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1840
Oct 28
| 1840 • Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 9y
| 1850 • The ships of the McClure Arctic Expedition set sail from Plymouth. |
1860
Age: 19y
| 1860 • Garibaldi again defeats the Neapolitan forces, advancing on Gaeta, the last remaining Neapolitan strong-point. |
1870
Age: 29y
| 1870 • The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at DePauw University in the United States. |
1874
Jul
Age: 33y
birth of childClyde Plaster Polk County, Iowa, USA ⇓ |
| 1874 • First Battle of Somorrostro (Third Carlist War): Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sent General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14,000 men. Carlists, under General Nicolás Ollo, entrenched at Somorrostro outside Bilbao drive back a courageous assault by General Fernando Primo de Rivera and then the entire Republican army. The republicans lose 1,200 men, and Moriones loses his nerve demanding reinforcements and a replacement for himself. Moriones men entrenched and waited. |
1896
Aug 20
Age: 55y
| 1896 • Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality. |