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1847
Nov 9
1847 • Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. |
1850
Age: 2y
1850 • Allan Pinkerton forms the North-Western Police Agency, later the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. |
about
Age: 7y
1855
Age: 7y
1855 • Australian Colonies granted self-governing status by the United Kingdom. |
1860
Age: 12y
1860 • Spanish victory (under General Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuanat) at the Battle of Tétouan, In the 1880s the first world war began. |
1870
Age: 22y
1870 • It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant is just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human. |
1873
Dec 25
Age: 26y
marriageLucy Francis Bourn Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1873 • Battle of Mañeru (Third Carlist War): In continued campaigning in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones meets a Carlist force under Nicolás Ollo at Mañeru, near Puente de la Reina, in a hard-fought but indecisive action. While both sides claim victory, the Carlists are said to have had the advantage, and a month later Moriones is repulsed in a costly assault further west against Estella |
1874
Nov 28
Age: 27y
birth of childFred Marcus Johnson Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1874 • Supreme Council 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada is founded. |
1879
Nov 11
Age: 32y
birth of childChandler Allen Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 7 Sources ⇓ |
1879 • Anglo–Zulu War: The Anglo–Zulu War effectively ends with British victory at the Battle of Ulundi. |
1880
Jun 25
Age: 32y
1880 • The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana. |
1900
Age: 52y
1900 • American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons. |
1910
Age: 62y
1910 • African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. |
about
Aug 2
Age: 69y
1917
Aug 2
Age: 69y
eventHitt, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Alva sells his farm to J. W. Conaway for $900. |
1917 • The Province of Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines' first encomiendas. |
1920
Age: 72y
1920 • The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. |
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 4 Sources ⇓ |
1923 • The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland). |