Elizabeth Ellen Plaster
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Parents
Michael Plaster
Michael Plaster
1813 - 1892
Ruth Burress
Ruth Burress
1819 - 1878
Spouse
George W Farlow
George W Farlow
1849 - 1929
Children
Siblings

1849


Oct 1

1860


Age: 10y
1860 • Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate the causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.

1870


Age: 20y
1870 • Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally since 1807.

1874


Age: 24y

marriage


George W Farlow
1874 Bolton Wanderers (as Christ Church F.C.)

1875


Age: 25y
1875 American Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).

1878


May
Age: 28y
1878 The Yale News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.

1900


Age: 50y
1900 • The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.

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 • Sir Alexander Cadogan succeeds Sir Robert Vansittart as permanent under-secretary at the British Foreign Office; Vansittart is "kicked upstairs" by being given the new and unimportant office of Chief Diplomatic Advisor to the Government.

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