1801
| 1801 • Henry Addington becomes First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer effectively Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
1838
Mar 13
Age: 37y
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birth of childMargaret Ann Mohnkern Clarion County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1838 • First Anglo-Afghan War: British and Presidency armies set out from Punjab in support of Shah Shujah Durrani's claim to the throne of Afghanistan. |
1850
Age: 49y
| 1850 • United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. |
1856
Sep 11
Age: 55y
| 1856 • Gregor Mendel starts his research on genetics. |
1860
Age: 59y
| 1860 • French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" to his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording (however, it is not rediscovered until 2008). |
1870
Age: 69y
| 1870 • The Port Adelaide Football Club plays their first match of Australian rules football at Buck's Flat, Glanville, South Australia. |
1880
Age: 79y
| 1880 • Toowong State School is founded in Queensland, Australia. |
1885
Aug
Age: 84y
| 1885 • The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid is founded. |