♂ George W Farlow

1849 - 1929

1849


May 3
1849 • Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.

1874


Age: 24y

marriage


Elizabeth Ellen Plaster
1874 Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.

1875


Age: 25y
1875 • Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.

1878


May
Age: 28y
1878 • The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.

1900


Age: 50y
1900 • The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua.

1929


Jun 28
Age: 80y
1929 • First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième.

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