Charles H. Lowrey
Parents
Dennis Lowrey
Dennis Lowrey
1822 - 1861
Siblings

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.

1870


Age: 21y
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.

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