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1842
Sep
1842 • Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers. |
1850
Age: 7y
1850 • Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad. |
1850
Age: 7y
1850 • Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin (including the Bridal Chorus) premieres under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar. |
1860
Age: 17y
1860 • German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine.Niemann, Albert (1860). On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves ("Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern", published version of Ph.D. dissertation). |
1867
Sep 20
Age: 25y
birth of childWalter Arthur Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1867 • Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late Emperor Kōmei's son, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan in a brief ceremony in Kyoto, ending the Late Tokugawa shogunate. |
1869
Sep
Age: 27y
birth of childMary J Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1869 • The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer. |
1873
Age: 30y
birth of childJesse Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1873 • Emancipation Day for Puerto Rico: Slaves are freed (with a few exceptions). |
1875
Jul 19
Age: 32y
birth of childIva Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1875 • Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. |
1877
Jul 15
Age: 34y
birth of childAddie Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1877 • Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . |
1880
Age: 37y
1880 • In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. |
1890
Age: 47y
1890 • The British steamship Quetia founders in the Lorres Straits: 124 lives are lost. |
1900
Age: 57y
residenceVisalia, Tulare County, California, USA ⇓ Israel is living with his daughter Mary (Johnson) Clark's family. 1 Source ⇓ |
1900 • Boxer Rebellion: The Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station. |
1900
Age: 57y
1900 • Boxer Rebellion: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage. |