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1857
Jan 20
| 1857 • Elisha Otis' first elevator is installed (at 488 Broadway, New York City). |
1860
Age: 2y
| 1860 • Augustana College is founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States by Scandinavian immigrants.The college moves to Paxton, Illinois, in 1862 and eventually splits into a Swedish college in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1875 and a Norwegian college in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1918. |
1879
Jun 26
Age: 22y
marriageAlmira Beckley Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1879 • Tetteh Quarshie first brings cocoa beans to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea. |
1880
Age: 22y
| 1880 • The Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards). |
1881
Age: 23y
birth of childDona Edith Johnson |
| 1881 • First Boer War comes to an end. |
1900
Jun 20
Age: 43y
| 1900 • American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons. |
1910
Age: 52y
| 1910 • Emperor Sunjong of the Korean Empire abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished. |
1920
Age: 62y
| 1920 • 4,025 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial in the United States following raids in several cities. |
1929
Jan 1
Age: 71y
| 1929 • The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified. |