...date... age event
1814/--/-- 0 *** lafever, andrew wesley - born to lafever, andrew g. and ard, nancy (lafever) wayne county kentucky
1814/--/-- 0 - actor edmund kean makes his debut as shylock in the merchant of venice.
1814/--/-- 0 - andrew jackson annihilates the creek indians at the battle of horseshoe bend.
1814/--/-- 0 - andrew jackson crushes creek resistance in south
1814/--/-- 0 - british forces burn washington, d.c., but are repulsed at fort mchenry.
1814/--/-- 0 - coalition armies invade france; napoleon abdicates and is exiled to the island of elba.
1814/--/-- 0 - french artist ingres paints the grand odalisque.
1814/--/-- 0 - george stephenson constructs his first steam locomotive.
1814/--/-- 0 - louis xviii assumes the french throne.
1814/--/-- 0 - new england states discuss their secession from the union at the hartford convention.
1814/--/-- 0 - pope pius vii returns to rome; the jesuit order is reestablished.
1814/--/-- 0 - the treaty of ghent ends the war of 1812 between the u.s. and britain.
1814/--/-- 0 - treaty of ghent
1814/--/-- 0 - u.s. forces under thomas macdonough destroy the british fleet on lake champlain.
1815/--/-- 1 - french monarchy re-established
1815/--/-- 1 - napoleon escapes from elba and marches on paris during the hundred days.
1815/--/-- 1 - napoleon is defeated at the battle of waterloo; he is exiled to the island of saint helena.
1815/--/-- 1 - the americans defeat the british at new orleans before news of peace arrives.
1815/--/-- 1 - the barbary states sue for peace with the u.s.
1815/--/-- 1 - the spanish army reconquers venezuela; bolivar flees to jamaica.
1815/--/-- 1 - the spanish capture and execute the mexican rebel leader morelos y pavon.
1815/--/-- 1 - the first gurkha regiment is formed by the british army.
1815/--/-- 1 - war of 1812 ends
1816/--/-- 2 *** lafever, james [brother] - born to lafever, andrew g. and ard, nancy (lafever)
1816/--/-- 2 - gioacchino rossini's opera the barber of seville is performed in rome.
1816/--/-- 2 - indiana is inaugurated as the 19th state of the union.
1816/--/-- 2 - maria i of portugal dies; she is succeeded by john vi who remains in exile in brazil.
1816/--/-- 2 - nepal is made a protectorate of british india.
1816/--/-- 2 - shaka begins establishing the zulu empire in south africa.
1816/--/-- 2 - the british museum buys the elgin marbles (smuggled from greece by lord elgin).
1816/--/-- 2 - the united provinces of the rio de la plata (argentina) declare independence.
1817/--/-- 3 - construction begins on erie canal in new york
1817/--/-- 3 - construction of the erie canal begins in new york state.
1817/--/-- 3 - first seminole war
1817/--/-- 3 - french physician rene laennec invents the stethoscope.
1817/--/-- 3 - james monroe (democratic republican) becomes president of the united states
1817/--/-- 3 - jose de san martin and bernardo o'higgins defeat the spanish in chile.
1817/--/-- 3 - mississippi is inaugurated as the 20th state of the union.
1817/--/-- 3 - monroe is inaugurated as the 5th u.s. president; tompkins becomes vice-president.
1817/--/-- 3 - sir walter scott writes the scottish adventure novel rob roy.
1818/--/-- 4 - arthur schopenhauer publishes the world as will and representation.
1818/--/-- 4 - bernardo o'higgins becomes the supreme director of independent chile.
1818/--/-- 4 - composer franz schubert becomes the music teacher to count esterhazy's family.
1818/--/-- 4 - english chemist sir humphry davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
1818/--/-- 4 - illinois is inaugurated as the 21st state of the union.
1818/--/-- 4 - john keats "endymion"
1818/--/-- 4 - mary wollstonecroft shelley publishes the horror novel frankenstein.
1818/--/-- 4 - sir john ross sails in search of the northwest passage.
1818/--/-- 4 - thomas love peacock publishes his comic novel nightmare abbey.
1818/--/-- 4 - treaty with britain sets 49th parallel
1819/--/-- 5 - alabama is inaugurated as the 22nd state of the union.
1819/--/-- 5 - american artist washington allston paints moonlit landscape.
1819/--/-- 5 - bolivar defeats the spanish in colombia at the battle of boyaca.
1819/--/-- 5 - lord byron begins his satirical poem don juan.
1819/--/-- 5 - sir thomas stamford raffles acquires singapore for the east india company.
1819/--/-- 5 - spain surrenders east and west florida to the u.s. in the adams-onis treaty.
1819/--/-- 5 - the prado museum is inaugurated in madrid.
1819/--/-- 5 - the savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the atlantic.
1819/--/-- 5 - treaty with spain sets boundaries
1820/--/-- 6 - carbonari italian nationalists rebel against the rule of ferdinand i in naples.
1820/--/-- 6 - english poet john keats writes ode to a nightingale.
1820/--/-- 6 - english poet percy bysshe shelley writes prometheus unbound.
1820/--/-- 6 - fed offers land at $1.25 an acre
1820/--/-- 6 - french navigator dumont d'urville discovers the venus de milo on the island of melos.
1820/--/-- 6 - french poet alphonse de lamartine publishes meditations poetiques.
1820/--/-- 6 - henri christophe commits suicide; haiti is united under jean pierre boyer.
1820/--/-- 6 - juan manuel de rosas becomes the virtual dictator of argentina.
1820/--/-- 6 - maine is inaugurated as the 23rd state of the union.
1820/--/-- 6 - missouri compromise
1820/--/-- 6 - percy bysshe shelly "prometheus unbound"
1820/--/-- 6 - russian admiral fabian von bellingshausen sights land in the antarctic.
1820/--/-- 6 - stephen h. long explores the rocky mountain region.
1820/--/-- 6 - the missouri compromise admits missouri to the union as a slave state.
1820/--/-- 6 - the prince regent becomes king george iv on the death of george iii.
1820/--/-- 6 - the first american missionaries are admitted to hawaii.
1820/--/-- 6 - the first free american slaves to be resettled in africa land in liberia.
1820/--/-- 6 - u.s. navy hero stephen decatur is killed in a duel.
1820/--/-- 6 - washington irving publishes rip van winkle and the legend of sleepy hollow.
1821/--/-- 7 - american captain john davis is the first to land on the continent of antarctica.
1821/--/-- 7 - bolivar forms gran colombia (ecuador, colombia, venezuela and panama).
1821/--/-- 7 - brazil annexes the banda oriental (uruguay).
1821/--/-- 7 - english landscape artist john constable paints the hay wain.
1821/--/-- 7 - king john vi is reinstated on the portuguese throne.
1821/--/-- 7 - mexican independence
1821/--/-- 7 - michael faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation
1821/--/-- 7 - missouri compromise
1821/--/-- 7 - missouri is inaugurated as the 24th state of the union.
1821/--/-- 7 - napoleon dies on saint helena.
1821/--/-- 7 - revolutionary general san martin enters lima and declares peru independent.
1821/--/-- 7 - revolutionary leader iturbide declares mexican independence from spain.
1821/--/-- 7 - simon bolivar defeats the spanish forces in venezuela and ecuador.
1821/--/-- 7 - the cherokee indian sequoya develops the cherokee written language.
1821/--/-- 7 - the greek war of independence begins against turkey.
1821/--/-- 7 - thomas de quincey's confessions of an english opium eater is published.
1821/07/09 7 - george iv crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by char
1822/--/-- 8 - american surgeon william beaumont begins his study of the gastric process.
1822/--/-- 8 - antonio jose de sucre defeats the spanish in ecuador at the battle of pichincha.
1822/--/-- 8 - british statesman lord castlereagh commits suicide.
1822/--/-- 8 - denmark vesey leads a slave revolt in charleston; 35 blacks are executed.
1822/--/-- 8 - dom pedro, son of portuguese king john vi, declares brazil independent.
1822/--/-- 8 - egyptian leader muhammad ali completes the conquest of northern sudan.
1822/--/-- 8 - french scholar jean francois champollion deciphers the rosetta stone hieroglyphics.
1823/--/-- 9 - charles babbage begins work on his difference engine, a precursor of the computer.
1823/--/-- 9 - charles lamb publishes his essays of elia in the london magazine.
1823/--/-- 9 - charles macintosh patents the waterproof fabric used in mackintosh raincoats.
1823/--/-- 9 - general santa anna leads a coup against mexican emperor agustin i (iturbide).
1823/--/-- 9 - james fenimore cooper publishes the first volume of the leatherstocking tales.
1823/--/-- 9 - japanese artist hokusai begins a series of thirty-six views of mount fuji.
1823/--/-- 9 - ludwig van beethoven completes his 9th symphony.
1823/--/-- 9 - monroe doctrine
1823/--/-- 9 - rugby football originates at rugby school in england.
1823/--/-- 9 - the monroe doctrine warns europe not to interfere in the americas.
1824/--/-- 10 *** zink, catherina [grandmother] - died wayne county ky
1824/--/-- 10 - de sucre defeats the spanish at the battle of ayacucho, liberating peru.
1824/--/-- 10 - disputes over the border of india lead to war between britain and burma.
1824/--/-- 10 - english poet lord byron travels to greece to aid the patriots but dies of a fever.
1824/--/-- 10 - jons jakob berzelius discovers the element silicon about this time.
1824/--/-- 10 - sadi carnot lays the foundations for the second law of thermodynamics.
1824/--/-- 10 - the ashanti begin a war of resistance against britain in the gold coast (ghana).
1824/--/-- 10 - the ashanti begin a war of resistance against britain in the gold coast (ghana).
1824/--/-- 10 - the national gallery is founded in london.
1825/--/-- 11 - adams is inaugurated as the 6th u.s. president; calhoun becomes vice-president.
1825/--/-- 11 - american painter thomas cole founds the hudson river school about this time.
1825/--/-- 11 - english literary critic william hazlitt publishes the spirit of the age.
1825/--/-- 11 - john quincy adams (democratic republican) becomes president of the united states
1825/--/-- 11 - kappa alpha, the first social fraternity, is formed at union college, new york.
1825/--/-- 11 - mountain man james bridger discovers the great salt lake.
1825/--/-- 11 - nicholas i is made emperor of russia; the decembrists revolt breaks out.
1825/--/-- 11 - the central american federation declares its independence from mexico.
1825/--/-- 11 - thomas cole establishes hudson river school of landscape painting
1825/--/-- 11 - uruguayan leader lavalleja precipitates a war between brazil and argentina.
1825/--/-- 11 - welsh reformer robert owen founds a community at new harmony, indiana.
1826/--/-- 12 - american engineer john stevens builds the first u.s. steam locomotive.
1826/--/-- 12 - andre ampere publishes his theory of electrodynamic phenomenon.
1826/--/-- 12 - british engineer thomas telford builds the menai suspension bridge in wales.
1826/--/-- 12 - felix mendelssohn composes his overture to a midsummer night's dream at age 17.
1826/--/-- 12 - german poet heine begins the publication of reisebilder (travel pictures).
1826/--/-- 12 - ohm's law establishes the relationship of electrical voltage, current and resistance.
1826/--/-- 12 - revolutionary leader antonio jose de sucre is elected first president of bolivia.
1827/--/-- 13 - american frontiersman davy crockett is elected to congress.
1827/--/-- 13 - audubon publishes " birds of america"
1827/--/-- 13 - britain, france and russia demand that turkey ends the war with greece.
1827/--/-- 13 - english inventor john walker introduces the first friction matches.
1827/--/-- 13 - french landscape artist camille corot paints the bridge at narni.
1827/--/-- 13 - mountain man jedediah smith pioneers an overland route to california.
1827/--/-- 13 - ornithologist john james audubon begins the publication of his birds of america.
1827/--/-- 13 - the allied navies destroy the turkish and egyptian fleet at navarino in greece.
1828/--/-- 14 - composer frederic chopin begins concert tours at age 18.
1828/--/-- 14 - greeks win war of independence from ottoman empire
1828/--/-- 14 - lavalleja's thirty-three immortals achieve uruguayan independence from brazil.
1828/--/-- 14 - noah webster publishes his american dictionary of the english language.
1828/--/-- 14 - rammohun roy founds the brahmo samaj religious society in india.
1828/--/-- 14 - the duke of wellington becomes prime minister of britain.
1828/--/-- 14 - virtuoso violin player niccolo paganini performs in vienna.
1829/--/-- 15 *** cardwell, elender ann & lafever, asher [brother] - married white county, tennessee
1829/--/-- 15 *** steele, mary polly (lafever) & lafever, eli [brother] - married
1829/--/-- 15 - andrew jackson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1829/--/-- 15 - delacroix paints "death of sardanapalus"
1829/--/-- 15 - explorer charles sturt charts the murray river in australia.
1829/--/-- 15 - jackson introduces spoils system
1829/--/-- 15 - jackson is inaugurated as the 7th u.s. president; calhoun continues as vice-president.
1829/--/-- 15 - lord bentinck bans the indian custom of suttee (the burning of widows).
1829/--/-- 15 - louis braille publishes his braille system of writing for the blind.
1829/--/-- 15 - serbia becomes an autonomous principality under prince milos.
1829/--/-- 15 - sir robert peel reorganizes the london police; his policemen are nicknamed bobbies.
1829/--/-- 15 - sir robert peel sponsers the catholic emancipation act in britain.
1829/--/-- 15 - the convict-free british colony of western australia is founded.
1829/--/-- 15 - the first u.s. encyclopedia, the encyclopedia americana, is begun.
1830/--/-- 16 - belgium asserts its independence from the netherlands.
1830/--/-- 16 - british geologist charles lyell begins publishing his principles of geology.
1830/--/-- 16 - fructuoso rivera is elected as first president of uruguay.
1830/--/-- 16 - george catlin begins his paintings of north american indians about this time.
1830/--/-- 16 - greece becomes independent from turkey.
1830/--/-- 16 - hector berlioz composes his first major work the symphonie fantastique.
1830/--/-- 16 - indian removal act moves eastern indians west of mississippi
1830/--/-- 16 - joseph smith founds the mormon church at fayette, new york.
1830/--/-- 16 - louis philippe is chosen as the citizen king of france.
1830/--/-- 16 - philipon publishes the satirical weekly la caricature, with contributions by daumier.
1830/--/-- 16 - polish rebellions are suppressed by russia.
1830/--/-- 16 - simon bolivar resigns as dictator of gran colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- 16 - the indian removal act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to indian territory.
1830/--/-- 16 - the july revolution in france forces the abdication of charles x.
1830/--/-- 16 - the women's magazine godey's lady's book is published in the u.s.
1830/--/-- 16 - the locomotive best friend of charleston is in use on the first u.s. railroad.
1830/--/-- 16 - william iv succeeds george iv as king of england, scotland, and ireland.
1830/05/13 16 *** lafever, andrew [nephew] - born to lafever, eli and steele, mary polly (lafever)
1831/--/-- 17 - british naturalist charles darwin sails to south america aboard h.m.s. beagle.
1831/--/-- 17 - cyrus mccormick invents a mechanical reaper.
1831/--/-- 17 - explorer james clark ross determines the position of the north magnetic pole.
1831/--/-- 17 - italian revolutionary giuseppe mazzini founds the young italy movement.
1831/--/-- 17 - jose antonio paez becomes the first president of venezuela.
1831/--/-- 17 - king louis philippe founds the french foreign legion.
1831/--/-- 17 - leopold i is selected as the first king of belgium.
1831/--/-- 17 - michael faraday demonstrates his theory of electromagnetic induction.
1831/--/-- 17 - nat turner leads a black slave revolt in virginia; he is captured and hanged.
1831/--/-- 17 - russian poet aleksandr pushkin completes his masterpiece eugene onegin.
1831/--/-- 17 - the crown colony of british guiana (guyana) is formed.
1831/--/-- 17 - victor hugo "hunchback of notre dame"
1831/--/-- 17 - william lloyd garrison publishes the abolitionist newspaper the liberator.
1831/09/09 17 *** lafever, thomas samuel [nephew] - born to lafever, asher and cardwell, elender ann born in tennessee
1832/--/-- 18 - george sand (aurore dudevant) publishes her first novel indiana.
1832/--/-- 18 - japanese artist hiroshige begins work on fifty-three stages of the tokaido.
1832/--/-- 18 - samuel f.b. morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph
1832/--/-- 18 - the black hawk war is the last major indian conflict east of the mississippi river.
1832/--/-- 18 - the democratic party is formally established as a national organization.
1833/--/-- 19 - a bavarian prince becomes king otto of greece.
1833/--/-- 19 - britain occupies the falkland islands.
1833/--/-- 19 - carl von clausewitz's classic study of warfare on war is published.
1833/--/-- 19 - general santa anna becomes president of mexico.
1833/--/-- 19 - isabella ii succeeds ferdinand vii, king of spain; the carlist wars begin.
1833/--/-- 19 - president jackson withdraws federal deposits from the bank of the united states.
1833/--/-- 19 - santa anna elected president of mexico
1833/--/-- 19 - the american anti-slavery society is inaugurated in philadelphia.
1833/--/-- 19 - victor hugo's novel the hunchback of notre dame is published in english.
1834/--/-- 20 - a quadruple alliance is formed to aid isabella ii of spain and maria ii of portugal.
1834/--/-- 20 - american inventor jacob perkins patents the first practical ice-making machine.
1834/--/-- 20 - british politician sir robert peel founds the conservative party.
1834/--/-- 20 - indian territory founded
1834/--/-- 20 - slavery abolished in british empire
1834/--/-- 20 - the carlist wars resume in spain.
1834/--/-- 20 - the hansom cab is designed; it becomes the standard horse-drawn cab in london.
1834/--/-- 20 - the whig party is formed to oppose andrew jackson and the democratic party.
1835/--/-- 21 *** lafever, talitha [niece] - born to lafever, eli and steele, mary polly (lafever)
1835/--/-- 21 *** steele, celia ann (lafever) [wife] & lafever, andrew wesley - married
1835/--/-- 21 - american settlers begin the texas revolution against mexican rule.
1835/--/-- 21 - attempts to move the seminole indians begins the second seminole war.
1835/--/-- 21 - danish writer hans christian andersen publishes tales told for children.
1835/--/-- 21 - french politician alexis de tocqueville publishes democracy in america.
1835/--/-- 21 - james gordon bennett founds the new york herald newspaper.
1835/--/-- 21 - second seminole war in florida
1836/--/-- 22 - american educator william holmes mcguffey begins editing his readers.
1836/--/-- 22 - american inventor samuel colt begins manufacturing the first revolver.
1836/--/-- 22 - american literary figure ralph waldo emerson founds the transcendental club.
1836/--/-- 22 - arkansas is inaugurated as the 25th state of the union.
1836/--/-- 22 - boer (afrikaner) settlers begin the great trek into the south african interior.
1836/--/-- 22 - bolivian president santa cruz invades peru and forms the peru-bolivian confederation.
1836/--/-- 22 - charles barry designs westminster palace in the gothic revival style.
1836/--/-- 22 - charles dickens publishes his first popular work the pickwick papers.
1836/--/-- 22 - john c. calhoun supports the gag rules to prevent congress debating slavery.
1836/--/-- 22 - republic of texas forms
1836/--/-- 22 - russian author nikolai gogol writes his play the inspector general.
1836/--/-- 22 - santa anna's army storms the alamo in texas, killing the defenders.
1836/--/-- 22 - texans under sam houston defeat santa anna at the san jacinto river.
1836/--/-- 22 - texas revolution
1836/--/-- 22 - the arc de triomphe, the world's largest triumphal arch, is completed in paris.
1837/--/-- 23 - britain's refusal to grant more home rule in canada leads to the rebellions of 1837.
1837/--/-- 23 - british scientist charles wheatstone designs an electric telegraph system.
1837/--/-- 23 - charles dickens "oliver twist"
1837/--/-- 23 - louis daguerre invents the daguerreotype method for taking permanent photographs.
1837/--/-- 23 - martin van buren (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1837/--/-- 23 - michigan is inaugurated as the 26th state of the union.
1837/--/-- 23 - mikhail lermontov writes the death of a poet, inspired by the death of pushkin.
1837/--/-- 23 - russian poet aleksandr pushkin is killed in a duel.
1837/--/-- 23 - scottish historian thomas carlyle publishes the french revolution.
1837/--/-- 23 - seminole indian leader osceola is captured.
1837/--/-- 23 - van buren is inaugurated as the 8th u.s. president; johnson becomes vice-president.
1837/--/-- 23 - william iv dies; victoria succeeds him as queen of england, scotland, and ireland.
1837/06/-- 23 - victoria succeeds as queen of great britain and ireland.
1838/--/-- 24 - boer (afrikaner) leader andries pretorius defeats the zulus at the battle of blood river.
1838/--/-- 24 - british artist joseph mallord william turner paints the fighting temeraire.
1838/--/-- 24 - charles wilkes heads a u.s. navy expedition to antarctica.
1838/--/-- 24 - cherokee "trail of tears"
1838/--/-- 24 - french philosopher auguste comte inaugurates the science of sociology.
1838/--/-- 24 - iowa territory organized
1838/--/-- 24 - john deere develops a steel-tipped plow capable of turning heavy prairie soil.
1838/--/-- 24 - samuel f.b. morse develops the morse code for electric telegraph systems.
1838/--/-- 24 - scottish blacksmith kirkpatrick macmillan makes the first pedal-driven bicycle.
1838/06/08 24 - victoria crowned queen of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by will
1839/--/-- 25 - american inventor charles goodyear develops the vulcanization of rubber.
1839/--/-- 25 - chile defeats santa cruz's peru-bolivian confederation at the battle of yungay.
1839/--/-- 25 - daguerre invents first form of photography
1839/--/-- 25 - french novelist stendhal writes the charterhouse of parma.
1839/--/-- 25 - hungarian composer and pianist franz liszt embarks on a concert tour of europe.
1839/--/-- 25 - jose rafael carrera captures guatemala; the central american federation is dissolved.
1839/--/-- 25 - stephens and catherwood explore maya ruins in the yucatan.
1839/--/-- 25 - the anglo-afghan wars begin in afghanistan.
1839/--/-- 25 - the opium wars begin between britain and china.
1839/--/-- 25 - theodor schwann and matthias jakob schleiden formulate the cell theory.
1840/--/-- 26 *** lafever, john [nephew] - born to lafever, eli and steele, mary polly (lafever)
1840/--/-- 26 - civil war breaks out in uruguay between the colorados (reds) and blancos (whites).
1840/--/-- 26 - edgar allen poe: "tales of the grotesque and arabesque"
1840/--/-- 26 - french philosopher and anarchist pierre joseph proudhon writes what is property.
1840/--/-- 26 - horatio greenough's classical statue of george washington is strongly criticized.
1840/--/-- 26 - maori chiefs sign over their tribal lands to queen victoria in the treaty of waitangi.
1840/--/-- 26 - queen victoria marries prince albert of saxe-coburg.
1840/--/-- 26 - swiss-american naturalist louis agassiz postulates his theory of ice ages.
1840/--/-- 26 - the liberty party is founded in albany, n.y. based exclusively on an antislavery platform.
1840/--/-- 26 - the underground railroad is active in helping escaping slaves in the u.s.
1840/--/-- 26 - the first adhesive postage stamp, the penny black, is issued in london.
1840/--/-- 26 - the metric system of measurement is reinstated in france.
1840/--/-- 26 - upper and lower canada are united in the single province of canada.
1840/--/-- 26 - upper and lower canada united
1841/--/-- 27 - edgar allan poe writes an early detective story the murders in the rue morgue.
1841/--/-- 27 - george grey is appointed governor of south australia to help save the colony.
1841/--/-- 27 - harrison is inaugurated as the 9th u.s. president; tyler becomes vice-president.
1841/--/-- 27 - horace greeley founds the new york tribune newspaper.
1841/--/-- 27 - italian ballerina carlotta grisi creates the role of giselle.
1841/--/-- 27 - john tyler (whig) becomes president of the united states
1841/--/-- 27 - muhammad ali defeats the ottomans and becomes the hereditary ruler of egypt.
1841/--/-- 27 - new zealand is established as a separate british colony.
1841/--/-- 27 - president harrison dies; john tyler is inaugurated as the 10th u.s. president
1841/--/-- 27 - whig prime minister lord melbourne resigns; he is succeeded by sir robert peel.
1841/--/-- 27 - william henry harrison (whig) becomes president of the united states
1841/--/-- 27 - william henry talbot patents the calotype photographic process.
1842/--/-- 28 - 10-hour day for children under 12 in massachusetts
1842/--/-- 28 - american explorer john c. fremont begins surveying the oregon trail.
1842/--/-- 28 - american showman p.t. barnum discovers the 40-inch midget tom thumb.
1842/--/-- 28 - austrian physicist christian johann doppler predicts the doppler effect.
1842/--/-- 28 - china cedes hong kong to britain.
1842/--/-- 28 - china is defeated in the first opium war; chinese ports are opened to british trade.
1842/--/-- 28 - italian composer gaetano donizetti writes his opera don pasquale.
1842/08/31 28 *** lafever, elizabeth [aunt] - died morgan, mo
1843/--/-- 29 - a coup in greece forces king otto to accept a constitutional monarchy.
1843/--/-- 29 - black american sojourner truth begins her reform mission.
1843/--/-- 29 - danish philosopher soren kierkegaard publishes either/or.
1843/--/-- 29 - english art critic john ruskin begins publishing modern painters.
1843/--/-- 29 - german astronomer samuel schwabe discovers the sunspot cycle.
1843/09/01 29 *** lafever, david [uncle] - died wayne county ky
1844/--/-- 30 - alexander dumas "the three muskateers"
1844/--/-- 30 - eastern hispaniola declares independence from haiti as the dominican republic.
1844/--/-- 30 - french author alexandre dumas (dumas pere) publishes the three musketeers.
1844/--/-- 30 - joseph smith, founder of the mormons, is killed by a lynch mob.
1844/--/-- 30 - samuel f.b. morse establishes the first u.s. telegraph link.
1844/--/-- 30 - settlers in new south wales force britain to stop sending convicts to the colony.
1844/--/-- 30 - the young men's christian association (ymca) is founded in england.
1844/--/-- 30 - william henry talbot begins his pencil of nature, the first book of photographs.
1845/--/-- 31 *** ard, nancy (lafever) [mother] - died perkins cem. putnam county tn
1845/--/-- 31 - american author margaret fuller publishes women in the nineteenth century.
1845/--/-- 31 - british archaeologist austen layard excavates the sites of nimrud and nineveh.
1845/--/-- 31 - civil war ends in peru; castilla ramon is elected as president.
1845/--/-- 31 - failure of the potato crop leads to a famine in ireland.
1845/--/-- 31 - florida is inaugurated as the 27th state of the union.
1845/--/-- 31 - french artists gavarni and grandville begin designing the first elaborate posters.
1845/--/-- 31 - german composer robert schumann writes his piano concerto in a minor.
1845/--/-- 31 - german scientist alexander von humboldt publishes the first volume of his kosmos.
1845/--/-- 31 - james k. polk (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1845/--/-- 31 - polk is inaugurated as the 11th u.s. president; dallas becomes vice-president
1845/--/-- 31 - sir john franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the northwest passage.
1845/--/-- 31 - the republic of texas becomes the 28th state of the union.
1845/--/-- 31 - the republic of texas is annexed by the u.s.; it becomes the 28th state of the union.
1845/--/-- 31 - the sikh wars begin in british india.
1845/--/-- 31 - the first clipper ship the rainbow is built in new york.
1845/--/-- 31 - the term manifest destiny is first used in defense of u.s. territorial ambitions.
1846/--/-- 32 - adolphe sax patents the saxophone in paris.
1846/--/-- 32 - american dentist william morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 32 - german astronomer johann galle makes the first observation of the planet neptune.
1846/--/-- 32 - german philosopher ludwig feuerbach publishes the essence of religion.
1846/--/-- 32 - henry creswicke rawlinson deciphers the mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 32 - iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the union.
1846/--/-- 32 - mexican war
1846/--/-- 32 - mormon trek from navoo to salt lake city
1846/--/-- 32 - oregon boundary with canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 32 - the christy minstrels begin performing in new york.
1846/--/-- 32 - the mexican war begins over the u.s. annexation of texas.
1846/--/-- 32 - the mexican government collapses; santa anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 32 - the smithsonian institution is created by congress.
1846/--/-- 32 - the border between the u.s. and canada is established, settling the oregon question.
1846/--/-- 32 - u.s. forces under stephen watts kearny occupy new mexico.
1846/--/-- 32 - u.s. forces under zachary taylor defeat the mexicans at palo alto and monterrey.
1846/--/-- 32 - writer and artist edward lear publishes a book of nonsense.
1847/--/-- 33 *** lafever, andrew g. [father] - died perkins cem. putnam county tn
1847/--/-- 33 - american missionary marcus whitman is killed by cayuse indians in oregon.
1847/--/-- 33 - american oceanographer matthew maury publishes his first wind and current charts.
1847/--/-- 33 - charlotte bronte publishes jane eyre; emily bronte publishes wuthering heights.
1847/--/-- 33 - english novelist william makepeace thackeray begins vanity fair.
1847/--/-- 33 - honore de balzac completes la comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 33 - italian statesman cavour founds the liberal newspaper il risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 33 - maria mitchell, the first woman astronomer in america, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 33 - mormons and the indians
1847/--/-- 33 - scott enters mexico city after a series of battles; mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 33 - sir james simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 33 - taylor defeats santa anna's mexican army at the battle of buena vista.
1847/--/-- 33 - the african slave colony of liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 33 - the american medical association is founded.
1847/--/-- 33 - the mormons under brigham young found salt lake city.
1847/--/-- 33 - the u.s. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 33 - u.s. forces under stockton, fremont and kearny occupy california.
1847/--/-- 33 - u.s. forces under winfield scott land at veracruz and advance on mexico city.
1848/--/-- 34 - a czech uprising under frantisek palacky is suppressed by austria.
1848/--/-- 34 - american engineer james bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 34 - february revolution by french workers makes louis napoleon iii president of 2nd reublic
1848/--/-- 34 - ferdinand i abdicates; francis joseph becomes emperor of austria.
1848/--/-- 34 - french barbizon artist theodore rousseau paints the forest at fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 34 - french author alexandre dumas (dumas fils) publishes his novel camille.
1848/--/-- 34 - gold discovered in california
1848/--/-- 34 - holman hunt, millais and rossetti form the pre-raphaelite brotherhood in britain.
1848/--/-- 34 - karl marx and friedrich engels publish the communist manifesto.
1848/--/-- 34 - karl marx and friedrick engels publish "communist manifesto"
1848/--/-- 34 - louis philippe abdicates; a second republic is declared in france.
1848/--/-- 34 - mexican cession
1848/--/-- 34 - risorgimento leader garibaldi returns to italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 34 - scottish physicist william thomson kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 34 - the austrian revolution begins in vienna; chancellor metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 34 - the revolutions of 1848 break out in europe.
1848/--/-- 34 - the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo ratifies the cession of california and new mexico.
1848/--/-- 34 - the discovery of gold at sutter's mill begins the california gold rush.
1848/--/-- 34 - the first u.s. women's rights assembly meets at the seneca falls convention.
1848/--/-- 34 - uprisings in berlin force frederick william iv to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 34 - wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the union.
1849/--/-- 35 - amelia bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 35 - austrian forces crush the italian revolution; mazzini and garibaldi flee from italy.
1849/--/-- 35 - austrian premier felix schwarzenberg uses the russian army to defeat the hungarians.
1849/--/-- 35 - black slave harriet tubman escapes and begins her underground railway work.
1849/--/-- 35 - elizabeth blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 35 - francois rene de chateaubriand publishes memoirs from beyond the tomb.
1849/--/-- 35 - french physicist armand fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 35 - lajos kossuth declares hungarian independence from austria.
1849/--/-- 35 - russian anarchist mikhail bakunin is deported to siberia.
1849/--/-- 35 - taylor is inaugurated as the 12th u.s. president; fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 35 - zachary taylor (whig) becomes president of the united states
1850/--/-- 36 *** lafever, thomas samuel [nephew] & trobaugh, rachel - married tennessee
1850/--/-- 36 - allan pinkerton founds the pinkerton national detective agency.
1850/--/-- 36 - american author nathaniel hawthorne writes the scarlet letter.
1850/--/-- 36 - american popular songwriter stephen foster publishes camptown races.
1850/--/-- 36 - california is inaugurated as the 31st state of the union.
1850/--/-- 36 - congress reinforces the fugitive slave law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 36 - elizabeth barrett browning publishes her sonnets from the portuguese.
1850/--/-- 36 - english author charles dickens writes david copperfield.
1850/--/-- 36 - french realist artist gustave courbet paints the stone breakers.
1850/--/-- 36 - jenny lind the swedish nightingale begins her u.s. tour.
1850/--/-- 36 - millard fillmore (whig) becomes president of the united states
1850/--/-- 36 - nathanial hawthorne "the scarlet letter"
1850/--/-- 36 - photographer mathew brady publishes the gallery of illustrious americans.
1850/--/-- 36 - plains indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 36 - president taylor dies; millard fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th u.s. president.
1850/--/-- 36 - the compromise of 1850 establishes california as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 36 - the taiping rebellion breaks out in china against the ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 36 - the first issue of harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 36 - utah and new mexico territories
1850/11/14 36 *** lafever, asher [great nephew] - born to lafever, thomas samuel and trobaugh, rachel
1851/--/-- 37 - a gold rush begins in victoria, australia; victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 37 - american author herman melville publishes moby-dick.
1851/--/-- 37 - giuseppe verdi's opera rigoletto is produced in venice.
1851/--/-- 37 - harriet beecher stowe begins publishing uncle tom's cabin.
1851/--/-- 37 - henry jarvis raymond and george jones found the new york times.
1851/--/-- 37 - isaac merrit singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 37 - jacob fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in baltimore.
1851/--/-- 37 - melville "moby dick"
1851/--/-- 37 - mongkut (rama iv) becomes king of siam (thailand).
1851/--/-- 37 - singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 37 - the crystal palace is built in london to house the great exhibition.
1851/--/-- 37 - the u.s. yacht america defeats 17 british yachts in the first america's cup contest.
1851/--/-- 37 - the first college sorority is established at wesleyan college, georgia.
1851/07/03 37 *** lafever, louis dice [nephew] - born to lafever, eli and steele, mary polly (lafever)
1852/--/-- 38 - argentinean dictator rosas is defeated by forces under urquiza at monte caseros.
1852/--/-- 38 - britain gains control of the irrawaddy delta after the second anglo-burma war.
1852/--/-- 38 - the grimms begin publication of their deutsches worterbuch (german dictionary).
1852/--/-- 38 - the second empire begins in france under napoleon iii.
1853/--/-- 39 - a u.s. naval squadron under matthew perry enters tokyo bay to negotiate a treaty.
1853/--/-- 39 - chinese rebels capture nanking and make it the capital of the taiping kingdom.
1853/--/-- 39 - crimean war between turkey, france & britain against russia
1853/--/-- 39 - crimean war between turkey, france & britain against russia
1853/--/-- 39 - franklin pierce (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1853/--/-- 39 - franklin pierce is inaugurated as the 14th u.s. president; king becomes vice-president.
1853/--/-- 39 - general santa anna becomes dictator of mexico for the last time.
1853/--/-- 39 - georges haussmann begins the reconstruction of paris.
1853/--/-- 39 - napoleon iii marries the empress eugenie.
1853/--/-- 39 - richard wagner begins his cycle of four operas the ring of the nibelung.
1853/--/-- 39 - russia occupies the turkish principalities of moldavia and walachia.
1853/--/-- 39 - the u.s. adds land to new mexico and arizona with the gadsden purchase.
1853/--/-- 39 - turkey issues an ultimatum to russia; the russians destroy the turkish fleet at sinope.
1854/--/-- 40 - a commercial treaty is signed between the u.s. and japan, ending japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 40 - a commercial treaty is signed between the u.s. and japan, ending japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 40 - american writer and naturalist henry david thoreau publishes walden.
1854/--/-- 40 - an anglo-french-turkish expeditionary force lands at sevastopol in the crimea.
1854/--/-- 40 - britain and france declare war on russia, beginning the crimean war.
1854/--/-- 40 - nebraska and kansas territories
1854/--/-- 40 - pope pius ix proclaims the dogma of the immaculate conception of the virgin mary.
1854/--/-- 40 - raphaelite artist holman hunt paints the scapegoat.
1854/--/-- 40 - republican party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- 40 - smith & wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- 40 - the allied armies defeat the russians at the battle of inkerman.
1854/--/-- 40 - the british grant independence to the orange free state in south africa.
1854/--/-- 40 - the charge of the light brigade is made by the british during the battle of balaklava.
1854/--/-- 40 - the kansas-nebraska act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- 40 - the republican party is formed after the passage of the kansas-nebraska act.
1854/--/-- 40 - upper half of indian territory becomes part of kansas territory
1855/--/-- 41 - british photographer roger fenton documents the crimean war.
1855/--/-- 41 - florence nightingale reforms hygienic standards in crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 41 - henry wadsworth longfellow publishes the songs of hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 41 - lord palmerston becomes prime minister of great britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 41 - matthew fontaine maury publishes the physical geography of the sea.
1855/--/-- 41 - mexican dictator santa anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 41 - nicholas i, emperor of russia dies; he is succeeded by his son alexander ii.
1855/--/-- 41 - robert browning publishes his poetry collection men and women.
1855/--/-- 41 - scottish explorer david livingstone discovers the victoria falls in africa.
1855/--/-- 41 - the allies occupy the russian fortress at sevastapol in the crimea.
1855/--/-- 41 - the first formal ice hockey game is played in kingston, ontario.
1855/--/-- 41 - walt whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the leaves of grass.
1856/--/-- 42 - a new opium war begins between china, britain and france.
1856/--/-- 42 - english chemist william perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 42 - the treaty of paris ends the crimean war.
1856/--/-- 42 - the first neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in germany.
1856/--/-- 42 - victor hugo writes les miserables during his exile from france.
1857/--/-- 43 *** lafever, andrew wesley - died putnam county tennessee
1857/--/-- 43 - buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th u.s. president; breckinridge becomes vice-president.
1857/--/-- 43 - disputes between mormons and non-mormon settlers leads to the utah war.
1857/--/-- 43 - elisha graves otis installs the first passenger elevator in a new york city store.
1857/--/-- 43 - english author thomas hughes publishes tom brown's schooldays.
1857/--/-- 43 - french novelist gustave flaubert publishes madame bovary.
1857/--/-- 43 - french poet baudelaire publishes flowers of evil and is arrested for immorality.
1857/--/-- 43 - james buchanan (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1857/--/-- 43 - kansas ratifies anti-slavery constitution
1857/--/-- 43 - mormons and paiute indians kill 120 settlers in the mountain meadows massacre.
1857/--/-- 43 - the indian mutiny begins when indian troops rebel against the british in meerut.
1857/--/-- 43 - the oxford english dictionary is begun in england.
in 1814 transportation was by:
foot
horse
sailing ship
bicycle
steamboat
by 1857 transportation was by:
train
in addition.
by 1857 transportation by:
sailing ship
had been discontinued.
in 1814 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
by 1857 communications was by:
telegraph
in addition.
in 1814 food preparation was by:
wood
in 1814 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1814 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1814 war making was by:
calvary
gun
artillery
submarine
in 1814 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
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