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1840
Oct 28
| 1840 • Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment premieres in Paris. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 9y
| 1850 • The hippopotamus Obaysch arrives at London Zoo from Egypt, the first seen in Europe since Roman times. |
1860
Age: 19y
| 1860 • 21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war during the Second Opium War. |
1870
Age: 29y
| 1870 • Pastor Aeternus: Pope Pius IX declares papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals. |
1874
Jul
Age: 33y
birth of childClyde Plaster Polk County, Iowa, USA ⇓ |
| 1874 • Indian wars]]: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Frances H. Kennedy, American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) p168 |
1896
Aug 20
Age: 55y
| 1896 • Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. |