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1849
Oct 1
| 1849 • Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States of America, takes his oath of office. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 11m
| 1850 • The transportation of British convicts to Western Australia begins, as the transportation of British convicts to other parts of Australia is phased out, when the ship Scindian arrives in Fremantle with 75 male prisoners. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 1860 • The Grand Duchy of Tuscany is annexed to the newly formed Kingdom of Italy. |
1870
Age: 20y
| 1870 • Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. |
1874
Age: 24y
marriageGeorge W Farlow |
| 1874 • Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp with an electric light bulb. |
1875
Age: 25y
birth of childMargaretta Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1875 • 6 – German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew.This inspires Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland, not published until 1918. |
1878
May
Age: 28y
birth of childAlfred Homer Farlow Harrisburg, Linn, Oregon, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • Eadweard Muybridge produces the sequence of stop-motion still photographs Sallie Gardner at a Gallop in California, a predecessor of silent film demonstrating that all four feet of a galloping horse are off the ground at the same time. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • Second Boer War: The British annex the Orange Free State as the Orange River Colony. |
1930
Age: 80y
| 1930 • Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. |
1938
Jan 29
Age: 88y
| 1938 • First ascent of the Eiger north face. |