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Apr 84
birthLoren Earnest Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
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Feb 1
birthHoward Franklin Farlow California, USA ⇓ |
1849
Oct 1
Age: 176y
| July 3, 1849 • French troops occupy Rome; the Roman Republic surrenders. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 175y
| March 7, 1850 • United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. |
1860
Age: 166y
| January 13, 1860 • Spanish victory (under General Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuanat) at the Battle of Tétouan, In the 1880s the first world war began. |
1870
Age: 156y
| July 13, 1870 • The Ems Dispatch serves as a reason for a war between Prussia and France. |
1874
Age: 152y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| November 11, 1874 • The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority. |
1875
Age: 151y
| 1875 • Third Carlist War: Two government armies (General Quesada and Martínez Campos) start encroaching on Carlist territory. Both they and their Carlist opponent (Mendiri) drive opposing sympathisers from their homes and burn crops in areas they can not hold. Several Carlist generals (Dorregaray, Savalls, and others) are unjustly put on trial for disloyalty. Mendiri is also removed from his command, and is replaced by the Count of Caserta. Despite having 48 infantry battalions, three cavalry regiments, two engineer battalions, and 100 pieces of artillery at his disposal, Caserta is heavily outnumbered by the government forces opposing him. |
1878
May
Age: 147y
| 1878 • Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina is published complete in book form in Moscow. |
1880
Dec 30
Age: 145y
| 1880 • Piezoelectricity is discovered by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie. |
1884
Apr 20
Age: 141y
| July 3, 1884 • The Dow Jones Transportation Average, consisting of eleven transportation-related companies: nine railroads and two non-rail companies (Western Union and Pacific Mail), was created. The index is the oldest stock index still in use. |
1888
Feb 19
Age: 138y
| December 23, 1888 • During a bout of mental illness (and having quarreled with his friend Paul Gauguin), Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear in a brothel and is removed to the local hospital in Arles. |
1900
Age: 126y
| March 14, 1900 • Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's Laws of Heredity. |
1930
Age: 96y
| July 28, 1930 • R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada. |
1938
Jan 29
Age: 88y
| April 28, 1938 • The towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott in Massachusetts are disincorporated to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir. |