King Otto of Greece.
1833/--/-- 2 - Britain occupies the Falkland Islands.
1833/--/-- 2 - Carl von Clausewitz's classic study of warfare On War is published.
1833/--/-- 2 - General Santa Anna becomes president of Mexico.
1833/--/-- 2 - Isabella II succeeds Ferdinand VII, King of Spain; the Carlist Wars begin.
1833/--/-- 2 - President Jackson withdraws federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1833/--/-- 2 - Santa Anna elected President of Mexico
1833/--/-- 2 - The American Anti-Slavery Society is inaugurated in Philadelphia.
1833/--/-- 2 - Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published in English.
1834/--/-- 3 - A Quadruple Alliance is formed to aid Isabella II of Spain and Maria II of Portugal.
1834/--/-- 3 - American inventor Jacob Perkins patents the first practical ice-making machine.
1834/--/-- 3 - British politician Sir Robert Peel founds the Conservative Party.
1834/--/-- 3 - Indian Territory founded
1834/--/-- 3 - Slavery abolished in British Empire
1834/--/-- 3 - The Carlist Wars resume in Spain.
1834/--/-- 3 - The Hansom cab is designed; it becomes the standard horse-drawn cab in London.
1834/--/-- 3 - The Whig party is formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party.
1835/--/-- 4 *** Cowan, Thomas [Brother] - Born to Cowan, Thomas A. and Long, Margaret Louise (Cowan)
1835/--/-- 4 - American settlers begin the Texas Revolution against Mexican rule.
1835/--/-- 4 - Attempts to move the Seminole Indians begins the second Seminole War.
1835/--/-- 4 - Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen publishes Tales Told for Children.
1835/--/-- 4 - French politician Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America.
1835/--/-- 4 - James Gordon Bennett founds the New York Herald newspaper.
1835/--/-- 4 - Second Seminole War in Florida
1836/--/-- 5 - American educator William Holmes McGuffey begins editing his Readers.
1836/--/-- 5 - American inventor Samuel Colt begins manufacturing the first revolver.
1836/--/-- 5 - American literary figure Ralph Waldo Emerson founds the Transcendental Club.
1836/--/-- 5 - Arkansas is inaugurated as the 25th state of the Union.
1836/--/-- 5 - Boer (Afrikaner) settlers begin the Great Trek into the South African interior.
1836/--/-- 5 - Bolivian president Santa Cruz invades Peru and forms the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
1836/--/-- 5 - Charles Barry designs Westminster Palace in the Gothic Revival style.
1836/--/-- 5 - Charles Dickens publishes his first popular work The Pickwick Papers.
1836/--/-- 5 - John C. Calhoun supports the gag rules to prevent Congress debating slavery.
1836/--/-- 5 - Republic of Texas forms
1836/--/-- 5 - Russian author Nikolai Gogol writes his play The Inspector General.
1836/--/-- 5 - Santa Anna's army storms the Alamo in Texas, killing the defenders.
1836/--/-- 5 - Texans under Sam Houston defeat Santa Anna at the San Jacinto River.
1836/--/-- 5 - Texas Revolution
1836/--/-- 5 - The Arc de Triomphe, the world's largest triumphal arch, is completed in Paris.
1836/01/17 5 *** Pierce, Elizabeth Ann (Parmley) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1836/09/25 6 *** Cowan, James V. [Brother] - Born to Cowan, Thomas A. and Long, Margaret Louise (Cowan)
1837/--/-- 6 - Britain's refusal to grant more home rule in Canada leads to the Rebellions of 1837.
1837/--/-- 6 - British scientist Charles Wheatstone designs an electric telegraph system.
1837/--/-- 6 - Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"
1837/--/-- 6 - Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype method for taking permanent photographs.
1837/--/-- 6 - Martin Van Buren (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1837/--/-- 6 - Michigan is inaugurated as the 26th state of the Union.
1837/--/-- 6 - Mikhail Lermontov writes the Death of a Poet, inspired by the death of Pushkin.
1837/--/-- 6 - Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is killed in a duel.
1837/--/-- 6 - Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle publishes The French Revolution.
1837/--/-- 6 - Seminole Indian leader Osceola is captured.
1837/--/-- 6 - Van Buren is inaugurated as the 8th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1837/--/-- 6 - William IV dies; Victoria succeeds him as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1837/06/-- 6 - Victoria succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1838/--/-- 7 *** Pierce, Daniel [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1838/--/-- 7 - Boer (Afrikaner) leader Andries Pretorius defeats the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River.
1838/--/-- 7 - British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner paints the Fighting Temeraire.
1838/--/-- 7 - Charles Wilkes heads a U.S. Navy expedition to Antarctica.
1838/--/-- 7 - Cherokee "Trail of Tears"
1838/--/-- 7 - French philosopher Auguste Comte inaugurates the science of sociology.
1838/--/-- 7 - Iowa Territory organized
1838/--/-- 7 - John Deere develops a steel-tipped plow capable of turning heavy prairie soil.
1838/--/-- 7 - Samuel F.B. Morse develops the Morse code for electric telegraph systems.
1838/--/-- 7 - Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan makes the first pedal-driven bicycle.
1838/06/08 7 - Victoria crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Will
1839/--/-- 8 - American inventor Charles Goodyear develops the vulcanization of rubber.
1839/--/-- 8 - Chile defeats Santa Cruz's Peru-Bolivian Confederation at the Battle of Yungay.
1839/--/-- 8 - Daguerre invents first form of photography
1839/--/-- 8 - French novelist Stendhal writes The Charterhouse of Parma.
1839/--/-- 8 - Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt embarks on a concert tour of Europe.
1839/--/-- 8 - Jose Rafael Carrera captures Guatemala; the Central American Federation is dissolved.
1839/--/-- 8 - Stephens and Catherwood explore Maya ruins in the Yucatan.
1839/--/-- 8 - The Anglo-Afghan Wars begin in Afghanistan.
1839/--/-- 8 - The Opium Wars begin between Britain and China.
1839/--/-- 8 - Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden formulate the cell theory.
1839/02/16 8 *** Cowan, Margaret P. [Sister] - Born to Cowan, Thomas A. and Long, Margaret Louise (Cowan)
1840/--/-- 9 - Civil War breaks out in Uruguay between the Colorados (reds) and Blancos (whites).
1840/--/-- 9 - Edgar Allen Poe: "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
1840/--/-- 9 - French philosopher and anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon writes What is Property.
1840/--/-- 9 - Horatio Greenough's classical statue of George Washington is strongly criticized.
1840/--/-- 9 - Maori chiefs sign over their tribal lands to Queen Victoria in the Treaty of Waitangi.
1840/--/-- 9 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
1840/--/-- 9 - Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of ice ages.
1840/--/-- 9 - The Liberty party is founded in Albany, N.Y. based exclusively on an antislavery platform.
1840/--/-- 9 - The Underground Railroad is active in helping escaping slaves in the U.S.
1840/--/-- 9 - The first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued in London.
1840/--/-- 9 - The metric system of measurement is reinstated in France.
1840/--/-- 9 - Upper and Lower Canada are united in the single Province of Canada.
1840/--/-- 9 - Upper and lower Canada united
1840/12/04 10 *** Cowan, Thomas A. [Father] - Died Clinton County Kentucky prob. Cowan Cem. Bristow Farm clinton co
1841/--/-- 10 *** Pierce, Rebecca (Tabor) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1841/--/-- 10 - Edgar Allan Poe writes an early detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
1841/--/-- 10 - George Grey is appointed governor of South Australia to help save the colony.
1841/--/-- 10 - Harrison is inaugurated as the 9th U.S. president; Tyler becomes vice-president.
1841/--/-- 10 - Horace Greeley founds the New York Tribune newspaper.
1841/--/-- 10 - Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi creates the role of Giselle.
1841/--/-- 10 - John Tyler (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1841/--/-- 10 - Muhammad Ali defeats the Ottomans and becomes the hereditary ruler of Egypt.
1841/--/-- 10 - New Zealand is established as a separate British colony.
1841/--/-- 10 - President Harrison dies; John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th U.S. president
1841/--/-- 10 - Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne resigns; he is succeeded by Sir Robert Peel.
1841/--/-- 10 - William Henry Harrison (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1841/--/-- 10 - William Henry Talbot patents the calotype photographic process.
1841/03/17 10 *** Cowan, Margaret P. [Sister] - Died
1842/--/-- 11 - 10-hour day for children under 12 in Massachusetts
1842/--/-- 11 - American explorer John C. Fremont begins surveying the Oregon Trail.
1842/--/-- 11 - American showman P.T. Barnum discovers the 40-inch midget Tom Thumb.
1842/--/-- 11 - Austrian physicist Christian Johann Doppler predicts the Doppler effect.
1842/--/-- 11 - China cedes Hong Kong to Britain.
1842/--/-- 11 - China is defeated in the first Opium War; Chinese ports are opened to British trade.
1842/--/-- 11 - Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti writes his opera Don Pasquale.
1843/--/-- 12 - A coup in Greece forces King Otto to accept a constitutional monarchy.
1843/--/-- 12 - Black American Sojourner Truth begins her reform mission.
1843/--/-- 12 - Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard publishes Either/Or.
1843/--/-- 12 - English art critic John Ruskin begins publishing Modern Painters.
1843/--/-- 12 - German astronomer Samuel Schwabe discovers the sunspot cycle.
1843/09/15 13 *** Pierce, Mary Susan (Guthrie) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1844/--/-- 13 *** Pierce, Francis [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1844/--/-- 13 - Alexander Dumas "The Three Muskateers"
1844/--/-- 13 - Eastern Hispaniola declares independence from Haiti as the Dominican Republic.
1844/--/-- 13 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas pere) publishes The Three Musketeers.
1844/--/-- 13 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, is killed by a lynch mob.
1844/--/-- 13 - Samuel F.B. Morse establishes the first U.S. telegraph link.
1844/--/-- 13 - Settlers in New South Wales force Britain to stop sending convicts to the colony.
1844/--/-- 13 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in England.
1844/--/-- 13 - William Henry Talbot begins his Pencil of Nature, the first book of photographs.
1845/--/-- 14 - American author Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century.
1845/--/-- 14 - British archaeologist Austen Layard excavates the sites of Nimrud and Nineveh.
1845/--/-- 14 - Civil War ends in Peru; Castilla Ramon is elected as president.
1845/--/-- 14 - Failure of the potato crop leads to a famine in Ireland.
1845/--/-- 14 - Florida is inaugurated as the 27th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 14 - French artists Gavarni and Grandville begin designing the first elaborate posters.
1845/--/-- 14 - German composer Robert Schumann writes his Piano Concerto in A minor.
1845/--/-- 14 - German scientist Alexander von Humboldt publishes the first volume of his Kosmos.
1845/--/-- 14 - James K. Polk (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1845/--/-- 14 - Polk is inaugurated as the 11th U.S. president; Dallas becomes vice-president
1845/--/-- 14 - Sir John Franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.
1845/--/-- 14 - The Republic of Texas becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 14 - The Republic of Texas is annexed by the U.S.; it becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 14 - The Sikh Wars begin in British India.
1845/--/-- 14 - The first clipper ship the Rainbow is built in New York.
1845/--/-- 14 - The term Manifest Destiny is first used in defense of U.S. territorial ambitions.
1845/03/28 14 *** Pierce, Ann Eliza (Grider) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1846/--/-- 15 - Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone in Paris.
1846/--/-- 15 - American dentist William Morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 15 - German astronomer Johann Galle makes the first observation of the planet Neptune.
1846/--/-- 15 - German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach publishes The Essence of Religion.
1846/--/-- 15 - Henry Creswicke Rawlinson deciphers the Mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 15 - Iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the Union.
1846/--/-- 15 - Mexican War
1846/--/-- 15 - Mormon trek from Navoo to Salt Lake City
1846/--/-- 15 - Oregon boundary with Canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 15 - The Christy Minstrels begin performing in New York.
1846/--/-- 15 - The Mexican War begins over the U.S. annexation of Texas.
1846/--/-- 15 - The Mexican government collapses; Santa Anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 15 - The Smithsonian Institution is created by Congress.
1846/--/-- 15 - The border between the U.S. and Canada is established, settling the Oregon Question.
1846/--/-- 15 - U.S. forces under Stephen Watts Kearny occupy New Mexico.
1846/--/-- 15 - U.S. forces under Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at Palo Alto and Monterrey.
1846/--/-- 15 - Writer and artist Edward Lear publishes A Book of Nonsense.
1847/--/-- 16 - American missionary Marcus Whitman is killed by Cayuse Indians in Oregon.
1847/--/-- 16 - American oceanographer Matthew Maury publishes his first Wind and Current Charts.
1847/--/-- 16 - Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte publishes Wuthering Heights.
1847/--/-- 16 - English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray begins Vanity Fair.
1847/--/-- 16 - Honore de Balzac completes La Comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 16 - Italian statesman Cavour founds the liberal newspaper Il Risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 16 - Maria Mitchell, the first woman astronomer in America, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 16 - Mormons and the Indians
1847/--/-- 16 - Scott enters Mexico City after a series of battles; Mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 16 - Sir James Simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 16 - Taylor defeats Santa Anna's Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista.
1847/--/-- 16 - The African slave colony of Liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 16 - The American Medical Association is founded.
1847/--/-- 16 - The Mormons under Brigham Young found Salt Lake City.
1847/--/-- 16 - The U.S. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 16 - U.S. forces under Stockton, Fremont and Kearny occupy California.
1847/--/-- 16 - U.S. forces under Winfield Scott land at Veracruz and advance on Mexico City.
1847/03/31 16 *** Pierce, Martha Jane (Cook) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1848/--/-- 17 - A Czech uprising under Frantisek Palacky is suppressed by Austria.
1848/--/-- 17 - American engineer James Bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 17 - February Revolution by French workers makes Louis Napoleon III President of 2nd Reublic
1848/--/-- 17 - Ferdinand I abdicates; Francis Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria.
1848/--/-- 17 - French Barbizon artist Theodore Rousseau paints the Forest at Fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 17 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils) publishes his novel Camille.
1848/--/-- 17 - Gold discovered in California
1848/--/-- 17 - Holman Hunt, Millais and Rossetti form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain.
1848/--/-- 17 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
1848/--/-- 17 - Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1848/--/-- 17 - Louis Philippe abdicates; a Second Republic is declared in France.
1848/--/-- 17 - Mexican Cession
1848/--/-- 17 - Risorgimento leader Garibaldi returns to Italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 17 - Scottish physicist William Thomson Kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 17 - The Austrian revolution begins in Vienna; chancellor Metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 17 - The Revolutions of 1848 break out in Europe.
1848/--/-- 17 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ratifies the cession of California and New Mexico.
1848/--/-- 17 - The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill begins the California gold rush.
1848/--/-- 17 - The first U.S. women's rights assembly meets at the Seneca Falls Convention.
1848/--/-- 17 - Uprisings in Berlin force Frederick William IV to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 17 - Wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the Union.
1849/--/-- 18 - Amelia Bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the Lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 18 - Austrian forces crush the Italian revolution; Mazzini and Garibaldi flee from Italy.
1849/--/-- 18 - Austrian premier Felix Schwarzenberg uses the Russian army to defeat the Hungarians.
1849/--/-- 18 - Black slave Harriet Tubman escapes and begins her Underground Railway work.
1849/--/-- 18 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 18 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand publishes Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb.
1849/--/-- 18 - French physicist Armand Fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 18 - Lajos Kossuth declares Hungarian independence from Austria.
1849/--/-- 18 - Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin is deported to Siberia.
1849/--/-- 18 - Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th U.S. president; Fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 18 - Zachary Taylor (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 19 - Allan Pinkerton founds the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
1850/--/-- 19 - American author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter.
1850/--/-- 19 - American popular songwriter Stephen Foster publishes Camptown Races.
1850/--/-- 19 - California is inaugurated as the 31st state of the Union.
1850/--/-- 19 - Congress reinforces the Fugitive Slave Law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 19 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her Sonnets From the Portuguese.
1850/--/-- 19 - English author Charles Dickens writes David Copperfield.
1850/--/-- 19 - French realist artist Gustave Courbet paints The Stone Breakers.
1850/--/-- 19 - Jenny Lind the Swedish nightingale begins her U.S. tour.
1850/--/-- 19 - Millard Fillmore (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 19 - Nathanial Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"
1850/--/-- 19 - Photographer Mathew Brady publishes The Gallery of Illustrious Americans.
1850/--/-- 19 - Plains Indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 19 - President Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th U.S. president.
1850/--/-- 19 - The Compromise of 1850 establishes California as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 19 - The Taiping Rebellion breaks out in China against the Ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 19 - The first issue of Harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 19 - Utah and New Mexico Territories
1851/--/-- 20 - A gold rush begins in Victoria, Australia; Victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 20 - American author Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1851/--/-- 20 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is produced in Venice.
1851/--/-- 20 - Harriet Beecher Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1851/--/-- 20 - Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones found the New York Times.
1851/--/-- 20 - Isaac Merrit Singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 20 - Jacob Fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in Baltimore.
1851/--/-- 20 - Melville "Moby Dick"
1851/--/-- 20 - Mongkut (Rama IV) becomes king of Siam (Thailand).
1851/--/-- 20 - Singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 20 - The Crystal Palace is built in London to house the Great Exhibition.
1851/--/-- 20 - The U.S. yacht America defeats 17 British yachts in the first America's Cup contest.
1851/--/-- 20 - The first college sorority is established at Wesleyan College, Georgia.
1851/12/12 21 *** Pierce, Sarah "Sally" (Tuggle) [1st cousin once removed] - Born to Pierce, Lewis and Cowan, Rachel (Pierce)
1852/--/-- 21 - Argentinean dictator Rosas is defeated by forces under Urquiza at Monte Caseros.
1852/--/-- 21 - Britain gains control of the Irrawaddy delta after the second Anglo-Burma War.
1852/--/-- 21 - The Grimms begin publication of their Deutsches Worterbuch (German Dictionary).
1852/--/-- 21 - The Second Empire begins in France under Napoleon III.
1853/--/-- 22 - A U.S. naval squadron under Matthew Perry enters Tokyo Bay to negotiate a treaty.
1853/--/-- 22 - Chinese rebels capture Nanking and make it the capital of the Taiping kingdom.
1853/--/-- 22 - Crimean War between Turkey, France & Britain against Russia
1853/--/-- 22 - Franklin Pierce (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1853/--/-- 22 - Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th U.S. president; King becomes vice-president.
1853/--/-- 22 - General Santa Anna becomes dictator of Mexico for the last time.
1853/--/-- 22 - Georges Haussmann begins the reconstruction of Paris.
1853/--/-- 22 - Napoleon III marries the Empress Eugenie.
1853/--/-- 22 - Richard Wagner begins his cycle of four operas The Ring of The Nibelung.
1853/--/-- 22 - Russia occupies the Turkish principalities of Moldavia and Walachia.
1853/--/-- 22 - The U.S. adds land to New Mexico and Arizona with the Gadsden Purchase.
1853/--/-- 22 - Turkey issues an ultimatum to Russia; the Russians destroy the Turkish fleet at Sinope.
1854/--/-- 23 - A commercial treaty is signed between the U.S. and Japan, ending Japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 23 - American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1854/--/-- 23 - An Anglo-French-Turkish expeditionary force lands at Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1854/--/-- 23 - Britain and France declare war on Russia, beginning the Crimean War.
1854/--/-- 23 - Nebraska and Kansas Territories
1854/--/-- 23 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
1854/--/-- 23 - Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt paints The Scapegoat.
1854/--/-- 23 - Republican Party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- 23 - Smith & Wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- 23 - The Allied armies defeat the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman.
1854/--/-- 23 - The British grant independence to the Orange Free State in South Africa.
1854/--/-- 23 - The Charge of the Light Brigade is made by the British during the Battle of Balaklava.
1854/--/-- 23 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- 23 - The Republican party is formed after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1854/--/-- 23 - Upper half of Indian Territory becomes part of Kansas Territory
1854/12/21 24 *** Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen) [Sister] & Owen, John B. - Married
1855/--/-- 24 - British photographer Roger Fenton documents the Crimean War.
1855/--/-- 24 - Florence Nightingale reforms hygienic standards in Crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Songs of Hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 24 - Lord Palmerston becomes prime minister of Great Britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 24 - Matthew Fontaine Maury publishes The Physical Geography of the Sea.
1855/--/-- 24 - Mexican dictator Santa Anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 24 - Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia dies; he is succeeded by his son Alexander II.
1855/--/-- 24 - Robert Browning publishes his poetry collection Men and Women.
1855/--/-- 24 - Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls in Africa.
1855/--/-- 24 - The Allies occupy the Russian fortress at Sevastapol in the Crimea.
1855/--/-- 24 - The first formal ice hockey game is played in Kingston, Ontario.
1855/--/-- 24 - Walt Whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the Leaves of Grass.
1855/10/24 25 *** Cowan, William E. [Nephew] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen)
1856/--/-- 25 - A new Opium War begins between China, Britain and France.
1856/--/-- 25 - English chemist William Perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 25 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War.
1856/--/-- 25 - The first Neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in Germany.
1856/--/-- 25 - Victor Hugo writes Les Miserables during his exile from France.
1856/01/08 25 *** Cowan, William J. [Brother] & Walker, Julia Ann (Cowan) - Married Clinton County Kentucky
1856/07/22 26 *** Cowan, William E. [Nephew] - Died Cowan cem. Clinton County KY
1857/--/-- 26 *** Owen, Margaret Elizabeth (Denney) [Niece] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen)
1857/--/-- 26 - Buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th U.S. president; Breckinridge becomes vice-president.
1857/--/-- 26 - Disputes between Mormons and non-Mormon settlers leads to the Utah War.
1857/--/-- 26 - Elisha Graves Otis installs the first passenger elevator in a New York City store.
1857/--/-- 26 - English author Thomas Hughes publishes Tom Brown's Schooldays.
1857/--/-- 26 - French novelist Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary.
1857/--/-- 26 - French poet Baudelaire publishes Flowers of Evil and is arrested for immorality.
1857/--/-- 26 - James Buchanan (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1857/--/-- 26 - Kansas ratifies anti-slavery constitution
1857/--/-- 26 - Mormons and Paiute Indians kill 120 settlers in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
1857/--/-- 26 - The Indian Mutiny begins when Indian troops rebel against the British in Meerut.
1857/--/-- 26 - The Oxford English Dictionary is begun in England.
1858/--/-- 27 - Benito Juarez becomes the first Mexican president of Indian descent.
1858/--/-- 27 - Bernadette Soubirous sees visions of the Vigin Mary in a grotto near Lourdes, France.
1858/--/-- 27 - Britain and France impose the Tientsin Treaty on China.
1858/--/-- 27 - British explorer John Hanning Speke discovers Lake Victoria in Africa.
1858/--/-- 27 - British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace outlines his theories of evolution.
1858/--/-- 27 - Charles Frederick Worth establishes his Paris fashion house.
1858/--/-- 27 - Cyrus W. Field lays the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
1858/--/-- 27 - Federal forces end the Utah War; Brigham Young is replaced as governor of Utah Territory.
1858/--/-- 27 - French photographer Nadar takes the first aerial photograph from a balloon.
1858/--/-- 27 - German-American artist Albert Bierstadt begins his landscapes of the American west.
1858/--/-- 27 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld premiers in Paris.
1858/--/-- 27 - James Renwick begins the design of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
1858/--/-- 27 - Minnesota is inaugurated as the 32nd state of the Union.
1858/--/-- 27 - The Fenians (Irish Republican Brotherhood) are founded to overthrow British rule.
1858/--/-- 27 - The Indian Mutiny is suppressed by the British Army and loyal Indian troops.
1858/--/-- 27 - The government of India is transferred from the East India Company to the British crown.
1859/--/-- 28 - Abolitionist John Brown leads an attack on Harpers Ferry; he is captured and executed.
1859/--/-- 28 - Charles Darwin "Origin of Species"
1859/--/-- 28 - Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1859/--/-- 28 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins building the Suez Canal in Egypt.
1859/--/-- 28 - French inventor Ferdinand Carre develops a refrigeration system.
1859/--/-- 28 - Napoleon III assists the Italian statesman Cavour in a war against Austria.
1859/--/-- 28 - Oregon is inaugurated as the 33rd state of the Union.
1859/--/-- 28 - Queensland becomes a separate colony of Australia.
1859/02/21 28 *** Tabor, Lewis B. & Pierce, Rebecca (Tabor) [1st cousin once removed] - Married
1860/--/-- 29 *** Cowan, William J. "Bill" [Nephew] - Born to Cowan, William J. and Walker, Julia Ann (Cowan)
1860/--/-- 29 *** Owen, Louisa B. (O'Conner) [Niece] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen)
1860/--/-- 29 - Abraham Lincoln is elected as the first Republican president of the United States.
1860/--/-- 29 - China resists the Tientsin Treaty; Anglo-French forces occupy Peking.
1860/--/-- 29 - English novelist Wilkie Collins writes The Woman in White.
1860/--/-- 29 - Florence Nightingale establishes a school for training nurses.
1860/--/-- 29 - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes The Mill on the Floss.
1860/--/-- 29 - Italian patriot Garibaldi invades Sicily and Naples with his 1,000 Redshirts.
1860/--/-- 29 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir patents the first internal-combustion engine.
1860/--/-- 29 - Sardinia-Piedmont seizes the Papal States in Italy.
1860/--/-- 29 - South Carolina becomes the first Southern state to secede from the Union.
1860/--/-- 29 - The Crittenden Compromise tries to prevent a split between slave and free states.
1860/--/-- 29 - The Maori Wars begin against the British in New Zealand.
1860/--/-- 29 - The pony express is inaugurated to deliver mail from Missouri to California.
1861/--/-- 30 - Abraham Lincoln (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1861/--/-- 30 - American locksmith Linus Yale Jr. patents the cylinder lock.
1861/--/-- 30 - CONFEDERACY
1861/--/-- 30 - Civil War Begins
1861/--/-- 30 - English designer William Morris starts the Arts and Crafts Movement.
1861/--/-- 30 - Explorers Burke and Wills die during their north-south crossing of Australia.
1861/--/-- 30 - French artist Eugene Delacroix paints the Lion Hunt.
1861/--/-- 30 - General George B. McClellan is made commander of the Union forces.
1861/--/-- 30 - Italy is unified under Victor Emmanuel II.
1861/--/-- 30 - John Ericsson designs the Monitor, the first ship with a revolving gun-turret.
1861/--/-- 30 - Kansas is inaugurated as the 34th state of the Union.
1861/--/-- 30 - Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th U.S. president; Hamlin becomes vice-president.
1861/--/-- 30 - Nicholas II abolishes serfdom in Russia.
1861/--/-- 30 - The Confederate States of America declare their independence from the U.S.
1861/--/-- 30 - The Confederates defeat the Union army in the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861/--/-- 30 - The Southern states meet to draft a constitution; Davis is selected as president.
1861/--/-- 30 - The Trent Affair begins when a Union ship intercepts a British steamer.
1861/--/-- 30 - The United States introduce the first national income tax.
1861/--/-- 30 - The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor begins the U.S. Civil War.
1861/--/-- 30 - Unification of Italy
1861/--/-- 30 - Western territories reorganized by Republican Congresses
1861/07/10 31 *** Owen, Robert A. [Nephew] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen)
1862/--/-- 31 - A Union fleet under David G. Farragut captures New Orleans.
1862/--/-- 31 - Bartolome Mitre unites Argentina and is elected president.
1862/--/-- 31 - Brady, O'Sullivan and Gardner document the Civil War in photographs.
1862/--/-- 31 - Explorer John McDouall Stuart makes the first south to north crossing of Australia.
1862/--/-- 31 - Foucault measures speed of light
1862/--/-- 31 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her debut at the Comedie Francaise.
1862/--/-- 31 - French impressionist artist Edouard Manet paints Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.
1862/--/-- 31 - French physicist Jean Foucault successfully measures the speed of light.
1862/--/-- 31 - French writer Victor Hugo completes his social novel Les Miserables.
1862/--/-- 31 - Lee defeats the Union army in the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1862/--/-- 31 - Lee's Confederate invasion of Maryland is halted at the Battle of Antietam.
1862/--/-- 31 - McClellan is defeated in the Seven Days Battle and retreats from the peninsular.
1862/--/-- 31 - Napoleon III imposes the Austrian prince Maximilian as emperor of Mexico.
1862/--/-- 31 - Richard J. Gatling invents the first practical machine gun.
1862/--/-- 31 - Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev publishes Fathers and Sons.
1862/--/-- 31 - The first recorded ski competition is held near Oslo in Norway.
1862/--/-- 31 - The ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimack clash at Hampton Roads, Va.
1862/--/-- 31 - Union forces under Burnside are defeated at the Battle of Fredricksburg.
1862/--/-- 31 - Union forces under Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh.
1862/--/-- 31 - Union forces under McClellan begin the Peninsular Campaign to capture Richmond.
1862/--/-- 31 - William I appoints Otto von Bismarck as minister president of Prussia.
1863/--/-- 32 - Cambodia (Kampuchea) becomes a French protectorate.
1863/--/-- 32 - English philosopher John Stuart Mill publishes Utilitarianism.
1863/--/-- 32 - French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro exhibits at the Salon des Refuses.
1863/--/-- 32 - George I succeeds Otto as king of Greece.
1863/--/-- 32 - Grant defeats the Confederates in the Vicksburg Campaign.
1863/--/-- 32 - Ismail Pasha rules Egypt under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.
1863/--/-- 32 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery in the Confederate states.
1863/--/-- 32 - London's Metropolitan Railway becomes the first underground subway.
1863/--/-- 32 - The Confederate guerrilla band Quantrill's Raiders pillage Lawrence, Kansas.
1863/--/-- 32 - The Confederates defeat the Union army at Chancellorsville; Jackson is killed.
1863/--/-- 32 - The Confederates under Lee are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
1863/--/-- 32 - The French occupy Mexico City in support of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
1863/--/-- 32 - The London Football Association issues the first soccer rules.
1863/--/-- 32 - West Virginia is inaugurated as the 35th state of the Union.
1863/05/02 32 *** Owen, Robert A. [Nephew] - Died Peolia Cem. Clinton county KY
1863/09/13 33 *** Owen, John B. [Nephew] - Born to Owen, John B. and Cowen, Julia Ann S. (Owen) near Livingston Tennessee
1864/--/-- 33 - A Chinese army under Gordon recaptures Nanking and ends the Taiping Rebellion.
1864/--/-- 33 - A Union army under Sherman invades Georgia, begining the Atlanta campaign.
1864/--/-- 33 - Cheyenne and Arapaho families massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado
1864/--/-- 33 - Denmark is defeated by Prussia; Schleswig-Holstein is ceded to Germany.
1864/--/-- 33 - Nevada is inaugurated as the 36th state of the Union.
1864/--/-- 33 - Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez begins the War of the Triple Alliance.
1864/--/-- 33 - Sherman defeats the Confederates at Atlanta and begins his march to the sea.
1864/--/-- 33 - The Colorado militia massacre Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.
1864/--/-- 33 - The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks a Federal ship but is sunk in the process.
1864/--/-- 33 - The Geneva Convention sets standards of humane treatment in time of war.
1864/--/-- 33 - The Ionian Islands are ceded to Greece by Britain.
1864/--/-- 33 - The Union launches a drive on Richmond but falters in the Wilderness Campaign.
1864/--/-- 33 - Ulysses S. Grant is made general in chief of all the Union armies.
1864/08/09 34 *** Cowan, John L. - Died Cowan Cem. Clinton County KY
In 1830 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
Bicycle
Steamboat
By 1864 Transportation was by:
Train
in addition.
By 1864 Transportation by:
Sailing ship
had been discontinued.
In 1830 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
By 1864 Communications was by:
Telegraph
in addition.
In 1830 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1830 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1830 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1830 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
By 1864 War Making was by:
Machine guns
Iron Clad ships
Mines
in addition.
In 1830 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:53