♀ 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 Battle of Montejurra (Third Carlist War): Determined to recapture the key city of Estella in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones advances on the Carlists under General Joaquín Elío at nearby Montejurra. After very heavy fighting both sides claim victory, but Moriones withdraws and Estella remains in Carlist hands. Don Carlos is present in the front line.

1900


Age: 45y

1930


Age: 75y
1930 • Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the Hoover Dam) is started on the Colorado River in the United States.

1950


Apr 4
Age: 96y

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 • Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in Franklin D. Roosevelt for a second term. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on that date, on which it has occurred ever since; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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