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1849
Oct 1
| 1849 • A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle. Facing a firing squad on December 23 the group members are reprieved at the last moment and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 11m
| 1850 • Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin (including the Bridal Chorus) premieres under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 1860 • Vladivostok is founded in Russia. |
1870
Age: 20y
| 1870 • Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, and the Confederate States of America is dissolved. |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| 1874 • September 14 — Battle of Liberty Place: In New Orleans, former Confederate Army members of the White League temporarily drive Republican Governor William P. Kellogg from office, replacing him with former Democratic Governor John McEnery. U.S. Army troops restore Kellogg to office five days later. "Chief Justice Edward Douglass White", by William H. Forman, Jr., in ABA Journal (March 1970) p261 |
1875
Age: 25y
birth of childMargaretta Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1875 • Bizet’s Carmen is first performed at the Opéra Comique, Paris. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
birth of childAlfred Homer Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • The Second Afghan War commences when the British attack Ali Masjid in the Khyber Pass. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris (as part of the Paris World Exhibition). |
1930
Age: 80y
| 1930 • Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest at the British monopoly on salt; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5. |
1938
Jan 29
Age: 88y
| 1938 • Edvard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia, resigns. |