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1829
Oct 16
| 1829 • South African College inaugurated in Cape Town. |
1851
Jul 3
Age: 21y
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marriageCatherine E Taylor Clarion County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1851 • The Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales. |
1860
Age: 30y
| 1860 • Battle of the Volturno: Garibaldi defeats the last organized army of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. |
1863
Mar 3
Age: 33y
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birth of childCarlton Curtis Clinger Walnut Bend, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1863 • American Civil War – The Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege (the 2-week-long siege and an attack are unsuccessful). |
1870
Age: 40y
| 1870 • The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University. |
1880
Age: 50y
| 1880 • Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lit city in the world. |
1900
Age: 70y
| 1900 • Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth's magnetism. |
1909
May 2
Age: 79y
| 1909 • Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite hard thermosetting plastic. |