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1848
Feb 13
| 1848 • The Palermo rising erupts in Sicily, against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
1850
Age: 1y
| 1850 • The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
1855
Jun 12
Age: 7y
| 1855 • Stamp duty is removed from newspapers in Britain, creating mass market media in the United Kingdom. |
1860
Age: 11y
| 1860 • The German association football club TSV 1860 München is founded. |
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Oct
Age: 13y
1861
Oct
Age: 13y
militaryWest Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Henry enrolled as a private in the 97th Regiment, Pennsylvania Voluntary Infantry. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1861 • American Civil War – Battle of Santa Rosa Island: Confederate forces are defeated in their effort to take the island. |
1865
Age: 16y
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residenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ He was a clerk in Brooklyn. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1865 • American Civil War: Union Major General Gordon Granger lands at Galveston, Texas and informs the people of Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation (an event celebrated in modern times each year as Juneteenth). |
1870
Age: 21y
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residenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ Working as a Real Estate Agent 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1870 • Syracuse University is established and officially opens. |
1872
Jan 19
Age: 23y
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marriageMargaret Jane Miller Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ Married by Reverend Geer 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1872 • The London Metropolitan Police go on strike. |
1875
Age: 26y
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residenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ Living and working in Brooklyn as a Real Estate Agent. Was a boarder with his wife Margaret - living with the Blair's 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1875 • The opening of Flushing High School. |
1877
Jun 8
Age: 29y
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birth of childAnna Lott Franklin Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1877 • By a speech in the Parliament of Romania by Mihail Kogălniceanu, the country declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire (recognized in 1878 after the end of the Romanian independence war). |
1880
Age: 31y
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residenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ Working as a Real Estate Agent, living on 290 Warren Street. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1880 • Tinius Olsen awarded a United States Patent for the Little Giant Testing Machine |
1881
Jan 19
Age: 32y
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marriageGrace Lavinia Clarke 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1881 • Anti-Semitic pogroms in Southern Russia start. |
1881
Aug 3
Age: 33y
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birth of childSadie Thompson Franklin Jamaica, Queens County, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1881 • The League of the Three Emperors is resurrected. |
1885
Oct
Age: 37y
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birth of childCharles Lucian Franklin Texas, USA ⇓ 8 Sources ⇓ |
| 1885 • S Andromedae, the only supernova seen in the Andromeda Galaxy so far by astronomers, and the first ever noted outside the Milky Way, is discovered. |
1888
Dec 26
Age: 40y
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birth of childGrace Dewolfe Franklin Texas, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1888 • The United States Congress establishes the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. |
1900
Age: 51y
| 1900 • Australasian prospector Albert Fuller Ellis identifies phosphate deposits on the Pacific Islands of Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island). |
1910
Age: 61y
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residenceCalcasieu, Louisiana, USA ⇓ Working for the railroad with his son, Charles 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1910 • George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. |
1915
Aug 16
Age: 67y
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deathGalveston, Texas, USA ⇓ Henry died in the devastating 1915 Galveston Hurricane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Galveston_hurricane 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1915 • "The Great Retreat" is ordered on Eastern front - Russian forces pull back out of Poland (then part of Russia), taking machinery and equipment with them. |