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1848
Feb 13
| 1848 • Radicals invade the French Chamber of Deputies. |
1850
Age: 1y
| 1850 • The New Mexico Territory is organized by order of the United States Congress. |
1855
Jun 12
Age: 7y
| 1855 • The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. |
1860
Age: 11y
| 1860 • Battle of Milazzo: The forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat royal Neapolitan forces near Messina, bringing nearly all of Sicily under Garibaldi's control. |
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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 • Karl Marx, in London, writes to Ferdinand Lassalle in Berlin: "Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history."[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/letters/61_01_16-abs.htm Letters:Marx to Lasalle]. Accessed 11 March 2013 |
1865
Age: 16y
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residenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ He was a clerk in Brooklyn. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1865 • Secretary Seward declares Thirteenth Amendment ratified by three-quarters of the states (including those in secession); slavery legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware and the remaining 45,000 slaves are freed. |
1870
Age: 21y
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residenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York, USA ⇓ Working as a Real Estate Agent 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1870 • Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed. |
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 Springwell Pit Disaster (a coal-mining incident) in Dawley, UK claims eight lives. |
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 • The May 16, 1877 political crisis occurs in France. |
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 • The SS Columbia, which will be the first outside usage of Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, is launched at the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works of John Roach and Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania. |
1881
Jan 19
Age: 32y
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marriageGrace Lavinia Clarke 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1881 • The Pacific island of Rotuma cedes to Great Britain, becoming a dependency of the Colony of Fiji. |
1881
Aug 3
Age: 33y
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birth of childSadie Thompson Franklin Jamaica, Queens County, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1881 • American Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana. |
1885
Oct
Age: 37y
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birth of childCharles Lucian Franklin Texas, USA ⇓ 8 Sources ⇓ |
| 1885 • North-West Rebellion in Canada by the Métis people, led by Louis Riel, begins with the Battle of Duck Lake. |
1888
Dec 26
Age: 40y
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birth of childGrace Dewolfe Franklin Texas, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1888 • The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and adjoining territories, is granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson who are acting on behalf of South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, providing a basis for white settlement of Rhodesia. |
1900
Age: 51y
| 1900 • Second Boer War: The British annex the Orange Free State as the Orange River Colony. |
1910
Age: 61y
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residenceCalcasieu, Louisiana, USA ⇓ Working for the railroad with his son, Charles 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1910 • The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination. |
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 • WWI: France declares war on Bulgaria. |