...Date... AGE Event
1850/--/-- -1 - Allan Pinkerton founds the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
1850/--/-- -1 - American author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter.
1850/--/-- -1 - American popular songwriter Stephen Foster publishes Camptown Races.
1850/--/-- -1 - California is inaugurated as the 31st state of the Union.
1850/--/-- -1 - Congress reinforces the Fugitive Slave Law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- -1 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her Sonnets From the Portuguese.
1850/--/-- -1 - English author Charles Dickens writes David Copperfield.
1850/--/-- -1 - French realist artist Gustave Courbet paints The Stone Breakers.
1850/--/-- -1 - Jenny Lind the Swedish nightingale begins her U.S. tour.
1850/--/-- -1 - Millard Fillmore (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- -1 - Nathanial Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"
1850/--/-- -1 - Photographer Mathew Brady publishes The Gallery of Illustrious Americans.
1850/--/-- -1 - Plains Indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- -1 - President Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th U.S. president.
1850/--/-- -1 - The Compromise of 1850 establishes California as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- -1 - The Taiping Rebellion breaks out in China against the Ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- -1 - The first issue of Harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- -1 - Utah and New Mexico Territories
1850/11/07 0 *** Littrell, Jane (Crockett) - Born to Littrell, Emmanuel S. and Koger, Rachel (Littrell)
1851/--/-- 0 - A gold rush begins in Victoria, Australia; Victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 0 - American author Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1851/--/-- 0 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is produced in Venice.
1851/--/-- 0 - Harriet Beecher Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1851/--/-- 0 - Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones found the New York Times.
1851/--/-- 0 - Isaac Merrit Singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 0 - Jacob Fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in Baltimore.
1851/--/-- 0 - Melville "Moby Dick"
1851/--/-- 0 - Mongkut (Rama IV) becomes king of Siam (Thailand).
1851/--/-- 0 - Singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 0 - The Crystal Palace is built in London to house the Great Exhibition.
1851/--/-- 0 - The U.S. yacht America defeats 17 British yachts in the first America's Cup contest.
1851/--/-- 0 - The first college sorority is established at Wesleyan College, Georgia.
1852/--/-- 1 - Argentinean dictator Rosas is defeated by forces under Urquiza at Monte Caseros.
1852/--/-- 1 - Britain gains control of the Irrawaddy delta after the second Anglo-Burma War.
1852/--/-- 1 - The Grimms begin publication of their Deutsches Worterbuch (German Dictionary).
1852/--/-- 1 - The Second Empire begins in France under Napoleon III.
1853/--/-- 2 - A U.S. naval squadron under Matthew Perry enters Tokyo Bay to negotiate a treaty.
1853/--/-- 2 - Chinese rebels capture Nanking and make it the capital of the Taiping kingdom.
1853/--/-- 2 - Crimean War between Turkey, France & Britain against Russia
1853/--/-- 2 - Franklin Pierce (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1853/--/-- 2 - Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th U.S. president; King becomes vice-president.
1853/--/-- 2 - General Santa Anna becomes dictator of Mexico for the last time.
1853/--/-- 2 - Georges Haussmann begins the reconstruction of Paris.
1853/--/-- 2 - Napoleon III marries the Empress Eugenie.
1853/--/-- 2 - Richard Wagner begins his cycle of four operas The Ring of The Nibelung.
1853/--/-- 2 - Russia occupies the Turkish principalities of Moldavia and Walachia.
1853/--/-- 2 - The U.S. adds land to New Mexico and Arizona with the Gadsden Purchase.
1853/--/-- 2 - Turkey issues an ultimatum to Russia; the Russians destroy the Turkish fleet at Sinope.
1854/--/-- 3 *** Koger, Nicholas [Great Grandfather] - Died
1854/--/-- 3 - A commercial treaty is signed between the U.S. and Japan, ending Japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 3 - American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1854/--/-- 3 - An Anglo-French-Turkish expeditionary force lands at Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1854/--/-- 3 - Britain and France declare war on Russia, beginning the Crimean War.
1854/--/-- 3 - Nebraska and Kansas Territories
1854/--/-- 3 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
1854/--/-- 3 - Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt paints The Scapegoat.
1854/--/-- 3 - Republican Party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- 3 - Smith & Wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- 3 - The Allied armies defeat the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman.
1854/--/-- 3 - The British grant independence to the Orange Free State in South Africa.
1854/--/-- 3 - The Charge of the Light Brigade is made by the British during the Battle of Balaklava.
1854/--/-- 3 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- 3 - The Republican party is formed after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1854/--/-- 3 - Upper half of Indian Territory becomes part of Kansas Territory
1855/--/-- 4 - British photographer Roger Fenton documents the Crimean War.
1855/--/-- 4 - Florence Nightingale reforms hygienic standards in Crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 4 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Songs of Hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 4 - Lord Palmerston becomes prime minister of Great Britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 4 - Matthew Fontaine Maury publishes The Physical Geography of the Sea.
1855/--/-- 4 - Mexican dictator Santa Anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 4 - Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia dies; he is succeeded by his son Alexander II.
1855/--/-- 4 - Robert Browning publishes his poetry collection Men and Women.
1855/--/-- 4 - Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls in Africa.
1855/--/-- 4 - The Allies occupy the Russian fortress at Sevastapol in the Crimea.
1855/--/-- 4 - The first formal ice hockey game is played in Kingston, Ontario.
1855/--/-- 4 - Walt Whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the Leaves of Grass.
1856/--/-- 5 - A new Opium War begins between China, Britain and France.
1856/--/-- 5 - English chemist William Perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 5 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War.
1856/--/-- 5 - The first Neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in Germany.
1856/--/-- 5 - Victor Hugo writes Les Miserables during his exile from France.
1856/10/20 5 *** Littrell, Emmanuel S. [Father] - Died
1857/--/-- 6 - Buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th U.S. president; Breckinridge becomes vice-president.
1857/--/-- 6 - Disputes between Mormons and non-Mormon settlers leads to the Utah War.
1857/--/-- 6 - Elisha Graves Otis installs the first passenger elevator in a New York City store.
1857/--/-- 6 - English author Thomas Hughes publishes Tom Brown's Schooldays.
1857/--/-- 6 - French novelist Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary.
1857/--/-- 6 - French poet Baudelaire publishes Flowers of Evil and is arrested for immorality.
1857/--/-- 6 - James Buchanan (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1857/--/-- 6 - Kansas ratifies anti-slavery constitution
1857/--/-- 6 - Mormons and Paiute Indians kill 120 settlers in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
1857/--/-- 6 - The Indian Mutiny begins when Indian troops rebel against the British in Meerut.
1857/--/-- 6 - The Oxford English Dictionary is begun in England.
1858/--/-- 7 - Benito Juarez becomes the first Mexican president of Indian descent.
1858/--/-- 7 - Bernadette Soubirous sees visions of the Vigin Mary in a grotto near Lourdes, France.
1858/--/-- 7 - Britain and France impose the Tientsin Treaty on China.
1858/--/-- 7 - British explorer John Hanning Speke discovers Lake Victoria in Africa.
1858/--/-- 7 - British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace outlines his theories of evolution.
1858/--/-- 7 - Charles Frederick Worth establishes his Paris fashion house.
1858/--/-- 7 - Cyrus W. Field lays the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
1858/--/-- 7 - Federal forces end the Utah War; Brigham Young is replaced as governor of Utah Territory.
1858/--/-- 7 - French photographer Nadar takes the first aerial photograph from a balloon.
1858/--/-- 7 - German-American artist Albert Bierstadt begins his landscapes of the American west.
1858/--/-- 7 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld premiers in Paris.
1858/--/-- 7 - James Renwick begins the design of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
1858/--/-- 7 - Minnesota is inaugurated as the 32nd state of the Union.
1858/--/-- 7 - The Fenians (Irish Republican Brotherhood) are founded to overthrow British rule.
1858/--/-- 7 - The Indian Mutiny is suppressed by the British Army and loyal Indian troops.
1858/--/-- 7 - The government of India is transferred from the East India Company to the British crown.
1859/--/-- 8 - Abolitionist John Brown leads an attack on Harpers Ferry; he is captured and executed.
1859/--/-- 8 - Charles Darwin "Origin of Species"
1859/--/-- 8 - Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1859/--/-- 8 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins building the Suez Canal in Egypt.
1859/--/-- 8 - French inventor Ferdinand Carre develops a refrigeration system.
1859/--/-- 8 - Napoleon III assists the Italian statesman Cavour in a war against Austria.
1859/--/-- 8 - Oregon is inaugurated as the 33rd state of the Union.
1859/--/-- 8 - Queensland becomes a separate colony of Australia.
1860/--/-- 9 - Abraham Lincoln is elected as the first Republican president of the United States.
1860/--/-- 9 - China resists the Tientsin Treaty; Anglo-French forces occupy Peking.
1860/--/-- 9 - English novelist Wilkie Collins writes The Woman in White.
1860/--/-- 9 - Florence Nightingale establishes a school for training nurses.
1860/--/-- 9 - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes The Mill on the Floss.
1860/--/-- 9 - Italian patriot Garibaldi invades Sicily and Naples with his 1,000 Redshirts.
1860/--/-- 9 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir patents the first internal-combustion engine.
1860/--/-- 9 - Sardinia-Piedmont seizes the Papal States in Italy.
1860/--/-- 9 - South Carolina becomes the first Southern state to secede from the Union.
1860/--/-- 9 - The Crittenden Compromise tries to prevent a split between slave and free states.
1860/--/-- 9 - The Maori Wars begin against the British in New Zealand.
1860/--/-- 9 - The pony express is inaugurated to deliver mail from Missouri to California.
1861/--/-- 10 - Abraham Lincoln (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1861/--/-- 10 - American locksmith Linus Yale Jr. patents the cylinder lock.
1861/--/-- 10 - CONFEDERACY
1861/--/-- 10 - Civil War Begins
1861/--/-- 10 - English designer William Morris starts the Arts and Crafts Movement.
1861/--/-- 10 - Explorers Burke and Wills die during their north-south crossing of Australia.
1861/--/-- 10 - French artist Eugene Delacroix paints the Lion Hunt.
1861/--/-- 10 - General George B. McClellan is made commander of the Union forces.
1861/--/-- 10 - Italy is unified under Victor Emmanuel II.
1861/--/-- 10 - John Ericsson designs the Monitor, the first ship with a revolving gun-turret.
1861/--/-- 10 - Kansas is inaugurated as the 34th state of the Union.
1861/--/-- 10 - Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th U.S. president; Hamlin becomes vice-president.
1861/--/-- 10 - Nicholas II abolishes serfdom in Russia.
1861/--/-- 10 - The Confederate States of America declare their independence from the U.S.
1861/--/-- 10 - The Confederates defeat the Union army in the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861/--/-- 10 - The Southern states meet to draft a constitution; Davis is selected as president.
1861/--/-- 10 - The Trent Affair begins when a Union ship intercepts a British steamer.
1861/--/-- 10 - The United States introduce the first national income tax.
1861/--/-- 10 - The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor begins the U.S. Civil War.
1861/--/-- 10 - Unification of Italy
1861/--/-- 10 - Western territories reorganized by Republican Congresses
1862/--/-- 11 - A Union fleet under David G. Farragut captures New Orleans.
1862/--/-- 11 - Bartolome Mitre unites Argentina and is elected president.
1862/--/-- 11 - Brady, O'Sullivan and Gardner document the Civil War in photographs.
1862/--/-- 11 - Explorer John McDouall Stuart makes the first south to north crossing of Australia.
1862/--/-- 11 - Foucault measures speed of light
1862/--/-- 11 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her debut at the Comedie Francaise.
1862/--/-- 11 - French impressionist artist Edouard Manet paints Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.
1862/--/-- 11 - French physicist Jean Foucault successfully measures the speed of light.
1862/--/-- 11 - French writer Victor Hugo completes his social novel Les Miserables.
1862/--/-- 11 - Lee defeats the Union army in the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1862/--/-- 11 - Lee's Confederate invasion of Maryland is halted at the Battle of Antietam.
1862/--/-- 11 - McClellan is defeated in the Seven Days Battle and retreats from the peninsular.
1862/--/-- 11 - Napoleon III imposes the Austrian prince Maximilian as emperor of Mexico.
1862/--/-- 11 - Richard J. Gatling invents the first practical machine gun.
1862/--/-- 11 - Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev publishes Fathers and Sons.
1862/--/-- 11 - The first recorded ski competition is held near Oslo in Norway.
1862/--/-- 11 - The ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimack clash at Hampton Roads, Va.
1862/--/-- 11 - Union forces under Burnside are defeated at the Battle of Fredricksburg.
1862/--/-- 11 - Union forces under Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh.
1862/--/-- 11 - Union forces under McClellan begin the Peninsular Campaign to capture Richmond.
1862/--/-- 11 - William I appoints Otto von Bismarck as minister president of Prussia.
1863/--/-- 12 - Cambodia (Kampuchea) becomes a French protectorate.
1863/--/-- 12 - English philosopher John Stuart Mill publishes Utilitarianism.
1863/--/-- 12 - French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro exhibits at the Salon des Refuses.
1863/--/-- 12 - George I succeeds Otto as king of Greece.
1863/--/-- 12 - Grant defeats the Confederates in the Vicksburg Campaign.
1863/--/-- 12 - Ismail Pasha rules Egypt under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.
1863/--/-- 12 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery in the Confederate states.
1863/--/-- 12 - London's Metropolitan Railway becomes the first underground subway.
1863/--/-- 12 - The Confederate guerrilla band Quantrill's Raiders pillage Lawrence, Kansas.
1863/--/-- 12 - The Confederates defeat the Union army at Chancellorsville; Jackson is killed.
1863/--/-- 12 - The Confederates under Lee are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
1863/--/-- 12 - The French occupy Mexico City in support of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
1863/--/-- 12 - The London Football Association issues the first soccer rules.
1863/--/-- 12 - West Virginia is inaugurated as the 35th state of the Union.
1864/--/-- 13 - A Chinese army under Gordon recaptures Nanking and ends the Taiping Rebellion.
1864/--/-- 13 - A Union army under Sherman invades Georgia, begining the Atlanta campaign.
1864/--/-- 13 - Cheyenne and Arapaho families massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado
1864/--/-- 13 - Denmark is defeated by Prussia; Schleswig-Holstein is ceded to Germany.
1864/--/-- 13 - Nevada is inaugurated as the 36th state of the Union.
1864/--/-- 13 - Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez begins the War of the Triple Alliance.
1864/--/-- 13 - Sherman defeats the Confederates at Atlanta and begins his march to the sea.
1864/--/-- 13 - The Colorado militia massacre Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek.
1864/--/-- 13 - The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks a Federal ship but is sunk in the process.
1864/--/-- 13 - The Geneva Convention sets standards of humane treatment in time of war.
1864/--/-- 13 - The Ionian Islands are ceded to Greece by Britain.
1864/--/-- 13 - The Union launches a drive on Richmond but falters in the Wilderness Campaign.
1864/--/-- 13 - Ulysses S. Grant is made general in chief of all the Union armies.
1865/--/-- 14 - Andrew Johnson (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1865/--/-- 14 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the U.S.
1865/--/-- 14 - Civil War Ends
1865/--/-- 14 - Confederate forces under Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
1865/--/-- 14 - Count Leo Tolstoi begins his monumental Russian novel War and Peace.
1865/--/-- 14 - English author Lewis Carroll writes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1865/--/-- 14 - Johnston surrenders the last Confederate army to Sherman, ending the U.S. Civil War.
1865/--/-- 14 - Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace"
1865/--/-- 14 - Lincoln assassinated
1865/--/-- 14 - Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
1865/--/-- 14 - Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment.
1865/--/-- 14 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishes slavery.
1865/--/-- 14 - The Petersburg Campaign is won by Union forces; Lee evacuates Richmond.
1866/--/-- 15 - British engineer Robert Whitehead invents the first self-propelled torpedo.
1866/--/-- 15 - Congress authorize (but do not mandate) the use of the metric system in the U.S.
1866/--/-- 15 - Mendel publishes his genetic research in Experiments With Plant Hybrids.
1866/--/-- 15 - Prussia and Italy defeat Austria in the Seven Weeks' War.
1866/--/-- 15 - The Ku Klux Klan is founded in the southern United States.
1867/--/-- 16 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867/--/-- 16 - Bismark forms the North German Confederation under Prussian leadership.
1867/--/-- 16 - Diamond fields are discovered in South Africa.
1867/--/-- 16 - English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron takes Sir John Herschel's portrait.
1867/--/-- 16 - French troops withdraw from Mexico; Emperor Maximilian is executed by Juarez.
1867/--/-- 16 - Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital.
1867/--/-- 16 - Nebraska is inaugurated as the 37th state of the Union.
1867/--/-- 16 - Sir John A. Macdonald becomes Canada's first prime minister.
1867/--/-- 16 - The Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 creates the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1867/--/-- 16 - The Dominion of Canada is established by the British North America Act.
1868/--/-- 17 - A military coup led by General Juan Prim deposes Queen Isabella II of Spain.
1868/--/-- 17 - A skeleton of Cro-Magnon man is discovered in southern France.
1868/--/-- 17 - British labor unions form the Trades Union Congress.
1868/--/-- 17 - Christopher Sholes patents the first practical typewriter.
1868/--/-- 17 - Chulalongkorn succeeds his father Mongkut as the king of Siam (Thailand).
1868/--/-- 17 - Feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton publish Revolution.
1868/--/-- 17 - Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem is performed for the first time.
1868/--/-- 17 - Ndebele king Mzilikazi dies in Africa; he is succeeded (1870) by his son Lobengula.
1868/--/-- 17 - The Meiji dynasty is restored in Japan; the Tokugawa shogunate is abolished.
1868/--/-- 17 - The Ten Years' War begins in Cuba against Spanish rule.
1868/--/-- 17 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson is impeached by Congress but acquitted by the Senate.
1868/--/-- 17 - William Gladstone becomes Liberal prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1869/--/-- 18 - 200 pitched battles between Indians and U.S. Calvary
1869/--/-- 18 - English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy.
1869/--/-- 18 - French artist Eugene Louis Boudin paints On the Beach at Deauville.
1869/--/-- 18 - Grant is inaugurated as the 18th U.S. president; Colfax becomes vice-president.
1869/--/-- 18 - James Gordon Bennett Jr. commissions Stanley to search for Livingston in Africa.
1869/--/-- 18 - John Roebling designs the Brooklyn Bridge but dies after a construction accident.
1869/--/-- 18 - Louis Riel leads the Red River Rebellion in Canada.
1869/--/-- 18 - Ludwig II (Mad Ludwig) begins building his fantasy castles in Bavaria.
1869/--/-- 18 - Philadelphia garment workers organize the Knights of Labor, an early labor union.
1869/--/-- 18 - Pope Pius IX calls the First Vatican Council to discuss the dogma of papal infallibility.
1869/--/-- 18 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky begins work on his opera Boris Gudunov.
1869/--/-- 18 - Suez Canal opens
1869/--/-- 18 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team.
1869/--/-- 18 - The Suez Canal is opened in Egypt.
1869/--/-- 18 - The first manufacturing patent is issued for chewing gum.
1869/--/-- 18 - The transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah.
1869/--/-- 18 - Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1869/--/-- 18 - Union Pacific meets Central Pacific
1870/--/-- 19 - American industrialist John D. Rockefeller founds the Standard Oil Company.
1870/--/-- 19 - French war minister Leon Gambetta escapes from besieged Paris in a balloon.
1870/--/-- 19 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Troy.
1870/--/-- 19 - Paraguayan dictator Solano Lopez dies, ending the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870/--/-- 19 - Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
1870/--/-- 19 - The Franco-Prussian War begins over a diplomatic incident engineered by Bismark.
1870/--/-- 19 - The Prussians defeat the French at Sedan; Napoleon III is taken prisoner.
1870/--/-- 19 - The Third Republic is formed in France; a Government of National Defense is established.
1870/--/-- 19 - The city of Miami is founded in Florida.
1871/--/-- 20 - American explorer Henry Morton Stanley finds Dr. Livingston in central Africa.
1871/--/-- 20 - Charles Taze Russell founds the Jehovah's Witnesses about this time.
1871/--/-- 20 - Fire destroys one-third of the city of Chicago.
1871/--/-- 20 - P.T Barnum launches a traveling circus, museum and menagerie.
1871/--/-- 20 - The Franco-Prussian War ends; Alsace and Lorraine are ceded to Germany.
1871/--/-- 20 - The French surrender to Prussia incites the Commune of Paris uprising.
1871/--/-- 20 - The German Empire is formally proclaimed at the Palace of Versailles.
1871/--/-- 20 - The Paris Commune is suppressed by government troops after a 2-month siege.
1871/--/-- 20 - Trade Unions legalized in Britain
1872/--/-- 21 - American artist James McNeill Whistler paints the Portrait of the Artist's Mother.
1872/--/-- 21 - English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) publishes Middlemarch.
1872/--/-- 21 - Indian leader Kintpuash leaves the Modoc reservation; the Modoc Wars begin.
1872/--/-- 21 - Monet paints Impression: Sunrise; the term impressionism is derived from the title.
1872/--/-- 21 - Photographer Eadweard Muybridge begins his series of motion studies.
1872/--/-- 21 - The Challenger Expedition begins the first systematic oceanographic survey.
1872/--/-- 21 - The cities of Buda and Pest unite to form Budapest (the capital of Hungary from 1918).
1872/--/-- 21 - The death of Kamehameha V ends the Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaiian kings.
1872/--/-- 21 - The first woman impressionist artist Berthe Morisot paints The Cradle.
1873/--/-- 22 - Englishman Maj. Walter Clopton Wingfield invents lawn tennis.
1873/--/-- 22 - French novelist Jules Verne publishes Around the World in Eighty Days.
1873/--/-- 22 - The Pacific Scandal in Canada causes the collapse of the Conservative government.
1873/--/-- 22 - The Panic of 1873 leads to 5 years of economic depression in the U.S.
1873/01/19 22 *** Bristow, Jesse Leven & Littrell, Lois Vianne (Bristow) [Sister] - Married
1873/10/01 22 *** Bristow, Samuel William [Nephew] - Born to Bristow, Jesse Leven and Littrell, Lois Vianne (Bristow) Rolan, Kentucky
1874/--/-- 23 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative prime minister of Britain.
1874/--/-- 23 - English author Thomas Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd.
1874/--/-- 23 - First impressionist exhibit in Paris
1874/--/-- 23 - French impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir paints La Loge (The Box).
1874/--/-- 23 - The Comanche, Kiowa and other Indian tribes attack Adobe Walls in Texas.
1874/--/-- 23 - The Greenback party advocates currency reform in the U.S.
1874/--/-- 23 - The first exhibition of impressionist paintings is held in Paris.
1875/--/-- 24 - American author Mark Twain publishes Tom Sawyer.
1875/--/-- 24 - Britain buys Suez Canal shares from the bankrupt Egyptian leader Ismail Pasha.
1875/--/-- 24 - Charles Stewart Parnell begins movement for Irish independence
1875/--/-- 24 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen is performed in Paris.
1875/--/-- 24 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, publishes Science and Health.
1875/--/-- 24 - The Bourbon monarchy is restored in Spain under Alfonso XII.
1876/--/-- 25 *** Littrell, Jane (Crockett) - Died
1876/--/-- 25 - Abd al-Hamid II assumes his rule as the last Ottoman sultan.
1876/--/-- 25 - Alexander Graham Bell patents his invention of the telephone.
1876/--/-- 25 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876/--/-- 25 - British philosopher Herbert Spencer begins publishing the Principles of Sociology.
1876/--/-- 25 - Colorado is inaugurated as the 38th state of the Union.
1876/--/-- 25 - General Porfirio Diaz seizes power as the dictator of Mexico.
1876/--/-- 25 - German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavates the ancient city of Mycenae.
1876/--/-- 25 - Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley paints Flood at the Port of Marly.
1876/--/-- 25 - Japan forces Korea to open up to foreign trade, countering the influence of China.
1876/--/-- 25 - Johann Strauss Jr. composes his waltz The Beautiful Blue Danube.
1876/--/-- 25 - National League founded (baseball)
1876/--/-- 25 - Queen Victoria assumes the title of Empress of India.
1876/--/-- 25 - Sioux Indians defeat General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1876/--/-- 25 - Sioux and Cheyenne defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, Montanna
1876/--/-- 25 - The Bayreuth musical festival opens with a performance of Wagner's Ring cycle.
1876/--/-- 25 - The U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1876 is held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
In 1850 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
In 1850 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
In 1850 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1850 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1850 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1850 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
By 1876 War Making was by:
Machine guns
Iron Clad ships
Mines
in addition.
In 1850 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:58:30