1782
1782 • Mission San Buenaventura is founded in Las Californias, part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain. |
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1800
Age: 18y
birth of childMary McDonald Ireland ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1800 • Alessandro Volta describes his new invention, the voltaic pile, the first chemical battery, in a letter to the Royal Society of London. |
1866
Age: 84y
1866 • Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao in the Chiloé Archipelago of central Chile. |