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1845
Feb 22
| 1845 • Due to different transition dates to the Gregorian calendar, Finland (then part of the Russian Empire) is the only place in the world to have Easter day on this particular Sunday. |
1850
Age: 4y
| 1850 • United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. |
1860
Age: 14y
| 1860 • Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate the causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year. |
1862
Feb 7
Age: 16y
| 1862 • French, Spanish, and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico. |