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1808
Apr 28
1764
Apr
birth of childJames Summerville Tyrone County, Ireland ⇓ |
| 1764 • English scholar Edward Gibbon conceives the idea of writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire "as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol". |
1850
Aug 24
Age: 42y
| 1850 • Opening of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait. |
1870
Jun 22
Age: 62y
| 1870 • The Deutsche Bank is founded in Berlin. |
1883
Mar 15
Age: 74y
| 1883 • Otto von Bismarck pushes the first social security law through the Reichstag. |