♂ James Van Norden

1796 - 1872

James Van Norden
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Erickson Van Norden
Erickson Van Norden
???? - 1813
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1796

1796 Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most 3 triangular numbers.

1835


Aug 11
Age: 39y
James Van Norden - The Evening Post

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New York City, New York, USA ⇓
He was a book printer - the image is an advertisement from the evening post. He ran a printing company, "James Van Norden & co.", that ran during the first half of the 1800s.
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1838


Age: 42y

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New York City, New York, USA ⇓
James Van Norden printed a book called the "Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the New York Society Library."
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1838 • The 5th century BC bronze Chatsworth Head is acquired by the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Smyrna from H. P. Borrell.

1840


Age: 44y
James Van Norden - The Moral and Religious Aspect of the Future America of the Southern Hemisphere

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New York City, New York, USA ⇓
James Van Norden printed a book by John Dunmore Lang, who "was a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian minister, writer, politician and activist. He was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism." (Wikipedia). The book was called "The Moral and Religious Aspect of the Future America of the Southern Hemisphere".
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1840 • The Washingtonian Temperance Society is founded.

1840


Age: 44y
1840 Pedro II is declared "of age" prematurely and begins to reassert central control in Brazil.

1870


Age: 74y
1870 • Death of English novelist Charles Dickens at Gads Hill Place in Kent, leaving his last book The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

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