1830
Jul 6
| 1830 • Barthélemy Thimonnier is granted a patent (#7454) for a sewing machine in France; it chains stitches at 200/minute. |
1850
Age: 19y
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residenceToby, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Jemima Murry is living with her mother Barbara, and siblings, including brother Josiah. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1850 • Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad. |
1860
Age: 29y
| 1860 • Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate the causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year. |
1866
May
Age: 35y
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birth of childEdward Sherman Miller Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 7 Sources ⇓ |
| 1866 • In Sweden, the Riksdag of the Estates votes to replace itself by an elected 2-chamber Riksdag. |
1870
Jun 25
Age: 39y
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residenceToby, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Josiah Murry, her brother, is 38 years old, is living only a house away. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1870 • Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. |
1880
Age: 49y
| 1880 • Tinius Olsen awarded a United States Patent for the Little Giant Testing Machine |
1888
Dec 23
Age: 58y
| 1888 • During a bout of mental illness (and having quarreled with his friend Paul Gauguin), Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear in a brothel and is removed to the local hospital in Arles. |