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1849
Oct 1
| 1849 • The United States Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 11m
| 1850 • First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 1860 • Garibaldi again defeats the Neapolitan forces, advancing on Gaeta, the last remaining Neapolitan strong-point. |
1870
Age: 20y
| 1870 • Syracuse University is established and officially opens. |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| 1874 • 27 – Second Battle of Somorrostro (Third Carlist War): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27,000 men and 70 cannon. However in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17,000 men, once again drove off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it was another six weeks before Serrano managed to relieve Bilbao. |
1875
Age: 25y
| 1875 • Wimbledon: Henry Cavendish Jones convinces the "All England Croquet Club" to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
| 1878 • Grimsby Town FC, formed as Grimsby Pelham. |
1880
Dec 30
Age: 31y
| 1880 • The first stone is laid for the Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech. |
1884
Apr 20
Age: 34y
| 1884 • The University of Wales, Bangor (UK) is founded. |
1888
Feb 19
Age: 38y
| 1888 • The Camborne School of Mines is founded in Cornwall, England. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil. |
1930
Age: 80y
| 1930 • Great Depression: President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress to ask for a $150 million public works program to help create jobs and to stimulate the American economy. |
1938
Jan 29
Age: 88y
| 1938 • Thornton Wilder's play Our Town is performed for the first time anywhere in Princeton, New Jersey. It premieres in New York City on February 4. |