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1840
Oct 28
| 1840 • The corpse of Napoleon is placed in the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. |
1850
Sep 24
Age: 9y
| 1850 • The University of Sydney (the oldest in Australia) is founded. |
1860
Age: 19y
| 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: 29y
| 1870 • The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University. |
1874
Jul
Age: 33y
birth of childClyde Plaster Polk County, Iowa, USA ⇓ |
| 1874 • Harper's Weekly publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast which is the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. [http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/CartoonOfTheDay.asp?Year=2003?Month=November?Date=7]. |