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1823
Sep
| 1823 • Beginning of the first Anglo-Ashanti war. |
1843
Age: 19y
| 1843 • Argentina supports Rosas of Uruguay and begins a siege of Montevideo. |
about
Age: 22y
1846
Age: 22y
marriageJohn McGinnis Sr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ |
| 1846 • Launceston Church Grammar School opens for the first time in Tasmania |
1847
Sep 14
Age: 24y
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birth of childJames McGinnis Sr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1847 • Verdi's opera Macbeth premieres at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy. |
1849
Aug 24
Age: 25y
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birth of childJohn M McGinnis Jr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1849 • Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath. Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate is President de jure for a single day. |
1851
Age: 27y
| 1851 • St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded. |
1854
Jan
Age: 30y
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birth of childArthur McGinnis Sr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1854 • Ignacy Lukasiewicz drills the world's first oil well in Poland, in Bóbrka near Krosno County. |
1855
Jun 14
Age: 31y
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birth of childSarah M McGinnis Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1855 • The United States Congress appropriates $30,000 to create the U.S. Camel Corps. |
1858
Apr 11
Age: 34y
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birth of childHugh Patrick McGinnis Jr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1858 • The Advertiser, the daily news paper still in circulation, begins publication in Adelaide, Australia. |
1871
Age: 47y
| 1871 • New York City residents, tired of the corruption of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed, meet to form the "Committee of Seventy" to reform local politics.Mitchell Snay, Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011) p172 |
1881
Age: 57y
| 1881 • Kinshasa (the capital of the present day Democratic Republic of Congo) is founded by Henry Morton Stanley as a trading outpost called Léopoldville. |
1890
Age: 66y
| 1890 • Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise on the edge of Paris in the care of Dr Paul Gachet where he will produce around seventy paintings in as many days. |
1900
Age: 76y
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residenceSeattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Is living with her daughter Sarah and her husband Patrick. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1900 • The Second Boer War: At the Battle of Spion Kop, Boer troops defeat the British Army. |
1903
Dec 26
Age: 80y
| 1903 • The United States recognizes the independence of Panama. |
1903
Dec 29
burialChatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ Buried in Calvary Cemetery. |
| 1903 • Football in Scotland| Aberdeen are formed and plays their first competitive match. |