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1845
Feb 22
| 1845 • Manifest destiny: U.S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. |
1850
Age: 4y
| 1850 • The postage stamp issues of Austria begin with a series of imperforate typographed stamps featuring the coat of arms. |
1860
Age: 14y
| 1860 • Christians and Druzes clash in Damascus, Syria. |
1862
Feb 7
Age: 16y
| 1862 • Alvan Graham Clark makes the first observation of Sirius B, a white dwarf star, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University. |