Lavinia Pearce
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1874


Feb 2
1874 Battle of Oteiza (Third Carlist War): Two months after Government forces were repulsed from Carlist-held Estella, in Navarre, Republican General Domingo Moriones made a fresh diversionary attack a few miles to the southeast at Oteiza. In heavy fighting Moriones secured a costly tactical victory over Carlist General Torcuato Mendíri, but the war continued another 18 months before Estella finally fell.

1884


Age: 9y
1884 • Police training schools are established in every prefecture in Japan.

1901


Mar 26
Age: 27y
1901 • The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.

1905


Age: 30y
1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese capture of Mukden (now Shenyang) completes the rout of Russian armies in Manchuria.

1910


Apr 28
Age: 36y
1910 Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).

1915


Age: 40y
1915 • Boxer Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th round knockout in sweltering heat at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans for "bringing back the championship to the white race".

1930


Apr 2
Age: 56y

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