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1801
| 1801 • Toussaint L'Ouverture triumphantly enters Santo Domingo, the capital of the former Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, which has become a colony of Napoleonic France. |
1828
Oct 29
Age: 27y
marriageAnn Nancy Bourne Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1828 • Greek War of Independence: the London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades. |
1830
Age: 29y
| 1830 • The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. |
1830
Mar
Age: 29y
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birth of childJohn Bourne Morton Madison County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1830 • Craig vs. Missouri: The United States Supreme Court rules that state loan certificates are unconstitutional because they were bills of credit emitted by a state in violation of Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution. |
1837
May 28
Age: 36y
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birth of childBenjamin Davis Morton Madison County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1837 • Henry David Thoreau makes his first journal entry at the suggestion of Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
1840
Age: 39y
1840
Mar 27
Age: 39y
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birth of childSusan Jane Morton Madison County, Kentucky, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1840 • New Zealand is declared a British colony. |
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Age: 64y
1865
Age: 64y
| 1865 • Secretary Seward declares Thirteenth Amendment ratified by three-quarters of the states (including those in secession); slavery legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware and the remaining 45,000 slaves are freed. |