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1801
1828
Oct 29
Age: 27y
marriageAnn Nancy Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1828 • Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed between Brazil and Denmark, establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.[http://books.google.dk/books?id=FZsAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA717&dq=&hl=da&ei=2DswTeTRJoXtOdTuuKwK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22denmark%20and%20brazil%22&f=false British and foreign state papers] |
1830
Age: 29y
| 1830 • William IV succeeds his brother George IV as King of the United Kingdom. |
1830
Mar
Age: 29y
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birth of childJohn Bourne Morton Madison County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1830 • Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine in France; it chains stitches at 200/minute. |
1837
May 28
Age: 36y
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birth of childBenjamin Davis Morton Madison County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1837 • In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded as the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States. |
1840
Age: 39y
| 1840 • Louis Agassiz publishes his Etudes sur les glaciers ("Study on Glaciers", 2 volumes), the first major scientific work to propose that the Earth has seen an ice age. |
1840
Mar 27
Age: 39y
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birth of childSusan Jane Morton Madison County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1840 • The Treaty of Waitangi, granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed. |
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Age: 64y
1865
Age: 64y
| 1865 • American Civil War. Surrender to the British at Liverpool of the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah (Captain James Waddell), last significant organized Confederate unit. |