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1846
Feb 1
| 1846 • Mexican–American War – Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande at Palo Alto, Texas in the first major battle of the war. |
1868
Feb 26
Age: 22y
marriageSamuel Johnston Colinton, Midlothian, Scotland ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1868 • Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside. |
1871
Age: 24y
| 1871 • The Harvard Summer School is founded. |
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Dec
Age: 33y
1879
Dec
Age: 33y
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birth of childCecelia Jessie Johnston Wandsworth, London, England ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1879 • Tetteh Quarshie first brings cocoa beans to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea. |
1891
Age: 44y
| 1891 • Otsu Incident: Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich (the future Czar Nicholas II) of Russia survives an assassination attempt while visiting Japan. |