...Date... AGE Event
1842/--/-- 0 *** Bristow, Sarah Ann (Johnson) [2nd cousin] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow) UNKNOWN
1842/--/-- 0 *** Logan, John Allen - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1842/--/-- 0 - 10-hour day for children under 12 in Massachusetts
1842/--/-- 0 - American explorer John C. Fremont begins surveying the Oregon Trail.
1842/--/-- 0 - American showman P.T. Barnum discovers the 40-inch midget Tom Thumb.
1842/--/-- 0 - Austrian physicist Christian Johann Doppler predicts the Doppler effect.
1842/--/-- 0 - China cedes Hong Kong to Britain.
1842/--/-- 0 - China is defeated in the first Opium War; Chinese ports are opened to British trade.
1842/--/-- 0 - Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti writes his opera Don Pasquale.
1842/01/06 0 *** Davis, Catharine (Bristow) & Bristow, Henry [1st cousin once removed] - Married Johnson County, Indiana
1842/08/30 0 *** Jones, Mary (Bristow) & Bristow, Francis Peyton [Uncle] - Married Shelby County, Kentucky
1842/09/02 0 *** Bristow, Nancy (Culver) [Great Aunt] - Died
1843/--/-- 1 - A coup in Greece forces King Otto to accept a constitutional monarchy.
1843/--/-- 1 - Black American Sojourner Truth begins her reform mission.
1843/--/-- 1 - Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard publishes Either/Or.
1843/--/-- 1 - English art critic John Ruskin begins publishing Modern Painters.
1843/--/-- 1 - German astronomer Samuel Schwabe discovers the sunspot cycle.
1844/--/-- 2 - Alexander Dumas "The Three Muskateers"
1844/--/-- 2 - Eastern Hispaniola declares independence from Haiti as the Dominican Republic.
1844/--/-- 2 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas pere) publishes The Three Musketeers.
1844/--/-- 2 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, is killed by a lynch mob.
1844/--/-- 2 - Samuel F.B. Morse establishes the first U.S. telegraph link.
1844/--/-- 2 - Settlers in New South Wales force Britain to stop sending convicts to the colony.
1844/--/-- 2 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in England.
1844/--/-- 2 - William Henry Talbot begins his Pencil of Nature, the first book of photographs.
1845/--/-- 3 *** Bristow, Peyton [1st cousin once removed] - moved to St. Clair County Missouri
1845/--/-- 3 - American author Margaret Fuller publishes Women in the Nineteenth Century.
1845/--/-- 3 - British archaeologist Austen Layard excavates the sites of Nimrud and Nineveh.
1845/--/-- 3 - Civil War ends in Peru; Castilla Ramon is elected as president.
1845/--/-- 3 - Failure of the potato crop leads to a famine in Ireland.
1845/--/-- 3 - Florida is inaugurated as the 27th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 3 - French artists Gavarni and Grandville begin designing the first elaborate posters.
1845/--/-- 3 - German composer Robert Schumann writes his Piano Concerto in A minor.
1845/--/-- 3 - German scientist Alexander von Humboldt publishes the first volume of his Kosmos.
1845/--/-- 3 - James K. Polk (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1845/--/-- 3 - Polk is inaugurated as the 11th U.S. president; Dallas becomes vice-president
1845/--/-- 3 - Sir John Franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.
1845/--/-- 3 - The Republic of Texas becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 3 - The Republic of Texas is annexed by the U.S.; it becomes the 28th state of the Union.
1845/--/-- 3 - The Sikh Wars begin in British India.
1845/--/-- 3 - The first clipper ship the Rainbow is built in New York.
1845/--/-- 3 - The term Manifest Destiny is first used in defense of U.S. territorial ambitions.
1846/--/-- 4 *** Bristow, Susannah [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1846/--/-- 4 *** Logan, James Richard [Brother] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1846/--/-- 4 - Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone in Paris.
1846/--/-- 4 - American dentist William Morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 4 - German astronomer Johann Galle makes the first observation of the planet Neptune.
1846/--/-- 4 - German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach publishes The Essence of Religion.
1846/--/-- 4 - Henry Creswicke Rawlinson deciphers the Mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 4 - Iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the Union.
1846/--/-- 4 - Mexican War
1846/--/-- 4 - Mormon trek from Navoo to Salt Lake City
1846/--/-- 4 - Oregon boundary with Canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 4 - The Christy Minstrels begin performing in New York.
1846/--/-- 4 - The Mexican War begins over the U.S. annexation of Texas.
1846/--/-- 4 - The Mexican government collapses; Santa Anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 4 - The Smithsonian Institution is created by Congress.
1846/--/-- 4 - The border between the U.S. and Canada is established, settling the Oregon Question.
1846/--/-- 4 - U.S. forces under Stephen Watts Kearny occupy New Mexico.
1846/--/-- 4 - U.S. forces under Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at Palo Alto and Monterrey.
1846/--/-- 4 - Writer and artist Edward Lear publishes A Book of Nonsense.
1846/09/06 4 *** Bristow, Jesse Leven [2nd cousin] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow)
1847/--/-- 5 - American missionary Marcus Whitman is killed by Cayuse Indians in Oregon.
1847/--/-- 5 - American oceanographer Matthew Maury publishes his first Wind and Current Charts.
1847/--/-- 5 - Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte publishes Wuthering Heights.
1847/--/-- 5 - English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray begins Vanity Fair.
1847/--/-- 5 - Honore de Balzac completes La Comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 5 - Italian statesman Cavour founds the liberal newspaper Il Risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 5 - Maria Mitchell, the first woman astronomer in America, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 5 - Mormons and the Indians
1847/--/-- 5 - Scott enters Mexico City after a series of battles; Mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 5 - Sir James Simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 5 - Taylor defeats Santa Anna's Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista.
1847/--/-- 5 - The African slave colony of Liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 5 - The American Medical Association is founded.
1847/--/-- 5 - The Mormons under Brigham Young found Salt Lake City.
1847/--/-- 5 - The U.S. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 5 - U.S. forces under Stockton, Fremont and Kearny occupy California.
1847/--/-- 5 - U.S. forces under Winfield Scott land at Veracruz and advance on Mexico City.
1848/--/-- 6 *** Logan, William A. [Brother] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1848/--/-- 6 - A Czech uprising under Frantisek Palacky is suppressed by Austria.
1848/--/-- 6 - American engineer James Bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 6 - February Revolution by French workers makes Louis Napoleon III President of 2nd Reublic
1848/--/-- 6 - Ferdinand I abdicates; Francis Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria.
1848/--/-- 6 - French Barbizon artist Theodore Rousseau paints the Forest at Fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 6 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils) publishes his novel Camille.
1848/--/-- 6 - Gold discovered in California
1848/--/-- 6 - Holman Hunt, Millais and Rossetti form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain.
1848/--/-- 6 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
1848/--/-- 6 - Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1848/--/-- 6 - Louis Philippe abdicates; a Second Republic is declared in France.
1848/--/-- 6 - Mexican Cession
1848/--/-- 6 - Risorgimento leader Garibaldi returns to Italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 6 - Scottish physicist William Thomson Kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 6 - The Austrian revolution begins in Vienna; chancellor Metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 6 - The Revolutions of 1848 break out in Europe.
1848/--/-- 6 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ratifies the cession of California and New Mexico.
1848/--/-- 6 - The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill begins the California gold rush.
1848/--/-- 6 - The first U.S. women's rights assembly meets at the Seneca Falls Convention.
1848/--/-- 6 - Uprisings in Berlin force Frederick William IV to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 6 - Wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the Union.
1849/--/-- 7 *** Bristow, Adrian Jackson [2nd cousin] - Born to Bristow, Francis Marion
1849/--/-- 7 *** Bristow, Miles [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1849/--/-- 7 - Amelia Bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the Lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 7 - Austrian forces crush the Italian revolution; Mazzini and Garibaldi flee from Italy.
1849/--/-- 7 - Austrian premier Felix Schwarzenberg uses the Russian army to defeat the Hungarians.
1849/--/-- 7 - Black slave Harriet Tubman escapes and begins her Underground Railway work.
1849/--/-- 7 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 7 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand publishes Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb.
1849/--/-- 7 - French physicist Armand Fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 7 - Lajos Kossuth declares Hungarian independence from Austria.
1849/--/-- 7 - Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin is deported to Siberia.
1849/--/-- 7 - Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th U.S. president; Fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 7 - Zachary Taylor (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 8 *** Bristow, John [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1850/--/-- 8 *** Logan, Benjamin [Brother] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1850/--/-- 8 - Allan Pinkerton founds the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
1850/--/-- 8 - American author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter.
1850/--/-- 8 - American popular songwriter Stephen Foster publishes Camptown Races.
1850/--/-- 8 - California is inaugurated as the 31st state of the Union.
1850/--/-- 8 - Congress reinforces the Fugitive Slave Law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 8 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her Sonnets From the Portuguese.
1850/--/-- 8 - English author Charles Dickens writes David Copperfield.
1850/--/-- 8 - French realist artist Gustave Courbet paints The Stone Breakers.
1850/--/-- 8 - Jenny Lind the Swedish nightingale begins her U.S. tour.
1850/--/-- 8 - Millard Fillmore (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 8 - Nathanial Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"
1850/--/-- 8 - Photographer Mathew Brady publishes The Gallery of Illustrious Americans.
1850/--/-- 8 - Plains Indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 8 - President Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th U.S. president.
1850/--/-- 8 - The Compromise of 1850 establishes California as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 8 - The Taiping Rebellion breaks out in China against the Ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 8 - The first issue of Harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 8 - Utah and New Mexico Territories
1851/--/-- 9 - A gold rush begins in Victoria, Australia; Victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 9 - American author Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1851/--/-- 9 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is produced in Venice.
1851/--/-- 9 - Harriet Beecher Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1851/--/-- 9 - Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones found the New York Times.
1851/--/-- 9 - Isaac Merrit Singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 9 - Jacob Fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in Baltimore.
1851/--/-- 9 - Melville "Moby Dick"
1851/--/-- 9 - Mongkut (Rama IV) becomes king of Siam (Thailand).
1851/--/-- 9 - Singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 9 - The Crystal Palace is built in London to house the Great Exhibition.
1851/--/-- 9 - The U.S. yacht America defeats 17 British yachts in the first America's Cup contest.
1851/--/-- 9 - The first college sorority is established at Wesleyan College, Georgia.
1852/--/-- 10 *** Bristow, Hannah (Harrison) (Davisson) [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1852/--/-- 10 *** Logan, Benjamin [Brother] - Died
1852/--/-- 10 *** Logan, James Richard [Brother] - Died
1852/--/-- 10 *** Logan, John Allen - Died
1852/--/-- 10 - Argentinean dictator Rosas is defeated by forces under Urquiza at Monte Caseros.
1852/--/-- 10 - Britain gains control of the Irrawaddy delta after the second Anglo-Burma War.
1852/--/-- 10 - The Grimms begin publication of their Deutsches Worterbuch (German Dictionary).
1852/--/-- 10 - The Second Empire begins in France under Napoleon III.
1852/08/13 10 *** Bristow, Margaret (Smith) [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1852/09/24 10 *** Bristow, Nancy Rebecca (Guthrie) [2nd cousin] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow)
In 1842 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
In 1842 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
By 1852 Communications was by:
Telegraph
in addition.
In 1842 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1842 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1842 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1842 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1842 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:54:08