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1849
Mar 23
| 1849 • A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle. Facing a firing squad on December 23 the group members are reprieved at the last moment and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia. |
1860
Age: 10y
| 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). |
1886
Jan 12
Age: 36y
birth of childLena Elsie Mae Bourn Texas, USA ⇓ |
| 1886 • An earthquake of between 7.3 and 7.6 on the Richter scale hits Charleston, South Carolina, leaving 40,000 homeless. |
1899
Jun 4
Age: 50y
birth of childEllen Pauline Bourn Texas, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1899 • The New York Zoological Society opens the Bronx Zoological Park to the public in New York City. |
1900
Age: 50y
| 1900 • The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris (as part of the Paris World Exhibition). |
1905
Jun 23
Age: 56y
| 1905 • Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden after losing 100,000 troops in 3 days. |