♀ Lucy Francis Bourn

1854 - 1937

Lucy Francis Bourn
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1860


Age: 5y
1860 • 21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war during the Second Opium War.

1873


Dec 25
Age: 19y
1873 • July - The end of the war between the United Kingdom and Ghana's King Kofi KariKari, who is involved in the trading of slaves leads to the establishment of the Gold Coast Colony.

1880


Age: 25y
1880 • Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty of protection with the chief on the large Teke tribe and begins to establish a French protectorate on the north bank of the Congo River.

1910


Age: 55y
1910 • Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero proclaims the elections of 1910 null and void, and calls for an armed revolution at 6 p.m. against the illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

1930


Age: 75y
1930 • England cricketer Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1,110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.

1950


Apr 4
Age: 96y
1950 • President Harry Truman sends United States military advisers to Vietnam to aid French forces.

1937


Mar 29
Age: 83y
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1937


Mar 29

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Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓
Buried in the Richland Cemetery, Scotland County, Missouri
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1937 • February 27 – Spanish Civil War – Battle of Jarama: Nationalist and government troops fight to a stalemate.

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