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1847
Nov 9
1847 • Theta Delta Chi is founded at Union College. |
1850
Age: 2y
1850 • American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo. |
about
Age: 7y
1855
Age: 7y
1855 • Elections are held for the first Kansas Territory legislature. Missourians cross the border in large numbers to elect a pro-slavery body. |
1860
Age: 12y
1860 • Christians and Druzes clash in Damascus, Syria. |
1870
Age: 22y
1873
Dec 25
Age: 26y
marriageLucy Francis Bourn Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1873 • Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese. |
1874
Nov 28
Age: 27y
birth of childFred Marcus Johnson Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1874 • Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre receives its première. |
1879
Nov 11
Age: 32y
birth of childChandler Allen Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 7 Sources ⇓ |
1879 • New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt, and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue. |
1880
Age: 32y
1880 • The Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is established. |
1900
Age: 52y
1900 • The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later. |
1910
Age: 62y
1910 • Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is now illegal. |
1920
Age: 72y
1920 • Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war. |
1923
Oct 29
Age: 75y
deathMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ He passed away from chronic myocarditis, a heart attack. Funeral services conducted at Richland Church, Hitt, Missouri 3 Sources ⇓ |
1923 • In Germany, the Communists attempt a "putsch" in Hamburg, which results in street battles in that city for the next two days, when it ends unsuccessfully. |