♂ John Davis Bourne

1794 - 1877

 

Bourn

John Davis Bourne
enlarge profile image
Parents
William Bourne
William Bourne
1753 - 1826
Catherine Bourne
Catherine Bourne
1765 - 1834
Spouse
Nancy Higbee
Nancy Higbee
1797 - 1868
Children
Joseph Stultz Bourne
Joseph Stultz Bourne
1823 - 1896
Frances Jane Bourne
Frances Jane Bourne
1825 - 1859
John J Bourne
John J Bourne
1836 - 1917
Siblings
Morton Bourne
Morton Bourne
1783 - 1856
Ann Nancy Bourne
Ann Nancy Bourne
1801 - 1870

1820


Age: 25y
1820 • The town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, is incorporated.

1820


Dec 30
Age: 26y

1821


Dec 19
Age: 27y

1821


Dec 19
Age: 27y
1821 Alexander Island, the largest in Antarctica, is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

1823


Feb 27
Age: 28y
about

1825


Age: 30y
1825 Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.

1825


Jul 23
Age: 31y
1825 PS Comet II sinks off Gourock (Scotland) with the loss of 62 lives.

1836


Sep 17
Age: 42y
1836 Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.

1841


Sep 26
Age: 47y
1841 • First known reference to Groundhog Day, in the diary of a James Morris.

1860


Age: 65y
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.

Tags