♀ Priscilla B Hoskins

1785 - 1853

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1810


Age: 25y
1810 Ching Shih and Chang Pao surrender their pirate fleet to the Chinese government.

1840


Age: 55y
1840 Louis Agassiz publishes his Etudes sur les glaciers ("Study on Glaciers", 2 volumes), the first major scientific work to propose that the Earth has seen an ice age.

1850


Age: 65y
1850 • The city of Manchester reaches 400,000 inhabitants.

1853


Nov 6
Age: 68y
1853 • U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty.

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