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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 • President Millard Fillmore is sworn in. |
1860
Age: 20y
| 1860 • Battle of Castelfidardo: The Piedmontese decisively defeat the Papal forces, allowing them to continue their march into Neapolitan territory, and effectively reducing the Papal States to the territory around Rome. |
1862
Jun 15
Age: 22y
marriageMary E Wilson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1862 • Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, named director of Spain's La Real Academia Española de la Lengua (Royal Academy of Spanish Language). |
1864
Sep 15
Age: 24y
marriageMary Amanda Griffin Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1864 • American Civil War – Battle of Petersburg: Union forces under General Grant and troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee battle for the last time. |
1865
Dec 21
Age: 26y
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birth of childCharles Stanton Johnson Missouri, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
| 1865 • Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags", as well as to repress the freedpeople. |
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 • In the United States, the newly created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes". |
1872
Mar
Age: 32y
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birth of childGuy Richard Johnson Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1872 • The Tichborne case is decided in London against the claimant Arthur Orton (who, as a result, is convicted of perjury in 1874). |
1879
Oct 7
Age: 39y
| 1879 • Henrik Ibsen's controversial drama A Doll's House premières at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen (having been first published on December 4 in the city). |