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1852
Jan 14
| 1852 • Leo Tolstoy's first novel, Childhood, was published in book form. |
1870
Jan 16
Age: 18y
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marriageJeremiah J King Mount Vernon, Jefferson, Illinois, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1870 • Death of English novelist Charles Dickens at Gads Hill Place in Kent, leaving his last book The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. |
1871
Age: 18y
birth of childRosa L King Illinois, USA ⇓ |
| 1871 • Virginia adopts a new Constitution, taking into account, among other things, all of the counties that had left Virginia in 1863 to form the new non-slave state of West Virginia. No other state has ever formed by breaking off from another without the consent of the legislature of the parent state, as in the cases of Vermont, Kentucky, and Maine. |
1874
Age: 21y
birth of childWilliam Augustus King Illinois, USA ⇓ |
| 1874 • Indian wars]]: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Frances H. Kennedy, American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) p168 |
1877
Age: 24y
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birth of childEugene Parker King Illinois, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1877 • Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . |
1880
Age: 27y
| 1880 • Cologne Cathedral is completed, after construction began in 1248, 632 years earlier. |
1880
Mar
Age: 28y
birth of childArthur M King Illinois, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1880 • The Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards). |
1887
Oct 30
Age: 35y
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birth of childRoyal Carter King Baker, Baker, Oregon, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1887 • Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters. |
1891
Sep
Age: 39y
birth of childJessie Dell King Idaho, USA ⇓ |
| 1891 • The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago. |
1900
Age: 47y
| 1900 • The First Pan-African Conference is held in London. |
1910
Age: 57y
| 1910 • Comet Halley is visible from Earth. It won't be seen again until 1986. |
1923
Oct 23
Age: 71y
| 1923 • Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar. |