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1849
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: 11y
1860 • A new uprising erupts in Palermo. |
1870
Age: 21y
residenceUnion, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA ⇓ Age: 21Census Post Office: Montezuma 1 Source ⇓ |
1870 • Franco-Prussian War: Marshal François Achille Bazaine, commanding the French left wing, is forced by starvation to surrender the fortifications of Metz, ending the Siege of Metz. |