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1847
Nov 9
1847 • The Vegetarian Society was formed in the United Kingdom. It remains the oldest in the world. |
1850
Age: 2y
1850 • The University of Sydney (the oldest in Australia) is founded. |
about
Age: 7y
1855
Age: 7y
1855 • The Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication in London. |
1860
Age: 12y
1860 • German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine.Niemann, Albert (1860). On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves ("Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern", published version of Ph.D. dissertation). |
1870
Age: 22y
1870 • The Port Adelaide Football Club plays their first match of Australian rules football at Buck's Flat, Glanville, South Australia. |
1873
Dec 25
Age: 26y
marriageLucy Francis Bourn Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1873 • July - The end of the war between the United Kingdom and Ghana's King Kofi KariKari, who is involved in the trading of slaves leads to the establishment of the Gold Coast Colony. |
1874
Nov 28
Age: 27y
birth of childFred Marcus Johnson Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1874 • Sack of Cuenca (Third Carlist War): After Carlist forces successfully defended Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, led 14,000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca 136 km from Madrid, held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano. After two days the outnumbered garrison capitulated but Don Alfonso permitted a terrible slaughter. The city is sacked. Subsequently another republican force defeats the disorderly Catalans who flee back to the Ebro. |
1879
Nov 11
Age: 32y
birth of childChandler Allen Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 7 Sources ⇓ |
1879 • The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas. |
1880
Age: 32y
1880 • The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty. |
1900
Age: 52y
1900 • Second Boer War – Battle of Paardeberg: 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State. |
1910
Age: 62y
1910 • Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910. |
1920
Age: 72y
1920 • 16 – Military occupation of Constantinople by British Empire forces acting for the Allied Powers against the Turkish National Movement. Retrospectively, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey regards this as the dissolution of the Ottoman regime in Istanbul.Declaration of 1 November 1922. |
1923
Oct 29
Age: 75y
deathMemphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ He passed away from chronic myocarditis, a heart attack. Funeral services conducted at Richland Church, Hitt, Missouri 3 Sources ⇓ |
1923 • The premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle (Im Dickicht) at the Residenztheater in Munich is interrupted by Nazi demonstrators. |