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1849
Oct 1
| 1849 • Minnesota becomes a United States territory. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 11m
| 1850 • Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 1860 • Britain produces 20% of the entire world's output of industrial goods. |
1870
Age: 20y
| 1870 • Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia. |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| 1874 • Sack of Cuenca (Third Carlist War): After Carlist forces successfully defended Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, led 14,000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca 136 km from Madrid, held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano. After two days the outnumbered garrison capitulated but Don Alfonso permitted a terrible slaughter. The city is sacked. Subsequently another republican force defeats the disorderly Catalans who flee back to the Ebro. |
1875
Age: 25y
| 1875 • The Theosophical Society is founded in New York by Helena Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
1880
Dec 30
Age: 31y
| 1880 • The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty. |
1884
Apr 20
Age: 34y
| 1884 • Staten Island Academy is founded. |
1888
Feb 19
Age: 38y
| 1888 • Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using touch typing at this time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used now. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • Boxer Rebellion: Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China where they join with Japanese forces. |
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 • The Republic of Hatay is declared in Syria |