John Franklin Thornton
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Parents
Sarah Haworth
Sarah Haworth
1828 - 1900
Henry Thornton
Henry Thornton
1831 - 1902
Spouse
Frances Jane Stroud
Frances Jane Stroud
1856 - 1940
Ida May Shepherd
Ida May Shepherd
1865 - 1902
Children
Siblings
William S Thornton
William S Thornton
1865 - 1890

1878


Feb 14
Age: 18y
1878 Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina is published complete in book form in Moscow.

1878


Oct 11
Age: 18y
1878 Eadweard Muybridge produces the sequence of stop-motion still photographs Sallie Gardner at a Gallop in California, a predecessor of silent film demonstrating that all four feet of a galloping horse are off the ground at the same time.

1882


Oct 29
Age: 22y

marriage


Ida May Shepherd
Missouri, USA ⇓
1882 • British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone of which he is Governor.

1884


Feb
Age: 24y
1884 Scottish Plymouth Brethren missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot identifies the source of the Zambezi river, near Kalene Hill.

1885


Oct 17
Age: 25y
1885 • A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.

1887


Jan 22
Age: 27y

birth of child


Sarah Jane Thornton
Missouri, USA ⇓
1887 • At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings. The famous William Frawley was born.

1890


Jul
Age: 30y

birth of child


Walter Cyrus Thornton
Missouri, USA ⇓
1890 • The first ever official English County Championship cricket match begins in Bristol; Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by 8 wickets.

1893


Apr 1
Age: 33y
1893 Evergreen Park, Illinois is founded.

1898


Aug 17
Age: 38y
1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.

1906


Aug 4
Age: 46y

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