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1854
Apr 10
| 1854 • The Catholic University of Ireland (forerunner of University College Dublin) is founded. |
1860
Aug 9
Age: 6y
| 1860 • The First Taranaki War begins at Waitara, New Zealand, when Māori refuse to sell land to British settlers. |
1870
Age: 15y
| 1870 • First Vatican Council adjourned. |
1873
Mar 25
Age: 18y
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marriageWilliam Henry Miller Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1873 • The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police (which is renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920). |
1874
Feb 5
Age: 19y
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birth of childAlta Janetta Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1874 • First Battle of Somorrostro (Third Carlist War): Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sent General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14,000 men. Carlists, under General Nicolás Ollo, entrenched at Somorrostro outside Bilbao drive back a courageous assault by General Fernando Primo de Rivera and then the entire Republican army. The republicans lose 1,200 men, and Moriones loses his nerve demanding reinforcements and a replacement for himself. Moriones men entrenched and waited. |
1878
Mar 11
Age: 23y
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birth of childEstella Mary Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1878 • Uyedineniya Island is discovered in the Kara Sea by Norwegian explorer Captain Edvard Holm Johannesen. |
1880
Dec 18
Age: 26y
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birth of childLula Bell Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 6 Sources ⇓ |
| 1880 • The Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards). |
1887
Aug
Age: 33y
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birth of childCharles Dewitt Miller Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1887 • Franz König publishes "Über freie Körper in den Gelenken" in the medical journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, describing (and naming) the disease Osteochondritis dissecans for the first time. |
1900
Jun 15
Age: 46y
| 1900 • American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons. |
1910
Age: 55y
| 1910 • The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. |
1930
Age: 75y
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residenceHarriet (Jenkins) Miller and her family were the first residents at 140 W Jefferson St. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1930 • Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil. |
1940
Apr 2
Age: 85y
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residenceMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Harriet is living with her daughter Alta and son-in-law George shortly before her death. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1940 • In Tibet, province of Ando, 4-year-old Tenzin Gyatso is proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the fourteenth Dalai Lama. |
1940
Apr 30
Age: 86y
| 1940 • WWII: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation. |
1940
Apr 30
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burialMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried in the Memphis Cemetery |
| 1940 • Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard. |