...Date... AGE Event
1851/--/-- -1 - A gold rush begins in Victoria, Australia; Victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- -1 - American author Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1851/--/-- -1 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is produced in Venice.
1851/--/-- -1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1851/--/-- -1 - Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones found the New York Times.
1851/--/-- -1 - Isaac Merrit Singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- -1 - Jacob Fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in Baltimore.
1851/--/-- -1 - Melville "Moby Dick"
1851/--/-- -1 - Mongkut (Rama IV) becomes king of Siam (Thailand).
1851/--/-- -1 - Singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- -1 - The Crystal Palace is built in London to house the Great Exhibition.
1851/--/-- -1 - The U.S. yacht America defeats 17 British yachts in the first America's Cup contest.
1851/--/-- -1 - The first college sorority is established at Wesleyan College, Georgia.
1851/03/27 0 *** Ewing, Pernetta Jane - Born to Ewing, Jesse and Wood, Mariba (Ewing) Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1852/--/-- 0 - Argentinean dictator Rosas is defeated by forces under Urquiza at Monte Caseros.
1852/--/-- 0 - Britain gains control of the Irrawaddy delta after the second Anglo-Burma War.
1852/--/-- 0 - The Grimms begin publication of their Deutsches Worterbuch (German Dictionary).
1852/--/-- 0 - The Second Empire begins in France under Napoleon III.
1852/09/01 1 *** Wood, Mary Elizabeth (Gwinn) [2nd cousin] - Born to Wood, William Cargile
1853/--/-- 1 - A U.S. naval squadron under Matthew Perry enters Tokyo Bay to negotiate a treaty.
1853/--/-- 1 - Chinese rebels capture Nanking and make it the capital of the Taiping kingdom.
1853/--/-- 1 - Crimean War between Turkey, France & Britain against Russia
1853/--/-- 1 - Franklin Pierce (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1853/--/-- 1 - Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th U.S. president; King becomes vice-president.
1853/--/-- 1 - General Santa Anna becomes dictator of Mexico for the last time.
1853/--/-- 1 - Georges Haussmann begins the reconstruction of Paris.
1853/--/-- 1 - Napoleon III marries the Empress Eugenie.
1853/--/-- 1 - Richard Wagner begins his cycle of four operas The Ring of The Nibelung.
1853/--/-- 1 - Russia occupies the Turkish principalities of Moldavia and Walachia.
1853/--/-- 1 - The U.S. adds land to New Mexico and Arizona with the Gadsden Purchase.
1853/--/-- 1 - Turkey issues an ultimatum to Russia; the Russians destroy the Turkish fleet at Sinope.
1853/01/11 1 *** Wood, William [Great Uncle] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Clear Fork Cem. Clinton County Kentucky
1854/--/-- 2 - A commercial treaty is signed between the U.S. and Japan, ending Japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 2 - American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1854/--/-- 2 - An Anglo-French-Turkish expeditionary force lands at Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1854/--/-- 2 - Britain and France declare war on Russia, beginning the Crimean War.
1854/--/-- 2 - Nebraska and Kansas Territories
1854/--/-- 2 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
1854/--/-- 2 - Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt paints The Scapegoat.
1854/--/-- 2 - Republican Party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- 2 - Smith & Wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- 2 - The Allied armies defeat the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman.
1854/--/-- 2 - The British grant independence to the Orange Free State in South Africa.
1854/--/-- 2 - The Charge of the Light Brigade is made by the British during the Battle of Balaklava.
1854/--/-- 2 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- 2 - The Republican party is formed after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1854/--/-- 2 - Upper half of Indian Territory becomes part of Kansas Territory
1854/02/24 2 *** Wood, George [Great Uncle] - Died Bone Cave, Van Buren, TN Bone Cave, Van Buren, TN Cone Cave, Van Buren, TN
1854/06/22 3 *** Ewing, Thomas Wood [Brother] - Born to Ewing, Jesse and Wood, Mariba (Ewing) Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1855/--/-- 3 - British photographer Roger Fenton documents the Crimean War.
1855/--/-- 3 - Florence Nightingale reforms hygienic standards in Crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 3 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Songs of Hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 3 - Lord Palmerston becomes prime minister of Great Britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 3 - Matthew Fontaine Maury publishes The Physical Geography of the Sea.
1855/--/-- 3 - Mexican dictator Santa Anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 3 - Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia dies; he is succeeded by his son Alexander II.
1855/--/-- 3 - Robert Browning publishes his poetry collection Men and Women.
1855/--/-- 3 - Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls in Africa.
1855/--/-- 3 - The Allies occupy the Russian fortress at Sevastapol in the Crimea.
1855/--/-- 3 - The first formal ice hockey game is played in Kingston, Ontario.
1855/--/-- 3 - Walt Whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the Leaves of Grass.
1856/--/-- 4 - A new Opium War begins between China, Britain and France.
1856/--/-- 4 - English chemist William Perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 4 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War.
1856/--/-- 4 - The first Neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in Germany.
1856/--/-- 4 - Victor Hugo writes Les Miserables during his exile from France.
1856/01/19 4 *** Ewing, Mary Ann Eliza [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Jesse and Wood, Mariba (Ewing) Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1856/07/27 5 *** Ewing, Pernetta Jane - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1856/07/29 5 *** Ewing, Mary Ann Eliza [Sister] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Peolia Church Cemetery, Albany, Kentucky
1856/08/02 5 *** Ewing, Thomas Wood [Brother] - Died Peolia Church Cemetery, Albany, Kentucky
In 1851 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
In 1851 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
In 1851 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1851 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1851 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1851 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1851 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:55:24