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1854
Jul 7
1860
Age: 5y
| 1860 • After a fiercely contested campaign, Monier Williams is elected as the new Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University. |
1870
Age: 15y
| 1870 • First Vatican Council adjourned. |
1875
Apr 18
Age: 20y
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marriageNancy J Bourn Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1875 • 6 – German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew.This inspires Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland, not published until 1918. |
1880
Age: 25y
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residenceUnion, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ Working as a farmer next to his father's land 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1880 • Cologne Cathedral is completed, after construction began in 1248, 632 years earlier. |
1905
Mar 9
Age: 50y
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birth of childWilliam Stanley Johnson Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
1889
Mar 17
Age: 34y
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deathScotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ Jacob died from tuberculosis 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1889 • A total eclipse is seen over parts of California and Nevada. |