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1840
Oct 28
| 1840 • Fortsas hoax: A number of book collectors gather in Binche, Belgium, to attend a non-existent book auction of the late "Count of Fortsas". |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 9y
| 1850 • British foreign secretary Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, sends ships to blockade the port of Piraeus, ostensibly as a result of the Don Pacifico affair. |
1860
Age: 19y
| 1860 • French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" to his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording (however, it is not rediscovered until 2008). |
1870
Age: 29y
| 1870 • The first edition of The Northern Echo newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England. |
1874
Jul
Age: 33y
birth of childClyde Plaster Polk County, Iowa, USA ⇓ |
| 1874 • May 15 – First exhibition of the group of young painters, Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, at the studio of the photographer Nadar in Paris. Louis Leroy's critical review of it published on 25 April gives rise to the term Impressionism for the movement, with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise. |
1896
Aug 20
Age: 55y
| 1896 • Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns. |