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1852
Sep 10
| 1852 • Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" in Rochester, New York. |
1860
Age: 7y
| 1860 • The First Taranaki War begins at Waitara, New Zealand, when Māori refuse to sell land to British settlers. |
1870
Age: 17y
| 1870 • The "circle of the sun" flag of Japan is adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships by proclamation of the Daijō-kan. |
1900
Age: 47y
| 1900 • Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. |
1908
May 29
Age: 55y
| 1908 • The Bosnian Crisis begins after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. |