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1849
Oct 1
| 1849 • The Mississippi River levee at Sauvé's Crevasse breaks, flooding much of New Orleans, Louisiana. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 11m
| 1850 • San Francisco, California is incorporated as a city. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 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: 20y
| 1870 • In the United States, the newly created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes". |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| 1874 • The Agra canal opens in India. |
1875
Age: 25y
| 1875 • Bizet’s Carmen is first performed at the Opéra Comique, Paris. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
1880
Dec 30
Age: 31y
| 1880 • The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven. |
1884
Apr 20
Age: 34y
| 1884 • Scottish Plymouth Brethren missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot identifies the source of the Zambezi river, near Kalene Hill. |
1888
Feb 19
Age: 38y
| 1888 • Rudyard Kipling's short story collection Plain Tales from the Hills is published in Calcutta, India. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • Boxer Rebellion: Battle of Dagu Forts: Naval forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture the Taku Forts on the Hai River estuary in China. |
1930
Age: 80y
1938
Jan 29
Age: 88y
| 1938 • A general strike is called in France by the French Communist Party to protest the laws of November 12. |