Paulina Jane Tompkins
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Parents
Lucretia Snell
Lucretia Snell
1798 - 1856
Spouse
Children
Ambrose E Bourn
Ambrose E Bourn
1849 - 1905
John Dudley Bourn
John Dudley Bourn
1850 - 1912
Lucy Francis Bourn
Lucy Francis Bourn
1854 - 1937
Nancy J Bourn
Nancy J Bourn
1857 - 1947
Joseph Anderson Bourn
Joseph Anderson Bourn
1860 - 1937
Mary Susan Bourn
Mary Susan Bourn
1862 - 1940
Charles Albert Bourn
Charles Albert Bourn
1866 - 1937
Siblings

1845


Dec 4
Age: 15y
1845 Flagstaff War: Chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke lead 700 Māoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka (now known as Russell, New Zealand).

1846


Sep 23
Age: 16y
1846 • The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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1848


Age: 17y
1848 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin became the first Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.

1850


Aug 15
Age: 20y

1852


Jan
Age: 21y
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in book form in Boston.

1857


Jan
Age: 26y
1857 • The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, D.C., becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.
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1859


Age: 28y
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1861


Age: 30y
1861 • Acting on the ordinance passed by the Jackson government, the Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th Confederate state.
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1862


Age: 31y
1862 • American Civil War: In Tennessee, the Battle of Shiloh begins.

1863


Nov 22
Age: 33y
1863 4American Civil War – The Battle of Chancellorsville: General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13,000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson (lost to friendly fire), and 17,500 Union casualties.
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1867


Age: 36y
1867 Manifest DestinyMedicine Lodge Treaty: Near Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
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1869


Age: 38y
1869 • The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer.

1900


Age: 69y
1900 Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China, demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.

1910


Age: 79y
1910 Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

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