1836
May 10
| 1836 • Colony of South Australia founded by Captain John Hindmarsh |
1854
May 6
Age: 17y
marriageJames Tidmore Clarke Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ |
| 1854 • The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law, replacing the Missouri Compromise (of 1820), thus act creating the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, west of the State of Missouri and the State of Iowa. The Kansas-Nebraska Act also established that those two new Territories would decide either to allow or disallow slavery depending on balloting by their residents. These areas would have been strictly "free territory" under the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in the State of Missouri but disallowed it in any other new state north of the latitude 36 degrees, 30 minutes, which forms most of the southern boundary of Missouri. This prohibition of slavery extended all the way from the western boundary of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. |
1859
Oct 27
Age: 23y
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birth of childGrace Lavinia Clarke 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1859 • Edwin Drake drills the first oil well in the United States, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, starting the Pennsylvanian oil rush. |
1860
Age: 23y
| 1860 • Britain produces 20% of the entire world's output of industrial goods. |
1870
Age: 33y
| 1870 • Antonio Guzmán Blanco begins his first term as President of Venezuela. |
1900
Age: 63y
| 1900 • The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua. |
1906
Jan 3
Age: 69y
| 1906 • Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa. |