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1849
Oct 1
| 1849 • Revolutions of 1848 in the German states end in failure. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 11m
| 1850 • The temperance organisation, International Organisation of Good Templars, is established in Utica, New York, as the order of the Knights of Jericho. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 1860 • German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine.Niemann, Albert (1860). On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves ("Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern", published version of Ph.D. dissertation). |
1870
Age: 20y
| 1870 • Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. Empress Eugénie flees to England with her children. |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| 1874 • Universal Postal Union is established. |
1875
Age: 25y
birth of childMargaretta Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1875 • Widespread nationalist rebellion in the Ottoman Empire has resulted in Turkish repression, Russian intervention and Great Power tensions. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
birth of childAlfred Homer Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in the United States. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China. |
1930
Age: 80y
| 1930 • Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany. |
1938
Jan 29
Age: 88y
| 1938 • Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |