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1839
Oct 20
| 1839 • Louis Daguerre receives a patent for his camera (commercially available by September at the price of 400 francs). |
1850
Age: 10y
| 1850 • The American System of Watch Manufacturing starts in Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (the Waltham Watch Company). |
1860
Age: 20y
| 1860 • The combined forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi and King Victor Emmanuel II besiege King Francis II of the Two Sicilies in Gaeta, his last remaining stronghold. |
1862
Jun 15
Age: 22y
marriageMary E Wilson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1862 • Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota Sioux attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. They are overwhelmed by the U.S. Army six weeks later. |
1864
Sep 15
Age: 24y
marriageMary Amanda Griffin Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1864 • Helena, Montana, is founded after four prospectors (the so-called Four Georgians) discover gold at Last Chance Gulch; it is their last and agreed final attempt at weeks of trying to find gold in the northern Rockies. |
1865
Dec 21
Age: 26y
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birth of childCharles Stanton Johnson Missouri, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
| 1865 • Francis Galton, polymath inventor of the weather map and the silent dog whistle, introduces eugenics. |
1867
Nov 21
Age: 28y
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birth of childJames H Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1867 • Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops march into Rome. |
1870
Age: 30y
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residenceScotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Richard is living next door to his brother Cicero's family and his father Jacob's family. They are all farmers. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1870 • The Republic of Ploieşti, an uprising against Domnitor Carol of Romania, fails. |
1872
Mar
Age: 32y
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birth of childGuy Richard Johnson Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1872 • First case reports in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of the Great Epizootic of 1872 (equine influenza, or the "horse flu") which will substantially disrupt life in North America by mid-December. |
1879
Oct 7
Age: 39y
| 1879 • Tetteh Quarshie first brings cocoa beans to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea. |