...date... age event
1805/--/-- -1 - american explorers lewis and clark reach the pacific ocean.
1805/--/-- -1 - austria sues for peace with france at the treaty of pressburg.
1805/--/-- -1 - britain, austria, russia and sweden form a third coalition against france.
1805/--/-- -1 - muhammad ali is appointed pasha (governor) of egypt by the ottoman sultan.
1805/--/-- -1 - nelson defeats the franco-spanish fleet at trafalgar, but is killed during the action.
1805/--/-- -1 - the french defeat austro-russian forces at the battle of austerlitz.
1805/--/-- -1 - the shawnee prophet, brother of tecumseh, begins planning an indian uprising.
1805/01/22 0 *** wood, reuben bayless - born to wood, thomas and bayless, mary (wood) cumberland county , kentucky
1806/--/-- 0 - emperor jacques i is assassinated; haiti is divided between christophe and petion.
1806/--/-- 0 - napoleon begins the continental system, closing european ports to british vessels.
1806/--/-- 0 - napoleon forces the abdication of francis ii; the holy roman empire is dissolved.
1806/--/-- 0 - noah webster publishes "compendious" dictionary of the english language"
1806/--/-- 0 - prussia joins the coalition against france, but is defeated at jena-auerstadt.
1806/--/-- 0 - revolutionary leader francisco de miranda makes an abortive invasion of venezuela.
1806/--/-- 0 - the british employ congreve rockets against a french invasion fleet.
1806/--/-- 0 - u.s. explorer zebulon pike is sent west to descend the red river.
1806/--/-- 0 - william murdock installs gas lighting in a manchester cotton mill.
1806/12/03 1 *** wood, anna h. [sister] - born to wood, thomas and bayless, mary (wood) cumberland county, ky
1807/--/-- 1 - aaron burr is tried for treason and acquitted.
1807/--/-- 1 - beethoven completes his fifth symphony and begins the sixth (pastoral).
1807/--/-- 1 - british chemist humphry davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium.
1807/--/-- 1 - congress passes the embargo act in response to interference with u.s. shipping.
1807/--/-- 1 - german philosopher hegel publishes the phenomenology of the spirit.
1807/--/-- 1 - napoleon defeats the russian armies; russia and prussia sue for peace at tilsit.
1807/--/-- 1 - portugal refuses to observe the blockade against england; france invades portugal.
1807/--/-- 1 - robert fulton's steamship the clermont makes its maiden voyage.
1807/--/-- 1 - sir humphry davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium
1807/--/-- 1 - the janissaries depose sultan selim iii and place mustafa iv on the ottoman throne.
1807/--/-- 1 - the u.s. frigate chesapeake is involved in an incident with a british man-of-war.
1807/--/-- 1 - the slave trade is outlawed throughout the british empire.
1808/--/-- 2 - beethoven composes "fifth symphony"
1808/--/-- 2 - congress prohibits importing of african slaves
1808/--/-- 2 - francisco de goya paints the third of may, depicting the cruelty of war.
1808/--/-- 2 - french chemist joseph louis gay-lussac isolates the element boron.
1808/--/-- 2 - german artist caspar david friedrich exhibits the cross in the mountains.
1808/--/-- 2 - japanese artist buncho paints true view of mount hiko.
1808/--/-- 2 - john jacob astor founds the american fur company.
1808/--/-- 2 - napoleon appoints his brother joseph as king of spain.
1808/--/-- 2 - napoleon occupys spain
1808/--/-- 2 - the british under wellington aid portugal against france in the peninsular war.
1808/11/29 3 *** wood, william l. [brother] - born to wood, thomas and bayless, mary (wood) cumberland county, kentucky
1809/--/-- 3 - frenchman nicolas appert develops the first effective method for canning food.
1809/--/-- 3 - german artists overbeck and pforr found the nazarenes.
1809/--/-- 3 - james madison (democratic republican) becomes president of the united states
1809/--/-- 3 - john stevens' steamboat the phoenix makes the first ocean-going voyage.
1809/--/-- 3 - lamarck publishes his theories of evolution in zoological philosophy.
1809/--/-- 3 - metternich draws austria into the war of the fifth coalition against france.
1809/--/-- 3 - napoleon annexes the papal states and takes pope pius vii prisoner.
1809/--/-- 3 - russia seizes finland from sweden; king gustav iv adolf abdicates.
1809/--/-- 3 - the french defeat the austrians at wagram; francis ii accepts the treaty of schonbrunn.
1810/--/-- 4 - a rebellion against spain breaks out in buenos aires, argentina.
1810/--/-- 4 - american settlers rebel against the spanish in west florida.
1810/--/-- 4 - kamehameha i becomes ruler of hawaii and establishes the kamehameha dynasty.
1810/--/-- 4 - mexican priest miguel hidalgo y costilla leads a rebellion against spanish rule.
1810/--/-- 4 - revolutions in latin america lead to independent nations
1810/--/-- 4 - separatists movements in latin america
1810/--/-- 4 - the krupp arms factory is established at essen in germany.
1810/--/-- 4 - wellington's anglo-portuguese army holds the french on the outskirts of lisbon.
1810/12/12 5 *** wood, margaret b. [sister] - born to wood, thomas and bayless, mary (wood) cumberland county, kentucky
1811/--/-- 5 - bolivar and miranda lead the venezuelan congress in a declaration of independence.
1811/--/-- 5 - first steamboat to sail down mississippi reaches new orleans
1811/--/-- 5 - george iii becomes mentally unstable; the prince of wales assumes power as regent.
1811/--/-- 5 - henri christophe declares himself king of northern haiti.
1811/--/-- 5 - italian chemist amedeo avogadro develops the concept known as avogadro's law.
1811/--/-- 5 - jane austen "sense and sensibility"
1811/--/-- 5 - jose artigas raises a force to expel the spanish from the banda oriental (uruguay).
1811/--/-- 5 - mexican rebel leader hidalgo y costilla is captured and executed.
1811/--/-- 5 - native americans defeated in battle of tippecanoe in indiana territory
1811/--/-- 5 - the luddites riot in england against the mechanization of the textile industry.
1811/--/-- 5 - the building of the national road, the first u.s. federal highway, begins in maryland.
1811/--/-- 5 - the first rowing race in the united states is held in new york.
1811/--/-- 5 - the ruling mameluke aristocracy is massacred in cairo by muhammad ali.
1811/--/-- 5 - william henry harrison defeats the shawnee indians at the battle of tippecanoe.
1812/--/-- 6 - an earthquake destroys caracas in venezuela, killing 12,000.
1812/--/-- 6 - english caricaturist thomas rowlandson illustrates the tour of dr. syntax.
1812/--/-- 6 - general william hull surrenders detroit to the british.
1812/--/-- 6 - georges cuvier develops his theory of catastrophism through the study of fossils.
1812/--/-- 6 - grimm's fairy tales are published in germany.
1812/--/-- 6 - john nash begins the oriental conversion of the royal pavilion at brighton.
1812/--/-- 6 - louisiana is inaugurated as the 18th state of the union.
1812/--/-- 6 - napoleon defeated in russia
1812/--/-- 6 - napoleon invades russia with 450,000 men.
1812/--/-- 6 - napoleon's army retreats from moscow; only 40,000 men reach france.
1812/--/-- 6 - rebel leader morelos y pavon defeats the mexican royalist forces at oaxaca.
1812/--/-- 6 - spanish forces defeat bolivar and miranda in venezuela; miranda is imprisoned.
1812/--/-- 6 - stephen decatur's frigate united states defeats the british frigate macedonian.
1812/--/-- 6 - swiss explorer jakob burckhardt rediscovers the ancient city of petra.
1812/--/-- 6 - territorial and shipping disputes lead to the war of 1812 between the u.s. and britain.
1812/--/-- 6 - the french defeat the russians at borodino; napoleon occupies moscow.
1812/--/-- 6 - the u.s. navy frigate constitution defeats 2 british frigates.
1812/--/-- 6 - the ancient city of petra (now in present-day jordan) is rediscovered by johann burckhardt.
1812/--/-- 6 - the first coal gas generating station is chartered in london to provide gas lighting.
1812/--/-- 6 - war of 1812 begins
1812/--/-- 6 - wellington defeats the french at the battle of salamanca in spain.
1813/--/-- 7 - 14 luddites are hanged at york in england.
1813/--/-- 7 - english novelist jane austen publishes pride and prejudice.
1813/--/-- 7 - james wilkinson captures a fort at mobile, the last spanish possession in west florida.
1813/--/-- 7 - napoleon is defeated at the battle of leipzig by the sixth coalition.
1813/--/-- 7 - oliver hazard perry's ships destroy the british fleet on lake erie.
1813/--/-- 7 - british indian leader tecumseh is killed in the battle of the thames.
1813/--/-- 7 - rebel forces invade venezuela and capture caracas; bolivar is declared the liberator.
1813/--/-- 7 - robert southey is made poet laureate of england.
1813/--/-- 7 - wellington defeats the french in spain at vitoria and invades southern france.
1813/--/-- 7 - william henry harrison defeats the british at the battle of the thames.
1814/--/-- 8 - actor edmund kean makes his debut as shylock in the merchant of venice.
1814/--/-- 8 - andrew jackson annihilates the creek indians at the battle of horseshoe bend.
1814/--/-- 8 - andrew jackson crushes creek resistance in south
1814/--/-- 8 - british forces burn washington, d.c., but are repulsed at fort mchenry.
1814/--/-- 8 - coalition armies invade france; napoleon abdicates and is exiled to the island of elba.
1814/--/-- 8 - french artist ingres paints the grand odalisque.
1814/--/-- 8 - george stephenson constructs his first steam locomotive.
1814/--/-- 8 - louis xviii assumes the french throne.
1814/--/-- 8 - new england states discuss their secession from the union at the hartford convention.
1814/--/-- 8 - pope pius vii returns to rome; the jesuit order is reestablished.
1814/--/-- 8 - the treaty of ghent ends the war of 1812 between the u.s. and britain.
1814/--/-- 8 - treaty of ghent
1814/--/-- 8 - u.s. forces under thomas macdonough destroy the british fleet on lake champlain.
1815/--/-- 9 - french monarchy re-established
1815/--/-- 9 - napoleon escapes from elba and marches on paris during the hundred days.
1815/--/-- 9 - napoleon is defeated at the battle of waterloo; he is exiled to the island of saint helena.
1815/--/-- 9 - the americans defeat the british at new orleans before news of peace arrives.
1815/--/-- 9 - the barbary states sue for peace with the u.s.
1815/--/-- 9 - the spanish army reconquers venezuela; bolivar flees to jamaica.
1815/--/-- 9 - the spanish capture and execute the mexican rebel leader morelos y pavon.
1815/--/-- 9 - the first gurkha regiment is formed by the british army.
1815/--/-- 9 - war of 1812 ends
1816/--/-- 10 - gioacchino rossini's opera the barber of seville is performed in rome.
1816/--/-- 10 - indiana is inaugurated as the 19th state of the union.
1816/--/-- 10 - maria i of portugal dies; she is succeeded by john vi who remains in exile in brazil.
1816/--/-- 10 - nepal is made a protectorate of british india.
1816/--/-- 10 - shaka begins establishing the zulu empire in south africa.
1816/--/-- 10 - the british museum buys the elgin marbles (smuggled from greece by lord elgin).
1816/--/-- 10 - the united provinces of the rio de la plata (argentina) declare independence.
1816/06/14 11 *** wood, mary gibson (reneau) [sister] - born to wood, thomas and bayless, mary (wood) cumberland county, kentucky
1817/--/-- 11 - construction begins on erie canal in new york
1817/--/-- 11 - construction of the erie canal begins in new york state.
1817/--/-- 11 - first seminole war
1817/--/-- 11 - french physician rene laennec invents the stethoscope.
1817/--/-- 11 - james monroe (democratic republican) becomes president of the united states
1817/--/-- 11 - jose de san martin and bernardo o'higgins defeat the spanish in chile.
1817/--/-- 11 - mississippi is inaugurated as the 20th state of the union.
1817/--/-- 11 - monroe is inaugurated as the 5th u.s. president; tompkins becomes vice-president.
1817/--/-- 11 - sir walter scott writes the scottish adventure novel rob roy.
1818/--/-- 12 - arthur schopenhauer publishes the world as will and representation.
1818/--/-- 12 - bernardo o'higgins becomes the supreme director of independent chile.
1818/--/-- 12 - composer franz schubert becomes the music teacher to count esterhazy's family.
1818/--/-- 12 - english chemist sir humphry davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
1818/--/-- 12 - illinois is inaugurated as the 21st state of the union.
1818/--/-- 12 - john keats "endymion"
1818/--/-- 12 - mary wollstonecroft shelley publishes the horror novel frankenstein.
1818/--/-- 12 - sir john ross sails in search of the northwest passage.
1818/--/-- 12 - thomas love peacock publishes his comic novel nightmare abbey.
1818/--/-- 12 - treaty with britain sets 49th parallel
1819/--/-- 13 - alabama is inaugurated as the 22nd state of the union.
1819/--/-- 13 - american artist washington allston paints moonlit landscape.
1819/--/-- 13 - bolivar defeats the spanish in colombia at the battle of boyaca.
1819/--/-- 13 - lord byron begins his satirical poem don juan.
1819/--/-- 13 - sir thomas stamford raffles acquires singapore for the east india company.
1819/--/-- 13 - spain surrenders east and west florida to the u.s. in the adams-onis treaty.
1819/--/-- 13 - the prado museum is inaugurated in madrid.
1819/--/-- 13 - the savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the atlantic.
1819/--/-- 13 - treaty with spain sets boundaries
1820/--/-- 14 - carbonari italian nationalists rebel against the rule of ferdinand i in naples.
1820/--/-- 14 - english poet john keats writes ode to a nightingale.
1820/--/-- 14 - english poet percy bysshe shelley writes prometheus unbound.
1820/--/-- 14 - fed offers land at $1.25 an acre
1820/--/-- 14 - french navigator dumont d'urville discovers the venus de milo on the island of melos.
1820/--/-- 14 - french poet alphonse de lamartine publishes meditations poetiques.
1820/--/-- 14 - henri christophe commits suicide; haiti is united under jean pierre boyer.
1820/--/-- 14 - juan manuel de rosas becomes the virtual dictator of argentina.
1820/--/-- 14 - maine is inaugurated as the 23rd state of the union.
1820/--/-- 14 - missouri compromise
1820/--/-- 14 - percy bysshe shelly "prometheus unbound"
1820/--/-- 14 - russian admiral fabian von bellingshausen sights land in the antarctic.
1820/--/-- 14 - stephen h. long explores the rocky mountain region.
1820/--/-- 14 - the missouri compromise admits missouri to the union as a slave state.
1820/--/-- 14 - the prince regent becomes king george iv on the death of george iii.
1820/--/-- 14 - the first american missionaries are admitted to hawaii.
1820/--/-- 14 - the first free american slaves to be resettled in africa land in liberia.
1820/--/-- 14 - u.s. navy hero stephen decatur is killed in a duel.
1820/--/-- 14 - washington irving publishes rip van winkle and the legend of sleepy hollow.
1820/08/22 15 *** wood, mariba (ewing) [sister] - born to wood, thomas and bayless, mary (wood)
1820/11/24 15 *** pierson, sarah bean (reives) [great grandmother] - died stockton valley, cumberland, kentucky stockton valley, cumberland, kentucky
1821/--/-- 15 - american captain john davis is the first to land on the continent of antarctica.
1821/--/-- 15 - bolivar forms gran colombia (ecuador, colombia, venezuela and panama).
1821/--/-- 15 - brazil annexes the banda oriental (uruguay).
1821/--/-- 15 - english landscape artist john constable paints the hay wain.
1821/--/-- 15 - king john vi is reinstated on the portuguese throne.
1821/--/-- 15 - mexican independence
1821/--/-- 15 - michael faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation
1821/--/-- 15 - missouri compromise
1821/--/-- 15 - missouri is inaugurated as the 24th state of the union.
1821/--/-- 15 - napoleon dies on saint helena.
1821/--/-- 15 - revolutionary general san martin enters lima and declares peru independent.
1821/--/-- 15 - revolutionary leader iturbide declares mexican independence from spain.
1821/--/-- 15 - simon bolivar defeats the spanish forces in venezuela and ecuador.
1821/--/-- 15 - the cherokee indian sequoya develops the cherokee written language.
1821/--/-- 15 - the greek war of independence begins against turkey.
1821/--/-- 15 - thomas de quincey's confessions of an english opium eater is published.
1821/07/09 16 - george iv crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by char
1822/--/-- 16 - american surgeon william beaumont begins his study of the gastric process.
1822/--/-- 16 - antonio jose de sucre defeats the spanish in ecuador at the battle of pichincha.
1822/--/-- 16 - british statesman lord castlereagh commits suicide.
1822/--/-- 16 - denmark vesey leads a slave revolt in charleston; 35 blacks are executed.
1822/--/-- 16 - dom pedro, son of portuguese king john vi, declares brazil independent.
1822/--/-- 16 - egyptian leader muhammad ali completes the conquest of northern sudan.
1822/--/-- 16 - french scholar jean francois champollion deciphers the rosetta stone hieroglyphics.
1823/--/-- 17 - charles babbage begins work on his difference engine, a precursor of the computer.
1823/--/-- 17 - charles lamb publishes his essays of elia in the london magazine.
1823/--/-- 17 - charles macintosh patents the waterproof fabric used in mackintosh raincoats.
1823/--/-- 17 - general santa anna leads a coup against mexican emperor agustin i (iturbide).
1823/--/-- 17 - james fenimore cooper publishes the first volume of the leatherstocking tales.
1823/--/-- 17 - japanese artist hokusai begins a series of thirty-six views of mount fuji.
1823/--/-- 17 - ludwig van beethoven completes his 9th symphony.
1823/--/-- 17 - monroe doctrine
1823/--/-- 17 - rugby football originates at rugby school in england.
1823/--/-- 17 - the monroe doctrine warns europe not to interfere in the americas.
1824/--/-- 18 - de sucre defeats the spanish at the battle of ayacucho, liberating peru.
1824/--/-- 18 - disputes over the border of india lead to war between britain and burma.
1824/--/-- 18 - english poet lord byron travels to greece to aid the patriots but dies of a fever.
1824/--/-- 18 - jons jakob berzelius discovers the element silicon about this time.
1824/--/-- 18 - sadi carnot lays the foundations for the second law of thermodynamics.
1824/--/-- 18 - the ashanti begin a war of resistance against britain in the gold coast (ghana).
1824/--/-- 18 - the ashanti begin a war of resistance against britain in the gold coast (ghana).
1824/--/-- 18 - the national gallery is founded in london.
1825/--/-- 19 - adams is inaugurated as the 6th u.s. president; calhoun becomes vice-president.
1825/--/-- 19 - american painter thomas cole founds the hudson river school about this time.
1825/--/-- 19 - english literary critic william hazlitt publishes the spirit of the age.
1825/--/-- 19 - john quincy adams (democratic republican) becomes president of the united states
1825/--/-- 19 - kappa alpha, the first social fraternity, is formed at union college, new york.
1825/--/-- 19 - mountain man james bridger discovers the great salt lake.
1825/--/-- 19 - nicholas i is made emperor of russia; the decembrists revolt breaks out.
1825/--/-- 19 - the central american federation declares its independence from mexico.
1825/--/-- 19 - thomas cole establishes hudson river school of landscape painting
1825/--/-- 19 - uruguayan leader lavalleja precipitates a war between brazil and argentina.
1825/--/-- 19 - welsh reformer robert owen founds a community at new harmony, indiana.
1826/--/-- 20 - american engineer john stevens builds the first u.s. steam locomotive.
1826/--/-- 20 - andre ampere publishes his theory of electrodynamic phenomenon.
1826/--/-- 20 - british engineer thomas telford builds the menai suspension bridge in wales.
1826/--/-- 20 - felix mendelssohn composes his overture to a midsummer night's dream at age 17.
1826/--/-- 20 - german poet heine begins the publication of reisebilder (travel pictures).
1826/--/-- 20 - ohm's law establishes the relationship of electrical voltage, current and resistance.
1826/--/-- 20 - revolutionary leader antonio jose de sucre is elected first president of bolivia.
1826/03/26 21 *** cargile, mary (wood) & wood, william [uncle] - married overton county tennessee
1827/--/-- 21 *** wood, william cargile [1st cousin] - born to wood, william and cargile, mary (wood)
1827/--/-- 21 - american frontiersman davy crockett is elected to congress.
1827/--/-- 21 - audubon publishes " birds of america"
1827/--/-- 21 - britain, france and russia demand that turkey ends the war with greece.
1827/--/-- 21 - english inventor john walker introduces the first friction matches.
1827/--/-- 21 - french landscape artist camille corot paints the bridge at narni.
1827/--/-- 21 - mountain man jedediah smith pioneers an overland route to california.
1827/--/-- 21 - ornithologist john james audubon begins the publication of his birds of america.
1827/--/-- 21 - the allied navies destroy the turkish and egyptian fleet at navarino in greece.
1828/--/-- 22 - composer frederic chopin begins concert tours at age 18.
1828/--/-- 22 - greeks win war of independence from ottoman empire
1828/--/-- 22 - lavalleja's thirty-three immortals achieve uruguayan independence from brazil.
1828/--/-- 22 - noah webster publishes his american dictionary of the english language.
1828/--/-- 22 - rammohun roy founds the brahmo samaj religious society in india.
1828/--/-- 22 - the duke of wellington becomes prime minister of britain.
1828/--/-- 22 - virtuoso violin player niccolo paganini performs in vienna.
1828/02/03 23 *** wood, reuben bayless & gibbons, elizabeth (wood) [wife] - married
1829/--/-- 23 - andrew jackson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1829/--/-- 23 - delacroix paints "death of sardanapalus"
1829/--/-- 23 - explorer charles sturt charts the murray river in australia.
1829/--/-- 23 - jackson introduces spoils system
1829/--/-- 23 - jackson is inaugurated as the 7th u.s. president; calhoun continues as vice-president.
1829/--/-- 23 - lord bentinck bans the indian custom of suttee (the burning of widows).
1829/--/-- 23 - louis braille publishes his braille system of writing for the blind.
1829/--/-- 23 - serbia becomes an autonomous principality under prince milos.
1829/--/-- 23 - sir robert peel reorganizes the london police; his policemen are nicknamed bobbies.
1829/--/-- 23 - sir robert peel sponsers the catholic emancipation act in britain.
1829/--/-- 23 - the convict-free british colony of western australia is founded.
1829/--/-- 23 - the first u.s. encyclopedia, the encyclopedia americana, is begun.
1830/--/-- 24 - belgium asserts its independence from the netherlands.
1830/--/-- 24 - british geologist charles lyell begins publishing his principles of geology.
1830/--/-- 24 - fructuoso rivera is elected as first president of uruguay.
1830/--/-- 24 - george catlin begins his paintings of north american indians about this time.
1830/--/-- 24 - greece becomes independent from turkey.
1830/--/-- 24 - hector berlioz composes his first major work the symphonie fantastique.
1830/--/-- 24 - indian removal act moves eastern indians west of mississippi
1830/--/-- 24 - joseph smith founds the mormon church at fayette, new york.
1830/--/-- 24 - louis philippe is chosen as the citizen king of france.
1830/--/-- 24 - philipon publishes the satirical weekly la caricature, with contributions by daumier.
1830/--/-- 24 - polish rebellions are suppressed by russia.
1830/--/-- 24 - simon bolivar resigns as dictator of gran colombia, he dies later in the year.
1830/--/-- 24 - the indian removal act is passed to move the southeastern tribes to indian territory.
1830/--/-- 24 - the july revolution in france forces the abdication of charles x.
1830/--/-- 24 - the women's magazine godey's lady's book is published in the u.s.
1830/--/-- 24 - the locomotive best friend of charleston is in use on the first u.s. railroad.
1830/--/-- 24 - william iv succeeds george iv as king of england, scotland, and ireland.
1830/07/25 25 *** wood, william l. [brother] - died hardin county, kentucky
1831/--/-- 25 - british naturalist charles darwin sails to south america aboard h.m.s. beagle.
1831/--/-- 25 - cyrus mccormick invents a mechanical reaper.
1831/--/-- 25 - explorer james clark ross determines the position of the north magnetic pole.
1831/--/-- 25 - italian revolutionary giuseppe mazzini founds the young italy movement.
1831/--/-- 25 - jose antonio paez becomes the first president of venezuela.
1831/--/-- 25 - king louis philippe founds the french foreign legion.
1831/--/-- 25 - leopold i is selected as the first king of belgium.
1831/--/-- 25 - michael faraday demonstrates his theory of electromagnetic induction.
1831/--/-- 25 - nat turner leads a black slave revolt in virginia; he is captured and hanged.
1831/--/-- 25 - russian poet aleksandr pushkin completes his masterpiece eugene onegin.
1831/--/-- 25 - the crown colony of british guiana (guyana) is formed.
1831/--/-- 25 - victor hugo "hunchback of notre dame"
1831/--/-- 25 - william lloyd garrison publishes the abolitionist newspaper the liberator.
1832/--/-- 26 - george sand (aurore dudevant) publishes her first novel indiana.
1832/--/-- 26 - japanese artist hiroshige begins work on fifty-three stages of the tokaido.
1832/--/-- 26 - samuel f.b. morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph
1832/--/-- 26 - the black hawk war is the last major indian conflict east of the mississippi river.
1832/--/-- 26 - the democratic party is formally established as a national organization.
1833/--/-- 27 - a bavarian prince becomes king otto of greece.
1833/--/-- 27 - britain occupies the falkland islands.
1833/--/-- 27 - carl von clausewitz's classic study of warfare on war is published.
1833/--/-- 27 - general santa anna becomes president of mexico.
1833/--/-- 27 - isabella ii succeeds ferdinand vii, king of spain; the carlist wars begin.
1833/--/-- 27 - president jackson withdraws federal deposits from the bank of the united states.
1833/--/-- 27 - santa anna elected president of mexico
1833/--/-- 27 - the american anti-slavery society is inaugurated in philadelphia.
1833/--/-- 27 - victor hugo's novel the hunchback of notre dame is published in english.
1833/05/01 28 *** wood, robert white [son] - born to wood, reuben bayless and gibbons, elizabeth (wood) clinton county, kentucky
1834/--/-- 28 - a quadruple alliance is formed to aid isabella ii of spain and maria ii of portugal.
1834/--/-- 28 - american inventor jacob perkins patents the first practical ice-making machine.
1834/--/-- 28 - british politician sir robert peel founds the conservative party.
1834/--/-- 28 - indian territory founded
1834/--/-- 28 - slavery abolished in british empire
1834/--/-- 28 - the carlist wars resume in spain.
1834/--/-- 28 - the hansom cab is designed; it becomes the standard horse-drawn cab in london.
1834/--/-- 28 - the whig party is formed to oppose andrew jackson and the democratic party.
1834/11/15 29 *** wood, thomas [father] - died clinton county kentucky irwin cemetery at albany, ky
1835/--/-- 29 - american settlers begin the texas revolution against mexican rule.
1835/--/-- 29 - attempts to move the seminole indians begins the second seminole war.
1835/--/-- 29 - danish writer hans christian andersen publishes tales told for children.
1835/--/-- 29 - french politician alexis de tocqueville publishes democracy in america.
1835/--/-- 29 - james gordon bennett founds the new york herald newspaper.
1835/--/-- 29 - second seminole war in florida
1836/--/-- 30 - american educator william holmes mcguffey begins editing his readers.
1836/--/-- 30 - american inventor samuel colt begins manufacturing the first revolver.
1836/--/-- 30 - american literary figure ralph waldo emerson founds the transcendental club.
1836/--/-- 30 - arkansas is inaugurated as the 25th state of the union.
1836/--/-- 30 - boer (afrikaner) settlers begin the great trek into the south african interior.
1836/--/-- 30 - bolivian president santa cruz invades peru and forms the peru-bolivian confederation.
1836/--/-- 30 - charles barry designs westminster palace in the gothic revival style.
1836/--/-- 30 - charles dickens publishes his first popular work the pickwick papers.
1836/--/-- 30 - john c. calhoun supports the gag rules to prevent congress debating slavery.
1836/--/-- 30 - republic of texas forms
1836/--/-- 30 - russian author nikolai gogol writes his play the inspector general.
1836/--/-- 30 - santa anna's army storms the alamo in texas, killing the defenders.
1836/--/-- 30 - texans under sam houston defeat santa anna at the san jacinto river.
1836/--/-- 30 - texas revolution
1836/--/-- 30 - the arc de triomphe, the world's largest triumphal arch, is completed in paris.
1837/--/-- 31 - britain's refusal to grant more home rule in canada leads to the rebellions of 1837.
1837/--/-- 31 - british scientist charles wheatstone designs an electric telegraph system.
1837/--/-- 31 - charles dickens "oliver twist"
1837/--/-- 31 - louis daguerre invents the daguerreotype method for taking permanent photographs.
1837/--/-- 31 - martin van buren (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1837/--/-- 31 - michigan is inaugurated as the 26th state of the union.
1837/--/-- 31 - mikhail lermontov writes the death of a poet, inspired by the death of pushkin.
1837/--/-- 31 - russian poet aleksandr pushkin is killed in a duel.
1837/--/-- 31 - scottish historian thomas carlyle publishes the french revolution.
1837/--/-- 31 - seminole indian leader osceola is captured.
1837/--/-- 31 - van buren is inaugurated as the 8th u.s. president; johnson becomes vice-president.
1837/--/-- 31 - william iv dies; victoria succeeds him as queen of england, scotland, and ireland.
1837/06/-- 32 - victoria succeeds as queen of great britain and ireland.
1838/--/-- 32 - boer (afrikaner) leader andries pretorius defeats the zulus at the battle of blood river.
1838/--/-- 32 - british artist joseph mallord william turner paints the fighting temeraire.
1838/--/-- 32 - charles wilkes heads a u.s. navy expedition to antarctica.
1838/--/-- 32 - cherokee "trail of tears"
1838/--/-- 32 - french philosopher auguste comte inaugurates the science of sociology.
1838/--/-- 32 - iowa territory organized
1838/--/-- 32 - john deere develops a steel-tipped plow capable of turning heavy prairie soil.
1838/--/-- 32 - samuel f.b. morse develops the morse code for electric telegraph systems.
1838/--/-- 32 - scottish blacksmith kirkpatrick macmillan makes the first pedal-driven bicycle.
1838/03/16 33 *** wood, armistead armstrong [son] - born to wood, reuben bayless and gibbons, elizabeth (wood)
1838/06/08 33 - victoria crowned queen of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by will
1839/--/-- 33 - american inventor charles goodyear develops the vulcanization of rubber.
1839/--/-- 33 - chile defeats santa cruz's peru-bolivian confederation at the battle of yungay.
1839/--/-- 33 - daguerre invents first form of photography
1839/--/-- 33 - french novelist stendhal writes the charterhouse of parma.
1839/--/-- 33 - hungarian composer and pianist franz liszt embarks on a concert tour of europe.
1839/--/-- 33 - jose rafael carrera captures guatemala; the central american federation is dissolved.
1839/--/-- 33 - stephens and catherwood explore maya ruins in the yucatan.
1839/--/-- 33 - the anglo-afghan wars begin in afghanistan.
1839/--/-- 33 - the opium wars begin between britain and china.
1839/--/-- 33 - theodor schwann and matthias jakob schleiden formulate the cell theory.
1839/06/18 34 *** reives, sarah (wood) [grandmother] - died clinton county, kentucky
1840/--/-- 34 - civil war breaks out in uruguay between the colorados (reds) and blancos (whites).
1840/--/-- 34 - edgar allen poe: "tales of the grotesque and arabesque"
1840/--/-- 34 - french philosopher and anarchist pierre joseph proudhon writes what is property.
1840/--/-- 34 - horatio greenough's classical statue of george washington is strongly criticized.
1840/--/-- 34 - maori chiefs sign over their tribal lands to queen victoria in the treaty of waitangi.
1840/--/-- 34 - queen victoria marries prince albert of saxe-coburg.
1840/--/-- 34 - swiss-american naturalist louis agassiz postulates his theory of ice ages.
1840/--/-- 34 - the liberty party is founded in albany, n.y. based exclusively on an antislavery platform.
1840/--/-- 34 - the underground railroad is active in helping escaping slaves in the u.s.
1840/--/-- 34 - the first adhesive postage stamp, the penny black, is issued in london.
1840/--/-- 34 - the metric system of measurement is reinstated in france.
1840/--/-- 34 - upper and lower canada are united in the single province of canada.
1840/--/-- 34 - upper and lower canada united
1841/--/-- 35 - edgar allan poe writes an early detective story the murders in the rue morgue.
1841/--/-- 35 - george grey is appointed governor of south australia to help save the colony.
1841/--/-- 35 - harrison is inaugurated as the 9th u.s. president; tyler becomes vice-president.
1841/--/-- 35 - horace greeley founds the new york tribune newspaper.
1841/--/-- 35 - italian ballerina carlotta grisi creates the role of giselle.
1841/--/-- 35 - john tyler (whig) becomes president of the united states
1841/--/-- 35 - muhammad ali defeats the ottomans and becomes the hereditary ruler of egypt.
1841/--/-- 35 - new zealand is established as a separate british colony.
1841/--/-- 35 - president harrison dies; john tyler is inaugurated as the 10th u.s. president
1841/--/-- 35 - whig prime minister lord melbourne resigns; he is succeeded by sir robert peel.
1841/--/-- 35 - william henry harrison (whig) becomes president of the united states
1841/--/-- 35 - william henry talbot patents the calotype photographic process.
1842/--/-- 36 - 10-hour day for children under 12 in massachusetts
1842/--/-- 36 - american explorer john c. fremont begins surveying the oregon trail.
1842/--/-- 36 - american showman p.t. barnum discovers the 40-inch midget tom thumb.
1842/--/-- 36 - austrian physicist christian johann doppler predicts the doppler effect.
1842/--/-- 36 - china cedes hong kong to britain.
1842/--/-- 36 - china is defeated in the first opium war; chinese ports are opened to british trade.
1842/--/-- 36 - italian composer gaetano donizetti writes his opera don pasquale.
1842/05/24 37 *** wood, james elvin [son] - born to wood, reuben bayless and gibbons, elizabeth (wood) clinton county, kentucky
1843/--/-- 37 - a coup in greece forces king otto to accept a constitutional monarchy.
1843/--/-- 37 - black american sojourner truth begins her reform mission.
1843/--/-- 37 - danish philosopher soren kierkegaard publishes either/or.
1843/--/-- 37 - english art critic john ruskin begins publishing modern painters.
1843/--/-- 37 - german astronomer samuel schwabe discovers the sunspot cycle.
1844/--/-- 38 - alexander dumas "the three muskateers"
1844/--/-- 38 - eastern hispaniola declares independence from haiti as the dominican republic.
1844/--/-- 38 - french author alexandre dumas (dumas pere) publishes the three musketeers.
1844/--/-- 38 - joseph smith, founder of the mormons, is killed by a lynch mob.
1844/--/-- 38 - samuel f.b. morse establishes the first u.s. telegraph link.
1844/--/-- 38 - settlers in new south wales force britain to stop sending convicts to the colony.
1844/--/-- 38 - the young men's christian association (ymca) is founded in england.
1844/--/-- 38 - william henry talbot begins his pencil of nature, the first book of photographs.
1845/--/-- 39 - american author margaret fuller publishes women in the nineteenth century.
1845/--/-- 39 - british archaeologist austen layard excavates the sites of nimrud and nineveh.
1845/--/-- 39 - civil war ends in peru; castilla ramon is elected as president.
1845/--/-- 39 - failure of the potato crop leads to a famine in ireland.
1845/--/-- 39 - florida is inaugurated as the 27th state of the union.
1845/--/-- 39 - french artists gavarni and grandville begin designing the first elaborate posters.
1845/--/-- 39 - german composer robert schumann writes his piano concerto in a minor.
1845/--/-- 39 - german scientist alexander von humboldt publishes the first volume of his kosmos.
1845/--/-- 39 - james k. polk (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1845/--/-- 39 - polk is inaugurated as the 11th u.s. president; dallas becomes vice-president
1845/--/-- 39 - sir john franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the northwest passage.
1845/--/-- 39 - the republic of texas becomes the 28th state of the union.
1845/--/-- 39 - the republic of texas is annexed by the u.s.; it becomes the 28th state of the union.
1845/--/-- 39 - the sikh wars begin in british india.
1845/--/-- 39 - the first clipper ship the rainbow is built in new york.
1845/--/-- 39 - the term manifest destiny is first used in defense of u.s. territorial ambitions.
1845/04/13 40 *** wood, elizabeth gibbons (gwinn) [daughter] - born to wood, reuben bayless and gibbons, elizabeth (wood) clinton county, kentucky
1846/--/-- 40 - adolphe sax patents the saxophone in paris.
1846/--/-- 40 - american dentist william morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 40 - german astronomer johann galle makes the first observation of the planet neptune.
1846/--/-- 40 - german philosopher ludwig feuerbach publishes the essence of religion.
1846/--/-- 40 - henry creswicke rawlinson deciphers the mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 40 - iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the union.
1846/--/-- 40 - mexican war
1846/--/-- 40 - mormon trek from navoo to salt lake city
1846/--/-- 40 - oregon boundary with canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 40 - the christy minstrels begin performing in new york.
1846/--/-- 40 - the mexican war begins over the u.s. annexation of texas.
1846/--/-- 40 - the mexican government collapses; santa anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 40 - the smithsonian institution is created by congress.
1846/--/-- 40 - the border between the u.s. and canada is established, settling the oregon question.
1846/--/-- 40 - u.s. forces under stephen watts kearny occupy new mexico.
1846/--/-- 40 - u.s. forces under zachary taylor defeat the mexicans at palo alto and monterrey.
1846/--/-- 40 - writer and artist edward lear publishes a book of nonsense.
1847/--/-- 41 - american missionary marcus whitman is killed by cayuse indians in oregon.
1847/--/-- 41 - american oceanographer matthew maury publishes his first wind and current charts.
1847/--/-- 41 - charlotte bronte publishes jane eyre; emily bronte publishes wuthering heights.
1847/--/-- 41 - english novelist william makepeace thackeray begins vanity fair.
1847/--/-- 41 - honore de balzac completes la comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 41 - italian statesman cavour founds the liberal newspaper il risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 41 - maria mitchell, the first woman astronomer in america, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 41 - mormons and the indians
1847/--/-- 41 - scott enters mexico city after a series of battles; mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 41 - sir james simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 41 - taylor defeats santa anna's mexican army at the battle of buena vista.
1847/--/-- 41 - the african slave colony of liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 41 - the american medical association is founded.
1847/--/-- 41 - the mormons under brigham young found salt lake city.
1847/--/-- 41 - the u.s. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 41 - u.s. forces under stockton, fremont and kearny occupy california.
1847/--/-- 41 - u.s. forces under winfield scott land at veracruz and advance on mexico city.
1848/--/-- 42 - a czech uprising under frantisek palacky is suppressed by austria.
1848/--/-- 42 - american engineer james bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 42 - february revolution by french workers makes louis napoleon iii president of 2nd reublic
1848/--/-- 42 - ferdinand i abdicates; francis joseph becomes emperor of austria.
1848/--/-- 42 - french barbizon artist theodore rousseau paints the forest at fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 42 - french author alexandre dumas (dumas fils) publishes his novel camille.
1848/--/-- 42 - gold discovered in california
1848/--/-- 42 - holman hunt, millais and rossetti form the pre-raphaelite brotherhood in britain.
1848/--/-- 42 - karl marx and friedrich engels publish the communist manifesto.
1848/--/-- 42 - karl marx and friedrick engels publish "communist manifesto"
1848/--/-- 42 - louis philippe abdicates; a second republic is declared in france.
1848/--/-- 42 - mexican cession
1848/--/-- 42 - risorgimento leader garibaldi returns to italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 42 - scottish physicist william thomson kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 42 - the austrian revolution begins in vienna; chancellor metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 42 - the revolutions of 1848 break out in europe.
1848/--/-- 42 - the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo ratifies the cession of california and new mexico.
1848/--/-- 42 - the discovery of gold at sutter's mill begins the california gold rush.
1848/--/-- 42 - the first u.s. women's rights assembly meets at the seneca falls convention.
1848/--/-- 42 - uprisings in berlin force frederick william iv to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 42 - wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the union.
1849/--/-- 43 - amelia bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 43 - austrian forces crush the italian revolution; mazzini and garibaldi flee from italy.
1849/--/-- 43 - austrian premier felix schwarzenberg uses the russian army to defeat the hungarians.
1849/--/-- 43 - black slave harriet tubman escapes and begins her underground railway work.
1849/--/-- 43 - elizabeth blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 43 - francois rene de chateaubriand publishes memoirs from beyond the tomb.
1849/--/-- 43 - french physicist armand fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 43 - lajos kossuth declares hungarian independence from austria.
1849/--/-- 43 - russian anarchist mikhail bakunin is deported to siberia.
1849/--/-- 43 - taylor is inaugurated as the 12th u.s. president; fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 43 - zachary taylor (whig) becomes president of the united states
1849/09/06 44 *** wood, james [uncle] - died macoupin county, il macoupin county, il wood-davis cemetery, macoupin county, il
1850/--/-- 44 - allan pinkerton founds the pinkerton national detective agency.
1850/--/-- 44 - american author nathaniel hawthorne writes the scarlet letter.
1850/--/-- 44 - american popular songwriter stephen foster publishes camptown races.
1850/--/-- 44 - california is inaugurated as the 31st state of the union.
1850/--/-- 44 - congress reinforces the fugitive slave law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 44 - elizabeth barrett browning publishes her sonnets from the portuguese.
1850/--/-- 44 - english author charles dickens writes david copperfield.
1850/--/-- 44 - french realist artist gustave courbet paints the stone breakers.
1850/--/-- 44 - jenny lind the swedish nightingale begins her u.s. tour.
1850/--/-- 44 - millard fillmore (whig) becomes president of the united states
1850/--/-- 44 - nathanial hawthorne "the scarlet letter"
1850/--/-- 44 - photographer mathew brady publishes the gallery of illustrious americans.
1850/--/-- 44 - plains indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 44 - president taylor dies; millard fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th u.s. president.
1850/--/-- 44 - the compromise of 1850 establishes california as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 44 - the taiping rebellion breaks out in china against the ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 44 - the first issue of harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 44 - utah and new mexico territories
1850/03/20 45 *** wood, mariba (ewing) [sister] & ewing, jesse - married
1850/05/20 45 *** wood, samuel [uncle] - died madison, il madison, il
1851/--/-- 45 - a gold rush begins in victoria, australia; victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 45 - american author herman melville publishes moby-dick.
1851/--/-- 45 - giuseppe verdi's opera rigoletto is produced in venice.
1851/--/-- 45 - harriet beecher stowe begins publishing uncle tom's cabin.
1851/--/-- 45 - henry jarvis raymond and george jones found the new york times.
1851/--/-- 45 - isaac merrit singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 45 - jacob fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in baltimore.
1851/--/-- 45 - melville "moby dick"
1851/--/-- 45 - mongkut (rama iv) becomes king of siam (thailand).
1851/--/-- 45 - singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 45 - the crystal palace is built in london to house the great exhibition.
1851/--/-- 45 - the u.s. yacht america defeats 17 british yachts in the first america's cup contest.
1851/--/-- 45 - the first college sorority is established at wesleyan college, georgia.
1851/03/27 46 *** ewing, pernetta jane [niece] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1852/--/-- 46 - argentinean dictator rosas is defeated by forces under urquiza at monte caseros.
1852/--/-- 46 - britain gains control of the irrawaddy delta after the second anglo-burma war.
1852/--/-- 46 - the grimms begin publication of their deutsches worterbuch (german dictionary).
1852/--/-- 46 - the second empire begins in france under napoleon iii.
1852/09/01 47 *** wood, mary elizabeth (gwinn) [1st cousin once removed] - born to wood, william cargile
1853/--/-- 47 - a u.s. naval squadron under matthew perry enters tokyo bay to negotiate a treaty.
1853/--/-- 47 - chinese rebels capture nanking and make it the capital of the taiping kingdom.
1853/--/-- 47 - crimean war between turkey, france & britain against russia
1853/--/-- 47 - franklin pierce (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1853/--/-- 47 - franklin pierce is inaugurated as the 14th u.s. president; king becomes vice-president.
1853/--/-- 47 - general santa anna becomes dictator of mexico for the last time.
1853/--/-- 47 - georges haussmann begins the reconstruction of paris.
1853/--/-- 47 - napoleon iii marries the empress eugenie.
1853/--/-- 47 - richard wagner begins his cycle of four operas the ring of the nibelung.
1853/--/-- 47 - russia occupies the turkish principalities of moldavia and walachia.
1853/--/-- 47 - the u.s. adds land to new mexico and arizona with the gadsden purchase.
1853/--/-- 47 - turkey issues an ultimatum to russia; the russians destroy the turkish fleet at sinope.
1853/01/11 47 *** wood, william [uncle] - died albany, clinton, kentucky albany, clinton, kentucky clear fork cem. clinton county kentucky
1854/--/-- 48 - a commercial treaty is signed between the u.s. and japan, ending japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- 48 - american writer and naturalist henry david thoreau publishes walden.
1854/--/-- 48 - an anglo-french-turkish expeditionary force lands at sevastopol in the crimea.
1854/--/-- 48 - britain and france declare war on russia, beginning the crimean war.
1854/--/-- 48 - nebraska and kansas territories
1854/--/-- 48 - pope pius ix proclaims the dogma of the immaculate conception of the virgin mary.
1854/--/-- 48 - raphaelite artist holman hunt paints the scapegoat.
1854/--/-- 48 - republican party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- 48 - smith & wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- 48 - the allied armies defeat the russians at the battle of inkerman.
1854/--/-- 48 - the british grant independence to the orange free state in south africa.
1854/--/-- 48 - the charge of the light brigade is made by the british during the battle of balaklava.
1854/--/-- 48 - the kansas-nebraska act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- 48 - the republican party is formed after the passage of the kansas-nebraska act.
1854/--/-- 48 - upper half of indian territory becomes part of kansas territory
1854/02/24 49 *** wood, george [uncle] - died bone cave, van buren, tn bone cave, van buren, tn cone cave, van buren, tn
1854/06/22 49 *** ewing, thomas wood [nephew] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1855/--/-- 49 - british photographer roger fenton documents the crimean war.
1855/--/-- 49 - florence nightingale reforms hygienic standards in crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 49 - henry wadsworth longfellow publishes the songs of hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 49 - lord palmerston becomes prime minister of great britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 49 - matthew fontaine maury publishes the physical geography of the sea.
1855/--/-- 49 - mexican dictator santa anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 49 - nicholas i, emperor of russia dies; he is succeeded by his son alexander ii.
1855/--/-- 49 - robert browning publishes his poetry collection men and women.
1855/--/-- 49 - scottish explorer david livingstone discovers the victoria falls in africa.
1855/--/-- 49 - the allies occupy the russian fortress at sevastapol in the crimea.
1855/--/-- 49 - the first formal ice hockey game is played in kingston, ontario.
1855/--/-- 49 - walt whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the leaves of grass.
1856/--/-- 50 - a new opium war begins between china, britain and france.
1856/--/-- 50 - english chemist william perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 50 - the treaty of paris ends the crimean war.
1856/--/-- 50 - the first neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in germany.
1856/--/-- 50 - victor hugo writes les miserables during his exile from france.
1856/01/19 50 *** ewing, mary ann eliza [niece] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1856/07/27 51 *** ewing, pernetta jane [niece] - died albany, clinton, kentucky albany, clinton, kentucky
1856/07/29 51 *** ewing, mary ann eliza [niece] - died albany, clinton, kentucky albany, clinton, kentucky peolia church cemetery, albany, kentucky
1856/08/02 51 *** ewing, thomas wood [nephew] - died peolia church cemetery, albany, kentucky
1857/--/-- 51 - buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th u.s. president; breckinridge becomes vice-president.
1857/--/-- 51 - disputes between mormons and non-mormon settlers leads to the utah war.
1857/--/-- 51 - elisha graves otis installs the first passenger elevator in a new york city store.
1857/--/-- 51 - english author thomas hughes publishes tom brown's schooldays.
1857/--/-- 51 - french novelist gustave flaubert publishes madame bovary.
1857/--/-- 51 - french poet baudelaire publishes flowers of evil and is arrested for immorality.
1857/--/-- 51 - james buchanan (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1857/--/-- 51 - kansas ratifies anti-slavery constitution
1857/--/-- 51 - mormons and paiute indians kill 120 settlers in the mountain meadows massacre.
1857/--/-- 51 - the indian mutiny begins when indian troops rebel against the british in meerut.
1857/--/-- 51 - the oxford english dictionary is begun in england.
1857/09/05 52 *** ewing, margaret mariba [niece] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton county, kentucky
1858/--/-- 52 - benito juarez becomes the first mexican president of indian descent.
1858/--/-- 52 - bernadette soubirous sees visions of the vigin mary in a grotto near lourdes, france.
1858/--/-- 52 - britain and france impose the tientsin treaty on china.
1858/--/-- 52 - british explorer john hanning speke discovers lake victoria in africa.
1858/--/-- 52 - british naturalist alfred russel wallace outlines his theories of evolution.
1858/--/-- 52 - charles frederick worth establishes his paris fashion house.
1858/--/-- 52 - cyrus w. field lays the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
1858/--/-- 52 - federal forces end the utah war; brigham young is replaced as governor of utah territory.
1858/--/-- 52 - french photographer nadar takes the first aerial photograph from a balloon.
1858/--/-- 52 - german-american artist albert bierstadt begins his landscapes of the american west.
1858/--/-- 52 - jacques offenbach's operetta orpheus in the underworld premiers in paris.
1858/--/-- 52 - james renwick begins the design of saint patrick's cathedral in new york city.
1858/--/-- 52 - minnesota is inaugurated as the 32nd state of the union.
1858/--/-- 52 - the fenians (irish republican brotherhood) are founded to overthrow british rule.
1858/--/-- 52 - the indian mutiny is suppressed by the british army and loyal indian troops.
1858/--/-- 52 - the government of india is transferred from the east india company to the british crown.
1859/--/-- 53 *** ewing, robert matthew [nephew] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton, kentucky
1859/--/-- 53 - abolitionist john brown leads an attack on harpers ferry; he is captured and executed.
1859/--/-- 53 - charles darwin "origin of species"
1859/--/-- 53 - charles darwin publishes on the origin of species by means of natural selection.
1859/--/-- 53 - ferdinand de lesseps begins building the suez canal in egypt.
1859/--/-- 53 - french inventor ferdinand carre develops a refrigeration system.
1859/--/-- 53 - napoleon iii assists the italian statesman cavour in a war against austria.
1859/--/-- 53 - oregon is inaugurated as the 33rd state of the union.
1859/--/-- 53 - queensland becomes a separate colony of australia.
1860/--/-- 54 - abraham lincoln is elected as the first republican president of the united states.
1860/--/-- 54 - china resists the tientsin treaty; anglo-french forces occupy peking.
1860/--/-- 54 - english novelist wilkie collins writes the woman in white.
1860/--/-- 54 - florence nightingale establishes a school for training nurses.
1860/--/-- 54 - george eliot (mary anne evans) publishes the mill on the floss.
1860/--/-- 54 - italian patriot garibaldi invades sicily and naples with his 1,000 redshirts.
1860/--/-- 54 - jean joseph etienne lenoir patents the first internal-combustion engine.
1860/--/-- 54 - sardinia-piedmont seizes the papal states in italy.
1860/--/-- 54 - south carolina becomes the first southern state to secede from the union.
1860/--/-- 54 - the crittenden compromise tries to prevent a split between slave and free states.
1860/--/-- 54 - the maori wars begin against the british in new zealand.
1860/--/-- 54 - the pony express is inaugurated to deliver mail from missouri to california.
1861/--/-- 55 - abraham lincoln (republican) becomes president of the united states
1861/--/-- 55 - american locksmith linus yale jr. patents the cylinder lock.
1861/--/-- 55 - confederacy
1861/--/-- 55 - civil war begins
1861/--/-- 55 - english designer william morris starts the arts and crafts movement.
1861/--/-- 55 - explorers burke and wills die during their north-south crossing of australia.
1861/--/-- 55 - french artist eugene delacroix paints the lion hunt.
1861/--/-- 55 - general george b. mcclellan is made commander of the union forces.
1861/--/-- 55 - italy is unified under victor emmanuel ii.
1861/--/-- 55 - john ericsson designs the monitor, the first ship with a revolving gun-turret.
1861/--/-- 55 - kansas is inaugurated as the 34th state of the union.
1861/--/-- 55 - lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th u.s. president; hamlin becomes vice-president.
1861/--/-- 55 - nicholas ii abolishes serfdom in russia.
1861/--/-- 55 - the confederate states of america declare their independence from the u.s.
1861/--/-- 55 - the confederates defeat the union army in the first battle of bull run.
1861/--/-- 55 - the southern states meet to draft a constitution; davis is selected as president.
1861/--/-- 55 - the trent affair begins when a union ship intercepts a british steamer.
1861/--/-- 55 - the united states introduce the first national income tax.
1861/--/-- 55 - the bombardment of fort sumter in charleston harbor begins the u.s. civil war.
1861/--/-- 55 - unification of italy
1861/--/-- 55 - western territories reorganized by republican congresses
1861/01/31 56 *** wood, john [uncle] - died clinton county, ky clinton county, ky clinton county, ky
1861/10/29 56 *** ewing, william jesse [nephew] - born to ewing, jesse and wood, mariba (ewing) albany, clinton county, kentucky
1861/12/04 56 *** wood, reuben bayless - died killed by guerrillas during the civil war. clinton county, kentucky irwin cem. clinton county kentucky
in 1805 transportation was by:
foot
horse
sailing ship
bicycle
by 1861 transportation was by:
train
steamboat
in addition.
by 1861 transportation by:
sailing ship
had been discontinued.
in 1805 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
by 1861 communications was by:
telegraph
in addition.
in 1805 food preparation was by:
wood
in 1805 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1805 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1805 war making was by:
calvary
gun
artillery
submarine
by 1861 war making was by:
machine guns
iron clad ships
mines
in addition.
in 1805 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
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