1831
Jun 9
1854
May 6
Age: 22y
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marriageHariette Elizabeth Dewolfe Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ |
| 1854 • Crimean War – Battle of Balaclava: The allies gain an overall victory, except for the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade, from which only 200 of 700 men survive. |
1859
Oct 27
Age: 28y
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birth of childGrace Lavinia Clarke 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1859 • Edwin Drake drills the first oil well in the United States, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, starting the Pennsylvanian oil rush. |
1860
Age: 28y
| 1860 • Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round. |
1870
Age: 38y
| 1870 • The 12.8-km Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. |
1900
Age: 68y
| 1900 • The First Pan-African Conference is held in London. |
1905
Feb 16
Age: 73y
| 1905 • Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are banned from the Brooklyn Public Library for setting a "bad example." |