1836
May 10
| 1836 • Eugène Schneider and his brother Adolphe Schneider purchase a bankrupt ironworks near the town of Le Creusot in the Burgundy region of France and found the steelworks and engineering company Schneider Frères & Cie. |
1854
May 6
Age: 17y
marriageJames Tidmore Clarke Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ |
| 1854 • Major streets are lit by coal gas for the first time. |
1859
Oct 27
Age: 23y
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birth of childGrace Lavinia Clarke 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1859 • Queensland separated from New South Wales |
1860
Age: 23y
| 1860 • The American South has c. 4 million slaves. |
1870
Age: 33y
| 1870 • Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia. |
1900
Age: 63y
| 1900 • Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith. |
1906
Jan 3
Age: 69y
| 1906 • Ecuador-Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale) and associated tsunami. |