1836
May 10
| 1836 • Convention of 1836: Delegates from many Texas communities gather in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. |
1854
May 6
Age: 17y
marriageJames Tidmore Clarke Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ |
| 1854 • Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas is completed. |
1859
Oct 27
Age: 23y
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birth of childGrace Lavinia Clarke 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1859 • Austro-Sardinian War: Giuseppe Garibaldi's Hunters of the Alps confront Austrian forces led by Field Marshal-Lieutenant Carl Baron Urban at Varese. |
1860
Age: 23y
| 1860 • The American South has c. 4 million slaves. |
1870
Age: 33y
| 1870 • It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant is just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human. |
1900
Age: 63y
| 1900 • The Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. |
1906
Jan 3
Age: 69y
| 1906 • Ecuador-Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale) and associated tsunami. |