Frances Jane Stroud
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1856


May 20
1856 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives Norfolk Island to the population of the colony at Pitcairn Island, most being descendants of the Mutiny on the Bounty. They first settle on Norfolk Island on June 8.

1877


Jan 20
Age: 20y

1878


Feb 14
Age: 21y
1878 • The world's first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England.

1878


Oct 11
Age: 22y
1878 • In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box is found later with a taunting poem inside.

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