♂ George W Farlow

1849 - 1929

1849


May 3
1849 • A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle. Facing a firing squad on December 23 the group members are reprieved at the last moment and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia.

1874


Age: 24y

marriage


Elizabeth Ellen Plaster
1874 Battle of Castellfullit de la Roca (Third Carlist War): Appointed to command the Spanish Republican army in the north, General Ramón Nouvilas attempted to relieve the Carlist siege of Olot in Gerona. But at Castellfullit de la Roca, in one of the Government’s worst defeats, Nouvilas was routed by Carlist General Francisco Savalls, and captured along with about 2,000 of his men. Olot capitulated two days later.

1875


Age: 25y

1878


May
Age: 28y
1878 • The ship Priscilla arrives in Hawaii from Funchal, Madeira, marking the beginning of the Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878–1913).

1900


Age: 50y
1900 Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé.

1929


Jun 28
Age: 80y
1929 • The Young Plan, which sets the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized.

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